Description
“The name derives from the Dōjima Rice Exchange founded by Samurai in 1697 in Osaka, Japan. Let us travel back to this moment in time, have the beauty and serenity of a single rice grain work as your seductive armor. Dõjima turns to powder as it combines with the warmth of the skin and a cloud of rice powder surrounded by jasmine and orris radiates through the day. The soft texture of rice is lifted by a warm powdered amber speckled with dry spices and woods on a creamy musk base.” – a note from the brand.
Dõjima by Mona di Orio is a Floral Woody Musk fragrance for women and men. This is a new fragrance. Dõjima was launched in 2017. The nose behind this fragrance is Fredrik Dalman. The fragrance features rice, ambrette (musk mallow), nutmeg, jasmine, orris root, clary sage, labdanum, sandalwood and musk.
Bearryaides – :
Trab it isn’t your skin. This creation is incredibly beautiful and smells sublime, but increadibly weak. It lasts forever but you have to dig your nose in to smell it. I have now worn it in 90f, 23f, in a box with a fox and it didn’t change how it projects.
паркан – :
Truly lovely, subtle, powdery-sweet yet herbal, distinctive … but it’s pathologically discreet on me. Either my skin kills it dead, or I grow anosmic to it fast – a huge shame as it’s organically beautiful and special. Amazing control of the nutmeg, so this absolute thug of a spice doesn’t crush the more delicate rice and leaves. If only this could be irradiated and mutated to be 10 times bigger, louder and more intense than it is … though I guess that would kind of spoil the whole point of it as a classy-minimalist-lowkey-mystery scent for people with great taste and plenty money. True unisex and deeply admirable. Wish it performed for me.
Fedoroff – :
I have to say if you are expecting a similarity with the L’artisan mentioned above then you will have a shock.
The opening is intense sage, nutmeg and a little musk. You have wait for the rice note to appear as it’s suffocated by the strong sage and nutmeg.
It’s worth the little wait as then I really enjoy it. It smells like an almost savoury herbal delight. Very unisex as little sweetness.
With time I can detect the labdanum and ambrette. Thankfully the ambrette is quite low key as it’s usually the kiss of death with my chemistry. I enjoy it after an hour and then can see a little similarity with LA Bois Farine.
Average longevity and sillage. It is certainly not as powerful as the many MdiO I have tried. It’s a nice herbally scent but not a love.
senta111 – :
Comforting, luminous in a blurred manner, as morning grey mist turns to rose-gold, or early Autumn sunlight filtered through parchment paper, Dõjima is a more stylised and higher-didge Kenzo Amour, with the use of 2-acetyl pyrazine—the “rice” note, when the ads tell us it’s rice, but also the “bread” note, when frags such as Jeux de Peau list such an accord; fascinating stuff the power of words on influencing the mind—without the plasticky heliotropin interruption. There is such a nicely pronounced nutmeg accord, so that the powdery nature of the scent turns more toward warmth than an antiquated Covergirl compact.
My experience is a bready, milky, rice steam, and puffs of sweet powder adorned with a goodly dose of nutmeg and golden-white woods. It lasts for quite awhile, at least a couple of hours, and it’s enticing enough to keep me, and those around me, intrigued, but never gassed-out. Feminine, but not at all frilly—it’s too sophisticated for little girl bubblegum, cheap male-up and candy-pink. Dõjima really does recall the little washi-paper adorned boxes of Japanese rice powder I was fond of decades ago.
I’ve purchased the aforementioned Amour a total of three times, and have also sold it three times as well, as I’m very fond of the middle of the fragrance, but not the top and base, and Dõjima fills in these gaps perfectly. Maybe not FB worthy..yet..but I’m considering purchasing the (likely limited) option of at least the 10ml roller bottle presently being offered at MDO’s online boutique, as a way to introduce her two latest offerings—Dõjima and Suede de Suede.
Mlle di Orio’s creations are superb, and although pricey, I’d rather have a few bottles of fragrance that I love, than 4 dozen bottles of those by which I’m not terribly thrilled. The toughest part of discovering a line that one falls hard for, is holding back until 100% certain which fragrances are worth purchasing. Dõjima is most assuredly on the top of the list, with Nuit Noire, Lux & the tea-waxy Bohea Bohème close seconds, as soon as I get over the sticker-shock of purchasing Vanille.
Snake1980 – :
The rice accord is almondy and almost paper-like, which combines with the powdery, floral, & resinous facets perfectly and creates a soothing effect. I’m surprised by this seemingly underwhelming fragrance, understated yet addicting.