Fig

What it is

Reconstructed. The fruit yields nothing usable, and the note draws as much on the leaf and the milky sap as on anything edible.

What it smells like

Green and milky at once, closer to the unripe fruit on the tree than to a dried fig. It is one of the few notes that smells like a whole plant rather than a part of one.

Where it sits

Which layer of the pyramid it is listed in, across every fragrance here that carries it. A base note is one you smell for hours; a top note is usually gone within the first.

What it turns up with

How much more often than the catalogue average. 1.0x would be chance, so these are the things that genuinely travel with it rather than the things that are simply common.

When it is worn

Against the average fragrance here. The line marks that average, so a bar past it means this is worn in that season or setting more than most.

Houses that use it most

Counted across the fragrances here, which reflects what we cover as much as what a house makes.

Byredo (2), Lancome (2), Le Labo (2), Nishane (2), Prada (2), Valentino (2).