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lazySyrup0
What has happened to you my lovely?
I ran out of my hoarded original version of this beauty, and the real perfume it was, too, so had a little sniff in that most wonderful of London’s department stores. Well, I suppose I would have recognised it still, but really, it’s sharper, watered down and that beautiful plum note is quite generic and in your nose now. Maybe it would have mellowed some on the dry down, but I didn’t even feel like spraying on my skin.
Moral of the story? If you can find the original, do stock up. It’s masterpiece. If you’re not familiar with the original, then you probably still will like it.
I think I’ll be moving on though, and it breaks my heart.
trustingSeafowl1
Like many, I fell in love with this scent during the 1990’s, when I had a love affair with all things Shiseido, especially their skincare and fragrances. Back then, and even today, Feminite du Bois struck me as incredibly unique with its austere cedar base that is so natural, like the damp Adirondack woods of my youth. I grew up on my mother’s Chanel No. 5 and Lancome’s Magie Noire, so Feminite Du Bois, to me, was a breakthrough, being very different from the power scents of the ’90’s, like Thierry Mugler’s Angel, that I found to be just too much for me. The scent was discontinued when Lutens left the house to blaze his own trail, and I spent nearly the next decade looking for it in another fragrance house, without success.
Enter Lutens’ reformulation. For me, it was instant nostalgia: I find it nearly identical to the original, perhaps with just a little less cedar and a little more floral and fruit, but still just as beautiful. It’s a gorgeous combination: the astringent cedar notes are made feminine with the addition of fruit, spice, and floral notes. Most of the scents I wear (Philosykos, L’Ombre dans L’Eau, kai, Un Bois Vanille) are skin scents, so if you are looking for a scent that enters the room before you do, look elsewhere. But if you want something that’s just as unique today as it was twenty years ago, look no further: Feminite du Bois is it.
madPoultry5
How I love Feminite du Bois. No I have never tried the original Shiseido version .
I adore plummy and peachy scents mixed with woods. This one rounded with cumin ( I find I do love cumin in my scents too ) smells so womanly and human.
It smells like a strong feminist woman with a dark side.
If Feminite du Bois was described in a color palate I would say : dark purple silk and various shades of deeper browns and a touch of glitter .
It is not a new fragrance but one a couple of perfume companies have borrowed – namely Tom Ford and his Plum Japonais.
Also Feminite du Bois reminds me of Mitsouko and Femme by Rochas.
5 stars. Irreplacable.
soreTermite8
I used to love and wear the original Shiseido version of this and was
devastated when they discontinued it.
The SL version is similar but a little less rich and long-lasting. I still love
it and find it a very original and grounding scent. Nothing else smells like
this one.
insecureSausage7
I am a huge fan of Dior’s Dolce Vita, which I believe is close to the Shiseido version of Feminite du Bois. A friend gave me this one and I’ve been wearing it a lot. It just appeals to me. It is composed of cedar, musk, vanilla, rose, orange blossom, ylang ylang and peach.
excludedDoughnut3
This is one of the most intoxicating, atmospheric, voluptuous fragrances out there – indeed full of shape and curves and soft angles, and character.
There’s a sultry smoke to this – it is the scent of dusk in autumn. The world will fall at your feet, only to get closer. I’ve never worn such a spicy fragrance as this, in terms of cinnamon and plum. The aura around me is perfectly decadent – like a morsel of dark, sumptuous, exotic chocolate. It’s warm and lingering, swimming around you in a tantalizing sillage that doesn’t overwhelm. But keeps one coming back for more.
It is a scent of woods and oriental glamour, as much as it is delectable and vibrant like mulled fruit for mulled wine. Incredibly womanly.
The lasting power is beautiful. I only find it fades after several hours a little, but even so, I can detect it. On me I get lots of spiced plum, which is great.
To keep it going, I re-apply it once all over and it really boosts it’s longevity, but still doesn’t offend.
I love it’s colour, the bottle, the way it develops, it’s depth.
Dark, magical, earthy, prismatic, radiant, elegant, a sexy kiss on Halloween night.
troubledPudding5
It is hard to describe how I felt when I first smelled this perfume but I just knew I had to have it. I find the woody smell of the cedar comforting and I feel this scent suits me better than any other fragrance I have worn. It remains close to the skin so suitable for office wear, my only little niggle is longevity but I still love it.
solemnSardines1
I have the original shiseido FdB bottle. I also have a large decant of SL FdB. The original, IMO is preferable, more complex, denser, less thin, more evolution, more rounded a fragrance than SL FdB. This is a collaboration between Sheldrake and Pierre Bourdon. Honeyed plum, spice. There is a cedar note to brighten the fragrance. I don’t get any cumin, but my skin chemistry doesn’t have any issue with cumin notes. This is not powdery on my skin chemistry. No sharp edges.
