Luckyscent Videos: Dusita - Melodie de l'Amour

The smell of gardenia flowers is really one of my favorite smells in nature. There's just something so hypnotic about that velvety white floral smell. It's just incredible. And until now there have really not been many perfumes that I feel do justice to the smell of gardenia. And I feel part of the reason is because gardenia is one of those flowers like Lily of the Valley where you can't extract the essence or the smell from traditional perfume methods. It just doesn't work. So traditionally if you have a perfume that smells like gardenia or Lily of the Valley, it's a composition using other notes to basically get something that resembles gardenia.

That's why when I first smelled Melodie de l'Amour from Dusita, I was really blown away by the accuracy. It's the first time I smelled a perfume that I thought smelled like a real gardenia flower. Dusita is a really interesting brand. It's created by Pisara Umavijani, whose father was a really famous Thai poet. And she moved to Paris to study perfumery and then launched this brand. And I'd like to say there's a lot of poetry behind each scent. And this for me is such a standout.

Now what am I smelling? Gardenia is just one of those amazing white florals. When I say white floral, it's very endolic. All white florals have an endolic note. And what that means is it has this note, which is called indole, which on its own is not that pretty. In fact, it kind of smells like mothballs to me, like old school mothballs. It's a little bit screechy, but when you have a little bit of that added to the beautiful sweet florals, then you get white florals. So jasmine can be really endolic and gardenia and tuberose. So yeah, you get this really incredible big white floral smell.

And then it dries down to something really beautiful. It doesn't stay that intense the whole