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Diptyque

Philosykos

1996WoodyEDTFrance

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Editorial notes

  1. 01

    A green fig with a milky lactonic base, composed as the olfactive portrait of an entire fig tree: leaf, fruit, bark and warm earth.

  2. 02

    Spawned an entire perfumery sub-category of fig fragrances (Premier Figuier, Un Jardin en Méditerranée, Fig Tea) that did not exist before its release.

  3. 03

    Olivia Giacobetti drew on summer memories of Mediterranean orchards, leaning into the fig as a whole organism rather than just its fruit.

  4. 04

    Composed by Olivia Giacobetti in 1996 around fig leaf and fig over a green-coconut heart with a fig tree-cedar base, in Diptyque's signature hand-set black-and-white label.

Dossier

Edition · 000

Status · Active. Niche reference.

A green fig with milky lactonic base.

Composed by
Olivia Giacobetti
Country
France

The pyramid

Top
fig leaffig
Heart
green notescoconut
Base
fig treewoody notescedar

The brief

Giacobetti composed it as the olfactive portrait of a whole fig tree — leaf, fruit, bark and warm earth — drawing on summer memories of Mediterranean orchards.

Name'Philosykos' — Greek for 'lover of the fig tree'.

Why it mattered

  • The defining 'green fig' fragrance; spawned an entire perfumery sub-category (Premier Figuier, Un Jardin en Méditerranée, Fig Tea).

The flacon

Plain clear flacon with Diptyque's signature oval black-and-white label, hand-set in mixed typography.

The Curator's Note

Invented the fig as a perfumery category. The rest is taxonomy.

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