Premier Figuier L'Artisan Parfumeur 1994 Eau de Toilette

Premier Figuier (Eau de Toilette) by L'Artisan Parfumeur

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Premier Figuier (Eau de Toilette) (L'Artisan Parfumeur)

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Premier Figuier (Eau de Toilette) is a perfume by L'Artisan Parfumeur for women and men and was released in 1994. The scent is green-fruity. It is being marketed by Puig. Pronunciation

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Perfumer

Olivia Giacobetti

Fragrance Notes

Top Notes	Galbanum Peach Fig leaf
Heart Notes	Fig Almond milk Dried fruits
Base Notes	Coconut milk Pine needle Sandalwood

Ratings

Scent

7.5199 Ratings

Longevity

6.4150 Ratings

Sillage

5.6151 Ratings

Bottle

8.0140 Ratings

Value for money

6.821 Ratings

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03/11/2022

9.5
Scent 8
Longevity 7
Sillage 9
Bottle 8
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Vitodito
43 Reviews

Vitodito

The best fig tree smell

I tried this, the extreme, philosykos and all the other fig tree scents around there, and this is by far the best one.

First of all is very important to distinguish the difference between fig and fig tree.
Fig is fruity and sweet. Fig tres is green, leafy, dry and sour.

This scent is all about a green fig tree leaf which turns creamier time after time. Is woody and intoxicating. The almond milk accord and sandalwood is what makes it creamy and nutty. So you basically have a green leaf mediterranean smell with a nutty creamy and woody base.

I also have the shower gel and body cream, and the trio makes this scent last forever on me, and i get lots of unsolicited compliments.

I have a new bottle, 2021 batch, and i have no problems with its performance. People around me smell it even after 6-7 hrs. Maybe old bottles loose power because molecules loose intensity year after year. I personally think new bottles are the best, even if you might not agree…

Finally, don’t think the extreme is the same or performs better. The extreme has a “grandma soap bar” vibe that i can’t stand. The normal edt is the best out there for me. Lighter, more airy, more projecting, fresher… absolutely the best fig tree smell and the FIRST FIG FRAGRANCE in the history (that’s why its name). So honors where honors belong :-)

12/19/2021

8.5
Scent 7
Longevity 6
Sillage 8
Bottle 7
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Carlitos01
346 Reviews

Carlitos01

Helpful Review 7

A fig fairy tale

One day during Roman times, Emperor Hadrian was riding with his centurions through Galilee. As he passed through cultivated land, he noticed a very old man planting a fig tree. The emperor requested a soldier to bring the old planter before him.
-"Old man, why are you planting a young fig tree? You should have done it in your youth so that you could savour the fruits now in your old age. You will never be able to eat the fruits from that tree."
The old man replied respectfully: - "In my boyhood, I worked very hard, and I shall do so as long as I have the strength. With God's grace, I may yet taste the fruits of this tree. May God be always praised!".
-" Do tell me, how old are you?" asked the emperor.
-"I have already stopped counting my years. I must be close to a hundred years old." replied the smiling old man.
-"And at a hundred years old, do you still hope to eat figs that will require several years to fructify?" inquired the disdainful monarch.
-"May God's will always be done. But if I do not taste the sweetness of these figs, let my son enjoy them. My father too, may God rest his soul, left the fruits he planted for me," said the old man calmly.
The monarch was surprised at the depth of the old farmer's words: -"I see the strength of life in your long years! If you live long enough until the first figs of this tree ripen, I beg you to come into my presence."
Ten years passed after this meeting and for the first time, the old man tasted the figs from that tree. By mere chance, Hadrian paid a new visit to Galilee, and the old man felt obliged to heed Caesar's wish. He filled a basket with the sweetest figs and set off. On being admitted into the emperor's presence, he bowed respectfully, as far as his old bones would allow, and said:
-"It is ten years since you saw me plant a fig tree. Here I am a little more bent to share, with your Majesty, my best choice of the figs from that tree, with which God has graced me."
A greatly touched Adrian ordered the figs to be placed at his table and the old man's basket filled with gold coins. The courtiers remarked to the emperor: -"Your Highness, why have you done this honour to this old Galilean?"
Hadrian wisely replied:
-"God has given him a magnificent honour, and I cannot and should not attempt to match my donation, to the gift given to him by God!"

