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Femedydroma – :
An austere and pleasing fougere, Issara is the most beloved of the offerings of the eclectic line. It ia a subtle, light fragrance that immediately transports you to a bright happy place full of lush greenery and fresh mountain air. The perfume begins with slight notes of pine and sage before moving to a heart that stays throughout the perfume comprised of coumarin, vetiver and tobacco. Finally as it settles, a musky mossy base of musk, amber, oakmoss and woody notes remains with the heart notes hovering in the background. Innovative in the way it redefines the fougere genre, beautiful blending, this is a unisex perfume that mostly stays close to the skin and has moderate longevity. Many similarities to the more recent Erawan from the same line which is more green. This is yet another nice offering from Dusita. A bit overrated, a bit too soft, a bit too fleeting, but still very beautiful and enjoyable.
kell – :
I am somewhat underwhelmed by this.
Yes the tobacco note is strong and amplified by the Tonka bean, but the entire concoction feels unfinished to me.
It would need some floral and/ or hesperidic note (citrus) to give it a lift.
To me it is the perfume equivalent of a baking dough that hasn’t risen properly and tastes rather dull and bland.
I also have a feeling this being somewhat dusty, like an old attic full of books, leathers, unwanted old clothing and some shrivelled up fruit basked of dates and prunes.
Verdict: 2/10. A miss from me.
палартура – :
Issara is a light breeze, free the spirit and open the heart … ♥. I really like the opening with the fresh pine and sage, it is truly spectacular gives me a feeling of peace and tranquility… the tobacco feels but almost “balsamic” and the note of coumarin is enchanting here, pine and vetyver leaves overlook during the evolution but without over-invading. This was a surprise for me, it’s like a fusion between a “classic” and a “modern”.. really very nice, among my favorites of Dusita.! Unfortunately, the sillage is soft, and this is strange since it is an extrait de parfum, but in any case the longevity is quite good. A beautiful fragrance that I can not wait to wear!
Sillage: 5.5/10
Longevity: 7.5/10
Scent: 8.5/10
Overall: 9./10
kemyidepe – :
I tried this in warmer weather and thought it was lovely. I had even contemplated purchasing a FB, however, today I tried it and weirdly it smells now like the Shower to Shower powder my great grandmother used, or Bath and Body Works Cotton Blossom. I have no idea what the deal is, but I’m certainly glad I didn’t purchase before I had seen all the faces of this fragrance.
mishanya – :
To begin with, Issara to me is a luxury scent. It has an opulent sense to my nose and my skin which indicates and describes a perfume of great quality!.
Not being an expert at all in recognizing but the most basic notes, I will say what Issara is not since I cannot detect any familiar notes. It is neither herbal nor smoky. Neither airy nor floral in its original sense. The truth is it doesn’t remind me of anything I have smelled before and that’s what I adore about it.
I find it very intriguing, sweet and sexy but in a subtle seducing way.
I must say,though, somewhere in the dry down I could smell an aged bark being soaked with rain lying on the ground for days covered by the dry pedals of an exotic flower. If that description had a smell that would be Issara.
It’s definitely worth the try for those looking for sth unique in a scent.
Hands up to the perfumer for her mystique creation.
rauf – :
Vetiver sweet tobacco.
Sage, rosemary, thyme, harsh row tobacco, and sweet tonka or i would go with coumarin, cause coumarin has that sourly sweet, dark, & dates like flavor that could sweetened anything in the right dose.
I really liked it with that oily like sweet tobacco thyme blend as it reminds me of “Habanos” by Royal Crown with it’s rough raw tobacco & it’s harsh thyme but in here it’s quite less and softened with that coumarin sweet touch.
An impressive blend, herbal, sweet, and tobaccoish & it’s going to my wardrobe soon.
IKE – :
okay, this is armani code but more complex and refined.performances are far better than armani i love this stuff, very good.
Xeroxobfhr – :
At work today I caught a whiff of what I thought was Issara. It had the same warm, salty, and musky scent that I’ve come to know and love over the past few months. I casually approached him and asked if he was wearing this beautiful fragrance. With a confused look on his face, he told me that it was Apollo by Axe.
