Melodie de L'Amour

Well, well, well. It's almost a week I'm wearing Melodie De L'Amour full time and in the end I decided talk about it in my own way, a very personal and fanciful way. I could write about notes and sillage and lonegvity, I did it before with other perfumes, but in this case I think it would be utterly reductive and it wouldn't be fair for art to be rendered with just words. I think for me, my nose and senses, it is the most difficult, in Dusita perfumes, to review. This is for two reasons. One: I think it is the most personal perfume that Umavijani created, and I think it reflects an important side of her artistic and familiar life. I believe this perfume represents, more than any other, the meaning of Dusita and the the values of Montri poetic. Two: I'm not a big fan of tuberose in white/pure flowers chords. I actually prefer dirty/obscure and carnal/animalic tuberose. But this perfume is truly different from any other one I tasted before and amazingly different from whatever comes to my mind when I think about tuberose and white flowers. This fragrance really made and makes me dream. It instilled in me pure poetry, pure love, authentic passion with a glimpse of genuine burning desire. It smells like a wild, yet "très chic", woman, walking under a drizzly but enchanted sky, inspired by a beautiful sunday evening in the big city. A woman in love and happy to live and be part of the beauty, every day, life donates us. As soon as tuberose and gardenia show up, together with jasmine, and hit my nostrils I feel dazzled. It is not a sweet or chemical smell I feel here. It is more a creamy, white and warm natural sensation, yet dry and not mushy, nor musty, as other perfumes which used these notes before. And so I was transported too. In the big city. This image came to my mind, the very first time I wore Melodie. I felt like I was in NYC. It is one of those spring evening on which you don't know if it's going to rain or not. The sun is setting and is warm, but pale, in the sky, surrounded by wispy grayish-rose clouds, and the air is dry but filled with ozone. And here it is. Imagine you passing by a magnificent white garden full of gardenia, lilies, tuberose blossoms, all fanced-in indian jasmin. And it is the exact moment when rain starts falling. That exact moment the streets and ground begin rehydrating and quenching their thirst. And a strange, familiar and enchanting smell arises. And you, you are submerged by contrasting yet complementary city/nature odors which have in common more than you could ever imagine. You open your Brigg's umbrella and slowly, dazed and astonished, walk away, continuing your stroll to the end of the day. Then rain, eventually, stops falling. In the night you can perceive musky vegetal notes, emerging together with woody ones, in the air. Time passes and you are now in the comfort of your bed and, here, wild-bitter/sweet honey appears, like wishing you a good night... sleep tight. Then... then... then... This perfume is really something. One of those I really adore, and, day by day, I love even more. I can't remember the last time I wished I had a full bottle of a fragrance, but it's really a long time ago. This, imho, if you love tuberose and white flowers, without any "gourmandise" in the middle, really deserves to be in your collection. I found Melodie a marvellous creation and I hope my review, in a way or another, could help to understand better this scent. Finally I want to send my best wishes to Pissara, aka Ploi, Umavijani, for her beautiful works, hoping she could continue astonishing us with her awesome art. Thanks for the samples and thanks for being so nice and kind. You are truly a magnificent soul and this is reflected in your creation process. I wish you all the best and I really hope we could meet one day. Have, you all, a good night.

