Woody, 1992: Féminité du Bois
Choose Woody by the note, not by the bottle photo. “Féminité du Bois” in 1992 titles that note, and 1992 is strength or time. Shop lighting is not lasting power. Read the years as a map of trade and reformulation, not as a ranking of beauty.
Day to night, all year. Very dry skin can read woods as sawdust. Yes. Warm, moist skin amplifies sweet and spice; dry or cool skin can turn the same juice woody, soapy or short. Test on your skin, not only a blotter. IFRA sets industry limits on some naturals and synthetics. A reformulation is usually a legal edit, not a betrayal. This atlas is not a safety sheet.
Any ethics or materials I should know? Read the materials chapter for the actual load. Niche and designer often share a family and disagree on dose. No. This atlas is cultural and editorial. Fragrance can irritate; oakmoss, eugenol, citrus oils and musks are common triggers. See a clinician for reactions. Nothing here is a diagnosis, treatment or safety sheet.
Woody did not arrive as one bottle. The timeline below keeps Grasse, Guerlain, Chanel, Nahéma and IFRA as proper names, not metaphors. Ernest Beaux / Chanel: sandal, aldehydes, ylang — wood as couture. IFF’s woody-amber molecule; later a genre. Lutens / Sheldrake / Bourdon: cedar as a feminine manifesto for Shiseido then Lutens.
On the blotter, keep 1992, “Féminité du Bois,” and 1992. Without them Woody blurs.1992
Figures to keep
- Year of the note
- 1992
- Figure kept
- 1992
- Scent
- Woody
- Trial line
- Féminité du Bois