Chokedee (โชคดี)

SUPER floral-heavy in the opening, then dries down to smell like a flower milk bath. Very different. It's a little elegant but also kind of raw - like roughly cut white flowers, the green bitterness of the stems and all; it's not grassy but it reminds me of the smell of freshly cut grass (that bitter vegetal smell). Cloudy starchy rice pudding sweetened with raw cane sugar, tamed with the lactonic note of coconut milk. It's youthful, fresh, vibrant, a touch offensive for a white floral, just enough to replace the offensiveness with intrigue. I'm picky with my florals but this one I would wear. It has a lot of mystery. Post-edit: Purchased a full bottle. This fragrance is wearable art. Masterpiece.

this is such a beautiful rice pudding adjacent fragrance but not in a way that’s overtly foody. It opens floral forward with sweet jasmine and tropical fragipani. As this develops the vanilla and pandan pick up and it’s a green and earthy sweetness. The coconut and rice notes blend to make that rice pudding like aroma and with an added sandalwood it’s creamy, smooth, and sweetly powdery. The dry down is more woody forward with a sweet cashew note and a dry blend of cedar and vetiver. The green and airy floral sweetness still permeates into the dry down, it’s a beautifully woody, sweet, milky and earthy gourmand with notes of florals. Love this one a ton!

I didn't notice the sticky rice when I was using the sample, but after I bought the full bottle I notice it every time. I initially purchased because of the gorgeous tropical florals! So beautiful and bright, yet also very creamy. There's coconut running through them and now the lightly sweet, nutty sticky rice as well. But those flowers, wow. They are a delight. An instant mood lifter for me. Sillage is pretty good and I wouldn't wear more than two sprays of this or you'll be choking on it. Dries down to a comforting vanilla-coconut hug with a hint of green banana. This will probably become my signature scent.

I am seriously wondering if people who hate this fragrance and used all kind of wacky descriptors to review it got their samples mixed up. Leather boot? Ashtray??? What the hell... Dear Polly and Nightclubbing are ashtrays, not this. How dare you! Despite it not being an ashtray (I am a big fan of ashtrays), I adore this. Chokadee is sweet and creamy, lightly dusty, and delightfully floral. Rice is there, coconut is there, frangipani as well, and it all smells fantastic together! This lovely fragrance was such a nice discovery. Unfortunately, I only had a tiny dabber with like 0.1 ml in it. I already miss it.

On my big rice note quest, I came across Chokedee. It's everything I wanted from Moonlight in Heaven by Killian, which was a little too impressionistic, soapy, and less photorealistic. This smells like a heaping platter of mango sticky rice with banana fritters eaten in a garden of blooming yellow florals. There's also a bit of Banana Boat in here, but the artificiality doesn't faze me at all. It's so cheerful for a gloomy fall day and has become a perfect turtleneck perfume for me. Move over, unassuming amber/warm vanilla sugar-type scents. Chokedee is perfect!