In perfumery, the so-called fig notes can be derived from different parts of the fig tree. The leaf gives us a refreshing green note that will make us feel refreshed as if in the shade of the tree. The fruit has a very distinctive aroma from other gourmand notes and is usually sweet, juicy, ripe and bright. The sap can be bitter, earthy and milky. Usually not all the noses enjoy all the differentiated scent nuances coming from the same tree. Some noses don't like any of them.
Premier Figuier Eau de Toilette is one of the fig perfumes I like the best, along with the different and sweeter Fleur de Figuier Eau de Parfum. I don't like a fig fragrance to be overly fresh, green or sour acid.
That said, my fig perfume preferences are easy to understand. L'Artisan perfume opens slightly sweet with peach and slightly sourly green with fig leaf and asafoetida. Then, in the heart, a fig fruit scent mild sweetness is distinctly noticeable, but without slowing down the initial freshness. At the base, a smooth sweetness remains. With the addition of milky and woody notes of sandalwood, almond milk, coconut milk, and dried fruits. the fragrance ends up mimicking the different facets of the various fig accords. The overall balance is very pleasant.

What about a Premier Figuier Eau de Toilette appraisal?
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- Opening: 8.0 (Some restrained freshness amidst initial peach sweetness evolving to secondary fig fruit sweetness.)
- DryDown: 9.0 (A well-accomplished fig mild sweetness, blended with milky and woody accords)
- Longevity: 7.0 (3 sprays last up to 6 hours)
- Sillage: 6.0 (4 feet of sillage and up to 2.0 hours of projection, with 3 sprays.)
- Uniqueness: 9.0 (It's somewhat unique with its capacity of showing all the facets of fig, and bearing in mind that it was created in 1994. It certainly influenced the more recent by two years and similar Philosykos Eau de Toilette.
- Wearability: 8.0 (Not suitable for cold weather; fantastic for sunny days.)
- Versatility: 8.5 (It's not a night fragrance. Everything else is allowed)
- Praise: 7.5 (It will reward you with some compliments from fig scent lovers, and curiosity from the noses around you)
- Quality: 9.0 (The perfumer execution is good but the performance is only average for this type of scent)
- Presentation: 8.0 (Simple, attractive, but similar to all other L'Artisan perfumes)
- Price: 7.0 (I bought my 50 ml bottle for € 39 a few years ago; it currently sells for about € 50)
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Overall rating: 7.91 / 10.00
- between 7 and 8 = above average;
- between 8 and 9 = recommended;
- above 9 = definitely not to be missed;

My opinion:
A fragrance type for lovers of a blending that covers all fig notes. As it is a bit particular scent, you'd better try it before purchasing it. I quite like it.

Music: Kaoma - "Lambada"

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02/13/2021

8
Scent 7
Longevity 6
Sillage 8
Bottle 7
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Vrabec

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Vrabec

Top Review 20

En Voyage chez l'Artisan Parfumeur :15 - Premier Figieur vs Philosykos vs Fig - A comparison

Rarely have I longed so much for spring as recently, the pandemic reinforces the winter blues but very much and the damn ice age was quite intressant, but it consumes me after the freedom that means wearing a T-shirt. Few perfumes awaken that giggly light spring feeling in me as much as successful fig scents. Unfortunately, you almost never smell them on women. Last year I had compared Philosykos and Feige by Harry Lehmann, now thanks to JilMarie's walking letter I may add "Premier Figuier". Likewise, I will deal with the Extrême variant, published 9 years later.
Lehmann's Figuier is a good grab for thrifty people who still want quality.
Diptique's Philosykos is the oft-mentioned "fig star", but l'Artisan Parfumeur's candidate is also frequently mentioned.

Olivia Giacobetti is responsible not only for Philosykos but also here for Premier Figuier and the Extrême variant, as well as for quite a few other L'Artisan perfumes. Among them Tea for Two, one of the most terrific fragrances I've had the pleasure to smell so far. So the assumption is obvious that the lady can do something, but this one goes in the direction of Philosykos. Especially since Premier Figuier appeared two years before Philosykos.

All go in a similar direction.
While Figuier smells more like a basket of slightly unripe unopened figs combined with the gentle, milky hint of a cream made from dried figs and, not least, fresh broken stems of the fig tree, Philosykos chooses more of a fruity path. The figs are well ripe, peeled and pulled apart, sweet nectar oozing from the sunlit flesh.
Green notes come through here too, but not as woody as fig, crisper. Overall, Philosykos seems juicier and more fluid than fig. Undzwar really liquid, the fruitiness does not seem sticky at all.
Both trigger a gentle spring association, tickling rays of sunlight shining through a fig grove. In Philosykos it's a little breezier with fresh wind from the coast, in Fig it's calm, drier, warmly sandy.

