Feminite du Bois
Féminité du Bois arrived in 1992 and did something the genre hadn't managed before: it made cedar the protagonist in a feminine fragrance.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Cinnamon85
- Vanilla50
- Amber45
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Cinnamon
- Honey
- Cedar
- Rose
- Plum
- Peach
By the editors · 2 min readFéminité du Bois arrived in 1992 and did something the genre hadn't managed before: it made cedar the protagonist in a feminine fragrance. Ginger and cinnamon in the opening set a warm, spiced stage, honey adding sweetness and rose providing a floral bridge — but the cedar is already present, already defining the composition's temperature.
The heart is richly fruity-spiced: plum and peach alongside orange blossom, cardamom, and violet. The fruit notes are warm and almost compote-like — cooked rather than raw, the spice making them autumnal. Violet adds powdery depth that connects the heart to the woody base.
Sandalwood, benzoin, vanilla, and cinnamon in the base build out the composition's defining character. A fragrance that opened a new possibility for what feminine woodiness could mean.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
