So I think I've previously said enough about this brand having only tried a handful, and not really being a fan of the marketing or aesthetic here, I'm trying to judge the perfumes themselves fairly, because the folks behind the brand have opted for an array of different perfumers and a shitload of bases to cover, so I guess fair enough. If the samples were a bit cheaper or the brand sent me them, obviously I would've sampled more and could give a better impression. I feel the brand has taken Tom Ford's 'let's have a few naughty/sweary names' approach and gone apeshit (not one of their names GONEAPESHIT haha) with it, but anyway. Fig Porn is a okay perfume I suppose and I get the fig accord here but it's overly sweet, too much ethyl maltol (which is actually essential in fig accords but used sparingly) and it just seems a little naïve and not really studying the fig which has much fresher aspects and stemone and such. I get that this is a sticky, dried fig or whatever...super sweet something I'd actually thought was lacking in fig perfumes but be careful what you wish for I guess? At least Figuer eden and Philosykos and Fig my love, etc...all very different examples of figs BTW, but one thing they have in common is that fresh and realistic feeling, sadly lacking in fig porn. I mean a disclaimer could be... READ THE NOTES!!! It's not supposed to be a fig perfume, There's loads of other shit in there, we flipped it. We subverted it. We're SO cool, you fucking idiot! I guess that's where this brand just starts to piss me off again with it's smartarsery and contempt for the customer. As I see it. (Sorry my contempt for the brand keeps rearing it's ugly head) So it's a fruity, densely packed opening reminding me of carmelised, fruity floral nothings of the desginer realm, like angel but without the earth. Fig porn does however dry down much better and much more appealing as a more lactonic aspect softens everything and it smells way more balanced and actually more figgy. So all in all not bad if you survive the opening assault of ethyl maltol which I perhaps hastily thought was clumsily dosed but becomes far more agreeable as the perfume wears on. Fig porn is okay by me.
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