Perfume that doesn't overstay.Four small-batch unisex scents, made in Porto.
Fleeting, on purpose
Most perfume is built to shout across a room for twelve hours. Ours isn't. Fugace is Italian for fleeting, and we took the hint: four unisex scents that sit close, change on your skin, and leave around the time you'd want them to. We make them by hand in Porto, 300 bottles at a time, and when a batch is gone, it's gone.
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Green fig, a torn leaf, the milky bit where the stem snaps.
Wears about 4 to 5 hours. Smells like stealing figs over a wall. Allegedly.
02 / 04
Sea salt, wet slate, the wind off the mouth of the Douro.
Wears about 3 hours. The shortest of the four. Like the beach in April.
03 / 04
Last night's fire, smoked tea, a thread of birch tar.
Wears about 6 to 7 hours. The one that stays for dessert.
04 / 04
Orris, rice powder, a blackboard someone just wiped clean.
Wears about 5 hours. Quiet. Clever. Doesn't explain itself.
Shop · batch 07
Notes across the four scents: fig leaf, milky sap, green fig, sea salt, wet slate, kelp, grapefruit peel, birch tar, smoked tea, cade, orris butter, rice powder, chalk dust, white musk.
Wear time
Between about 3 and 7 hours on skin. Brine is the shortest at around 3 hours, Figsap lasts 4 to 5, Chalk about 5, and Ember hangs on for 6 or 7. They're made to sit close and fade, so nobody across the room has to wear your perfume too.
Made in Porto
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Every batch is mixed by weight on one bench in Porto, not by the litre in a tank somewhere. Small batches mean we can taste-test (well, smell-test) each one before it goes anywhere.
Figsap · batch 07 · per 100 g
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Then it sits in amber glass for six weeks. The notes settle and stop arguing. We've tried skipping this. Don't.
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We filter it cold, fill each bottle by hand and number the base: batch, then bottle, out of 300. When the 300th goes out, we start the next batch.
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Between about 3 and 7 hours, depending on the scent. Brine is the shortest at around 3 hours, Figsap lasts 4 to 5, Chalk about 5 and Ember 6 to 7. That's on purpose: they're made to sit close to you and fade, not to fill a room all day. Skin type and weather change it a little either way.
Put it on skin that's just been moisturised, on warm spots like the inside of the wrists, the neck and behind the knees, and don't rub your wrists together (it just warms the top notes away faster). A spray on your clothes or scarf lasts longer than on skin. Or carry the sample vial and top up. We won't judge.
Yes. All four are unisex fragrances. We don't make a men's line and a women's line; we make four smells and you pick the one you like. Ember and Brine get called masculine and Chalk gets called feminine, usually by people who haven't tried them.
A good fig perfume smells green and a little milky rather than sweet: crushed leaf, the white sap from the stem, some unripe fruit, over soft wood. Figsap leans hard on the leaf and the sap, so it's fresher and greener than the jammy fig scents you might know.
Yes. The sample set has all four scents in 2 ml vials, enough for about a week of each. It's the easiest way to choose a full 50 ml bottle without guessing from a description. Price: [placeholder].
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Because that's what one bench, one person and six weeks of resting time can do properly. It also means every bottle has a number, and when a batch sells out you wait for the next one. Fleeting, as advertised.
