Fleur de Lalita

After having tested at least three other Dusita scents and although they were really special none of them was for me, - and now comes "Fleur de Lalita". This scent really positively overwhelmed me, so perfect it seems to my senses. The most wonderful, perfectly arranged white flower bouquet, not sweet but fresh, and really delicate. After a while it turns into a white flower cream, again, not sweet or cloying - with a nice note of galbanum, but still super elegant and fresh. But, and that is the point for me, it's not a bridal scent in my opinion. In the base there is a very subtle but still very noticeable erotic vibe, really hard to describe. (My husband stated that he thinks it smells like white flowers in a very expensive, light-flooded house at the seaside, somewhere in the Carribean owned by a very elegant, yet natural sexy woman. =D ) I've been a perfume collector for many years and I probably have tested a thousand scents meanwhile and honestly, not many things can really suprise me anymore and I'm often sad, that most new arrivals all kind of smell the same, because they are owned by the same big corps or the ever same perfumers all went to the same perfumme school., and following the new trend, they almost all drown any creativity in those artificial crap notes like Ambroxan, Paradisone, Cashmeran, - which I smell immediatley and I really hate those notes. It's so boring and predictable meanwhile. And what a breath of fresh air the Dusita scents are then, unconventional for sure, and the reason might be that the perfumer, Pissara, was especially not at one of those ever same perfume schools as I read today (and got mocked by the industry in the beginning for wanting to do her own thing) and instead really creates unique scents. Melodie de'l Amour was not after my taste, it was special for sure but there was a note in it I couldn't bear, two others were special too but also not my taste, but Fleur de Lalita really is fantastic for my nose as it is a rich, fresh, creamy white flower scent (which I generally like) but not typical and conventional. After testing this for a full week and totally falling in love I ordered the full bottle and am really happy to having found a new perfume for my collection after not having bought anything new in a year. Looking forward to more new scents from Dusita and I hope Pissara remains on her unconventional course of creation!

Fleur de Lalita is an absolutely stunning and joyful white floral, featuring lively jasmine and lily with a realistic botanical feel, with a fresh and dewy green naturalness to it, like the scent the flowers would give off while being watered. The galbanum is very present and is quite potent initially, giving the initial opening an almost chypre like feel, but Lalita quickly settles into more of a vibrant white floral but with a crispness rarely found without being headache inducing. I’m very sensitive to certain pungent white flowers, lily being at the top of the list, but somehow this is done in a way that is actually soothing to my senses instead of the usual piercing between my eyes that I normally get from similar notes. On paper, this sounds like a “no way” for me with all the jasmine, lily and magnolia, but somehow these notes magically harmonize and create a beautiful and realistic botanical white floral unlike most I have tried. Lalita settles into a slightly sweeter version after a couple of hours when gentle vanilla, clean musk and rose surface. After 3-4 hours the galbanum returns and lingers with the musky ambergris base for the remaining duration of the dry down. Fleur de Lalita is such a celebration of femininity, joy and optimism without going too “pink” or overly sweet. Fleur de Lalita is stunning and is proof we should never rule out any notes. Sometimes we just haven’t found the right combo or artistic touch to make it work for us. 5/5 for me.

I thought I'd moved on from my first olfactory love of jasmine-heavy, feminine florals, but Dusita is causing me to seriously reconsider. My favorites from the Discovery Set are Fleur de Lalita and La Douceur de Siam, and I'm going back and forth over which necessitates a full bottle. The two are similar in approach, but Fleur de Lalita is cooler and fresher: bitter green galbanum dressed in gorgeous white flowers. As others have pointed out, the formula isn't particularly unique or ground-breaking, but the quality and execution are stunning. Rather than follow the current fashion of frothy, sugary-sweet floral bouquets, all flowers represented here are elegant and sophisticated. I stop noticing this fragrance after a couple of hours, but I'm not sure if it's a performance issue or just that I'm becoming habituated to the scent. Last night my friend told me, "It smells like you just put it on!" long after I stopped being able to smell it. UPDATE: I just got a full bottle of this! I got 40€ off for purchasing the Discovery Set, and they also have a promotion going right now where you get a free 15ml bottle with a full bottle purchase. I was able to fulfill my Douceur de Siam longing as well!

Fleur de Lalita is a refined floral scent, not too sweet, not too heavy, powdery, enhanced by a touch of greenery and something aromatic. A very female scent, though, not at all reminiscent of aftershave. There is a hint of a garden after a heavy rain, when the earth is soaked and then breathes in the warm sun. I am not talking about earthy scents, though, just the rain evaporating from the ground mixed with the smell of young, green leaves - a slight ozonic freshness in this perfume, which lingers among the florals that play the major part in Fleur de Lalita. Yes, the price is high, no doubt about that. If you find a perfume there that suits you well, though, it might be worth it, because this is really high quality. On my skin this parfum lasts more than three hours. I sprayed it on my wrists and behind the ears in the evening and when I woke up in the middle of the night, I could still easily smell it. In the morning it was mostly gone. I love this as an inoffensive, yet complex enough to be interesting fragrance for the day and I'm hoping it will perform well in warmer weather.

This is lovely. If you like '60 and '70 green florals, this one should not be missed. Beauties like Chamade, Chant d'Aromes and Calèche come to mind. It has that understated, demure and lady like charm of the era when nice ladies still wore corsets every day and lowered their eyes and not just for kink. When the social expected behaviour is rigid, multitude of opposite ones bloom in shadow. This flower opens cold and chaste to fade sensually. Well, it's a great way to go. The white flowers can go both ways and usually one of the two is chosen. This perfume can be a story of the personal and sexual discovery or liberation. Or just a lovely white flower perfume. Ms Umavijani has a unique approach to flowers. The facets underlined are not always the most gracious ones, but they are there nonetheless and with Ms Umavijani's help they shine. There is something very real and truthful about her creations. This just might be my favorite one. That might change because I continue discovering them every time I wear one of them, again and again. Full bottles might be needed.