d'Annam White Rice EDP

Description

White Rice is d'Annam's tribute to Vietnam's cultural staple: white jasmine rice, present at nearly every Vietnamese meal. Composed by Anh Ngo with IFF and released in 2023.

It opens on pandan, the sweet green leaf used across South-East Asian cooking, which reads almost like a watery vanilla. Then comes the subtle nuttiness of freshly steamed rice, drifting toward white musk shaded with orris, cedar, tonka and jasmine. One reviewer captured it well: warm steamed rice, soft cotton, clean skin, a freshly laundered blanket on a rainy afternoon.

Scent Character

• Sweet: 36% (pandan, tonka bean)
• Woody: 36% (cedarwood, white musk)
• Floral: 29% (jasmine, orris root)

Translation: milky, powdery rice with a green-sweet pandan lift and clean musk underneath. Understated and precise rather than showy.

Fragrance Pyramid

• Top: Rice, Pandanus
• Heart: Orris Root, Jasmine
• Base: White Musk, Tonka Bean, Cedarwood

Performance

Longevity: Moderate. The house designed this explicitly as a skin scent, and it behaves like one: expect closeness rather than hours of projection.

Sillage: Soft and intimate by intention. If you want to be noticed across a room, this is not the fragrance; if you want to smell clean and considered up close, it is exactly right.

Best Occasions & Season

Comfortable across spring, fall and winter, and built for everyday and leisure wear. Its softness makes it one of the easiest things in the catalogue to wear daily.

Concentration & Provenance

Eau de Parfum, 1.7 oz / 50 ml. Shipped from the United States.

Try Before You Commit

Decants start at $6.99 for 1 mL, with 5 mL and 10 mL also poured. Skin scents vary more between wearers than loud ones do, which makes sampling this kind of fragrance more useful, not less.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Does it smell like food?
Not really. Rice here reads as milky and powdery rather than edible, closer to clean laundry and warm skin than to a meal.

What is pandan?
A South-East Asian leaf used to sweeten and colour desserts. In fragrance it lands as a soft, green, faintly vanillic note, and it is what gives White Rice its lift.

How does it compare to Pomelo Oolong?
Same house, same perfumer, similar restraint. Pomelo Oolong is a tea-citrus; White Rice is milkier and more powdery. Both are quiet by design.