Cirrus Parfum
Enforced Modesty
Enforced Modesty
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.
Ingredient Information
Featured Natural Ingredients
Featured 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
Featured Synthetic Ingredients
Featured Synthetic Ingredients
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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I received this scent as a free sample with the others I ordered, and it ended up being my favorite of the lot. I don't think I've ever smelled anything quite like it. It's very green — not watery-green, but herbaceous, almost spicy — and yet there's a creaminess in there somewhere that does put me in mind of white marble. I was pleasantly surprised by how prominently floral it is. It's as much of a showcase for the lilac as the fig. I used up the sample and ordered more. I wear it every day now.
I got back into perfumes because I smelled a fig leaf last year and thought “I want to smell like this!” but almost everything else I’ve tried was either jammier/riper smelling than I wanted or just wasn’t quite it for me. But this one!! This is green and softly sweet and cool. The fig leaf is front and center on me with a hint of the thyme and stone blended smoothly in. I found that it improved with a little resting. I put one spray on my wrist and used that on my neck as well and it lingered all day. Such a beautiful scent!
Enforced Modesty is simply stunning. I was intrigued by the story behind it as well as the marble note, but was sceptical because I don’t tend to get along with fresh, floral, “clean” type scents. I should know better by know to trust in Zoey! Even the Cirrus scents I’ve tried that didn’t work for me were works of art.
Enforced Modesty is cool, light purple and ethereal with a little bit of a spicy bite from the fig and citrus. It’s wild to me how it really does smell like a cold marble statue.
If you’re not sure about this one, I highly recommend at least trying a sample because she’s gorgeous.
This is a very aromatic- Almost medicinal in the opening but it mellows out into an earthy green scent. The thyme and ivy are adding some spicy sharpness. I understand the imagery of a decaying garden but instead of looking at a marble statue, I am bathing in a claw foot tub- ivy is crawling up the sides, and I’m using an herbal lilac soap. The figs are growing on trees in the distance but they are not ready to eat. I want more creaminess in this fragrance- maybe a slightly riper fig would have been nice. But this is absolutely lovely, clean, and elegant.
I initially got a sample of this with a bunch of other samples and it kind of got lost in the shuffle for months. Pulled it back out and the instant I applied it, I was in a beautiful green forest dream. The fig notes shine here, just perfect, complemented by the mandarin, ivy and a tiny bit of lilac. My favorite fig scent now!
