Wild Fig & Cassis Jo Malone for women and men

Jo Malone's Wild Fig and Cassis is an earthly delight straight from a Mediterranean garden.


Smelling this transports me to a dark garden of the Greek Isles on a rare cloudy afternoon. I am lazily reading The Iliad with a bowl of black cherries in my lap when I hear thunder and a crack of lightening. I envision myself running for cover from the unexpected shower with my white dress flowing behind me. I find shelter underneath a cluster of fig trees. I can feel wet fig leaves, grass, and mud between my toes...


I usually do not enjoy green scents but this is an earthy and sweet dark green scent. By dark I mean wet and deep. There's nothing fresh, light, or too sharp about it. The most obvious notes in this JM cologne are grass and fig. It's very pleasant and comforting to me. Something I wasn't expecting from this fragrance is the cherry top notes. It reminds me of childhood. For a slight instant it smells like Luden's cherry cough drops! Which can be good or bad depending on what I'm in the mood for. The cherry and fig notes never have a chance to develop into a sickly sweet smell thanks to a soft pine note and refreshing cedar dry down. Also noticeable are humble patchouli and exotic cyclamen notes.

I think this fragrance would suit men and women with a green thumb or who classify themselves as outdoorsy. It would work well for anyone who likes earthy smells like grass, pine, or dirt. I personally enjoy the unusualness of Jo Malone's Wild Fig and Cassis. I prefer this scent on easy days when I walk my dogs or spend time in the yard. It's definitely a summer scent for me.

Smells like grass. Too sweet. I am really not a fan of thia fragrance.

Jo Malone WILD FIG & CASSIS smells to me rather like a bunch of fig leaves and grass blades thrown in a blender. Very, very green and fairly sharp as well, especially in the opening minutes. Is this composition sweet at all? No. The fig leaf is featured, not the fruit nor the wood.

To my nose, the grass, fig leaf and hyacinth together conspire to make this a very green experience indeed, although I do not detect the pine as an isolable note—which is probably a good thing in this case... Fig is clearly the focus, especially in the drydown (which is quite a bit less sharp than the opening), but there is a huge amount of greenishness to this cologne from start to finish! In the opening minutes, I am even reminded a bit of the discontinued BELEAF, by The Body Shop—although that composition lacked fig. This composition, too, is fully unisex, even leaning a bit toward the masculine side.

The longevity of WILD FIG AND CASSIS is as to be expected from Jo Malone, but if green fig leaves are what you're really after, then this natural-smelling cologne may serve you well! Not for me.

A rare failure from Jo Malone in my book. I can't smell the cassis, unless that it the bitter note fighting with the "sticky" smell that I take to be fig. I don't like it at all.

The character of this scent on my skin is very, very grassy along with a bit of woodiness. It is quite bitter on first spray, then it mellows out to become a bit softer. It does remain quite grassy....and in that sense it feels quite outdoorsy and unisex. Unfortunately for me, this feels a bit too much like I'm wearing the scent of "lawn" and I don't get any nuances of fig or florals. After the strong grass note passes, the scent basically disappears from my skin so I'm not sure what the drydown would have been like had it lasted longer.

Hello everyone!
I don't know who I should write to, but I've seen the notes described in this page are not the ones for Wild Fig & Cassis Cologne.... Could you please update it?
Thank you,

The nicest of all Jo Malone's scents, in my opinion. I love the strong fig note and the cassis is quite fresh and subtle, rather than sweet as you might expect.

Unfortunately, there's a base note I find in all the Jo Malone scents which smells a bit 'stale' on my skin and spoils them all for me. I find them better as home fragrances for that reason.

While the fig note is certainly there, a tomato note dominates the opening of this fragrance. It reminds me of plucking fruit at a farm. Soft tobacco note underneath. Ideal for gardening types I would think. Good silage, longevity 2/5.

What an unusual scent for a perfume :-/. It's the kind of 'smell once and enjoy the unique quality and creativiy behind it' scent, not really a scent I could imagine wearing by itself, but it would mix with something very soft like Orange Blossom.

Among the most unusual, watery, fresh scents i've ever tried. Classy, fig note is dominant, but it's a wet fig, the fruit and its leaves. At least that's what i get. As if you're walking beside wet trees just bathed after an intense rain, you're clothes are getting wet by their leaves and your hair is blowing in the wind. It's a scent i don't ususualy get from women. 19-10-09, 14:12

Sweet bubblegum? Wow, that just shows how unique every individual's skin chemistry is! I never tried a Jo Malone perfume before, and I'm so glad I did!

How can there be no fig in this? It smells just perfectly of fig trees in fruit, really ripe, but I have to confess, I get no sense of a mediterranean sun above, on my skin the scent is cool not warm, with a real sense of moisture and air, as though the branches were shaking in a high wind after rain. The bubble gum touch noticed by Chance25 completely missed me as did the pine, and the sweetness was nicely cut by the currant notes, with the cyclamen as an unexpected winner!

This is a beautiful fresh green woody smell, with a base that I can only describe as having a very slight almost biscuity edge to it. After four/five hours most of all this is gone, but a touch of herbs akin to green tea with a soft hint of powder remains. I could wear this anywhere, it reminds me that I am a free spirit!

My first thought of this scent before trying it was either it was going to be too masculine or too overwhelming as fig can sometimes be. None were true. This is mostly a soft floral w/ fig as a nice partner. There is pine in this and it is present to my nose. Not in a x-mas tree sort of way but a freshness that only pine can create. The dry down sort of smells like sweet bubble gum. Such a surprising little gem this is!