Féminité du bois Serge Lutens 2009

Actually, everything that you look at with love is beautiful. The more someone loves the world, the more beautiful he will find it (Christian Morgenstern). So I could describe my now steadily growing relationship to this fragrance and to all the other fragrances at home and yes I have a personal relationship to every fragrance I own, because if I don't feel anything with a fragrance anymore, then I don't need it (anymore). Everybody has his or her own special scents and peculiarities.

I got Féminité du bois from a friend as an almost full bottle, because the fragrance was not compatible with her skin chemistry.

The first thing that came to my mind after spraying was a feeling of restrained sensuality and depth, which I like very much. The fragrance follows a subtle and slow seduction strategy. As the name already reveals, almost everything here is about wood, there is also a lot of cedar wood in it, but a wood that is pleasantly cuddly, as if I was sitting in front of the crackling fire in front of the fireplace with a fine woollen sweater and a cup of sweet black tea. The fragrance components are very well interwoven. It is a fine blend of cedar wood with musk, on plum and vanilla as well as beautiful spices and ylang ylang.

The fragrance is declared as a women's fragrance, but I can imagine that some men like it very much, because the sweetness is very well balanced here and I would definitely like to smell it on men. The durability is really very good, the fragrance lasts for about 13 hours. It is wearable for me from autumn to spring all day at normal dosage. For the evening it can be one more sprayer.

I have the quirk of testing the effect of scents in public to see how other people react to a scent in order to find out how well the scent is received, who likes what scents on me and what preferences different people have, which is sometimes a very interesting pastime.

For this reason, several tests were carried out in the subway, in exhibitions and museums and, at an advanced stage of wear, also in the gym. I have never received so many compliments for a fragrance before and the fragrance triggers some positive fragrance experience in men. I always wonder why the men in the gym train so close to me (much closer than usual), then I remember that I wear Féminité du bois, my men's magnet :-). What can I say, even gentlemen have really good taste