Premier Figuier goes in the direction of fig, the focus is not necessarily on the fruit itself, but more on the whole plant. And of this we have a fairly young representative. The fragrance Starts crisp fresh, young buds, tender leaves and twigs crumple in the rough hands of the fig farmer. The top note just hints at fig. The green undergrowth subsides. Most natural smell of spring. Fig blends mildly into the background, light and airy. Fig unpeeled, not yet ripe hanging on the tree, the smell of fig skin, which is first accompanied by a hint of furry, hard apricot, then coconut water, subtle floral sounds also resonate. The coconut becomes a little too significant for my taste towards the end, but it's kept mild, neither sweet nor creamy. Overall, the smells here lighter, more lighthearted than its two aforementioned relatives.
The Extrême variant smells a little sharper and, especially at the beginning, much more synthetic than the original Premier Figieur. Something minty fresh pushes itself on me also. Likewise, coconut and apricot are on par with fig here, making it very arbitrary. Also resonates clearly more warmth. The fig seems very layered here and not put in the middle of the perfume, as I had actually hoped.
Who is looking for a "pure" fig fragrance can skip "Premier Figuier Extrême" in my opinion.

Comparing Lehrmann's "Fig", Diptyque's "Philosykos" And l'Artisan Parfumeur's "Premier Figuier", I do not think we are talking about significant differences, it's just nuances, the fragrances smell very similar, as all try to realize their theme as authentically natural as possible.
This succeeds Premier Figieur really well. This is more of a skin scent that doesn't have a strong sillage, but close up it develops a beautiful, green playful aura of feel-good summer. If you are looking for something equally playful but more fruity, I would reach for Philosykos. This is also rather from politely kept distance to perceive, Premier Figuier already weakens a little too much.
Lehmann's fig has not only the cheap price on its side, it seems drier and calmer, more adult.

What to choose, everyone must know for themselves. But please, dear ladies, wear more fig fragrances, ring in the spring for me. Gladly also here in Bochum.

Thank you for reading my comment.

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07/20/2019

6.5
Scent 7
Longevity 6
Sillage 6
Bottle

Mantus

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Mantus

Calming Wellness

The first thing to notice is an intense sweetish fruity note, with a very soft and sweet green note, thanks to the fig leaf.

At the same time the fig leaf is accompanied by another sweet and fruity note, which brings with it a beautiful bright, pithy, almost unripe aura and can only be the peach and you can actually feel or smell these very small hairs of a peach; but I have decided to feel it.

These two notes are surrounded by a beautiful refreshing, greenish note that smells like wet, rain-wetted grass to me and in my opinion is responsible for the top note appearing wonderfully greenish sweet.

A little bit later the greenish aura of the fig has moved a little into the background, but not completely and now looks a bit thicker, a little bit sweeter and is wrapped in a wonderful creamy, soft creamy note of the almond milk one is a little bit of the opinion that one has just creamed with a beautiful fig - almond body lotion.

The fig and the almond milk are accompanied by a beautiful light, exotic looking, powdery shade, which even exudes a very subtle wooden hint and for me it really smells like soothing wellness, but is still rather a hunch than active perception and the coconut milk only unfolds completely in the base.

"Spray the scent uff', when the guy has let his socks lie in the room again (which ick ooch of course, but 'se ooch even weggräume), the woman is near the tears, because her new dress doesn't fit anymore properly, because 'Se has taken too much weight, didd baby already roars for 'ner half an hour, because you prefer chocolate biscuits instead of this milk, you have missed half of it while shopping, or if the boss wants completely meaningless things from you again, then you have the duty and the abjesechnete Berechtijung "Premier Figuier" uffzusprüh'n and then is but janz quickly again all in the green area!" :-)

And to the men as fellow readers I can only recommend to take the beloved woman by the hand and to buy a new, almost the same, of course better-looking dress!
when such "dresses - catastrophes" arise!
And yes, she wants to hear your opinion about it, she also wants you to be there, after all, you should like it too - men are not at all different in themselves, just different, almost "simply" knitted I would like to mean.

