Hah!!!! No way! I haven't smelled Feminite du bois for years, but I did recently acquire a formula for it and made it up. Bois datchai instantly reminded me of it and I made the comparison to FdB in a recent review on IG not knowing whether the formula I had made really did smell like the Shishedo/Serge fragrance (I recalled a much more plummy cedar but like I said genuinely couldn't remember it) but seeing others have made the connection here makes me feel vindicated and props to my pal who sent me the formula. Anyway, this is clearly much more refined and subtle than the one I knocked up, but the overriding sense is of a black tea in the opening and a progressively spiced wood, based around that kind of Sheldrake, cedar architecture. The freshness and greener quality is essentially from rosewood, which is rich in natural linalool which works across the board with everything in this. ie: tea/wood I really like it, I love that it doesn't rely on musks (particularly) or sweet or pleasantly palatable perfumery notes, and yet it's not challenging either. The Femininte du bois references could be reductive too because I've not smelled it for so long but this stands it's ground and regardless revisiting that era/corner of perfumery might not be such a bad idea? If you're a fan of L'Artisan perfumer or Serge Lutens this is nod in your direction.
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5 years ago
Bois Datchaï, from Maison Crivelli was released in 2018. The perfumer behind this creation is Dorothée Piot. The notes are Black Currant, Cedarwood, Cinnamon, Guaiac Wood, Incense, Papyrus, Patchouli, Tea.
Hah!!!! No way! I haven't smelled Feminite du bois for years, but I did recently acquire a formula for it and made it up. Bois datchai instantly reminded me of it and I made the comparison to FdB in a recent review on IG not knowing whether the formula I had made really did smell like the Shishedo/Serge fragrance (I recalled a much more plummy cedar but like I said genuinely couldn't remember it) but seeing others have made the connection here makes me feel vindicated and props to my pal who sent me the formula. Anyway, this is clearly much more refined and subtle than the one I knocked up, but the overriding sense is of a black tea in the opening and a progressively spiced wood, based around that kind of Sheldrake, cedar architecture. The freshness and greener quality is essentially from rosewood, which is rich in natural linalool which works across the board with everything in this. ie: tea/wood I really like it, I love that it doesn't rely on musks (particularly) or sweet or pleasantly palatable perfumery notes, and yet it's not challenging either. The Femininte du bois references could be reductive too because I've not smelled it for so long but this stands it's ground and regardless revisiting that era/corner of perfumery might not be such a bad idea? If you're a fan of L'Artisan perfumer or Serge Lutens this is nod in your direction.