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Fig Blossom

Q: Is Fig Blossom natural or synthetic?

. Extraction: No extraction exists. Figs have no external flowers — their flowers are enclosed inside the fruit. Entirely conceptual..

FLOWERS / floral · fruity · sweet

Fig Blossom

Category	FLOWERS
Subcategory	floral · fruity · sweet
Origin
Volatility	Heart Note
Botanical	Ficus carica
Appearance	Colorless to pale yellow liquid
Odor Strength	Medium
Producing Countries	Mediterranean
Pyramid	Heart

Green-lactonic, coconut-sweet, with a particular fig-leaf edge. Fig blossom imagines the transition from leaf to fruit — green, milky, sun-warmed.

Scent
The Full Story
Fun Fact
Extraction & Chemistry
In Perfumery

Scent

Green-lactonic, coconut-sweet, lighter than fig fruit. The milky-green quality of fig leaf but imagined as florality — softer, more delicate, less vegetal. Sun-warmed greenness with creamy undertone.

Evolution over time

Immediately

Green-lactonic, coconut-sweet, light milky

After a few hours

Sun-warmed fig warmth, less green, more fruit

After a few days

Faint creamy-green persistence, Mediterranean warmth

The Full Story

Fig blossom is a fantasy — figs (Ficus carica) produce their 'flowers' inside the fruit itself (the fig is an inverted flower cluster called a syconium). There are no external blossoms to smell.

The concept note captures the moment between fig leaf (green, coconut-lactonic from stemone and psoralen compounds) and ripe fig fruit (sweet, jammy, dark). Built from fig-leaf type elements (stemone, leaf-green compounds) with a lighter, more floral framing.

Functions in fig-themed and Mediterranean compositions as a lighter alternative to ripe fig notes.

What does fig blossom smell like

Green, lactonic, and faintly coconut-sweet. Where fig leaf is sharp and herbaceous, fig blossom is rounder, softer, more intimate. The aroma carries a creamy, milky quality from lactones, a subtle green freshness from cis-3-hexenol, and a warm, slightly tropical sweetness that recalls coconut without being coconut. It is the scent of standing directly under a fig tree in August — not the fruit, not the leaf, but the warm, humid air between them.

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Did You Know?

Did you know?

Every fig fruit contains the remains of a tiny wasp. Figs are pollinated exclusively by fig wasps (Agaonidae) which enter the syconium through a tiny opening, pollinate the internal flowers, lay eggs, and die inside. The fig's enzymes digest the wasp body. The relationship is one of nature's most extreme mutualisms — 750+ fig species, each with its own dedicated wasp species.

Extraction & Chemistry

Extraction method: No extraction exists. Figs have no external flowers — their flowers are enclosed inside the fruit. Entirely conceptual.

Molecular Formula	Key volatiles include benzaldehyde (C₇H₆O), psoralen (C₁₁H₆O₃)
CAS Number	N/A — natural extract, complex mixture
Botanical Name	Ficus carica
IFRA Status	No known restrictions
Synonyms	Fig flower, Ficus flower
Physical Properties
Odor Strength	Medium
Appearance	Colorless to pale yellow liquid

In Perfumery

Fantasy concept bridging fig leaf and fig fruit. No extraction possible (figs have no external flowers). Built from stemone, green lactones, and light floral elements. Functions in Mediterranean, fig, and green-floral compositions.