"But if 'Se asks if didd dress makes her fat, then you must NOT say: Didd dress not, but the fat makes you fat"! :-)

In the last 3 hours we will unfortunately no real friends!

In the background I have an unpleasant aura on my skin, which is not really noticeable, but unfortunately pierces the skin and I suspect a certain portion of a certain used musk as a fixator
A fine ethereal, extremely menthol-like woody aura of the pine needle is incumbent on this musk and is accompanied by a beautiful creamy spicy nuance and only the sandalwood can be, but unfortunately I don't like it, because it seems to my nose as if the notes without connection to the musk had been dribbled on and exactly here for me a "shortcoming", because the very subtle hint of coconut milk is unfortunately completely swallowed by "Opi" and "Omi".

The dried fruits I could unfortunately not perceive, I can very well imagine that these were used to support the fragrance.

In total, the fragrance lasts 7.5 hours on my skin.

In the first 1.5 hours, the Sillage is designed in such a way that one is perceived very well at half an arm's length and then swings for 1.5 hours to a very clearly perceptible quarter of an arm's length, before it is reduced in quiet steps until the fragrance ends.

I would like to express my sincere thanks to our perfume "Honk1510" for the bottling.

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07/21/2018

8
Scent 8
Longevity 7
Sillage 7
Bottle

pudelbonzo

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pudelbonzo

Very helpful Review 10

Arthouse cinema

Today a strenuous telephone call with the girlfriend.

A friend of hers has Gebby and she wants to give him a cinema voucher.
I carefully asked if he liked cinema at all ?
Everybody likes movies - I was taught cheeky.
No, I'm not.
It's too loud and too dark for me there - exacerbated by crowds.
Maybe Chris also belongs to this sensitive species?
That's what I'd like to find out first.
Reluctantly she gave in to me and wanted to inquire.

After the back and forth I allowed myself Fuguier - and this is great cinema.
No - but it's more of a homelike, small, living-room-style arthouse cinema with soft tones and privacy.
There you can also see "great" films, perhaps not box-office hits - but works made with love.
And lovingly Figuier also sets the scene.

The fig reaches me softly sweetly, greened by the fig leaf, and gently poured over by delicious almond and coconut milk.
A boisterous flatterer.
The pine adds an ethereal freshness so that this soft scent does not lull.
Aromatic dried fruits waft over it without weighing down the fragrance.

The scent is a source of a sense of security and serenity, and I feel like visiting the small but fine cinema "Endstation" and watching Lubitsch's "Being or Not Being" for the xten time in a private group.

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03/16/2015

LicoriceRain
57 Reviews

LicoriceRain

My search for a good ripe, juicy fig continues.

Since Piment Brulant is a favorite, I had high hopes for Premier Figuier. But rather than focusing on the actual fig fruit, PF is about the leaves and stems! I am beginning to think the fascinating Piment Brulant was a fluke because I haven’t found another L’Artisan fragrance that interests me. So my search for a good ripe, juicy fig continues, and, as I have been told, there are several to choose from.

08/05/2013

9
Scent 7.5
Longevity 5
Sillage 5
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Flavorite
240 Reviews

Flavorite

Under a Fig Tree with a Cool Coconut Water

Premier Figuier starts off very herbaceous, fresh and dry with a slight nutty woody note. The sillage is approximately 1 meter(3.28 ft.) and this is a lovely unisex fragrance that I wouldn't mind smelling everyday. It conspires to invigorate the wearer and to conjure up a feeling of hope and new beginnings- this must be an attribute of the lime note providing a tangy twist to the fig leaf. It also has a calming core of sandalwood, almond milk and coconut (unsweetened) which provides and smooth intriguing dry down, while not getting too "In Your Face" with it's gourmandness. This fragrance is note a sweet fruity scent, nor does one really get the fleshy meaty part of the fig itself from this creation. But rather, the experience of sitting in the late afternoon shade under a fig tree branch, inhaling deeply and feeling truly content with one's surroundings. The tail end of this fragrance on my skin becomes even woodier and slightly powdery musky (but not a particularly dark and animalic musk) more of a faint subtle soft powdery effect. I keep going back to this sample and each time I wear it, I am sure that it will be my next full bottle purchase. Then later other more flashy impulsive ideas lead me to put this further down on my list. But I feel sure that this crisp green open, balmy nutty center and woody smooth base will eventually be added to my collection as sure as the sun still rises.