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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what do i say about enforced modesty? first of all this is the only fragrance with fig i’ve actively enjoyed, she’s not pungent, nor is it overly green. however it is green in the way that reminds me of muted foliage, floral in part but again not in a way that takes over the fragrance. it’s blended so well i can’t overly distinguish anything but also can pick up on everything, genuinely so beautiful and unique. that marble note gives enforced modesty a sort of mineral creaminess that gives the effect of cold frothed milk or something soft and billowing despite that not being a note at all. in all, fits with the theme and inspiration down to the smallest point – artistry in a bottle, thanks again zoe! :)
10/10 want in a bigger bottle soon
So. I ordered several perfume oils from Cirrus, Enforced Modesty being one of them. Out of all of them, this one turned out to be my favorite (With Mango Baby as a close second). Coincidentally, it happened to be my sisters favorite too, so I ordered her the atomizer version. I think the reason we both liked it even with our wildly different tastes (I like sweet gourmand scents while she likes more green, cleaner scents) is because this is a nice middle ground. There is a slight sweet creaminess that comes from the lilac and whatever is giving that marble note. This note actually gives the image of marble that has been slightly chilled by cold frigid winds. The fig leaves do come out at the start as the prominent note. Very green, not an actual sweet ripe fig but the plant it has been plucked from. Fig IS a prominent note, but not a sweet fruity one. There is a spiciness to it that I am able to smell more when I apply it on my skin, which comes from the thyme. The green mandarin is barely noticeable at the start but becomes more noticeable the longer it develops on your skin. After wearing it for a while, it softens to something slightly sweet yet still fresh. Overall, it is a very beautiful scent that is VERY strong. I feel like a witch that speaks for the trees when I put this on.
Enforced modesty is a soft, smooth, green, unisex fragrance with just the right amount of sweet for balance. It starts off bold - immodest- and then as it dries down the fragrance settles into a more modest position. Such a fun and bright fragrance.
This is a tree/leaf fig scent, with an almost has a smokey aspect in the background. Think Father Figure by Phlur's cooler, older sibling. Totally unisex. I would wear this when I wanted to feel confident. Seriously recommend getting a sample!
If you’re into creamy scents, Moon Bathing is your jam. I loved it. It was sweet but not cloying, and the creaminess was soft and not overly lactonic at all. Projection and longevity weren’t bad either. Definitely on my full bottle list.
