{"id":41933,"date":"2026-03-30T15:33:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierreguillaumeparis.com\/?page_id=41933"},"modified":"2026-03-31T17:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:06:07","slug":"re-reading-a-work-figs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pierreguillaumeparis.com\/en\/re-reading-a-work-figs\/","title":{"rendered":"Les Figues – Th\u00e8me 16 – Relecture \u0153uvre"},"content":{"rendered":"

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FIGS<\/h2>\n
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Before the fruit. After the tree. Between the two: a perfume house with its own way of telling the fig<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Some materials tell the story of an era. The fig is one of them. In the 1990s, it entered contemporary perfumery with a new proposition: a fruit that was not merely gourmand, but vegetal, milky, almost textured.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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1994<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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In 1994, L’Artisan Parfumeur\u00ae<\/strong><\/a> led the way. Olivia Giacobetti<\/strong> signed Premier Figuier<\/strong><\/a>: a soft, luminous fig, still unprecedented\u2026 like an idealized Mediterranean evocation.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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1996<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Then, in 1996, at Diptyque\u00ae<\/strong><\/a>, Olivia Giacobetti<\/strong> deepened the gesture with Philosykos<\/strong><\/a>. The fig tree becomes a whole: leaf, fruit, wood, sap\u2026 A complete landscape, settled beneath the sun. These two founding creations drew a territory.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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2006<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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So, in 2006, with Jardins de K\u00e9rylos<\/strong>, Pierre Guillaume does not seek to recreate. He chooses to place himself before.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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BEFORE THE FRUIT. BEFORE MATURITY. BEFORE EVEN THE SHADOW OF THE TREE.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n

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\n Chapter 16\n <\/div>\n

JARDINS DE K\u00c9RYLOS<\/h2>\n <\/div>\n[vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1774967827781{background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.19) !important;*background-color: rgb(255,255,255) !important;}”]<\/p>\n
Jardins de K\u00e9rylos<\/strong> is a fig barely born. Green, incisive, almost budding. A sensation of late winter, early spring, facing the sea. The light is low, almost blinding\u2026 and the fruit is still nothing but a promise.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Green Fig<\/a>, White Peach,<\/a> Sycamore<\/a>, <\/span><\/strong>Tuberose<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a><\/em><\/div>\n

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2010<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Four years later, in 2010, with Bois Naufrag\u00e9<\/strong>, the story continues. But this time, it takes place after. The fig tree is treated as driftwood.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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AFTER THE TREE. AFTER THE STORM. AFTER THE UPROOTING.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n

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The fig tree becomes driftwood. Polished by salt water, warmed by the sun, washed ashore on a beach. No green remains, no fruit \u2014 only a memory: that of a saline wood, weathered, almost abstract. Between these two creations, the aim is not to represent a fig tree\u2026 but to tell what precedes it\u2026 and what survives it. A fig before the fig. A fig tree\u2026 after itself.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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Fleur de Sel<\/a>, Figtree<\/a>, Mint<\/a>, Vetiver<\/a>, <\/strong><\/span>Driftwood<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em><\/div>\n

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