Serge Lutens — Feminite du Bois
Decanting from 2009 bottle (exactly like the one on the image).
This is the one that started everything. Originally created for Shiseido in 1992, Féminité du Bois was the fragrance that launched niche perfumery as we know it — the first to make cedar the unambiguous star of a women's fragrance, at a time when that was genuinely revolutionary. Sixty percent wood composition, and yet it wears as lush and sensual as anything: spiced plum and peach steeped in warm cedar, clove, ginger, and cinnamon, with violet and rose softening the heart, all settling into a sandalwood and benzoin base of extraordinary depth. Meditative, slightly melancholic, deeply seductive. Thirty years on, it still sounds like nothing else. The fragrance that made the house — and the house that remade perfumery.
Notes:
Top notes: Plum, Virginia Cedar, Cinnamon, Peach
Middle notes: Clove, Ginger, Violet, Ylang-Ylang, Rose, African Orange Flower
Base notes: Sandalwood, Benzoin, Musk, Vanilla