‘Two cups of tea, a summer monsoon, and me and you.’

8 thoughts on “‘Two cups of tea, a summer monsoon, and me and you.’”

1. Cool, wet, slightly sweet green desert floral. A little muddy. A bit like a nice men’s body wash. Has a hint of weird spiced note in the beginning but it dies off in the dry down.

2. This one isn’t very complex on me, just freshly brewed black tea the whole way through. That being said, I still really enjoy it and use it to layer!

3. it smells like chilling on your porch after a rain shower while everything is still drippy and you can smell the damp soil and wet pavement with the smell of that big creosote bush beside your house almost drowning out the steam curling up from the mug of warm tea your hands are curled around

4. In the bottle, this smells like straight petrichor. I’d believe it if someone said it was a single note. It’s about to rain in my house! On my skin, the first thing I think of is the smell when I first step into my walk-in shower. That strangely isolated H2O smell hanging in the air. It’s exactly that, bottled. Like the smell of a steam room without any essential oils added. This is kinda what I would expect from the “water hose” single note now that I think about it. It could possibly have a hot metallic / mineral twinge going on. It’s majorly aquatic and true to life in that sense, but I don’t think it’s something I want to smell like. I never get any tea or dirt from it and certainly no cedar/ wood component. I get the exact same impression a week later, and a month later. I might be convinced there’s tea leaves in the water now, but it’s not wowing me. It’s flat out too simplistic to my nose. I appreciate the talent of capturing the smell of water, but I have zero desire to smell like this. I think I might have reached the limit of my exploration of “realistic rain” smells. Yes, it is realistic, and that’s cool. Box checked. I just need way more for a perfume I personally want to wear. This is unequivocally not my style. Pass.

5. Definitely a unisex fragrance. Lightly floral (not the sneeze-inducing kind some florals can be), with a soft cedar and petrichor, but it’s not sharp. I can definitely imagine that it’s about to storm with this scent on.
   I could imagine this being a deodorant.

6. I’m in love with this. I give it a 5/5, my husband gives it 3/5. This is the first perfume I’ve without a question wanted to fullsize. It reminds me of being in New Mexico right before it rains and you can smell it coming. That being said it smells pretty strong, so maybe order a sample before full sizing because I can see how it might be polarizing.

7. Note: This is a review based on the old formulation (rice bran oil + vitamin E), so I can’t speak to how / if the scent may be impacted by the new FCO formulation. YMMV!

   I really like the tea and rain notes, but I wish that the cedar was a bit stronger or more distinguishable. I like this, but it’s very much a “perfume” for me – everything sort of blends together. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but I tend to like scents where I can pick out each note. Throw and longevity are great. I plan to keep the sample, but I won’t FS this.

8. After seeing some positive reviews of this perfume it sounded a lot like a perfume I love with atmospheric notes and tea. I hate to say that I had a very acute reaction and actually gagged. It was a scrubber for me but it was incredibly hard to scrub off. I am an avid fan of scents containing mitti attar, and was happy to see creosote listed as an ingredient but it was just a gnarly blend on my skin. The tea was sharply artificial and never toned down and the atmosphere seemed like a street covered with urine and trash. This one was STRONG. It may wear completely different on your skin so it’s worth a shot if you like less traditional blends with strong throw.