I didn’t believe him. I couldn’t believe him, but I had to know if he was telling the truth…so I went to the grocery store and sampled it.
It’s pretty damn close. I couldn’t believe it.
TL;DR: This beautiful fragrance smells like Axe Apollo.
AbrahamRV – :
I’d say that Issara is a woody fragrance rather than a true fougere, and it has a slightly retro character. It’s pleasant but hardly worth the asking price, and longevity is not very impressive.
GreldSledMele – :
Issara is a beautiful vetiver with olfactory hints to the plant’s past as green grass somewhere in humid tropics. The ‘vetiver memories’ effect has been created with the help of a vintage note of coumarin (often disguised as hay in the description) to highlight both the smoky and cool licorice nuances of Bourbon vetiver.
The overall character of Issara is transparent cool woody. There’s licorice vetiver from the Reunion island in the heart of the perfume, dry oakmoss in the base and there’s smooth voluminous ambergris encasing the rest formula in a salty fresh cloud.
Setsatana – :
very soft and sits close to the skin; goes on powdery like an HdP with a hint of citrus and tart/sourness then goes into a powdery tobacco pipe tobacco with some musk
Сaper163 – :
Issara is the most discussed of the relatively new house of Dusita. Described as a fougere, but notably missing the signature note of lavender, Issara is mainly woody, with spicy and resinous elements in the background.
I unfortunately don’t detect much of the sage or pine that might otherwise give Issara some interesting nuances from the onset. The oakmoss (synthetic of course) and musk could surely be part of the drydown, as the opening is ever so slightly sharper than the bottom, but I can’t get a lot of the neat stuff in between like coumarin. Vetiver is ever so slightly part of the mix, providing the dirtiness that I might be mistaking for a smoky sort of incense.
The fragrance I easily liken Issara to is Eau Des Baux by L’Occitane, a relatively straightforward blend of vanilla, cedar, and incense that is nonetheless superbly blended to be an infinitely wearable option in cold weather. Issara is certainly a bit more complex but its nuances are not overt enough to distinguish sufficently from Eau Des Baux, at least upon first wearing with a modest application from a sample vial. Still, at $295 for 50ml extrait, it’s discouraging that I might need to apply quite a bit of perfume in order to enjoy its full character. Extraits are often said to project more modestly than EDPs, though my experience with this variance is inconsistent, but I can at least argue that for that pricing, irrespective of concentration, I’d expect more than the modest projection I’ve observed with Issara. Its longevity seems above average, though, as it’s remained consistent for the hours I’ve worn it.
A very nice fragrance, but not one I can fathom spending hundreds.
8 out of 10
odoev71 – :
I purchased a sample of Issara in a quest to find the perfect tobacco scent for me, and Issara seemed fitting, especially with respect to my Thai heritage and the origins of this particular perfumer.
The scent starts out with beautiful tobacco and delicate herbs, then starts to project a little green, dirty vibe I attribute to the coumarin. Beautiful, hay-like and fresh.
Then musk envelopes the whole composition and what’s left is beautiful clean laundry washed in dreamy commercial soap and left outside to hang on the line, out in an open field in the sunshine under a tree filtering the light, with glints of sweet tobacco peeking through as the clean laundry snaps in the sweet, shaded breeze.
And yes, as gregk points out, Issara bears an uncanny resemblance to Dreamer halfway through its evolution which is where I wish it stayed with more pronounced tobacco and herbal notes.
