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Le Pavillon D’Or (eau de parfum) Dusita

Floral

Le Pavillon d'Or is inspired by a very human quest for happiness and inner peace, it evokes the sheer joy of serene self-confidence and peace of mind.

Top notes: Menthe citrata, Honeysuckle Heart notes: Boronia, Frankincense, White thyme Base notes: Oak, Sandalwood

[persolaise]

Guerlain La Petite Robe Noire Intense, Tauer Golestan, Clive Christian Timeless and others– Skin Time November 2022

Errr... I can't quite believe I'm typing these words... but we have YET ANOTHER Petite Robe Noire from Guerlain. But then there's also a new Dusita and a new Tauer. #perfume

Guerlain La Petite Robe Noire Intense It’s no good asking whether we need another Petite Robe Noire*. Now that we’ve reached what must be at least the eighth or ninth flanker of Guerlain’s bestseller (not counting the many limited edition bottle designs), trying to view the growth of the range in terms of ‘need’ would surely be a case of missing the point. The black dress has become an…

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Parfums Dusita Melodie De L'Amour

Parfums Dusita Melodie De L'Amour

Nose: Pissara Umavijani

notes: tuberose, gardenia, honey; jasmine, broom, lily-of-the-valley, peach; cedar, musk

Melodie de L'Amour is, quite simply, my favorite tuberose, and tuberose is my favorite flower in perfume.

You can't talk about tuberose without talking about Fracas, Germaine Cellier's spirited high-femme 1948 creation. Fracas is the Reference Tuberose, and Pissara Umavijani is deeply inspired by Cellier.

But Fracas is actually a very odd scent. It's a brilliant Barbie-pink, sitting on a layer of buttery yellow, and finally resting on a gravy-brown base. The vivacious charm at length gives way to tedious drama, unless you really like richness.

Melodie de L'Amour is, like Fracas, a Big Damn Tuberose, but totally different in spirit. Its tuberose is white, not pink -- a gauzy, swoony, romantic, nectar-dripping aura, slightly honeyed but not the least bit cloying.

Dusita has been reformulating its perfumes -- I remember Melodie de L'Amour as much richer a few years ago -- but I still find it beautiful. There may have been a real sandalwood base in the past; now the only hint of depth is a slightly musky haziness that might be the broom.

This would make a good bridal fragrance. Gloriously romantic, and free of anything edgy or unlikable.

[honeymushroom]

i hate whenever i buy a full bottle of perfume and they send a bunch of samples and i end up liking one of the samples more than the full bottle!!!!!! i am so easily tricked into buying more smelly juice

[lullaby1000]

Le pavilion d’or by Dusita named after Mishima

[oceanlovingcommunist]

The lovely @mossbawn tagged me! <3 xo!

Last song I listened to: ummmm Bed for the Scraping by Fugazi!

Currently reading: Zazen by Vanessa Veselka. It's an interesting read so far, I've only been reading in short spurts so I'd like to sit down and really dig in. I'm intrigued!

Currently watching: the X files finally lol! also King of the Hill. evergreen.

Currently obsessed with: the fact that I finally have a job again lol. and I finally got my (FREE) Parfums Dusita samples today, so I'm smelling myself! Rhapsodie Noire is soo elegant and interesting. It's not to my taste I don't think but it's definitely a textured and refined fragrance.

Only do it if you'd like to! @cyberbullyinc @sovietunion @riisoto @lesbianblackphillip @mango-nectars @teentaal @sapper-in-the-wire @hiphopocliedes @excited-insomniac @persephonese @mrtva @futuresabove @motifcollector @no-passaran @acuzena @dykescully

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for reference, my current scent of the day review queue:

libre (yves saint laurent)

amyris femme (maison francis kurkdjian)

harvest mouse (zoologist)

snowy owl (zoologist)

cow (zoologist)

violette à deux sous (guerlain)

lolitaland (lolita lempicka)

and my fragrance wishlist for future sample hauls to review:

valaya (parfums de marly)

dent de lait (serge lutens)

datura noir (serge lutens)

l'eau d'hiver (frederic malle)

ristretto intense café (montale)

fresia (santa maria novella)

splendiris (dusita)

violette impériale (historiae)

miu miu fleur de lait (miu miu)

un jardin sur le nil (hermès)

signature (montblanc)

ganymede (marc-antoine barrois)

putain des palaces (état libre d'orange)

frustration (état libre d'orange)

if you have any suggestions of fragrances you'd like me to review or that you think i might like, please tell me! i'm always looking for new stuff to sample.

also, if you enjoy my fragrance writing and want to throw a tip my way to help fund future reviews, here's a link to my ko-fi - even the smallest donations are super helpful and very welcome!

