DUSITA
MOONLIGHT IN CHIANGMAI

2020

PERFUMER
Pissara Umavijani

yuzu
jasmine

nuteg
benzoin

myrrh
patchouli
vetiver
teakwood

‘The nocturnal fragrance of mystery that plays with the duality between light and shadows while painting a wonderful scene of a night in the city bathed by moonlight and fireflies.’ – Pissara Umavijani

What an interesting fragrance Moonlight in Chiangmai is, yet ultimately not fully to my taste.

This is most often compared to Maison Francis Kurkdjian Baccarat Rouge 540, but at the same time, even more people disagree with that comparison.

I will say that at first, it didn’t register as a Baccarat Rouge 540 type scent at all for me. Moonlight in Changmai was surprisingly traditionally masculine leaning to my nose.

It opens sparkling, quite fresh, green, with a vetiver core. Spices like nutmeg pull this in a retro-cologne style direction.

However, it gets sweeter and sweeter. An hour in, and it feels like a different fragrances. Indeed, much more veering into that sugary sweet, fizzy, citrussy, but cloying direction from Baccarat Rouge 540.

It remains a bit greener and the yuzu citrus note gives it a slightly different (and more likeable) twist, but I think the connection to the Baccarat DNA kind of ruined the experience for me. It is such a powerful and sweet candied air that dominates the sillage around me for hours, that it starts to wear me down.

If you do like that DNA more than I do and are in the market for a nice twist on it, check out Moonlight In Chiangmai