Pho Breakfast D'annam

Unisex
Eau de Parfum
Year: 2023
Moderate
Sillage
Good
Longevity
Fall
Best Season
Casual
Best For

Fragrance Story

Pho Breakfast by d'Annam is a Woody Aquatic fragrance for women and men. This is a new fragrance. Pho Breakfast was launched in 2023. Pho Breakfast was created by Anh Ngo and IFF. Top notes are Ginger, Basil and Star Anise; middle notes are Cilantro, Mandarin Orange and Cardamom; base notes are Patchouli and Cedarwood.

Composition Profile

fresh spicy 100%
aromatic 85%
green 70%
citrus 60%
anis 50%
warm spicy 40%
soft spicy 35%
fresh 30%
woody 25%
patchouli 20%

About the Perfumer

Anh Ngo

Anh Ngo

Anh Ngo is a Vietnamese perfumer known for blending natural and synthetic notes with a poetic, narrative-driven approach. Her work for Mischief Academy reimagines classic stories through whimsical, character-inspired scents, while her Oneiros and d'Annam collections explore atmospheric landscapes and cultural memories. She often draws on her heritage and travels, as seen in d'Annam’s Da Lat and Arashiyama, which evoke specific places with subtle, evocative compositions.

Fragrance Notes

Top Notes

First impression · 15-30 min

Ginger Ginger
Basil Basil
Star Anise Star Anise

Heart Notes

Core character · 2-4 hours

Cilantro Cilantro
Mandarin Orange Mandarin Orange
Cardamom Cardamom

Base Notes

Lasting impression · 4+ hours

Patchouli Patchouli
Cedarwood Cedarwood
Unique Character

Pho Breakfast D'annam by d'Annam offers a distinctive olfactory experience that stands out from other fragrances in its category.

Artisanal Creation

Crafted with the finest ingredients and a blend of traditional and modern perfumery techniques, this fragrance represents the pinnacle of the perfumer's art.

Signature Style

Pho Breakfast D'annam embodies the distinctive style of d'Annam while adding a unique chapter to their fragrance portfolio.

Character Profile

The Lover Archetype: Portrait of Pho Breakfast D'annam

Essence

This person is most closely aligned with the Seeker, an archetype defined by curiosity, a hunger for the unfamiliar, and a restlessness that propels them beyond the mundane. The Seeker does not merely consume experience-they dissect it, savor it, and demand meaning from it. Pho Breakfast D’annam, with its intricate balance of star anise, cardamom, and coffee, is a scent that mirrors their essence: layered, unexpected, and deeply evocative of journeys yet to be taken.

Style & Aesthetic

Their tastes are an eclectic tapestry-part nostalgia, part reinvention. They prefer the worn leather of a secondhand book to the sterile gloss of a new one, the smoky depths of a Vietnamese coffee stall to the predictability of a chain café. Their wardrobe is a curated dissonance: silk shirts paired with rugged boots, a vintage kimono draped over denim. They are drawn to textures that tell stories, scents that evoke places rather than mere perfumes.

Pho Breakfast D’annam appeals to them because it is not just a fragrance-it is a portal. The warmth of cinnamon and the bitterness of black tea speak of mornings in Hanoi, of street vendors and humid air, of a life lived in motion. They do not wear this scent to be noticed; they wear it to remember, and to dream.

They are not tourists-they are temporary locals. They rent apartments in foreign cities, learn just enough of the language to order food and flirt, then move on when the air grows stale. Their home, if they have one, is a gallery of artifacts: a Balinese mask, a Moroccan tea set, a stack of journals filled with half-finished thoughts.

Professionally, they thrive in fields that reward curiosity-journalism, anthropology, culinary arts, or freelance design. Routine is their kryptonite; they would rather risk instability than surrender to monotony.

Philosophy & Values

They believe in the sacredness of the ephemeral. A meal, a conversation, a fleeting scent-these are not trivialities but fragments of a larger mosaic. They reject rigid dogma, preferring instead a philosophy of fluid inquiry. "Truth," to them, is not a fixed point but a shifting horizon.

This fluidity grants them an open mind, but it also makes commitment difficult. They are as likely to abandon a career path as they are to dive headlong into a new passion. Stability is not their enemy, but it is often their afterthought.

Relationships

They love deeply but fleetingly. Their relationships are intense, marked by long conversations over shared meals, by the exchange of dog-eared novels and mixtapes. But their partners often sense an unbridgeable distance-a part of them is always elsewhere, chasing the next horizon.

Their friendships are global and sporadic. They might vanish for months, only to reappear with a postcard and a story. Those who understand them do not take this personally; they know the Seeker’s heart is vast but restless.

Shadow

For all their richness of experience, they are haunted by a quiet solitude. The very trait that makes them fascinating-their refusal to settle-also isolates them. Relationships fade, roots never take hold, and one day they may wake to find that their life is a collection of beautiful fragments with no center.

Their greatest fear is not failure, but irrelevance. What if their search is endless because they are afraid of what they might find at the destination? What if, beneath the wanderlust, there is simply an avoidance of stillness?

Conclusion

They are both liberated and burdened by their nature. The world is their feast, but they are forever tasting, never fully sated. Pho Breakfast D’annam is the perfect scent for them-it is rich, complex, and impossible to pin down, much like their soul.

In the end, they are not running from something, but toward something-even if they do not yet know what it is. And perhaps that is enough.