A sheer revelation. And a breathtaking shock to the system for a tuberose-phobe like me. The fleshy, fruity, borderline-gasoline, overripe-pawpaw note I usually abhor, which nearly turns my stomach ... and which this scent made me truly love, for the first time, in anything ever. So ENTIRELY against the odds: I come not to bury Melodie d'Amour, but to praise it. It is a great big billowy unashamedly tuberose-centric femme floral - very much NOT my happy-place genre . Even worse, it's also laden with at least two other girly characters (peach and lily-of-the-valley) which usually make me shudder. I adore it. Inexplicable. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? It has simply bamboozled, dazed and confused me with its loveliness. Perhaps the gorgeously smooth gardenia helps mellow it all out? Maybe the subtlety of the rest and the wisely light hand with the honey? Is it the broom that gives it just enough herbal/aromatic/green edge to cut through the lush jungly lady-fug? Is it just because Pissara Umavijani's a mage who walks among us with an uncanny gift for making polished, ladylike, sophisticated (and yes, very expensive) smells with impeccable diplomatic skills? Maybe all of that but probably much more too. My irrational tuberose hatred is serious. I don't even like the classics (Carnal Flower); for a while I thought I might be able to tolerate it in Diptyque Do Son but even that seems too brash for me now. No disrespect to those who love it, but 99% of the time my reaction is BLECH. Tuberose ruins many a scent I think I might like - it's so overbearing, so squeaky, often so bubble-gummy and fake-fruity. So how can tuberose be the central spine and raison d'etre of this and still make me love it? This one is - as you'd expect from Dusita - smoother, classier and more low-key than any other treatment I've yet tried ... though it's still perceptibly tropicalesque, and still radiating pretty loud all around. No quiet shrinking flower at all. It really, really, really shouldn't work on me - but oh, how stunningly it does. Just thrums through my nose and banjaxes my brain to pump up a magic bubble of thick floral happiness. HOW??? I am undone. Melodie d'Amour has seduced me and I've fallen for its charms. For tuberose lovers: obligatory. For the tuberose-neutral: a must try. Even for the tuberose haters: ALSO a must try, because if it can convert me, it might have the power to break anyone's phobia. This is so rare and so precious: a perfume which really did Change My Mind. Special, special skills at work.

Parfums Dusita Melodie de L'Amour Extrait de Parfum by Pissara Umavijani (Decant) (Review) this is classified as a Floral, the notes are Gardenia, Tuberose, Honey, Broom, Peach, Cedar wood, Lily of the Valley and Musk. "Melodie de L'Amour is a white floral lovers dream come true" Parfums Dusita Melodie de L'Amour is one of the most exquisite and divine white floral fragrances I have ever laid my eyes on, as soon as it graced my skin, I knew it was going to be a lifetime love affair. It is high on a pedestal with some of the most regal white floral fragrances in the world, such as Frederic Malle's Carnal Flower, Serge Lutens A La Nuit and Creed's White Flowers. It's a breathtaking and extraordinary silhouette of tuberose, jasmine, gardenia and lily of the valley that dance together with subtle fruit, wood and musk notes that unify to make an opulent love potion. From the first serene moment I get a tropical, citric tinged, dew drenched gardenia that blooms above a milky, flirty, with a touch of an animalic tuberose, and a sensual, slithering, liquefied honey. Then an aromatic, uplifting, green laced jasmine, gracefully elevates a fizzy, sweet, juicy, delicious peach, and a warm, ethereal, delicate lily of the valley. I get the Tuberose, Indian Jasmine, Gardenia, Honey, Peach and Lily of the Valley, it opens up with a silky, with touches of green gardenia, and a creamy, fleshy tuberose, the gardenia and tuberose are strong. After thirty minutes the tuberose dissipates, the gardenia softens, in comes a thick, silky honey, and a airy, narcotic Indian jasmine, the honey is mild, the Indian jasmine is strong. After five hours the tuberose and Indian jasmine dissipate, the honey softens, in comes a fuzzy, syrupy peach, and a sweet, fresh, lily of the valley, the peach is soft, the lily of the valley Is mild. Melodie de L'Amour is a very bright, airy, breezy, fruity, classy, elegant, refined, mature, feminine, with soft woody and musky undertones White Floral fragrance. This would bloom beautifully in the Spring and Summer, I get average projection and good longevity, this is a white floral stunning masterpiece, 5/5 Stars. You can purchase Parfums Dusita Melodie de L'Amour in a 50ML Extrait de Parfum for $335.00 on dusitaperfume.com,

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.

I see this perfume un the same line than carnal flower by Frederic Malle or Jasmín Rouge by Tom Ford, although less intense and more soapy. Where Malle puts lot if coconut and Ford puts Woods dusita gives a Big load of musk and for me this perfume seens like a Jasmín soap. The performance is good, over all the longevity because the sillage is subtle, but i find It too light being an extrait the parfumw. The smell is very natural and the White flowers are clean as un the other two perfumes i have mentionated before. As most flowery scents i think It is totally unisex and suitable for any swason of the year. Maybe better for daytime wearing It with elegant or casual clothes (not very sporty). I would not buy It because i am a Big fan of CF and i think i dont have soace for bith perfumes in my collection, but for those Who find CF too sweet and intense this could be a good alternative. Scent: 7.5 Longevity: 8 Sillage: 6 Versatility: 8 Originality: 5 Quality/price: 5 Global: 7.5