Jardin de Kérylos 16 fragrance notes
Head
- green fig
Heart
- white peach
Base
- tuberose, sycamore wood, musks
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Latest Reviews of Jardin de Kérylos 16

Maybe this one needs some real summer heat to make it bloom, but I have to confess that it left me a little cold. I don't hate it, but for me it doesn't come anywhere close to the glorious celebration of the fig that is Philosykos.

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At heart it's still a fig though, and while it could work in the hot southern sun, up here in the north I see fig as more of a room fragrance than fine perfume.


Because it emphasizes the bright and fruity, rather than the milky aspect of fig, Jardins de Kérylos could be my favorite fig scent to date. As beautiful as Philosykos and Primier Figuier are, their milky olfactory texture wears very flat on me. Not so the more juicy and tart fig of Jardins de Kérylos. Whereas Olivia Giacobetti's well-regarded fig scents lean towards coconut and powdery woods, Pierre Guillaume's uses tart citrus and floral accents to balance the potentially cloying character of its star accord.
Jardins de Kérylos wears close to the skin, and holds closely to its crisp, refreshing course until its quietly musky drydown sets in. My chief complaint is that the scent is very short-lived, and lasts only three hours on my skin at best. Even so, Jardins de Kérylos merits praise for its distinctive approach, and while it lasts I still enjoy it more than the other fig fragrances I know.

great for summer.


Jardins de Kerylos is far from beeing a semplicistic fragrance and together with Heeley's Figuer, Diptyque's Philosykos and L'Artisan's Premier Figuer settles among the best fig interpretations around. Good.

