Penelitian ini membuktikan bahwa dalam sebuah penelitian ilmiah dibutuhkan sensitivitas teoritis (theoretical sensitivity). Dengan menggunakan argumentasi akademik yang telah dikemukakan oleh komunitas akademik lainnya, melalui grounded theory penelitian ini mengungkapkan bahwa teoritisasi data dilakukan secara induktif yaitu didasarkan pada temuan dan analisis pelbagai data observasi empirik di lapangan (grounded in data). Penelitian ini  tidak sependapat dengan komunitas akademik Chicago School of Sociology yang menggunakan deductive qualitative analysis dalam proses theory-building. Penelitian ini mendukung perspektif theoretical sensitivity Barney G. Glaser (Theoretical Sensitivity: Advances in the Methodology of Grounded Theory: 1978) dan Barney G. Glaser & Anselm L. Strauss (The Discovery of Grounded Theory: 1967 & Awareness of Dying: 1965) yang menyatakan bahwa dalam sebuah penelitian, theoretical sensitivity memegang peranan kunci tehadap pelbagai data di lapangan/fenomena masalah yang diteliti dalam kerangka teoritis untuk dilakukan build theory. Berdasarkan asumsi teoritik Glaser dan Strauss tersebut, theoretical sensitivity sangat mungkin untuk digunakan dalam penelitian ilmiah seperti kajian sastra. Penelitian ini mengeksplorasi implementasi theoritical sensitivity dalam kajian novel Saman karya Ayu Utami dan Perempuan Berkalung Sorban karya Abidah el Khaliqy dengan hasil penelitian berupa lahirnya konsep genre sastra wangi dan sastra feminis Islam.[The paper talks a scientific study that requires theoretical sensitivity. With academic arguments that puts forward by the academic community, grounded theory in the research reveals inductive data theoritization based on findings and analysis of various empirical observational data in the field research. The article does not agree with the Chicago School of Sociology Scholar, which uses deductive qualitative analysis in the theory-building process. The study supports the theoretical sensitivity perspective of Barney G. Glaser and Anselm L. Strauss. Both of these scholar stated that a study on theoretical sensitivity has a key role in various data in the field or problem phenomena being studied in the theoretical framework for a build theory. Based on the theoretical assumptions of Barney G. Glaser and Anselm L. Strauss, theoretical sensitivity is very likely to be used in scientific research such as literature studies. This paper explores the implementation of theoretical sensitivity in the study of the novel “Saman” by Ayu Utami and “Perempuan Berkalung Sorban” by Abidah el Khaliqy. This study gives the new Persepective of fragrant literary genres and Islamic feminist literature.]