[fruitchouli]

how on earth would you describe oud? I'm at a loss. "smoky earthy" doesn't really cut it I think.

i’m not very experienced with oud, but with the synthetic ouds i’ve smelled like the montale type oud i find it dark almost medicinal, industrial. harsh but in more of a smooth than a rough way. lacking any sweetness. to my western nose i find that smell kind of scary like a musty dusty old decrepit warehouse like tetsuo the iron man vibes. but the ones i’ve smelled trying to simulate real oud like dusita oudh infini it smells animalic like the livestock at the county fair

[pocketvenuslux]

I've a quartet of reviews from a couple niche houses, Jorum Studio and Eris Parfums.

Eris Parfums

Eris was launched in 2016 by vintage perfume lover Barbara Herman who decided to work exclusively with Antoine Lie, whose has done a fair bit of work for Etat Libre d'Orange and Puredistance.

Ma Bete is a lovely vintage throwback, a dramatic, aldehydic floral with a growling animalic base. The opening is very reminiscent of Bogue's MAAI, all sparkling neroli up top with the suggestion of something primal below although instead of MAAI's diva rose, you have a more sultry jasmine. Like MAAI, it's not for the faint of heart but it's certainly not as filthy as some reviews make it out to be.

Belle de Jour immediately felt like a softer version of Secretions Magnifiques except the "blood" and "saliva" of Secretions here is described as "seaweed". All of these are fantasy notes of course. What you get with Belle is a soft floral with a salival/salty edge and a hit of spice. Linden flowers are not in the notes pyramid but the white florals paired with an aquatic accord does bring you there. It's not very approachable, a little strange and mysterious but not in a cliched, dark romantic way.

Jorum Studio

Jorum was founded in Scotland in 2019 led by Scottish perfumer Euan McCall.

Phloem's note pyramid might sound like it's a mediocre fruity floral reaching to be something better. In fact, I wouldn't place it in that category at all. It is a very unusual and creative floral composition that walks up to the edge of wearable. There's hints of green, of earth and dirt from the sesame mixed up with light flowers and the tang of berries. There's no cumin in the pyramid but there is a subtle cumin vibe going on. It's weird and the notes sound like they shouldn't work together but they really begin to meld together in the dry down.

Nectary is a sweet rose paired with berries and tart peaches. It's dense but not unpleasantly so. It's not as unusual as Phloem but it's still quite unique. A dark hit of oud and animalic notes begins to emerge in the dry down. If Dusita's now discontinued Oudh Infini was way too much for you, but you were kind of into it, give Nectary a try.

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Moonlight in Chiangmai (eau de parfum) Dusita

Woody amber

The nocturnal fragrance of mystery that plays with the duality between light and shadows while painting a wonderful scene of a night in the city bathed by moonlight and fireflies.

Top notes: Yuzu, Jasmine Heart notes: Nutmeg, Siam benzoin Base notes: Myrrh, Patchouli, Vetiver, Teakwood

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Parfums Dusita La Rhapsodie Noire

Dusita La Rhapsodie Noire

Nose: Pissara Umavijani

notes: lavender, sage, broom, mimosa, jasmine; coffee, tobacco, rum; tonka, vanilla, oak, patchouli, vetiver, sandalwood, oakmoss

La Rhapsodie Noire opens dark brown, sweet, and overtly manly; I get a slug of coffee and a lot of caramelization. Like most of the recent Dusitas, it’s quite sheer.

a few minutes in, I get a definite sage & lavender effect, like a scrubby chaparral landscape, very traditionally masculine and dry, with that macho caramelized woody-amber underneath.

By half an hour in, the herbs are gone and it’s just dark, sweet, slightly chocolatey, slightly boozy woody-amber.

In other words, this is a crossover between two common perfume genres; the lavender-based fougere (which has been a staple since the turn of the 20th century) and the masculine sweet-dark Oriental based around woody-ambers, which dates back to…maybe the 90’s?

At any rate, there’s a certain Eau de Bro aspect to La Rhapsodie Noire that I’m not fond of.

Parfums Dusita used to make marvels of classic perfumery, full of rare and precious ingredients like real Mysore sandalwood, and now…they’ve pivoted to slightly-better-than-average mainstream scents, but kept the jacked-up prices. One of those everyday tragedies.

