Cirrus Parfum
Enforced Modesty
Enforced Modesty
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The vibe is a twilight stroll through a garden, thick with sprawling green fig trees and lilac. There are ancient-looking marble busts and statues dotting the property in various levels of decay. The air is thick, sweet, and somewhat humid. You come to a life-sized classical nude, posed pouring water from a vase in to the earth below. Covering their nakedness, someone before you has stuck a fig leaf to their pelvis with a bit of the plant's natural latex.
Notes: Fig leaf, ripening fig, marble, laurel wreaths, purple lilac, ivy, green mandarin, and creeping thyme
This fragrance was inspired by the fig leaf campaign of Pope Benedict XVI in which it was decided that nudity in art was not morally acceptable. Famously this resulted in many statues, particularly male nudes having their genitals covered with plaster fig leaves and/or being chiseled off entirely.
In an interesting twist, the Vatican kept most of the removed phalluses and there is now a team of scholars in Italy that are working to match the stray wieners with their original owners, thereby restoring art that was vandalized by the church in the name of Christian propriety.
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I love this! I appreciate that it's not linear—it's more interesting because of its transformation.
It starts as a fresh fig fruit from one of those not-too-sweet varieties. Even at the beginning it's pretty cool toned; the slight herbal edge makes it feel like you're eating the fruit in a garden with lots of aromatic greenery around. It doesn't turn my stomach like other fig scents (Debaser and Philosykos) sometimes do.
The next phase is the most strange: on me, it heads toward a cold, wet stone scent. In this stage it reminds me quite a bit of Heretic Nosferatu, although it's by no means identical—I gave that perfume away, since it went too "moldy basement" on me. (To be clear, I respect the vision!) I don't find that it's a problem for me here, and although some people may find this stage off-putting, I totally smell the granite connotation.
The final stage (a couple of hours in) is just gorgeous. The lilac reveals itself in glimpses and the herbal smell returns. I'm back in the herb garden, but now it's a cool spring night. I'm interested to see how this wears in the summer heat, but it has been lovely this spring. A must-try if the notes appeal to you!
The second i smelled the sample I immediately added a larger size to my cart. Its so beautiful!
This is finding an abandoned marble sculpture workshop. The sunlight is peaks in through the broken roof and the studio has been overgrown with lilacs, ivy, and a solitary fig tree. You smell the soft powdery florals and the slight bite of lush green plants. The shaded shop and crumbling marble gives a faint cold stone feeling in the air. This is a bright green fig scent that costars with the Powdery lilacs.
This fragrance is mostly a skin scent with some lift, but not much. This fragrance also lasted all day on my skin, about 7 hours.
This is a very refreshing and clean scent, very herby to me. It definitely has a creamy cold “marble” effect. If this scent was a book, it would be Madeline Miller’s short story Galatea.
It gives big lipstick powder vibes to me which i enjoy. I don’t personally pick up the green notes as much as I expected to. Feels like a modern take on a vintage vibe. Reminds me a bit of a more powdery/creamy version of Memoir Man by Amouage.
