Assam of India Berdoues 2015

It’s gray outside; the day doesn’t quite know yet which direction it wants to take.
The morning is just drifting by, and I’m drifting along with it!
Something beautiful should happen now, or else I’ll pull the duvet back up to my nose!
Ah, I know: I’ll brew some tea!
The table is quickly set, as it should be a morning tea ceremony.
The beautiful china (I choose the fine tea bowls from the 1947 collection that Hutschenreuther created for the American market); the tea warmer and the gentle glow of the gemstone tealights create a lovely atmosphere.
These tealights in various gemstone types already radiate coziness.
Now just a CD with suitable music, and then off to the kitchen - time to brew tea!
While I select the type of tea (today it’s pure unperfumed black tea), I remember a fragrance sample I recently tested. It has already arrived at Gelis: three times a year, we send each other packages with fragrant contents.
But luckily, my scent memory is still very good and immediately conjures up corresponding images and scents from one of its drawers.

The "Cologne Grand Cru" collection by Berdoues seems to contain very beautiful fragrances in my opinion. "Assam of India" is one of them:
A lovely clear scent blend, in which the black tea note wonderfully dominates aromatically.
Here, it is not accompanied by much frill, which often makes many of the other tea scents a bit complicated for me. I sometimes get lost in their scent diversity!
With "Assam of India," purism is the order of the day!
Clear strong Assam tea with a few splashes of lemon juice.
Lemons that have ripened in the Mediterranean sun and, due to their scent intensity, might even belong to the family of fleshy varieties found in Sicily and along the Amalfi Coast.
Many of them can be peeled and eaten without having to grimace.
And I’d rather not think about limoncello, which they are often processed into. It’s still too early in the day for that!
A few drops of sandalwood oil with fine depth round off this noble scent pleasure!
"Assam of India" is very nice on the skin and perhaps even lovely in the cup!

Longevity and sillage testify to a light, clear tea scent; nothing weighs down or disturbs.
Here I encounter a special nose-pleaser that also touches the senses.
Any possible rough edges left by the day so far are smoothed out like ruffled feathers.
Panta rhei! Everything flows!
Perhaps a good "word for this day."