Annam

All these Tan Giudicelli scents were available on a catalogue , where Agnes B make up , and much more other rather fancy cosmetics were sold . One day , I have been able to buy a box of a selection of samples . Annam was among them . I really loved this scent right away. It was , what I call a "Blanket perfume" , it was sweet , but not a "silly", gross sweet scent like there is so many nowadays . It smelled like vanilla rice pudding , without beeing to foody though . Really fantastic smelling I so much wanted it , but it was really expensive ( even the 30ml bottle ) and as a mere high school girl I couldn't afford it . And now , here's the really weird thing about this scent : Remember my sample box ? Well , I had completely forgoten about it , and one day, while cleaning up , I found it again , opened the box and realized that ...how can I tell .... the cheap plastic thing that there is sometimes to keep the samples in order ... Well the part around the Annam sample cap's had ... melted ... there was a hole in the plastic ! (Around the other samples it was all normal )How can this be ? I sometimes really wonder what do they put in perfumes' formula :-/

Such an intriguing perfume. A bed of synthetic banana flavoring with a fascinating bitter bead at its center. It's driven to banana specifically I believe by tuberose. Smooth, relaxing scent; the smell of off-white, pearl, superclear water, stalks of bamboo. A specific breed of clean. Doesn't last very long unfortunately :( This fragrance is so rare, you can't even bare to re-apply it ! It begins sweetly, then that bitter tinge comes, rolls back, & that remaining sweetness fades into a nice musk. It's utterly unique ! A journey that lasts just 2-3 hours on me. I feel that this can be worn at any season at any time. Green & clean for spring/summer, sweet & soothing for fall/winter. Something you wear when you are feeling a way rather than a compliment to your surroundings. This perfume is quite hard to find. I've found a few bottles (even 50mL) on Japanese & Russian secondhand sites, but unfortunately they do not ship internationally :( I would love so much to get a bigger bottle of this. A favorite. I got a 1/2 decant of this from theperfumedcourt for $11.89 USD

I love this perfume. I still have a bottle of it that I use very sparingly just when I want a nice dose of nostalgia. I recently made a blind buy of Bond No 9 Lexington Avenue and at first spritz I was immediately reminded of Annam Tan Giudicelli. Of course Bond scents are rather pricey, but the nice thing about the Lexington Avenue was that it stayed with me all day long. I am glad to have found a substitute since Annam Tan was discontinued long ago.

This perfume was the first I really loved: I bought it blindly without testing. Bingo! Love at first sniff. It was lightly sweet and lightly bitter, milky, unique, difficult to describe. I never found a similar perfume except from Sensuous Estée Lauder; it formed my future liking of scent; I'm always searching for a perfume that would remember me of Annam. Update 02.12.2022: This is Her by Zadig & Voltaire smells the closest to Annam I ever tested.

So special and nostalgic to me because it smells exactly like the Sanrio Store / 00s Japanese stationery

I miss this smell....not love but sometimes I really miss this,I was looking for same smell. Finally I found similar smell,that's Bond No.9's I Love New York for All. Not 100% but 80% same. Oddly enough Bond's perfume doesn't have common elements with Annam. That has Cacao,Marron,Coffee etc.Not rice and milk. I don't know why,but smell is almost same,and those some reviews said "milk" too.

The comparisons to B&BW’s Riceflower and Shea prompted me to track this unicorn down, and it really does not smell similar to me. I get a whiff of rice and milk for about 5 seconds, but that fades away quickly and that’s where any similarities end. I then smell a very spicy lily note atop tuberose, backed by some soapy musk. It’s very light and comforting, but not a rice scent like I had hoped. I’m relieved I don’t have to search for an expensive bottle, because I don’t think you can even find this scent anymore for a reasonable cost!

My experience is similar to to that of LaPetite. I have that little sample box! I still have it and, a little of the Annam had leaked out and melted the plastic holder. I really love this scent it's very comforting. I wish I had purchased a full bottle. It reminds me a bit of L’Ete En Douce from L'Artisan.

Scent of a wet market. Lilies in buckets, tuberoses laid out on newspaper-covered ground, stacks of bamboo baskets, jasmine rice in open burlap sacks. Everything is vivid and pungent, the white florals indolic. The scene then fades away slowly, as if returning to reality, leaving behind a soapy drydown.

It has its own message. character - not a simple fragrance. Alludes to old scents of Yamamoto and Shiseido. Milk note is very prominent. Intimal,a bit shy, sounds in a while like natural scent of baby skin.

I found a picture of this perfume randomly online and I instantly thought of AG Mod Vanilla bottle, like they give off the same vibe

I have a full 3 ml miniature with the box if someone is interested