Pelagos Dusita 2024

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6.8 / 10 53 Ratings

A new perfume by Dusita for women and men, released in 2024. The scent is woody-fresh. It is still in production.

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Main accords

Woody

Fresh

Aquatic

Green

Spicy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Sea breeze

Litsea cubeba

Bergamot

Heart Notes

Orris butter

White thyme

Tonka bean

Base Notes

Sandalwood

Patchouli

Leather

Perfumer

Pissara Umavijani a.k.a. Ploi Umavijani

Ratings

Scent

6.853 Ratings

Longevity

7.538 Ratings

Sillage

7.038 Ratings

Bottle

7.732 Ratings

Value for money

6.320 Ratings

Submitted by Jasberry, last update on 08/09/2025.

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5 in-depth fragrance descriptions

07/12/2024

9
Pricing 8
Bottle 6
Sillage 10
Longevity 9
Scent

Ninamariah
249 Reviews

Ninamariah

2

Unique fresh scent, herbal and calming, Orris butter with woody base

Like most of Dusita's perfumes it takes for a while to understand them. I have had this now many weeks but didn't want to hurry with the review since mostly those ones written too quickly are full of misleading opinions.

Pelagos opens up in an earthy way with a beautiful aroma of Iris. First it feels more like a flower than Orris butter even if Iris is not listed there. The scent is crispy and fresh as well but it's not that typical salty like breeze from the sea or watery like freshness, it's different and unique take on it. Quickly it starts to develope into herbal and smooth blend and you can find Dusita's calming, meditative signature style to use all ingredients. Iris changes to Orris butter and the whole blend starts to feel warmer. The blend feels as well woody and a little bit creamy but it has a refreshing character throughout the life of the fragrance. Tonka beans here add green feeling to the scent. It's not sweet at all. Patchouli is gentle, it's woody and earthy but it's not that dark, deep and potent note which is known from so many Rose scents. On my skin the leather note is unnoticeable but on my husband's skin I can get tiny whiffs of it when the scent is lingering in the air. The further the scent develops the more powdery is the texture of it.

Pelagos, like all Dusita's gorgeous perfumes, performs in a clever way. It changes the gender and on my skin it feels astonishingly feminine, like fresh, herbal Iris scent, whereas on my husband's skin it's masculine, woody, herbal scent with a hint of Orris and leather. All the notes are more delicate on my skin. If you love Dusita's dna, you will love this as well. It's not a typical fresh scent so test it especially if you are not familiar with the brand. Imo this is nothing like Sauvage, not even near.

The projection of Pelagoss is less than average (this is extract) but the longevity is all the day. Why I give 8 for the bottle? I'm scared about the paper label, I don't want to destroy them (I have many from Dusita). The glass bottle itself is good like is the sprayer as well.

This review is based on a sample, multiple wearings on my skin like on my husband's skin as well.

05/20/2025

ClaireV
896 Reviews

ClaireV

2

Turns the marine / aquatic model on its head

Pelagos is a very interesting perfume because I thought I knew what genre this was until I didn’t. Perhaps it was a perfumer’s answer to a riddle in a drinking game – something like, how do you take orris butter, bergamot, jasmine, tonka bean, and benzoin, and turn it all into something that smells initially like a marine fougere? It is astonishing to me that Pelagos smells so much like a fresh, almost aquatic men’s fragrance in its first minutes. It is sharp, aromatic, and somehow deeply ‘blue’ in tonality, despite the clear presence of pine. But even in the topnotes, I can smell how this is indeed a different animal, because there is also a waxy-herbal note here that smells like beeswax or freshly milled pencils. Indeed, this was my first clue that that Pelagos is actually an iris fragrance and not a marine fougere.

Of course, wait half an hour for all the spiky aromatics and citruses to die back, and the fact that this is an iris fragrance becomes obvious to the point I feel kind of stupid for thinking it was anything but. The fragrant, silvery, paste-like scent of orris butter spreads out on the tongue like fat from an A5 wagyu steak. It is an expensive aroma. I suppose that the reason why this iris masqueraded (to my nose at least) as a marine fougere so successfully must be that the fragrance plays around with the extreme minerality of iris – its wet cement, salty dough, and stone dust nuances – to the exclusion of all the material’s more traditionally pleasing aspects, meaning its powder, suede, lipstick, or violet-like tones. There is also a citric, high-toned edge to the iris that might be interpreted as masculine, or at least herbal or green, though the scent remains this cool, foggy grey colour in my mind’s eye. I have not seen this side of iris since Iris Bleu Gris (Maître Parfumeur et Gantier).

