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Perfume Room

117. Turning Poetry into Perfume (with Parfums Dusita's Pissara Umavijani)

Perfume Room

Emma Vernon

Fashion & Beauty, Arts

4.9 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The delightful Pissara Umavijani, Founder and Perfumer of Parfums Dusita, is in the Perfume Room today! Pissara discusses uprooting her life from Bangkok to Paris in pursuit of perfume, said pursuit of perfume [Pissara is self-taught!], and how, through Dusita, Pissara honors and bottles the smells of her father’s legacy, her Thai heritage, and classic French perfumery all at once.

FRAGS MENTIONED:

Parfums Dusita: La Douceur De Siam, Anamcara, Melodie de l’Amour, Rosarine; Roja Elixir, Maya Njie Les Fleurs, Parfums de Marly Delina la Rosee, Maison Francis Kurkdjian A la Rose, Louis Vuitton Rose des Vents, Givenchy Rose Velvet, Kilian Flower of Immortality, Dusita: Rosarine, Rhapsode La Noire, Melodie de l’Amour, La Douceur de Siam, Montri, Oudh Infini, Anamcara; 4711, Nina Ricci L’Air Du Temps, Chanel No. 5, Dusita Issara, Dior Diorissimo, Robert Piguet Bandit, Dusita: Melodie de L’Amour, Erawan, Rosarine; Guerlain: Shalimar, Nahema

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the perfume room. My center of the day today is made by today's guest and was also generously gifted to me by today's guest. I am wearing the Duceuxiame from Ducita.

0:21.9

Now, if you are a floral lover, whether that be of the over-the-top endolic variety,

0:28.3

perhaps you enjoy a soft but piercing whisper of a floral, a sweet lush bouquet, or something

0:33.7

that's just more regal and elegant, you must try, ducita.

0:38.2

Now, Anam Cara, Melody de la Mor, rosarine,

0:42.1

these are all floral perfumes from this line

0:44.0

that I've talked about before,

0:45.4

but I only recently had the pleasure of smelling

0:47.4

what I am currently wearing,

0:48.6

Le Douce ducer de CEM.

0:49.9

And compared to the others, I just mentioned,

0:51.7

this one feels distinctly like a princess scent.

0:54.7

Like if you have ever woken up a man like, like I would like to smell like a Disney princess today,

0:58.9

this is the one.

1:00.2

It opens with the brightest, juiciest shampaka note in a way that feels sparkly and peachy and tea-like.

1:07.0

It feels like almost like a nectar of the gods.

1:10.2

And after several minutes, you really start

1:12.1

to get the other main notes, which to my nose are Elang Lang Lang and Centifolia Rose. There's like

1:17.2

a soft, subtle creaminess from the Elang Lang Lang, but it still feels very sort of like crystalline

1:23.0

and fresh and petally from the centipolia rose. And this really is a category that I would say is a princess floral.

1:30.9

And I'll give you guys some other fragrances that I would put in this category.

1:33.5

Again, I don't think le ducerre smells like these fragrances or that these fragrances even

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