Top Notes 
Peach
Cocoa
Smoke
Heart Notes 
Lapsang Souchong tea
Cedarwood
Base Notes 
Peach tree sap
Labdanum07/20/2024
Iceblocks
35 Reviews
Iceblocks
3
Black Tea ft. Peach Jellies
Top notes are all juicy "peach flavour" joy held against a darker, dry, woody, slightly smoky black-tea base. It has the tang of tannins but maintains a touch of something 'wet' about it - the slight bitterness of strong tea blended with the steam gently rising from the surface.
I know the brand imagery is of a private getaway, of tea ceremonies tucked away in a mountain landscape... to me, though, peach and black tea brings to mind a go-to bubble tea order. The hint of dry smoke does bring it down to something earthier but it still makes me crave peach jellies.
I really hoped the peach would stay of the life of the fragrance but it's gone by the middle phase, and what remains is an unceasing base of dry dusted cacao over a tea-tinged wood. I've seen a whisper of the same base in 'Bodhi Language' by 4160 Tuesdays and 'Pale Fire' by Apoteker Tepe - which are in no ways the same fragrance, but are the only ones that came to mind when I was trying to work out where I'd seen this base before. It's potentially the cacao bracketed by norlimbanol (or something similar) and it lasts forever.
I really, really love the opening of this and I'm debating the idea of a full bottle based on that alone, but I also really feel the absence of the peach in the later half of the fragrance. Despite that I'm fairly certain this will end up as a winner for this brand (and it deserves to be!).
(Black tea & peach will likely cause some people to wonder about the similarities to Kiste by Slumberhouse and I can say with firm certainty that they're not the same fragrance. Kiste is spiced, drunk honey peaches stewed on a late summer afternoon, all rustic golden light. Private Teahouse is a reserved black tea first and foremost, all elegance and clean lines. The peaches aren't drunk and stewed but rather crisp and clear, and the black tea in this is unsweetened).
I know the brand imagery is of a private getaway, of tea ceremonies tucked away in a mountain landscape... to me, though, peach and black tea brings to mind a go-to bubble tea order. The hint of dry smoke does bring it down to something earthier but it still makes me crave peach jellies.
I really hoped the peach would stay of the life of the fragrance but it's gone by the middle phase, and what remains is an unceasing base of dry dusted cacao over a tea-tinged wood. I've seen a whisper of the same base in 'Bodhi Language' by 4160 Tuesdays and 'Pale Fire' by Apoteker Tepe - which are in no ways the same fragrance, but are the only ones that came to mind when I was trying to work out where I'd seen this base before. It's potentially the cacao bracketed by norlimbanol (or something similar) and it lasts forever.
I really, really love the opening of this and I'm debating the idea of a full bottle based on that alone, but I also really feel the absence of the peach in the later half of the fragrance. Despite that I'm fairly certain this will end up as a winner for this brand (and it deserves to be!).
(Black tea & peach will likely cause some people to wonder about the similarities to Kiste by Slumberhouse and I can say with firm certainty that they're not the same fragrance. Kiste is spiced, drunk honey peaches stewed on a late summer afternoon, all rustic golden light. Private Teahouse is a reserved black tea first and foremost, all elegance and clean lines. The peaches aren't drunk and stewed but rather crisp and clear, and the black tea in this is unsweetened).
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