Three star because it’s a bit too sweet for me to wear regularly, but I do like it very much. Agree it’s a muted oriental. Although ‘vintage,’ it’s not retro. I am not a person who likes modern gourmands in general, but this is a nice bridge to sweeter fragrances.
This, IMO, has the same level of fruit sweetness as the (polar opposite/ very different), very sunny and bright Aimez Moi, a dominique. Ropion fragrance for Caron. (My AM is the 30 ml squat crystal bottle that seems distinctly more powerful than an AM decant I have of the edt) AM is a pear violet fragrance, without any of the duskiness or oriental dark of FdB.
ferventFalcon8
*PIC* I do realise this review is quite unconventional, but I would like to share. I recently bought a Schwarzkopf supermarket conditioner. It’s not great or anything like that, but the scent! It is *exactly* like feminite du bois which has to be one of my most favourite perfumes of all time. I’ve actually thought about slathering it on as a body lotion? (Weird, I know, I know) 😀 It’s the far right one, the dark brown, however it was sold out the other day when I went to re purchase 🙁 🙁 🙁 so I bought the beige one which smells like coconut.
bubblyWigeon8
on my skin this is candied violets and dried plums, but not too sweet and a little smoky
also something pleasantly “old-book-scent” about it
new signature scent!
ferventLeopard4
I just received this bottle. Was surprised to see it wasn’t an atomizer but decided to decant into a roll on and a spray. I do not want to spill this precious stuff!
Bought it on it’s reviews. I didn’t think I’d like it as people that like a lot of the same frags. as I do didn’t care for it
I wish I could talk about all the notes……All I can say is it is unlike anything else out there. Not in your face perfume, and individual. Not so strong that it announces itself before you enter the room but very memorial perfume. I hope to never be without it I think. Next week I may change my mind because this is my first experience with it but this is easy to wear for me. I LOVE it!!! Not sorry! Hope i can find more!!
worriedLard8
I hardly have the words to describe the ineffable beauty and ‘truth’ of this fragrance. In a strange way, it reminds me of a famous painting I once saw called “La Tentation de Saint Antoine.” (The Temptation of Saint Anthony).
I see the image a woman of profound beauty emerge from the thick of the wood. The moonlight illuminates her rounded hips and ample heavy breasts but she still remains something of an apparition. Her hair is so dark and dense that it can barely be distinguished from the opaque darkness of the forest from which she emerges…She is a bold yet silent woman. She listens. She is a woman who loves and desires ardently but she is not coy. She is naked but not transparent. If she is a figure that tempts, it is because she is so elemental that she eludes…
There is something of a shadowy, symbollic quality to this fragrance that is nonetheless wearable, even comfortable–like skin. When I say that, however, I do not mean to suggest that there is anything vaguely animilic about this fragrance. On the contrary, the wood of this fragrance is devoid of the mustiness and dankness of the earth. Rather, it is a gently rustling, deep, voluptuous wood moving like music beneath the stars. On the skin it is like embers, warm and intimate, like a secret held close to the body. The secret unfolds invitingly, the way pages of a book turn themselves. The embers suggest the warm ‘halo’ of fire but there is no fire in this fragrance–figuratively speaking of course. It is not a fragrance that presumes to seduce; it is not a ‘sex in the bottle’ potion and for this reason it is quintessentially enticing. It evokes–in a silent and serene way– the intricacies and inexhaustible depth of a woman’s psyche without invoking the menace and terror that this eroticism poses to men–especially men in long dark robes.
It is a masterpiece–sonorous and deep like a cello.
Well worth the price and the fragrance does indeed live up to its name. It is a terrible pity that this fragrance is hard to find in the US.
crummyPonie1
Side by side comparison between Shiseido and SL’s versions of FdB.
Shiseido version is the older one, and lots of folks prefer this over the SL’s relaunch. Some says the SL is more costly. Other says the SL relaunch doesn’t smell as great. So here we go: R wrist spritzed with sample that was given to me by a SA at a SL counter, L wrist spritzed with Shiseido bought online and a tin of grounded coffee in front.
SL went on first – as I am more familiar with Shiseido – it is unmistakably FdB. Then Shiseido went on too. I try to apply the same amount of FdB to both wrists, but the Shiseido pump is much more powerful, so I add a few more miniature squirts to my L wrist.
Shiseido starts with more oomph (could be due to volume used but still I think it is stronger), most apparent is the cedar. SL also has cedar but it’s much more muted and it has this black pepper smell and a bit of heat which reminds me of chilli.
