You never know if you will relate to people you have only communicated with previously on the internet, but I trust my instincts and Pissara Umavijani of Dusita Parfums and I got along like a house on fire. We had a great time together with her friends at Seryna, a high end Japanese restaurant where they delighted in crab shabu shabu and I went through my beautifully made multi petite course lunch set knowing I shouldn’t really be eating anything at all feeling a little bit dodgy to say the least. Still, the atmosphere was fab, gifts were exchanged – I received the new upcoming release and I gave her a bag o’vintage classics and a kimono cushion sewn by d in return (who was still in bed with the thing I must have contracted) and couldn’t attend.
The lady likes to party, as do I, even though I was beginning to feel rather dire. Still, the show must go on, so off we went to karaoke where I had a true chills down the spine moment singing Britney Spears’ heartbreaking ballad Every Time with her up close which segued naturally into Don’t Cry For Me Argentina, both divas refusing to relent the mic as we sang out to the dusk of the Tokyo skyline from the window like Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson in Lost In Translation.
Elated but bilious – I know she could have gone on a couple of more hours at least – I said my goodbyes in the Ginza night not hugging anyone as i knew for sure at that point I was sick – and dragged myself like a slow drugged skin sensitive hot sloth through the streets to Tokyo station where I promptly puked my guts up in the disabled toilet. Haven’t done that years but it was kind of interesting : emesis definitely = catharsis.
Not being able to move from the bed yesterday, feeling fragile as an incense stick, the day and the evening swirled striking and vivid in my mind’s eyes and nose brain. It was an extraordinary day of extremes, intensely memorable, and great to meet in person sometime whose perfumery and character I admire: we turned out to have a great deal more in common than I had realized and I know that we will meet again.
So glad you had a wonderful time, and I hope the bug leaves you and D soon!
Yes definitely already on the mend. A mercifully quick number.
An exciting day.
Such a shame you weren’t able to have more fun.
Good to know you’re both on the mend
What ?! I thought the fun came through very clearly. I just had to chunder a lot at the end of it !
The fun did show! I meant it was the being ill that stopped you having another hour or two.
My DH has had dodgy guts all weekend. Springtime huh!
You are right. Others were ready to go, as were my bowels, and I was already getting overstimulated tbh – a frequent problem of mine where I have a very sudden need to decompress.
Hope the DH’s stomach improves – you forget how miserable everything can become when it is churned up or unsettled
who’s the April fool?
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Sorry you got sick but glad you had a good time before that happened. I have met Pissara in person at her Paris Salon. She is a beautiful and delightful person and I also enjoy her perfumes. Fell better soon Neil.
Thanks. Still in bed actually but much better.
Yes, the happiness exuded by the website and brand’s whole image in general certainly ain’t fake – she is like a sunbeam
Yes, she is like a sunbeam, which is a perfect description of her. Bed rest is always good. Take care of yourself and feel better soon.
How wonderful that you could meet her. I am in fact wearing Melodie d’Amour today, after a bit of an absence; just charming and I’m hoping it brings on a bit of spring. I’m still hankering after Cavatina, too—now’s the time to wear it, right?
Yes – it is so diamond bright it almost hurts the eyes. I didn’t see that one at the Nose Shop event in Tokyo I don’t think and was surprised because Japanese people do love might.
I mean I am not much of a schmoozer nor social media buff because I find being constantly pleasant and rictus smile friendly and superficial exceptionally tedious not to mention physiologically impossible – I am a bit on the spectrum in that regard – but if the connection is real, like yours and mine, and so many others on here I have got to know over the years, it is a different matter. I don’t like all the Dusita perfumes, but I love or at least admire a great deal of them and I think she has a really unique olfactory signature – somehow raw and refined at the same time. She is lovely actually
I un-like the vomming (as I’m sure you did) but the rest sounds wonderful! Still miss proper Japanese karaoke with you… x
I KNOW !
It can, as Persolaise once said after going to the same place I went with you, be almost akin to a religious experience x
Amen to that