Dõjima

The notes pyramid didn't do it justice. I don't perceive the rice as the dominant note, instead, this perfume features an ambiguous, elusive, unnamed accord that I've been chasing from one perfume to another, yet still failed to trap it with words. It smells rosy but 10 miles away from a typical rose flower, and creamy like a high-end face cream; it has something in common with the softest patchouli, also something in tobacco reminds me of preserved dry plum (话梅糖); it's mellow, doesn't have any hard angles; it's an enveloping fuzzy gold aura. I sensed it in Monsieur Beauregard by penhaligon, maybe in Aesthete by Le Galion, Alizarin by Penhaligon’s, Palissandr d'Or by Aedes, even hidden in the base of TF Santal blush. Is it a specialty base by some big-name company? Some type of patchouli? a facet of oud? A creamy orris? a certain tobacco component? Or it's just an imaginative note made up by my head? In Dojima, this unnamed accord is present in every stage of the perfume. Except the beginning —— it begins with tangible, paper-ish sandalwood . Then a cool-tone rice powder (not powdery) came up, wrapped inside this ambiguous creamy note . Then some truly dry, starchy powdery note (ambrette, probably) mixed in. Sometimes I get hints of jasmine underneath, but it's gone quickly. I'd say at some point the "rosy" color of the unnamed accord seems intensified, but in the long run, it just fades away.

Opens with a strong creamy sweet rice milk accord - rice plus the ambrette and orris, perhaps - and settles into almost a green floral mid within an hour and then the base is very amber forward. There's nothing here that surprises me yet it speaks to my favorite types of perfume notes with the exotic rice pudding/milky top and then the jasmine and amber base. I'm also a sucker for ambrette and orris root. This perfume is deliciously high quality and seems a bit gourmand without being a gourmand. I'll definitely be purchasing a full bottle but not from Lucky Scent. Side note; the samples at Lucky Scent are dabbers and total garbage for testing. Why they don't allow you to get a small spray instead is beyond me. It's not even necessary to bottle more of the perfume. I basically dumped my samples into spray testers I bought off Amazon for sharing my perfumes with fragrance friends and the experience is so much fuller with a spray tester. End rant.

My latest signature scent and I buy it right as they discontinued it great. If I had a tarot card to represent this aroma it would be temperance. The balancing act this does between every quality I love is unmatched. It’s fresh yet not ephemeral and has some weight and magnitude to it, it has a floral sweetness to it yet herbal and mature without smelling like a grandma idk how it does it. I recently when on a shopping spree of rice based notes and most of them didn’t really smell like actual rice but the note gives them all an air of warmth and sophistication that when attempted with other notes just hits the bottom of my nose and smells sluggish in comparison. But here it smells like wide open spaces and lifts u up. Genuinely sad it’s discontinued I’m dismayed Edit: I wore it to the gym and the rice note started screaming as I exerted myself. Really creamy and nutty with extreme heat and sweat added to it. Stunning

The orris in Dojima is so saturated by fatty musks and creamy rice I can almost see fat dripping off of my wrist as I smell it. Original, unusual and strangely pleasant. The nutmeg and sage are noticeable in the opening along with the fattiness, giving the composition a tingly feeling. As it develops the fattiness eventually gives way to a powdery and musky heart, with a very subtle oriental accord (labdanum?). The wood is there, but more to decorate the musk than as a main note. As a whole this is a very quirky scent, and I find myself loving the sample sometimes, yet find it off-putting other times. In terms of performance - longevity is short, and projection goes from loud to skin-close "very quickly" - part of it might be olfactory fatigue - my coworker asked confusingly "what's that smell?" after he got back from lunch, an hour after I put Dojima on. He was at least 2 feet away from me.

This is a sweet makeup powder scent but with a Japanese or Asian flair. Yes, it has a creamy aspect that isn’t au lait. It’s the creamy sandalwood, the creamy orris root texture, the cream quality of rice or whatever is in the ‘rice’ accord. I initially thought this has coconut in it. But, to clarify, this isn’t Kayali or whatever the gourmand brand du jour everyone is sniffing. It’s not sugar sweet, it’s floral sweet. It’s not cows milk, this smells like freshly steamed rice in the opening then 20 min later you have a very dusty makeup powder scent that becomes even more powdery and musky as ambrette tends to become once the lighter molecules depart. Mona di Orio gets missed in perfume talk but this is a smaller brand worth exploring. First, go on a diet from the Ulta Beauty-Sephora brands then sample this with a refreshed nose. Gorgeous.