[arizanmokhtar]

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[canadianbeauty]

I’ve been in a funk. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Not really, but I have been wanting to smell more animalic scents and these Dusita samples delivered. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Name your favourite @parfumsdusita - I’m interested in trying more from the brand! #dusita #nicheperfume #nichefragrance #perfumista #fragcomm #perfumelovers #fragrance #scented #perfumesamples #fragrancesamples #perfumesample #fraghead #animalic #sotd https://www.instagram.com/p/CaA9VPzv94h/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Parfums Haute Couture

La Haute Couture, ce n’est pas que la mode, mais c’est aussi la Parfumerie avec cette sélection. N°5 de Chanel Eaux de parfum Loubiworld de Christian Louboutin Les flacons de la collection Loubiworld de Louboution, comme les semelles de ses escarpins, présentent une teinte rouge passion. Ils sont ornés d’un cabochon en forme de crocodile, de chat ou de couronne. Cette collection, ce sont sept…

[akingyouniverse]

He’s never cared about me.

[pocketvenuslux]

My highest femme fragrances

Femininity is a social construction. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the world of perfumes where woods are marketed to men and florals to women. I used to resist the idea of ascribing gender to any fragrance because it all seemed so arbitrary. I do believe that anyone who enjoys a perfume should wear it regardless of who it’s being marketed too. Having said that, I’ve started to appreciate the use of scent in the artifice of signifying gender, so without further ado, here are six feminine fragrances that signal to me the heights of high femme presentation.

Femme by Rochas

Starting off with the most obvious choice, Femme is an aptly named fruity chypre. Opens with a brazen hit of cumin and unfurls sensuously into plush florals under which pulse rich musks. Originally conceived by Edmond Roudnitska, Femme was updated in 1989 by Olivier Cresp who introduced the cumin I find so attractive about the formula.

Parfum de Thérèse by Frédéric Malle

Another Roudnitska composition, released posthumously in 2000. Here we have a more reserved, elegant version femininity. Instead of Femme’s forward sensuousness, the unusual limpid melon and cucumber notes of this floral scent present an air of emotional distance. Ahead of its time, the scent wears as both unique and timeless.

Myths Woman by Amouage

One of my favourites of this house, Myths Woman is a chilly affair, evoking a sense of hardships endured and dried tears. Pitiless and world-weary, Myths Woman suffers no fools. There is a tactile dampness to its green and floral notes that do not suggest dewy blooms, but rather, moisture on stones. Although it was released in 2016 and has a modern sheerness to it, it also possesses a vintage, complex, almost chypre-esque character. A unique, challenging and dangerously beautiful scent by nose, Nathalie Lorson. [edit: I blanked out and assumed the nose for this was Christopher Chong when of course, he was the Artistic Director of the house.]

Le Sillage Blanc by Dusita

Between Dusita’s Blanc and Piguet’s Bandit why did I settle on Blanc? Although I love Bandit, there’s something very offputting about its drydown, an unsubtle, unctuous tuberose paired with a butch leather that steers the fragrance away from savage beauty toward outright disgust. Bandit was composed by a woman, Germaine Cellier, but it recalls to mind the patriarchal idea of a woman’s leaky, hysterical body as monstrous or grotesque or, from a woman's point of view, her need to be on the offense to protect herself against male violence. Blanc on the other hand, takes the opening of Bandit with its bitter galbanum bite and smoke and supports it with florals, resins and a touch of leather. There’s something marvelously self-contained and chic about Blanc. We women live with our powerful bodies everyday. We wake up in them and go about our business, subjects of our own narratives. With Blanc, Pissara Umavijani reappropriates a classic leather chypre in a way that is to me, the ultimate in chic femininity.

Fracas by Piguet

Fracas is the other legendary scent by Germaine Cellier. Originally released in 1948, I’ve only smelled a much later reformulation that I’m sure isn’t quite as bold as the original. Nevertheless, it remains the tuberose by which all other tuberose perfumes are measured against. Like Bandit, Fracas has a reputation for being heady, narcotic, fleshy, even intimidating. But unlike Bandit, I find there is also a kindness to it.

Salome by Papillon Perfumery

I made sure to include female noses on this list because the first three two perfumes, composed by a man, present a gender normative vision of femininity with none of the requisite high femme queering irony. While Salome isn’t an ironic take, it does in its own way, slay. With the greater inclusion of women in the fragrance industry, women are creating scents that defy the desire to be an innocent lollipop Lolita or an Amazon sexpot. It’s like having the world wake up to the fact that women may not be all that interested in being a Victoria’s Secret Angel. Like Japanese Lolitas taking feminine cuteness to its logical overkill extreme, Liz Moore of Papillon outdoes all the 80s orientalist visions of the femme fatale seductress with Salome, a fragrance that has become legendary for its filth, its animalistic aggression only equaled by its beauty. Salome daringly out-cumins Femme, its lusty musks perfectly balanced with stunning rose and jasmine. One of my first full bottle purchases!