Ciao, I use Pomegranate and Fig after bath moisturizer. After shower or bath I use this.  It has a picture of Big purple fig and it makes smell sooo good. I first bought it because it had fig on it, plus the mixture of the two fruits is delicious.  I also have a clock made in old country with fig leaves and figs engraved and painted into it.  Beautiful and very very old.  I have 2 fig candles but the one doesn't smell at all like figs. The other does. Sometimes you get what you pay for.  When I say it smells like figs, I mean the fruit and what the fruits taste like.  I have to say that I don't like the smell of some particular figs.  Some varieties I have smell ( the leaves ) and the plant itself, smells like cat urine. This is just what I think it smells like. The Chieti, Ronde de Bordeaux,  and I have one other one, I think Natalina, they have a bad urinecat smell to them especially when inside where no breeze. Just glad the whole house doesn't smell like them.

Italiangirl, I laughed when I read your description of the leaf smell on some figs! I've always LOVED the odor of a fig tree on a hot summer day (reminds me of when I was a kid), so I mentioned it to my wife one day when we were out working in the yard. She sniffed the tree and declared that it smelled like rat pee to her. Ouch! When I read your post, I had to tell her she's not the only one who's less-than-thrilled with the smell. I guess beauty is in the nose of the beholder.

Oh, I thought the smell was just because the cats had indeed been in the hoophouse!!  What a shock this is.  If I find the culprit, it will likely have to go.  There are times when the odor of 'cat urine' runs me out of the hoop.

At this time the only figs I have are just way too many varieties and too many new starts of VdBordeaux and a few extra Hardy Chicago.  Gave two away to an 81 year old gent today.  Got some heirloom white peach seedlings from him.

Have been considering doing some fig leaf decoupage on the wall or using the design on a 'forever floor'.  The Unknown Pastilliere leaves were huge this year, what a sight they would make!  All of that will have wait until another year and new leaves.

fyvfigs--Yes, I figured my wife was just having a little fun at my expense with her unflattering assessment of one of my favorite smells, but with two more women saying the same thing, there's got to be something to it. I like your phero-hormonal explanation. Maybe olfactory beauty isn't in the nose of the beholder after all, but rather in the Y chromosome.

Well, so much for my Y chromosome theory!

That changes everything!

I also love the smell of fig leaves but guava fruit smell like cat urine to me and I can't stand that smell so go figure 

When cold weather was setting in, I brought all my plants to the garage for dormancy and the plants had not dropped all of the leaves yet. After a week no one in the house wanted to go to the garage because of the smell and everyone was saying that it smelled like an enclosed cattle barn with no circulation. The smell declined after the leaves dried up in a couple of weeks.

Oldie Chanel #5.