Moonlight in Chiangmai Dusita 2020

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7.4 / 10 167 Ratings

Moonlight in Chiangmai is a perfume by Dusita for men and was released in 2020. The scent is spicy-woody. It is still in production.
Pronunciation

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Main accords

Spicy

Woody

Floral

Sweet

Citrus

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Japanese yuzu

Night-blooming jasmine

Heart Notes

Benzoin Siam

Indian nutmeg

Base Notes

Myrrh

Thai teak wood

Haitian vetiver

Indonesian patchouli

Perfumer

Pissara Umavijani a.k.a. Ploi Umavijani

Ratings

Scent

7.4167 Ratings

Longevity

7.9135 Ratings

Sillage

7.4137 Ratings

Bottle

8.2120 Ratings

Value for money

6.770 Ratings

Submitted by Frankie, last update on 27.03.2024.

Reviews

5 in-depth fragrance descriptions

10/24/2020

8
Bottle 7
Sillage 9
Longevity 10
Scent

EmergeR
13 Reviews

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EmergeR

Top Review 49

Love at first sight

I confess, I'm shocked. Nobody has been able to do that for a long time, especially since I deal with fragrances almost daily...
In my opinion MiC is quite different from all the other Dusitas. I like the handwriting of Pissara, I love "Issara", find "Erawan" exciting and so very different. Also all her florals are wonderfully complex and interwoven. But this one is really different. At first I thought unusually light and almost fresh. And yet it lasts all day long It's hard to describe him. The yuzu is very present and not, as with many other fragrances, a hint between many other citrus fruits. With night jasmine I first thought of a classic jasmine scent, of course, but far from it. Night jasmine is a completely different plant and not even related to the classic jasmine. It has nothing "stinky", nothing Indian, is much more delicate than the typical white flowers. And under this beautiful weave of yuzu and night jasmine a soft but certain hint of nutmeg, which becomes more present in the fragrance.
MiC is for me in beauty and lightness the Yin to the warm and powerful Yang of "Issara". Simply enchanting, beautiful, a loving companion that envelops me like a light cloth of soft silk - so fresh that I don't sweat, so warm that I don't freeze - the perfect balance between grace and presence. Wonderful! ❤️

12/11/2020

8
Sillage 9
Longevity 9
Scent

Manogi
83 Reviews

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Manogi

Top Review 15

Baking bread by moonlight

I generally like Dusita very much. I also like Moonlight in Chiangmai. Like all Dusitas it is very portable, but not too simple.

It starts off citric hot. The fruity Yuzu, which doesn't bother me at all here, although citrus scents are not really mine, is joined by the spicy nutmeg. I find the combination very exciting. It fits perfectly, as it gives the citrus scent an interesting punchline.

In time, the Yuzu will retire completely. In its place Benzoe Siam moves quite clearly into the foreground. Also the myrrh makes itself well noticeable. I'm generally for more myrrh in perfumes, and I like it here very much. The spiciness of nutmeg remains, but becomes much weaker. I find the other notes relatively inconspicuous, which doesn't matter at all, since they certainly contribute to the great overall picture.

All in all, I have the idea of freshly baked warm bread. I find this extraordinary and I like it very much. The shelf life and silage of the fragrance are not outstanding, but good.

Moonlight in Chiangmai is - like all Dusitas - a fragrance that I would like to get in the "full version" sometime. But this will take time, given the not inconsiderable - but fully justified - prices of the house Dusita.

11/21/2023

7
Sillage 8
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Nasella
1 Review

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Nasella

Top Review 13

An Umavijani anthem

"The twilight hour comes...
Even my grief
Is swept away
By the anonymity of life"
- Montri Umavijani -

So much melancholy in so few words ...

DUSITA.
When I got to know this - for me absolutely extraordinary - brand, I was almost
enchanted and had to find out more about the background.
I was surprised by this myself, because I may or may not like a fragrance, but it very rarely touches me so much that I want to find out more about it.
Perhaps this is also because the often implausible "marketing gobbledygook" puts me off rather than bringing me closer to a fragrance.
I don't have this feeling with Dusita. On the contrary, I think I understand the fragrances better.

After testing 'Issara', probably the brand's best-known fragrance, my curiosity was piqued and I wanted to get to know the others. I ordered multiple samples of all the fragrances from Dusita to test them thoroughly.
Of course, I don't like them all, but I find each one special.

