Pure Azure
Phaedon (2013)

Toulouse-Lautrec may not have been the greatest of artists but it's a mark of his skill that he could work in an ordinary medium - the poster say - and make of it something special.
And Pierre Guillaume does the same with Pure Azure. He takes banal materials - ordinary oils and aroma chemicals - and creates something unusual.

This orange flower cough syrup may be called azure, but it's got nothing to do with the Mediterranean coast, and - despite the salt mentioned in the notes - it isn't aquatic.
Instead, it could have come from a herbalist further inland in the garrigue, the bushy aromatic scrub found in the hills of Provence. But it's problematic to draw comparisons with nature, because - as Ian Rankin says - to be successful, all art needs a measure of artifice. And in Pure Azure, Guillaume's artifice is clear - but it doesn't hide the artistry of his weird country medicine.

Very nice. Summer in a bottle. Fig, florals, citrus. Great stuff!

A beautiful, big, complex fig. Full of lovely, warm orange blossom and sun-kissed florals. Rich and wide. A real wrist-snuffler.

Pure Azure is a beautiful sweet fig fragrance. It opens with a harsh/straight fig/citrus. In the dry down I smell jasmine, pure jasmine. I didn't think I would like the jasmine note, but I love it. I also detect some vanilla in there. It is sweet and floral. I am glad I bought it.

A floral with a prominent fig note.. Fleur Du Male rings a bell..
Not as loud and straight forward..
A more tamed and mature version..
Not as floral as the JPG..
I will enjoy my sample but will not pursue this scent..