Une Figue
Fig is a difficult thing to get into a bottle, and Obvious Une Figue Eau de Parfum 100ml goes at it from the green side rather than the jammy one.
Yellow mandarin and bergamot open brightly for a minute or two, then rosemary and eucalyptus arrive and change the subject. Both are cooling and slightly medicinal, eucalyptus in particular reading as camphor and crushed leaf, and between them they build the impression of a tree rather than of fruit in a bowl. Fig milk is the centre, and the name is literal. It is the white sap smell, soft and faintly sour, much closer to a stem snapped off a branch than to anything you would eat. Immortelle sits alongside, dry and curry like at full strength, kept low enough here to read as warm hay. The last stretch relaxes. Virginia sandalwood is creamy rather than sharp, amyris adds a drier resin next to it, and haitian vetiver puts a rooty, faintly smoky floor under everything. Nothing down there is loud, and the three of them hold the green materials in place far longer than you would expect of an opening that bright.
It carries more weight than the first minutes suggest, and it will see out a working day while staying close to the wearer. Spring and autumn suit it best, it reads as unisex without making a point of it, and anyone who finds most fig scents too much like pudding should start here.
Obvious is a French label created in 2020 by David Frossard, a perfume distributor who also runs the Paris perfume bar Liquides and had a hand in founding Parfums Frapin and Liquides Imaginaires. One subject per bottle, named plainly, sold in recycled refillable glass with organic biodegradable alcohol inside.
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