Premier Figuier Extreme L Artisan Parfumeur for women

For me, smelling to coconut is disgusting!

A touch of leathery green leaf at the beginning which was disappointingly fleeting, then coconut and sandalwood surface rather quickly.

The dried fruit here doesn't work for me, kind of like fruits that have been sitting in the bulk buy bin too long and have lost their flavor and freshness. It's not bad, just not really noticeable in combination with the rest of the notes.

The drydown is sweetened coconut cream and rich wood... and not a whole lot of fig.

Pleasant enough though with good sillage and longevity, but not incredibly exciting. I like Dyptique Philosykos much better.

Nice sweet figs at first, then after about an hour comes a kind of rubber note. this one is not the best fig fragrance, but suitable for fig fragrance lovers.

AMAZING!

Sandlewood and fig leaf hit you right away, almost masculine, but it settles and warms up into a coconut lovers dream! The drydown is creamy coconut milk, woods, and spice. It hovers on the edge of being masculine but never EVER gets there, thank goodness. This is fantastic! Unlike anything I have ever tried before.

L'Artisan Parfumeur PREMIER FIGUIER EXTREME is not extreme at all. Instead, it's a slightly stronger, more woody and coconuty rendition of PREMIER FIGUIER. This is a nice woody oriental to my nose, with good staying power and medium sillage.

Off topic (sort of): Inspired by the two PREMIER FIGUIERs, both of which combine fig tree essence (see previous review) with coconut, I decided to make today the historic day on which I finally created a frozen confection that I've been dreaming about now for weeks: fig gelato. The recipe is simple: fill the (48oz) blender more than half way with canned figs (more figs than syrup, but enough syrup to make it blendable), then add a full can of full-fat coconut milk and about half a cup of sugar, puree until smooth, then process in an ice cream maker. Yum, yum, yum. Further confirmation that fig and coconut marry well. My culinary composition, however, contains no wood at all and is quite a bit sweeter than PREMIER FIGUIER.

Rather than acquiring a bottle of PF or PF EXTREME, I'll probably just make fig gelato again...

the SA reccomanded me this one instead of Diptique's Philosykos,it because this one seems to be stronger..im gonna give my sample a try :-) it does smells similair though! just a bit more fig and coconut ( wich i never though i'd like)
so far it smells delicious and is very suitable for summer

guess pasage d' enfer has to wait for a while


edit: i like it very much! strength can't compete to passage d enfer but i don't care, its not too light so thats a good point, can't wait for my bottle to arrive ^_^

This is my best find so far- I bought the limited edition bottle for only 40 GBP without even smelling it before. I absolutely adore the scent, but the bottle is a real gem on my dressing table. It;s true that the staying power is not the strongest, but on me its base actually stays sometimes (depending on the phase of the cycle ;-) nearly 24 hours.

Not at all what I was expecting, which was the delicious green, honey-like scent of fresh figs. Whatever figs may be in this scent have been dried out so long that they have developed a waxy consistency, and are mixed in with coconut and dried coconut fiber to form a brick that's meant to be used for potting plant seedlings or scrubbing oneself in the shower. Remove the woody fiber and it could be eaten as a health food bar. In fact, I think maybe there's a Larabar made with dried figs, dates and coconut that smells a lot like this. You have to eat it fast, though, because there's a soapy smell that comes in after the first 20 minutes or so. Don't get me wrong, it's not an objectionable smell, it's just not what the name promised to me. Now that I've renamed it "Savon Noix de Coco", I might even wear it occasionally until my sample is gone. That's what I love about perfume sampling - you never know what to expect.

its great, smells like a sence of clean but unfortunatelly doesn't last long!!

This opens with a blast of something medicinal/bug spray -- Green & Nasty, like Oscar the Grouch. Thankfully, it doesn't last, and moves quickly into a fig-coconut-almond accord that seems surprisingly foody to me, reminding me of a coconut candy I used to eat at Easter. Later, I smell dried fruit along with the coconut. I get very little sandalwood. It's very pleasant to smell, once past the opening, but I think I'd prefer this as a candle or room spray, rather than a perfume for my skin.

This is one of the very few woody aromatic fragrances I've come across that I enjoy wearing. Fig notes are prominent for the first hour or so and then the coconut notes begin to kick in...also something else, I can't put my finger on it, maybe plum? Not too strong or too timid either, for me it's just right when you don't want to smell overbearing. Great for being in small spaces, like an office or at a movie.

The opening of this is wonderful, full of milky coconut like I have never smelled before. Dried down to something similar to burnt rubber. I only have a tiny sample of this so I really can't give a true review, would love to be able to purchase this insanely expensive perfume just to see what I really think. Not putting this one on my fav. list.. Nice but not great.

Sweet, nice, soft. It smells as coconut milk and sweet pear. Nice fragrance for child, but not for woman.

I don´t really know how fresh figs smell. In Sweden figs usually are eaten dried, and then it smell very much like raisins, sweet and chewy...

This fragrance make me think that fresh figs smells like soap!?

I´ve read other rewievs describing it as feminine and sexy. For me it surely isn´t. It is clean, soapy, mild and fresh. I must have the "wrong" chemistry for it... in the end this only become something I find nice, but not at all special. It smells quite the same all the time and the lastingpower is good...