For the price, sillage, and sweet tobacco and clean laundry drydown, I prefer Dreamer. But if you’re seeking a warm, soft, sun-dappled outdoorsy musk, do give Issara a try — it’s a quiet beauty!
snorMaavera – :
I’m sort of broken-hearted about Issara. The notes are ones I love, and I’ve heard so many good things from fellow perfumistas. It starts off with a very promising but awfully light sage-pine opening followed in short order by a sweetish, lovely tobacco lavender coumarin melange that I would swoon over if I didn’t have to bury my nose in my wrist to smell it. I don’t care a lot for the sort of white laundry musk used in the base but it’s mild enough here that I could overlook it and just enjoy the lightly mossy, woody, smoky-sweet vetiver amber ending, but again it was fleeting and frustratingly soft. The entire experience lasted between 2 and 3 hours for me from start to entirely gone. I tried every trick I know to increase the sillage and longevity all three times that I wore it but it just wasn’t happening for me. I really dodged a pricey bullet by not buying it blind as I frequently do. 🙁
allexia1234 – :
I bought a sample for me and loved it. Then my wife tried it and it smelled even better on her. This is an unbelievably gorgeous fragrance that sits close to the skin but lasts 12+ hours. It activates throughout the time you wear it depending on what you’re up to…
kdv – :
When it comes to luxury perfumery in both the commercial and niche segment attention to detail is crucial so that the whole of the work passes a wealth consistent with the price range in which it stands. One of the important details in this process is to be able to reconcile the acquaintance with the new, the familiar with something of more universal appeal and, ultimately, be able to create a collection that has a coherence and is able to tell a story through its fragrances. This is for me a set of factors by which the perfumer and business woman Pissara Umavijani have stood out and been so well received in the scenery of the perfumery.
Dusita is one of the levels of the Thai Buddhist Paradise, a country of Pissara descent. It is seen as a haven of pure pleasure and contentment. And when I think of a paradise, it is certainly something with a personal and universal appeal. For Pissara, her paradise honors the memories of his father Montri Umavijani while it is clearly a collection of her olfactory memories of classic perfumes that enchant Pissara and that are part of several periods of the history of the perfumery. Each perfume is conceptualized around one of the poems of Montri Umavijani.
Issara is related to Montri’s poem which says “Here where the tree once stood, is a shelter for ancient rains.” The minimalist and short poem certainly evokes for me the nature and renewal of life and fits with the choice, an olfactory family that from the golden times of perfumery abstractly portrays harmonious aspects of nature, the Fougeres. I think Pissara was inspired by one of the most influential perfumes of all time, Houbigant’s Fougere Royale. However, where Fougere Royale stood, like the tree of the past, it is a shelter for a new soul around one of its key elements – the tonka bean.
It is interesting that Issara is capable of such a feat because one of the main components of tonka bean is restricted in the current scenario – the coumarin. In addition, you can no longer use the same levels of oak moss of the past, another important element of a fougere accord. Nevertheless, by a balance between tobacco and coumarin, Issara is able to maintain in a realistic and prolonged way the various facets of the tonka: its smell of cut grass, its slightly bitter aroma, the earthy aspect that can be seen only in the beans itself and even the smell of almond and with a faint cherry tone. The Pine is well balanced, giving more volume to the almond herbal freshness of the composition without giving a connotation of cleaning. Tobacco is becoming more evident as the composition evolves, replacing the lavender in the center of the fougere accord and leading to a base that compensates for the moderate use of oakmoss with a good amount of tobacco smoke smell in combination with musks and a woody vetiver scent. Issara is a known melody played in a new way and with refinement and balance. A beautiful Fougere that honors the golden times of perfumery.
КРОВЬ – :
Anyone else getting a niche Versace Dreamer out of this? Nicely blended, but a rather soft and weak honeyed tobacco scent.
sarapul – :
After falling in love with the Oudh from this line (ohhh so different), I was sure I would love this, with all of its suggested piney-sageness.
Sigh.
I have spritzed and sprayed, and reapplied to little avail. While this definitely amplifies and grows larger as the hours pass (the third–fourth hour is the zenith), this scent is too low in silage for me to love. The “woodsy” note to me is sandalwood, which I love, though this is not the Mysore variety with an attendant sweetness. I smell a little bit of the sage and pine, but I have to really press my nose against my wrist. Musk is overwhelming, and I’m not a fan, not a fan of the white laundry variety, and that is what this smells of to me while the tobacco is more flower than pipe.
