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Mahogany Tar Smoke
This is the latest scent from Providence Perfumes. Overall, they cover a wide spectrum from "kneeling beautiful" to "beautiful" to "well, not my thing" and "emphatically eco."
But with this one: "Osmanthus Oolong," I can hardly relate.
Oolong tea is a semi-fermented Chinese tea, and like many Chinese teas, it is dried and smoked over fire. Osmanthus made me expect a fruity-floral delicate note in a possibly weak tea scent.
But I first smell only a kind of smoky tar scent (no, the "r" between "tea" and "scent" is not a typo), like I know from sooty chimneys, the real smell of a chimney sweep. At first, I don't smell anything else; this smoky scent isn't even that of charcoal fires. Even the smokiest tea from China that one could buy back then in eco-stores had this taste or smell, though not quite as strong for sure.
I didn't like any of them back then. And possibly even flavored with jasmine or bergamot, they were particularly horrid for me.
But that is not the case here either; only a sooty-sticky smoky scent comes from my wrist. Such soot penetrates through the masonry of a chimney, and in damp weather, when the stove is not heated, you can smell something like this in the rooms. This soot is produced by too fresh and wet firewood and improper kindling.
When I call up the scent here, it is referred to as "Aglaia" wood. That is a mahogany tree. Well then, is this supposed to be charcoal from Aglaia mahogany?
After that, the scent of sooty charcoal weakens; I smell very faint notes of wax and something watery-fruity-floral. And alongside the now very faint smoky scent, I can actually perceive wood and a hint of sandalwood creaminess.
This mixture a bit stronger and without that coarse tar note, and with a delicate tea note in its place at the beginning, I would actually like.
Somehow, "Osmanthus Oolong" seems to me not as successful as one might have thought. I give such a low rating because the aforementioned ingredient list seems completely exaggerated and raises expectations that are not fulfilled at all.
But with this one: "Osmanthus Oolong," I can hardly relate.
Oolong tea is a semi-fermented Chinese tea, and like many Chinese teas, it is dried and smoked over fire. Osmanthus made me expect a fruity-floral delicate note in a possibly weak tea scent.
But I first smell only a kind of smoky tar scent (no, the "r" between "tea" and "scent" is not a typo), like I know from sooty chimneys, the real smell of a chimney sweep. At first, I don't smell anything else; this smoky scent isn't even that of charcoal fires. Even the smokiest tea from China that one could buy back then in eco-stores had this taste or smell, though not quite as strong for sure.
I didn't like any of them back then. And possibly even flavored with jasmine or bergamot, they were particularly horrid for me.
But that is not the case here either; only a sooty-sticky smoky scent comes from my wrist. Such soot penetrates through the masonry of a chimney, and in damp weather, when the stove is not heated, you can smell something like this in the rooms. This soot is produced by too fresh and wet firewood and improper kindling.
When I call up the scent here, it is referred to as "Aglaia" wood. That is a mahogany tree. Well then, is this supposed to be charcoal from Aglaia mahogany?
After that, the scent of sooty charcoal weakens; I smell very faint notes of wax and something watery-fruity-floral. And alongside the now very faint smoky scent, I can actually perceive wood and a hint of sandalwood creaminess.
This mixture a bit stronger and without that coarse tar note, and with a delicate tea note in its place at the beginning, I would actually like.
Somehow, "Osmanthus Oolong" seems to me not as successful as one might have thought. I give such a low rating because the aforementioned ingredient list seems completely exaggerated and raises expectations that are not fulfilled at all.
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