A swift 10 minutes later the cedar in Shiseido stays strong but the basenotes have came out to play, it reminds me of Christmas (ginger, cloves, dried fruits, pinch of coriander seeds). Calling it Christmas becoz I am reminded of mulled wine. SL stays on the cedar plus a bit of heat route, cloves is also obvious, fruits are very hard to find.
Half an hour later on the Shiseido the Christmas stage is still going strong, although a bit weaker. SL turns into a puff of cedre with a bit of spice, it’s much weaker. I can smell Shiseido with my nose a inch away, I can only smell SL with my nose brushing my wrist. SL is smoother, quieter. Shiseido more sparkling, with a bigger presence.
I often hesitate to choose one thing over another and this time is no different. Which one is better, I guess, depends on where you want to wear it. If I am planning to wear it to a uber sober workplace then SL would do well, anything else Shiseido is what I would choose.
(Comparison done on 29th August 2009)
abjectKitten1
This is for the vintage parfum. Amazing. I would love to smell the newer version for comparison, which I’ll try tomorrow, but this is pure heaven. The cedarwood, velvety plum and soft spices make this a very memorable scent for me. It takes me back several years in time. Somewhere from my past I remember this like it has been my own since its inception, which is bizarre. It smells as familiar to me as my own skin. I have to agree with the reviewer who mentioned wanting to bathe in a vat of this. It isn’t too strong, no matter how much you put on.
This has a depth to the variety of notes in the fragrance, the clove, cardamom, cinnamon I can’t isolate, because the spices are so rounded. Instead of projecting, it’s embracing, the scent wears close to the skin, like most asian fragrances. Classic and glorious. Mysterious and enveloping. It is well-rounded, yet strong, the sweeter notes (orange blossom, rose, which I also can’t isolate) bends like bamboo around you, but doesn’t break. Shiseido has this particular quality in their fragrances that makes the notes very hard for me to discern individually.
This is not very femme, even might smell slightly masculine for some, but any lover of japanese koh (incense) would probably love this. It has a radiant, warm depth that is like bathing in a moonlit lake at night…. without the water moccasins and mosquitos.
cynicalTruffle8
I worked on a Shiseido counter part-time when I was at university (way back in the late ’90s). Though I was directed to sell Feminite du Bois (distributed by Shiseido then) I personally thought it was “weird” and “gross”. I then preferred Chanel Allure and EL Beautiful.
Oh how time has changed what I find appealing!
Now that SL has it and I have re-smelt it and fallen in love.
I now see and appreciate it’s earthy smokiness and the delicious woodiness.
So on those days when a floral feels too girly, a chype to austere this little beauty give me a dose of warm, smoky sensuousness.
cautiousSardines0
I wore Feminite du Bois by Shiseido many years ago. It is such a lovely, warm scent. Perfect for winter under a cashmere sweater. Cedar, smoke, incense. Very Zen, peaceful and content. On a lark I did a little research on Serge Lutens. Wanting to jump on the “great perfumers” bandwagon I ordered this unsniffed based on the name and the reviews comparing it to Shiseido’s version. I am not completely dissapointed, but this is definitely not exactly the same as what I had in the past. The SL version can best be summed up as smelling like an EdT of FdB EdP. There is a lack of depth. Shiseido’s FdB melded with my skin and after a few hours, the incense seemed to emanate from my pores. This one smells lovely, but is so much lighter, lacking in depth. I wouldn’t go so far as to claim it smells “designer imposter-ish” but you can definitely tell it is a “version” of the original…not “the real thing”. I will enjoy wearing this, but feel a bit wistful about the rich plum bottle of Shiseido I once owned. Some things just can’t be replicated…maybe that’s a good thing as well. I am interested in trying other SL fragrances. Perhaps his forté lies in his own creations rather than in re-creating others.
vengefulSnipe5
Feminite du Bois is definitely one of my top 5 fragrances that I own. I first tried a sample of FdB maybe 3-4 years ago in the August heat, not sure what I was thinking because this is definitely not a Summer fragrance. I was expecting the violet and orange blossom notes to be more prominent and at the time I was disappointed. I ended up throwing out my sample and didn’t give the fragrance any more thought. Fast forward a few years, I went through a phase where I sampled almost every Serge Lutens that I could get my hands on, this time during Fall and Winter. When I re-sampled feminite du bois, I felt that I just had to have it. The fragrance is much better suited to cooler weather. The most noticeable notes are sandalwood and cedar, followed by spice, then slightly sweet stewed fruits followed by violet which isn’t very prominent at all. In fact, I’m not sure that most people will be able to pick out what florals are in the fragrance.
The easiest way to descibe the fragrance is pretend you are working in a wood shop cutting sandalwood and cedar and in another room peaches and plum are cooking down on a stovetop with cinnamon, ginger and cloves, and somewhere in the wood shop there is a vase with orange blossoms and violets.