Overall, this is a woodsy, mildly sweet, hay-like grassy warm-day smell, with a breeze gently carrying now a floral note, now the forest, caressing warm skin(one of the reasons why I think it works in almost any season). I very much like this scent, but I would wish for better projection, more oomph and strength. I can understand the enthusiasm for this, however, as I think the aesthetic is perfectly 2015-17, moving somewhat away from the “cleanliness” fetish, and more toward natural (clean) skin scent, warmed by sun.
sunUnmadcamyr – :
Issara is an amazing perfume!! And I’m completely amazed at how much I LOVE it!! I didn’t expect to. I thought it would be too woody, or piney or sharp or something, but…..boy oh boy!!! It’s gorgeous!!! Such lovely smells!! The fabulous coumarin! The green lushness! The delicious musk!! The superb vetiver!! The fresh earthy woods!! The sweet tobacco!!! Ooh I just love the ‘free-spirit’ feel of it. It’s simply magnificent!!! Superb!!!! And so natural smelling too!!! Wonderful!!
paha2321 – :
Very beautiful gourmand scent! Similar to Ivory route by Xerjoff.
Mastershef – :
Issara is a heartbreakingly beautiful fragrance. To my nose, the blissfully dominant coumarin note is gracefully supported by pine, salty ambergris, a hint of tobacco, and oak moss. The scent is incredibly cozy radiates a warm, comforting glow (especially for the first two or three hours).
I can’t wait to try the rest of this line.
Darklight3000 – :
Looking at the perfume profiles of the Dusita trio, my attention and interest was naturally drawn to the opulent Oudh Infini with its Laotian oud and Mysore sandalwood, and to Melodie de L’Amour with its lush Gardenia. When I got my samples from Ms Umavijani however, it is Issara that became my favourite. Though the other two is pretty stunning!
Issara is purity and happiness. Open grassy fields, sea breezes, vast expanse, sweet-smelling air, wind going through your hair, wholesome feeling of being close to nature. These are some of the mental impressions I got. It also evokes aloneness. This is an introspective scent. If there is ever a fragrance equivalent of meditation, Issara will be it. This is YOU under a tree far from the madding crowd, yourself in the whole wide world, when you just want to be left the f**k alone. Elysian Fields, paradise, Pure Land, whatever name one wants to call it, Issara comes pretty close to smelling like it.
On me, I get herbaceous sweet smelling clary sage and the coumarin, oh my goodness, the COUMARIN. If you like coumarin or tonka, do yourself a favour and try this. Someone mentioned that it’s a reinvention of the fougere, hell yes and what a reinvention. This is not another stiff gentlemanly cologney type perfume that typifies so many unremarkable fougeres out there. This is an unapologetic paean to coumarin and its sweet hay-like accord. Tobacco and Amber puts in a modest appearance to tame the sweetness a little. I’m not familiar with vetiver though I’m sure it’s there. And as someone who is Super wary of musk, the musk here is so subdued and subtle, you don’t have to worry about it overwhelming the entire composition. I catch whiffs of a certain ‘muskiness’ rather than musk at times. And my skin amplifies musk, so to me there’s a delicate touch here that deserves applause.
Definitely full bottle worthy for me. Even Oudh Infini and Melodi, if only I’ve the money to buy all 3 :)))
Clonopotut – :
This is just incredible. To my (very unrefined) nose it smells like hay and herbs with a spicy note and lots of warmth. It smells very expensive. I imagine a man like Idris Elba or Daniel Craig (so James Bond basically) wearing this on a blustery cold fall day, dressed in an expertly tailored tweed suit with a wool coat and scarf on, on their way to have coffee with a gorgeous classy woman. That being said it is definitely a unisex fragrance and still smells lovely enough for me as a woman to wear. Those who don’t like musk might not like this one as much though. I can’t wait to smell this on my husband!
Yurasobiratel – :
An absolute delight of a fragrance…..I have over 150 various bottles in my collection and this is the first that solicited positive remarks from all my co-workers…..to bad I just have a sample sent to me f.o.c by the creator….thanks ever so much for that….as a full bottle of 50ml is priced way out of my league.
