Dusita
Dusita
195 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
May rose and champaca flower arrive with damp, almost citrus-like brightness, immediately accompanied by frangipani's creamy presence. Violet leaf cuts through with herbaceous immediacy, whilst ylang ylang adds a honeyed, slightly waxy gleam—like smelling inside a Siam temple at dusk.
The cinnamon and bark notes materialise gently, tempering the florals' sweetness with warm wood dust and subtle spice. The composition settles into a harmonious interplay between creamy floral-spice, with the sandalwood beginning its gradual emergence, grounding everything in soft, powdery incense.
What remains is predominantly vanillic sandalwood with ambergris providing a faint, almost skin-like warmth. The florals fade to mere whispers—you'd swear you can still detect frangipani if you search for it, but mostly you're left with creamy, barely-there sweetness clinging closely to skin.
La Douceur de Siam arrives as a whisper rather than a declaration—a fragrance that demands proximity to be fully appreciated. Pissara Umavijani has constructed something genuinely rare: a floral composition that breathes rather than suffocates. The may rose and champaca flower form the architectural core, but it's the frangipani and ylang ylang that give the scent its peculiar character—creamy, almost custard-like in texture, yet refreshed by violet leaf's green, slightly peppery snap. There's something almost indolic here, that narcotic quality frangipani possesses, but it never tips into soapiness.
What distinguishes this from conventional florals is the mid-section strategy. Rather than allowing the florals to dominate unchallenged, Umavijani introduces a spiced bark-and-cinnamon combination that feels more like cardamom-tinged wood shavings than hot spice—warming without aggression. This restraint is the fragrance's greatest strength. The base—Mysore sandalwood, vanilla absolute, and ambergris—creates a creamy, slightly resinous foundation that never becomes gourmand, instead lending the florals a powdery, almost skin-like quality.
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