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Muddled Herbal Black Tea
It’s a cool, cloudy autumn evening, perfect for apple picking, hay rides, and apple cider. Instead, you lie curled up under a mountain of blankets with a fever. Your mom hands you a warm mug of piping hot Earl Grey tea. The vapor slightly over-brewed black tea bathes your warm face in a blanket of mouth-drying tea. Your mom rubs your forehead with lavender oil, and you let the steamy scent clear your stuffed nostrils.
Despite the strength of the tea note, this is a soft-wearing, cozy skin scent. It stays pretty mellow and close to the skin; you can’t overapply it. The lavender is a bit cooling and borders on medicinal, but I think it adds to the overall soothing quality of this fragrance. I think the overall clarity of the fragrance is muddled by the sweet-musky base of Poesie's gourmands, and could read as candle-adjacent. I personally wish the each of the individual notes, especially the black tea, were stronger.
Despite the strength of the tea note, this is a soft-wearing, cozy skin scent. It stays pretty mellow and close to the skin; you can’t overapply it. The lavender is a bit cooling and borders on medicinal, but I think it adds to the overall soothing quality of this fragrance. I think the overall clarity of the fragrance is muddled by the sweet-musky base of Poesie's gourmands, and could read as candle-adjacent. I personally wish the each of the individual notes, especially the black tea, were stronger.