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Pelageay12 – :
This smells sweeter and more feminine on me than expected. On opening I get a slight bergamot but the fragrance moves quickly to a sweet tobacco and Tonga heart that remains light and feminine while having excellent projection. Does not disappoint. If this is a fougere it is the best one on my skin that I have tried. Will try again tomorrow and compare. I smell more flowers than the notes would indicate.
dmitriysega – :
Issara is a fantastically complex scent, as magic as the other two Dusita perfumes.
it is an triumvirate of exquise art. Issara is like this chic upper english gentlemens
toiletwater. it has an immediate masculin opening with freshness and invigoration, it’s complexity is quite
surprising. the start is straightforward bursting out as engulfed in a seaspray. yet the distinctive scent of pineforests make it also alluringly complex and intimous.
those old gentlemens toiletwaters are smashing, as this whole perfume also is.
i still remember the fougères. the perfume is an intrinsically beautiful work of art its refinedness equally suitable for men as women. the drydown lasts and lasts undoubtedly from the amber and oakmoss.
Alex545 – :
Great expectations. It could be the name for my review on Dusita Parfums.
I had great expectations and hope.
I felt amazed when I heard the story, I was astonished when I wore the fragrances.
But slow down. Step by step.
Let me introduce you to this truly original brand.
First of all you have to know that the founder, Pissara Umavijani, is daughter to a great and well reknown thai poet, that she grew up with art and she lived and is living for it while performing it in the effimerous world of perfumery.
The scents take inspiration by poems. Her father’s poems.
Art for art, from a form to another. The modality of transmission changes but the meaning’s still the same.
And now my humble, yet enthusiastic, review.
The first fragrance I wore was the fougere one, Issara, and so it will be the first one to get a write-up!
On Tuesday morning after a quick smell of the three I decided to wear Issara ans focus on it for the whole day.
This is a truly fabulous fougere, a woody-musky tobacco masterpiece, with wet green notes of undergrowth and warm, yet distant, smell of sweet aged tobacco leaves.
What amazed me at a first aromatic glance, was the originality of the fragrance. As I suddenly detect tobacco mixed with a soft lavander/lavandul, my mind start recalling other perfumes with the note, like Tobacco Vanille, Tabac Tabou, Chergui and Bell’Antonio but… without any connection, olfactive nor emotional. Here, in fact, we are in front of an original work of art, and originality is the key factor for this brand!!! I can really say I’ve never smelled or worn a fragrance like this and after two full days I’m still loving it so much I almost finished the sample arrived on monday! It’s highly addictive as well!!!
After the intense tobacco opening, that resembles the smell of a newly opened cedar humidor with aged Montecristo in it, you start feeling some sort of musk, not an animal one, more a white musk, gentle and sweet, and I start perceiving something like tonka, bitter coumarin, and a green refreshing note, still quite wet, like moss on a cedar tree surrounded by sage.
I couldn’t be able to detect many citruses in the opening exception made for a very beautiful bergamot, and maybe mandarin, note empowered with orange blossom. This note, neroli, also helps the head evolving in the heart.
The heart. At this point I felt transported in a wood, submerged by sun… bark, moss, grass all heated-up with some spice, maybe pepper, and sage and bitter/sweet coumarin.
Tha heart evolves depending on your skin type. So expect a time range 1-3hours.
And after that… it’ll be, as the prior evolution, a whole thing with your skin. I can say that cedar and a little bit of sage and tonka were what remained on me for another three hours! What can I say so: Marvellous, really amazing. I think at this point most depends on your skin and feelings would be more personal than objective.
So… try it and you’ll know what come next!
I found this work a true beauty
I don’t like giving grades but if I have for me it’s at leat an 8.5
The fragrance is an extrait de parfum, very longeve in the evolution and long lasting on the skin and textiles, although with a moderate sillage. After application it can be easily smelled by the wearer, remaining, however, quite intimate and discreet. And this is a quality I really appreciate in perfumes: too much sillage could kill!