Houbigant - Figuier Noir
Eau de Parfum
Format: 100ml
Year: 2015
Nose: Luca Maffei
Olfactory Family: spicy, fruity, woody
Olfactory pyramid
-
Head: fig leaves, cardamom, cloves cloves, black pepper
-
Heart: black fig, iris, jasmine
-
Background: cedar wood, patchouli, candied figs
: he
Persistence:
saw:
“During the lockdown I had the opportunity to live in the countryside, in the Grasse area, where I had plenty of time to contemplate the passage of time and welcome the arrival of the beautiful days. In the first heat, the fig trees they had a bitter yet sensual scent, rough and voluptuous. An elegant and reassuring olfactory combination, yet so contradictory that it made me want to create a masculine fragrance. Sitting in the shade of the black fig tree, whose gnarled branches embraced me like long delicate arms, refreshed by the gentle caress of the wind which rubbed the leaves above my head, so large they resembled the hands of a giant, I imagined the reassuring pulsation of its sap beyond the cortex. Nose stretched, hands abandoned on the ground, eyes closed, I let myself be carried away by the waves of these opposing but disconcerting perfumes.
Numb and happy, I immediately returned to my laboratory to preserve the fickle memory of my harvest, and in front of my scale formulated a short list of ingredients.
Because men, as you know, love to define themselves
in short words.
A synergy of resins to catch dreams.
A combination of woods, to emphasize sincerity.
An interweaving of roots, to leave a solid trace.
And for the wake, exquisite spices and black fig pulp, because behind the bitterness of the resin and the hardness of the woods and
roots, I thought of the hearts of men.”