Dusita Paris Anamcara, Pelagos, Fleur de Lalita reviews

Dusita Paris Anamcara, Pelagos, Fleur de Lalita AI image by Nicoleta 

I have always been deeply moved by bonds that transcend time and our mortal coils – and Dusita Paris embodies this beautifully, showing how love can bloom across generations and connect with countless souls. Dusita means ‘paradise’ in Thai – a serene inner realm of perfect harmony – and at its heart is Pissara “Ploi” Umavijani, who transforms her father’s poetry into olfactive art through her extraordinary sensibility. She weaves together French perfumery tradition with her Thai heritage, creating fragrances that feel both like synesthetic experiences and syncretic artistic expressions. Each creation becomes a delicate bridge between worlds: Pissara’s illustrations capture the visual essence of both scent and verse, while her father Montri Umavijani’s poems provide the spiritual foundation for these artistic dialogues between the seen and invisible, and between color and scent.

Pissara Umavijani portrait, via official website

I’ve been fortunate enough to enjoy a true ‘European’ summer this year – read that as (almost) a month of unhurried, soul-stretching vacation, filled with many travels. I finally put my collection of fun-size fragrances to the test & extensive use, and those small travel bottles proved to be perfect companions: practical for light luggage, and different enough to draw scented borders between each destination and mood. For the last stretch of summer, I packed for a couple of weeks at my beloved childhood spot – the Black Sea. And without even meaning to, I packed up and ended up wearing the same perfumes on repeat – three fragrances from Dusita Paris. They just made sense together, like a story I wanted to keep returning to, day after day – with different chapters but the same golden thread of blissful inner peace, wrapping the season in light, and that unhurried rhythm I wish I could bottle for the rest of the year. In this order, my days of eternal summer were composed of:

Dusita Paris Pelagos, image via the brand

The morning of limitless possibilities –Pelagos (2024): A woody marine scent wrapped in white light, Dusita Paris Pelagos (which translates as “sea”) feels like breathing in the cool air of an early morning by the shore. The sun rises slowly from the impossibly blue waves, blending the endlessness of the sky with the soft haze of the sea until the horizon disappears and the air carries that perfect mix of salt, citrus, and possibility that can only be experienced near vast open spaces. It opens with elegant bergamot and orange, melting into a fresh, slightly salty sea-breeze accord touched with the lung-opening clarity of clary sage. It’s unhurried, sunlit, and expansive – its facets unfolding on skin wave after wave. The drydown is composed of a classical whisper of flowers, with soft iris and creamy sandalwood, both reassuring and nostalgic – like being a little girl again, shivering in the wind, hair still wet from swimming, wrapped in your father’s long-sleeved white linen shirt. That first-morning-of-vacation feeling of being completely safe, and utterly free, wrapped in one scent.  Notes: bergamot, orange, litsea cubeba, sea breeze accord (pine, cypress, clary sage, oakmoss), orris butter, jasmine, white thyme, tonka bean,  sandalwood, amyris, patchouli, vetiver, ambrette, incense, benzoin

Dusita Paris Anamcara image via the brand

Sunshine in a bag – Anamcara (2021): Dusita Paris Anamcara feels like dappled sunlight in motion – the kind of fruity floral wizardry that makes you squint and laugh infectiously at nothing in particular, scrunching your nose freckles. It carries that fleeting grace of instant awareness that you are (still kinda’) young, free, and surrounded by the love of those you chose to love back. It bursts open with osmanthus and ripe fruit, like peaches rolling sticky across the warm dashboard of a car – all tanned arms, drumrolls, and contagious laughter spilling into the music. There’s a youthful, playful sweetness coded here, but it’s never heavy nor immature as it drifts into the soft, aromatic lift of tea (think peach iced tea in a bottle, colourful straw plunged in), driving and singing with the windows down, hair whipping in the wind. Flowers bloom quietly in the background with jasmine and rose rounded with heliotrope and the faint hum of honey. As it settles, Anamcara (name means “soul friend” in Gaelic) melts into sun-warmed wood, vanilla, and a wisp of tobacco and is a feel good cocoon of joy and presence that keeps whispering that tomorrow is too far away to matter… or worry about. Notes: Blood Orange, Orange Blossom, Freesia, Tea, Peach, Apricot, Rose Centifolia, Tuberose, Jasmine Sambac, Vanilla, Patchouli, Sandalwood, Cedarwood, Vetiver.

Dusita Paris Fleur de Lalita image via the brand

Evening of Jasmine – Fleur de Lalita (2017):  If Jeff Buckley’s voice could be poured into a bottle, it would be Dusita Paris Fleur de Lalita. Sweet and heavy, slow and hypnotic, it’s the scent of a summer evening draped in silk – the kind that slips lazily from bare shoulders when the hours turn a deeper shade of blue. I’ve always been fascinated by perfumes that seem solar by nature – expanding into the heat – yet remain undeniably nocturnal in spirit. Fleur de Lalita is exactly that: a rounded, feminine bouquet of lush white florals, where jasmine, tuberose, and gardenia open their velvety petals, infusing the moonlit air and making it thick, rounded and tactile. Creamy ylang-ylang wraps the petals in a sweet glow, while a green, wet, herbal undercurrent winds through the composition, making everything feel luxuriant, alive, and just the right dose of carnal. Fleur de Lalita is the scent of those perfect summer nights that feel too beautiful to be real, yet too real to ever forget. Notes: Magnolia absolute, Indian Tuberoses, Jasmine Grandiflora absolute, Jasmine Sambac absolute, vanilla absolute, galbanum absolute, ambrette seeds and tonka.

Nicoleta Tomsa, Senior Editor

Disclosure: Travel set and samples offered by the brand; opinions are always my own.

Dusita Paris Pelagos, Anamcara Fleur de Lalita collage by Nicoleta

Thanks to the generosity of Dusita we have a bottle of 50 ml perfume – the winner can choose among the three fragrances (Dusita Paris Pelagos, or Fleur de Lalita, or Anamcara) for one registered reader from EU, UK, USA, or Canada. You must register or your entry will not count. To be eligible, please leave a comment saying what fragrance sparks your interest based on Nicoleta’s review and where you live. Please be sure to leave the name of the perfume you would like to win. There is only one winner. Draw closes 8/29/2025

Please read former Senior Editor Despina Veneti’s interview with Pissara here

Pelagos was awarded a Best of Scent by Olya, Ida and Nicoleta for 2024. Michelyn awarded Dusita Paris Cavatina a top 10 perfume of 2021and Nicoleta Amacara, and Rosarine. Lauryn for Montri and  Olya for La Rhapsodie Noire 2022, Editor Emeritus Robert Herrmann (RIP) awarded Oud Infini Best of 2016

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