Diptyque Figuier candle dupes
Figuier is the fig candle every other fig candle gets compared to: green fig leaf up top, the fruit and its greenery in the middle, fig wood and a milky coconut underneath. It is also a serious amount of money for wax. Here is what the community actually reaches for instead.
What makes Figuier hard to copy is the balance: too much fruit and you get jam, too much green and you get a houseplant. The two dupes below each solve it differently, one leaning woody-evergreen, one leaning creamy.
The ranked shortlist
| Dupe | House | Match | Price | Burn time | The honest read |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Fig | P.F. Candle Co. | 80 | ~$22 / 7.2oz | 40-50h | Evergreen, mission fig and spice; the go-to Figuier alternative. Darker and woodier than the original, made in California, easy to find on Amazon. |
| Go Figure | Sincerely Sunday | 78 | ~$28 / 8oz | ~50h | Fig leaf, creamy coconut and cedar, built specifically to deconstruct Figuier's green-milky-woody fig. The closer match for the coconut side. |
Value check: Figuier runs about $78 for a 6.5oz jar, roughly $12 per ounce of wax. P.F. Candle Co. Black Fig gets you around 80 percent of the scent at about $3 per ounce. Even burning two of them at once, you come out ahead.
Which one should you buy?
- Want the community favourite? P.F. Candle Co. Black Fig. It comes up in every fig-candle thread, and the jar is bigger than the Diptyque it replaces.
- Miss the creamy, milky side of Figuier? Sincerely Sunday Go Figure is the one deliberately engineered around that coconut-fig accord.
- Not sure fig is your note at all? Try either before spending Diptyque money on a scent family you haven't lived with.
See both side by side with burn time and scent throw on the Figuier dupes page, or run your own search in the dupe finder. Diptyque has more than one icon: the Baies and Feu de Bois dupes are ranked too.