Genie de Bois Keiko Mecheri for women and men

For me,this is like a light, summer-fragrance edition of Shiseido Femenite du bois
Less complex, fresher and easy to wear. Delightful ,although I prefer Femenite du bois.( Maybe because I`m in my thirties and feel that Genie de bois is slightly to "young" for me.)

Violets are my flowers of the week, having started with Violet Tendencies (Smell Bent), moved on to My Queen (Alexander McQueen), then Putain des Palaces (Etat Libre D'Orange} and ending with the rather elegant Genie des Bois.

Based on the four perfumes listed above, it could seem that when violet is the main note, there are two paths perfumers take - leathery or woody.
Genie des Bois (french for Genius or Genie of the Woods) evidently marries violets to woods, in a linear but elegant fashion.

There are no great olfactory discoveries in different stages of dry down, its all violets and woods from the moment you apply all the way to the distant dry down. It is this very linearity and lack of development that fails to grab my interest. I admit I also would have liked something a little sweeter in there, handled beautifully in some other violet offerings I own but drowned in the cedar in Genie des Bois.

I don't see myself running out to purchase a big bottle of this anytime, not when My Queen is there with sweet heliotrope intertwining her own violets and woods. I do recognize that the violets and woods in Genie des Bois are beautifully blended and "good", whatever that means in the land of aromachemicals, but they don't have me hippity-hopping with joy through the olfactory forest.

Genie des Bois may make a passable masculine since - as Auguszta pointed out below - it lacks the excessive sweetness and powderinesss that can be associated with violet perfumes.
The sillage is nice, not excessive but yes about 2-3 feet surrounding you, and the lasting power is about 6 hours, which is good.
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Keiko Mecheri GENIE DES BOIS is a woody violet perfume, which opens only slightly sweet and becomes significantly more woody within a couple of minutes. The drydown is rather heavy on cedar, with the violets somewhat less pronounced. If I had not known that this composition was created by Keiko Mecheri, I might have guessed L’Artisan parfumeur, for the base here exhibits an AP-like aesthetic, being very smooth, natural-smelling and, again, with a cedar emphasis. The good news is that GENIE DES BOIS has pretty big sillage and excellent longevity, so for those looking for a durable woody violet: here it is!

I initially thought that I was in love with this composition, but it proved to be merely a crush as I began to grow weary of it several hours later. Its relative linearity may have been a factor, but mainly I think that the cedar began to get on my nerves just a bit. The notes are of the highest quality-—no criticism there, I just felt by the end that this was not a perfume that I need to rush out and add to my collection. I do, however, appreciate that the violets are not overly sweet in this creation, which can sometimes be a problem. GENIE DES BOIS might for that reason work quite well for men who wish to don violets without being thereby obliged to smell like candied pastilles.

My favourite K. Mecheri scent by far. It's a rather unusual interpretation of violet: rich, full-bodied, juicy, feels a bit boozy even, and very, very woody. It's loud and straight-forward. Neiher too sweet, nor powdery. A bit linear maybe, but very pleasant. It has good sillage and, unlike some other wonderful scents from this brand, decent staying power.