Funnily enough, for a scent so cold and sharp, it finishes up in a sort of cloudy, mammalian warmth that might or might not be an amber resin with a dash of civet or ambergris. The contrast between the balsamic roundness of the base and the ice pick chill of the rest make Pelagos a very interesting fragrance to wear. I find Pelagos to be a unique, or at least it seems to be so framed against my admittedly thin experience with masculine fragrances.

07/19/2024

8
Pricing 8
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 10
Scent

Raluko111
353 Reviews

Raluko111

2

Marine Shoeshine Cream

I was pleasantly surprised to receive a Pelagos sample as a gift a few weeks ago. Hats off to Dusita for her marketing game! After the first puff, I thought I wouldn't like it, it seemed harsh, masculine, but for days I kept coming back to it, even though I have many other perfumes in rotation. I am happy to say that Pelagos deserves all the accolades.

It's one of the most interesting perfumes I've tested this year, and as a marine perfume it's truly unique. In the opening it has a very attractive masculine harshness, I kept wondering of what it reminded me, I kept racking my memory, and then it hit me: shoe polishing cream it is! With a bit of lemon, but yes, it's the smell that always stopped me from playing and I would come and sit next to my grandfather when he was polishing his shoes in the apartment hallway to sniff that intriguing scent.

After 30-40 minutes, the iris appears and it is gorgeous, salty, wet, delicious! It is a masculine iris, but I inhale it and wear it with great pleasure. It smells like summer, it smells like the sea, it fully deserves its name of the Greek archipelago. I can't get enough of it, and I want a bottle for myself and my partner.

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Am fost plăcut surprinsă să primesc cadou o mostră Pelagos acum câteva săptămâni. Hats off to Dusita for her marketing game! După primul puff, am crezut că nu o să fie pe placul meu, părea aspru, masculin, dar zile în șir m-am tot întors la el, deși am multe alte parfumuri în rotație. Sinceră să fiu, am devenit un pic suspicioasă având în vedere că multe parfumuri care sunt promovate peste tot ca fiind cele mai bune, de multe ori sunt destul de dezamăgitoare. Dar aici mă bucur să spun că Pelagos își merită toate acoladele din plin.

Este unul dintre cele mai interesante parfumuri pe care le-am testat anul acesta, și ca parfum marin este chiar unic. In deschidere are o asprime masculină foarte atrăgătoare, mă tot întrebam de ce îmi amintește, îmi tot zgândăream memoria, și doar cand am citit un articol despre Pelagos în care un editor a menționat crema de ghete, mi-a picat fisa. Cremă de ghete it is! Cu ceva lămâie, dar da, este mirosul care mă oprea mereu din joacă și veneam să stau lângă bunicul meu când își lustruia pantofii pe holul apartamentului ca să adulmec acea miasmă intrigantă.

După 30-40 de minute, mirosul de iris apare și este superb, sărat, ud, delicios! Este un iris masculin, dar eu il inspir și îl port cu foarte multă plăcere. Miroase a vară, miroase a mare, își merită din plin numele de arhipelag elen. Eu nu mă pot sătura de el, și vreau o sticlă și pentru mine și și pentru partenerul meu.

06/25/2025

sunshea
4 Reviews

sunshea

1

Exceptional !!!

Incredible fragrance and quite unusual! Doesn't really remind me of anything I've ever tried. Blended to perfection, sometimes it brings out aquatic notes, but the dry down is exceptionally sweet, classy and there the jasmine and cypress are truly noticeable but still exceptionally well mixed.
There's a dept to discover in this fragrance! The perfect long-lasting but not too loud unisex summer fave!

06/13/2025

flyingfox
12 Reviews

flyingfox

1

Beautiful marine-iris

I am so surprised the ratings are not higher. To me personally, this is a masterpiece. I ordered the full bottle directly after I finished my sample which I couldn't stop wearing until it was gone.

As it is a common theme with Dusitas, the opening is a bit challenging. At this stage you would think hm, we have a rather masculine, slightly bitter aromatic fougere on our hands. Have to be honest, I was quite relieved right after spraying it for the first time, thinking my wallet's content was safe. Wrong. It was not, and Pelagos is not a bitter aromatic fougere.

It develops into the most beautiful orris butter scent which only Papillon's Hera can match, and at that point I was already sold. Luckily I can sense the orris butter even in the drydown, where a soft, smooth sandalwood dominates.

In a way very different from any other Dusita offerings, in an other way not, I can definitely detect the house's DNA. Wears close to the skin but lasts a long time.

It's a very unique marine scent without containing marine notes. These are the things it reminds me of: the opening is like sailing on the open sea in head-wind, combined with a walk under the shades of the seashore pines. The heart is like the smell of your already cooled down, freshly showered skin after a day at the beach. And then the drydown reminds me of summer evenings under the open sky in the Mediterranean.