Shiseido
Féminité du Bois (Original)
Woody Spicy · 1992 · Pierre Bourdon & Christopher Sheldrake
Longevity
Moderate
Sillage
Moderate
Occasion
Romantic/Evening
Seasonality
Summer
Dry cedar dusted with cinnamon, ginger and cardamom, warmed by honey, plum and beeswax over vanilla and sandalwood. Spicy and woody with a soft fruited glow, refined and unusual. A quietly sophisticated composition that lingers close and warm.
Taste Profile
The Natural
The Easy Choice
Always works, always easy.
The one to reach for in a hurry. It fits the moment because it always does. Don't think, just go for it.
See your own Taste Map →How Féminité du Bois (Original) smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Féminité du Bois (Original) carries sweetness without letting it define the scent, and sits temperate, built on woods and soft musk rather than amber.
Féminité du Bois (Original) sits temperate, built on woods and soft musk rather than amber.
Féminité du Bois (Original) sits mid-range on projection, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle. That is 65th percentile for projection across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Féminité du Bois (Original) sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available. That is 69th percentile for risk across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Féminité du Bois (Original) sits mid-range on texture, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle. That is 90th percentile for texture across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Féminité du Bois (Original) carries sweetness without letting it define the scent. That is 61st percentile for sweetness across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Projection, risk and texture describe how a fragrance behaves in a room and on skin. Where wear reports are thin, those scores rest near the middle by design, so a mid-range reading here is a statement about the evidence as much as about the scent. Warmth and sweetness are derived from composition and do not carry that caveat.
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