Pissara Umavijani's father Montri Umavijani (1941-2006) was a well-known contemporary poet. Of course, I didn't know him before.
Good poetry sounds like a melody and conveys feelings. Happiness, even euphoria, but also pain and sadness. That's what Pissara does for me with her fragrances. Perhaps not exactly sadness or pain, but a slight melancholy. You can sense that she probably grew up in a house where art and culture play a major role.

I wanted to test these fragrances as impartially as possible, which is rather unusual for me. That's why I tried to find out something about the art of the Umavijanis beforehand, but didn't read any reviews or statements.
All the testers were completely taped up, I didn't know which fragrance I was testing.

Four Dusitas convinced me so much that they were immediately allowed to move in with me.

Anyone who has held out until now will finally find out how I feel about 'Moonlight in Chiangmai'...
I would like to go into more detail here about the feelings this fragrance triggers in me and not analyze every single note. Because this fragrance manages to make me dream and enjoy like no other.

I don't like fragrances where I have to wait for what feels like an eternity before I like them.
i love 'Moonlight in Chiangmai' right from the start.
It starts citrusy. However, the yuzu never gives off the unpopular detergent vibe. It is quite tart, not sour and you can smell the peel rather than the juice.
Jasmine is present, but by no means indolic. An almost demure jasmine.
As a benzoin fan, I find the Siam benzoin particularly beautiful, very, very delicately scented with cocoa bean and unsweet. Spices make the fragrance exotic, but by no means oriental.
To my nose, no one fragrance stands out, they get along wonderfully and respect each other.
My beloved myrrh is certainly one of the reasons why I find this fragrance so enchanting.
I often find patchouli difficult, here it is "unmusty" and rather clean and earthy without being particularly noticeable.
Although the fragrance is listed here as woody, I don't find it that way.
Teak may be supportive, but I don't smell any of the terribly synthetic "wood" that is now unfortunately found in many fragrances.
Now I have analyzed a little...

The fragrance is listed as a men's fragrance, which is probably mainly due to the yuzu and vetiver.
For me, it is absolutely unisex.

I don't have BR vibes, these two fragrances also embody fundamentally different "ideals" for me.
With 'Moonlight in Chiangmai', did I have the association described by Pissara
"nocturnal scent of mystery that plays with the duality between light and shadow, painting a wonderful scene of a night in the city flooded with moonlight and fireflies"?
Probably not, but I immediately thought of the poem by her father Monti quoted earlier. This fragrance makes me melancholy in a beautiful way and enchants me.

Of course, knowing the perfumer's origins, I am not unbiased.
I have associations with a surreally beautiful landscape, perhaps even a Thai Shangri-La. A brief moment of retreat from this sometimes terrible world, a brief moment of olfactory happiness.

And yes, now I can also see the moonlight and the fireflies...

03/22/2023

8
Longevity 3
Scent

Quailist
10 Reviews

Quailist

Cursed drydown

I was initially jazzed about this—it's not every day that you experience a candied yuzu barbershop scent—but in the drydown it developed that sweet rubbery hospital smell that underpins the hideous Baccarat Rouge 540.

Unfortunately for me, the performance of Moonlight in Chiangmai was above average: I still reeked of a dentist's office from hell at bedtime six hours after application. A lamentable fate for what started off as an energizing and original fragrance.

06/08/2022

9
Pricing 8
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Guszi
5 Reviews

Guszi

Beautiful woody fragrance

What I love the most about this fragrance is that it is so unique. A lot of people find resemblance with so famous Baccarat Rouge, but too me it has completely different vibe and completely different mood to it.

It starts citrusy-woody, I feel a bit of ginger too; its like very pale shy moon shining after dark falls on the earth, it is transparent and almost white; as time passes and night gets into power the moon becomes darker, more intense yellow and the same development gets the fragrance. It gets sweeter, it gets yellow with sweet juicy pineapple and candied lemon, it develops beautifully and balances between masculine and feminine.
This perfume does not feel all natural, but to be honest it complements the concept of moonlight perfectly - it's slightly out of this space, with solar winds, lunar dust. You can feel its slightly mineral and synthetic.

The time passes, the moon fades and the morning mist settles close to the ground, this is where Moonlight becomes slightly smoky, woody, less sweet again. It even gets a bit of light clean smoke and white tobacco. And this dry-down stays when the sun rises, but you can feel the traces of Moonlight.

It has quite good longevity, I can feel it for good 8 hours. It's not like other fragrances from Dusita, less gourmand, less feminine, but more complicated. I love it!