As you may know, I love a fig fragrance. It is one of my favorite fragrance “genres”. Satellite Paris A La Figue! is best described as a fruity fig. It is less “green” or “woody” than other fig fragrances on the market. A la Figue smells like the sap of a fig. You know the part that most people have an allergic reaction to…This is a fruity fragrance that I see myself wearing wearing when I want a more “playful” fragrance. Notes listed include: fig tree sap (I got it!), fresh fig, lily of the valley, patchouli, cedar, and musk. The company describes the scent as “Intense memory of a summer night, a hammock under the fig tree. The magic moment of the scents come out, underlining with purple the horizon“. Well, that’s where I want to be. If you read my home blog you will know I spend a lot of time under a fig tree. Right now they are in prime fragrance mode since the fruit is so ripe (almost rotten) it is plopping to the ground. It is very “fruity”. I personally adore the scent of fig tree such as the leaves. That is a beautiful smell. I do love the fruit as well and I love to catch a whiff of it in the breeze. This scent “creates” a summer memory. (However, lily of the valley blooms in spring here.) And the fig trees here have two seasons. This is a pretty fig scent, very sweet in comparison to other fig inspired scents. This smells more of a fig dessert and a local café in late summer, almost fall than a hammock at dusk. The dry down, after a few hours of wear, is very woodsy and cedar on me. This is lovely but there isn’t the slightest hint of fig. Fig fruit and cedar are a match made in heaven and I like to smell them together. This is more of a fig fruit scent then cedar scent. Not together. They are distant memories. It reminds me more of a summer turns into fall scent.
This isn’t my favorite fig scent (very fruity) but I do like it. My disclaimer, I love anything fig related. I would say that you would like this if you like fig scents or fruity scents that don’t smell like candy.
Of course the bottle is beautiful. I mean it is a jewelry company producing the fragrance. This fragrance retails for $80 for 1.7 ounces. There is also a candle that I am very curious about. It goes for $48.
UPDATE – This perfume has been discontinued.