Cirrus Parfum
Enforced Modesty
Enforced Modesty
4.75 / 5.0
(8) 8 total reviews
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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.
Highlighted Natural Ingredients
Highlighted Natural Ingredients
Laurel Leaf EO, Light Patchouli EO, Virginia Cedarwood EO, Linalool (natural), Black Tea Extract, Atlas Cedarwood EO, Thyme EO, Tobacco Absolute, Vetiver EO
Highlighted Synthetics
Highlighted Synthetics
Timbersilk, Phenyl Ethyl Alcohol, Helvetolide, Cashmeran, Gamma Octalactone, Hydroxycitronellal, Coumarin, Ambrofix, Stemone, Ethyl Vanillin, Hedione HC, Geosmin,
Potential Allergens
Potential Allergens
Hydroxycitronellal, Linalool, Limonene, Coumarin, Isoeugenol, Eugenol, Cinnamyl Alcohol
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This fragrance opens with the most amazing peppery fig note accompanied by crushed leaves. The fig leaf, laurel, and ivy notes are so realistic, fresh, and green with some zing from the thyme. I feel like I'm in a greenhouse. As it dries down, I get more of a powdery lilac scent with some greeness in the background. The powdery scent is cold and a bit dusty, and it does bring to mind marble or stone. This is such a light and fresh fragrance that will be perfect for spring and summer.
This is an explosion of fresh green outdoors, then earthy soil on the dry down. Fig is present throughout but is in no way hogging the spotlight. I’m picturing a home gardener with the greenest thumb and dirt constantly under her fingernails. There are lilac bushes lining the side of her modestly sized house and ivy creeping up the front. If you didn’t like Diptyque Philosykos and want a fragrance that smells like what you were hoping that would smell like, this might be it.
I want to start off by saying I’m not typically a fan of super clean/green/floral scents, and while this is all of those things it’s definitely still a winner for me! It’s very fresh and almost humid, like you just stepped out of the shower all squeaky clean (especially those bright top notes!) . However it still has a very prominent warm woodsy feel, and a bit of sweetness and depth reminiscent of putting on a cozy hoodie (maybe one you stole out of your boyfriend’s closet). While I would say it’s a feminine leaning scent, it at the same time could be unisex depending on what you’re going for as it comes across as a primarily “clean” scent to me.
This starts out surprisingly austere on me. It’s got the freshness of green fig, but the marble accord is enough to make it refined and removed. As it dries down and warms up, the fruit comes to the front. After an hour or so, it starts to feel like eating a ripe fig while sitting on a marble bench at an old-fashioned spa or bathhouse with bundles of herbs hanging around the room. It’s indulgent and refreshing all at once. I’m definitely getting a FS of this one.
This is by far my new favorite perfume, it is so unique and special, I was in love with it at first snif. On me it is a beautiful slightly deeper skin scent with a little bit of floral sweetness. I wish I could describe it better like the other reviews, but my brain is too busy being in love with it.I feel like the marble and herb notes give a beautiful mellowness to the sweeter florals. This perfume is truly perfect and I had to stop myself from buying multiple full sizes in fear of this perfume not existing in the future, but I resisted and only bought one for now. I never gatekeep my perfumes, but this one makes me want to.
