Cherchez La Femme

 is a perk in Fallout: New Vegas. It is opposite of Confirmed Bachelor; a male-only perk that provides the same benefit.

Effects
This perk gives females an additional +10% damage bonus on other female targets, and more dialogue options with certain female characters (like Joana or Cass).

Unique dialogue options
This perk allows you to have extra dialogue options with certain female characters. Some of them are listed here.


 * You can convince the Omerta receptionist in Gomorrah to talk about the Family during the fourth part of the quest The House Always Wins.
 * You can flirt with Corporal Betsy in Camp McCarran if you also have high Charisma.
 * You can sleep with the prostitute Joana for free in Gomorrah.
 * You can ask Sweetie to give you the key to Saint James' room for free.
 * You can respond to Rose of Sharon Cassidy's comment about not liking "soft men" by saying that they're rarely a problem for you. Cass will respond by nervously saying that when she's drunk, she doesn't care who she shares a bed with.
 * This can also lead to an interesting conversation with Benny when you first meet him in the Vegas Strip.
 * You can calm Christine down more easily in the Dead Money add-on and ask about her past.

Behind the scenes
"Cherchez La Femme" is a French idiom which translates literally as "search for the woman" and can be understood best as meaning when a man has a problem, there is surely a woman at the source.

Bugs

 * This perk increases damage output for all weapons 10%
 * This is just a visual glitch inside the Pipboy - if the player is female and takes this perk, the weapon damage displayed in the pipboy will increase by 10%, but when you actually use weapons on targets, damage output will only increase against females. Confirmed Bachelor is probably affected in the same way. Formula for damage output calculation in Pipboy: Weapon base damage x ammo multiplier (piercing, standard, hollow, junk) + Lord Death perk bonus + Bloody Mess bonus + Cherchez La Femme bonus, so subtract 10% in order to learn the actual base damage dealt by a weapon. Alternatively, you can fix this perk and the Confirmed Bachelor perk through the toolset by adding the following condition: GetIsReference PlayerREF == 0 on the TARGET tab condition page of the perk.