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Serge Lutens

Féminité du Bois

1992WoodyEDPFrance

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Editorial notes

  1. 01

    A spicy Atlas cedar with plum, conceived as the deliberate inversion of cedar's masculine coding into a feminine register.

  2. 02

    Originally launched in 1992 as a Shiseido fragrance after Lutens' visit to a Moroccan cedar workshop, re-released under the Serge Lutens name in 2009.

  3. 03

    The foundational composition of the Shiseido Salons project that became Serge Lutens as a brand. Spawned the entire Bois series (Bois et Fruits, Bois Violette, Bois Oriental).

  4. 04

    Composed by Pierre Bourdon and Christopher Sheldrake in 1992 around cardamom and rosewood over a peach-plum-violet heart and a cedar-vanilla-sandalwood base.

Dossier

Edition · 000

Status · Active. Genre-defining.

A spicy Atlas cedar with plum.

Composed by
Pierre BourdonChristopher Sheldrake
Founder
Serge Lutens
Country
France

The pyramid

Top
bergamotgingercinnamontarragoncardamomcedarrosewood
Heart
peachplumorange blossomvioletrose
Base
cedarvanillasandalwoodbenzoinmuskcinnamon

The brief

Originally launched in 1992 as a Shiseido fragrance after Lutens' visit to a Moroccan cedar workshop. Re-released under the Serge Lutens name in 2009. Pierre Bourdon developed the concept; Sheldrake refined the formula.

Name'Femininity of the Wood' — Lutens' deliberate inversion of cedar's masculine coding, positioning the wood note as a feminine register.

Why it mattered

  • Set the template for the entire 1990s-2000s niche woody-oriental genre; almost every contemporary 'cedar-fruit' niche composition (including Bois series) descends from it.

Footnotes

  • Féminité du Bois was the foundational composition of the Shiseido Salons project that became Serge Lutens as a brand. Its spawn includes the entire Bois series (Bois et Fruits, Bois et Musc, Bois Violette, Bois Oriental).

The Curator's Note

Reclaimed cedar from the men's counter and never gave it back.

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