Top Notes 
Lemon
Bergamot
Black tea
Heart Notes 
Freesia
Lily of the valley
Lavender
Base Notes 
Musk
Tonka bean
Vanilla
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You sit in your aging car and it won't start.
January is a dreadful month, Christmas is over, you are three kilos heavier, triple vaccinated, and mega-annoyed by the mask you always wear with red lipstick underneath.
In the supermarket, they are already selling carnival donuts and streamers, but your sister in Cologne is in an even worse mood than you and doesn't want to see you. Okay, you go back to "Stay at home" mode and go through your perfume collection, what else is a woman supposed to do with a hobby?
Most of your fragrances are radiant jewels and amazing scents, classics and beauties that want to be worn. Or they are strict, green chypres that perfectly match your work, but unfortunately, it looks like another online teaching semester is coming up, so what’s the point of these considerations.
What you currently need is an uncomplicated, simple fragrance that neither challenges nor evokes moods with its elegance, eroticism, or even its party vibe that you find inappropriate right now.
But since you are a tea lover, there is currently a perfect scent that carries you well through the day. It comes from Russia and is called "My Cup of Tea: Five o'clock." The brand Brocard, revived in 1994, developed it in collaboration with two experienced perfumers, Wessel - Jan Kos and Olivier Cresp.
Kos & Cresp have combined a lovely black tea note with ginger and bergamot. It feels wonderfully invigorating. But the fragrance has even more to offer. In the heart, you find freesias, lavender, and lily of the valley, all charming flowers woven into a bouquet. The whole thing rests on a warm, relaxing vanilla base that reminds you of delicious English biscuits.
Sounds simple, it is, but that’s exactly what fits in the dreary January.
Brocard also leads a sad, relatively unnoticed existence here, although the company has seen glorious times in the past.
Founded in 1864 by the Frenchman Henri Brocard in Moscow, Brocard quickly became the court supplier to the Tsar. But after the October Revolution, the entire company was nationalized.
They hired the chemist Auguste Michel, who created classics like "Krassnaya Moskwa" (1925). Instead of Brocard, the company was now called Novaya Zarya and exists to this day.
Brocard was newly founded in 1994 (already mentioned) and differs from Novaya Zarya, among other things, by intentionally having well-known Western European noses create fragrances for the company, such as Maurice Roucel, Bertrand Duchaufour, Fabrice Pellegrin, Sylvie Fisher, etc.
The bottles and packaging are very playful and some are true collector's items; some could be understood as self-ironic comments on Russian folklore.
An additional asset from a German perspective is, of course, the relatively low prices at which Brocard fragrances can be purchased (online through Russian suppliers, but also through perfumeries in the UK and an official representative in Berlin).
"Tea and Cucumber Cologne" by J. Malone serves as a comparison to "5 o'clock," with the Brocard having a lovely warmth and comforting quality from the beautiful vanilla plus tonka in the base, which the English scent lacks.
"When everything else fails, have a cuppa" - or spray yourself a cup of comfort. You won't even gain weight from it; you get the biscuits virtually included.
Spasibo, Brocard.
January is a dreadful month, Christmas is over, you are three kilos heavier, triple vaccinated, and mega-annoyed by the mask you always wear with red lipstick underneath.
In the supermarket, they are already selling carnival donuts and streamers, but your sister in Cologne is in an even worse mood than you and doesn't want to see you. Okay, you go back to "Stay at home" mode and go through your perfume collection, what else is a woman supposed to do with a hobby?
Most of your fragrances are radiant jewels and amazing scents, classics and beauties that want to be worn. Or they are strict, green chypres that perfectly match your work, but unfortunately, it looks like another online teaching semester is coming up, so what’s the point of these considerations.
What you currently need is an uncomplicated, simple fragrance that neither challenges nor evokes moods with its elegance, eroticism, or even its party vibe that you find inappropriate right now.
But since you are a tea lover, there is currently a perfect scent that carries you well through the day. It comes from Russia and is called "My Cup of Tea: Five o'clock." The brand Brocard, revived in 1994, developed it in collaboration with two experienced perfumers, Wessel - Jan Kos and Olivier Cresp.
Kos & Cresp have combined a lovely black tea note with ginger and bergamot. It feels wonderfully invigorating. But the fragrance has even more to offer. In the heart, you find freesias, lavender, and lily of the valley, all charming flowers woven into a bouquet. The whole thing rests on a warm, relaxing vanilla base that reminds you of delicious English biscuits.
Sounds simple, it is, but that’s exactly what fits in the dreary January.
Brocard also leads a sad, relatively unnoticed existence here, although the company has seen glorious times in the past.
Founded in 1864 by the Frenchman Henri Brocard in Moscow, Brocard quickly became the court supplier to the Tsar. But after the October Revolution, the entire company was nationalized.
They hired the chemist Auguste Michel, who created classics like "Krassnaya Moskwa" (1925). Instead of Brocard, the company was now called Novaya Zarya and exists to this day.
Brocard was newly founded in 1994 (already mentioned) and differs from Novaya Zarya, among other things, by intentionally having well-known Western European noses create fragrances for the company, such as Maurice Roucel, Bertrand Duchaufour, Fabrice Pellegrin, Sylvie Fisher, etc.
The bottles and packaging are very playful and some are true collector's items; some could be understood as self-ironic comments on Russian folklore.
An additional asset from a German perspective is, of course, the relatively low prices at which Brocard fragrances can be purchased (online through Russian suppliers, but also through perfumeries in the UK and an official representative in Berlin).
"Tea and Cucumber Cologne" by J. Malone serves as a comparison to "5 o'clock," with the Brocard having a lovely warmth and comforting quality from the beautiful vanilla plus tonka in the base, which the English scent lacks.
"When everything else fails, have a cuppa" - or spray yourself a cup of comfort. You won't even gain weight from it; you get the biscuits virtually included.
Spasibo, Brocard.
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