Cirrus Parfum

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.

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

Timbersilk, Phenyl Ethyl Alcohol, Helvetolide, Cashmeran, Gamma Octalactone, Hydroxycitronellal, Coumarin, Ambrofix, Stemone, Ethyl Vanillin, Hedione HC, Geosmin,

Potential Allergens

Hydroxycitronellal, Linalool, Limonene, Coumarin, Isoeugenol, Eugenol, Cinnamyl Alcohol

Lush Plants Take Over Marbel Shop

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.

Clean! Refreshing! Cold!

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.

Fresh, green, and floral

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.

Better than Philosykos

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.