An unexpected drink on a menu from a visit in Guangzhou inspired Sandy Wong, the founder of Chasing Scents, to create this perfume. It’s proof that sometimes the unexpected turns out to be just what you need!
In the drink Sandy tried, Guandong perfume lemon and bitter melon were paired with Duck Poo oolong tea (鴨屎香, yā shǐ xiāng) a highly fragrant variety of oolong seen in the Guangdong region. Don’t let the name of the tea put you off, it doesn’t contain any actual duck poo – its name is believed to have been coined by a tea farmer who was trying to prevent the theft of his tea, and also because it is cultivated in yellow soil that locals refer to as “duck poo soil”. Ironically, Duck Poo oolong tea has a natural perfumed taste and an elegant floral depth after steeping that makes it highly sought after!
This fragrance smells like a refreshing, crisp iced tea that will perfectly quench the thirst of anyone who likes citrus, tea, or fresher aromatic notes.
NOTES
Top: Perfume Lemon, Bitter Melon
Middle: Cucumber, Jasmine
Base: Duck Poo Oolong tea, Vetiver
PERFUMER
Sandy Wong
HOW IT WEARS
Beginning with the green, watery notes of cucumber and bitter melon, it takes just seconds of wear before you’re hit with the bright, tangy zest of the perfume lemon in this scent. As it begins to settle, the oolong and jasmine combination turn the fragrance sweeter in an aromatic way – still refreshing but a little more rounded. Despite how fresh Bitter Melon Lemon Tea is, it has impressive longevity like all Chasing Scents fragrances – we get 6+ hours of it on the skin!
LORE LOVES
This fragrance is a photorealistic representation of the iced tea it’s inspired by. It’s cooling, refreshing and vibrant, like an iced fruit tea on the hottest of days. We are obsessed with the unique note combination in this scent too – if there’s anything Chasing Scents is going to do, it’s introduced us to new and unique perfume notes!
ABOUT THE BRAND
Founded by Sandy Wong in 2021, Chasing Scents is an Australian perfume house dedicated to capturing the essence of tea through fragrance.
Chasing Scents perfumes draw their inspiration from the experience and ritual of drinking tea, from enjoying it by yourself to sharing it with loved ones. Their scents are modern but still rich in their cultural roots, with formulas that use a variety of teas, natural extracts, aroma compounds and resins.
Sandy grew up in Sydney, Australia; where she grew curious about her mother’s miniature perfume collection from Hong Kong. Today, she is a scientist with a PhD in Chemistry. It was during her candidature she experimented with scents out of hours and discovered the scientific mystery of perfumes with her partner.
Many mainstream tea perfumes have a rather extrapolated representation of what a “tea” aroma is, using other notes to replicate the smell of tea. That’s where Chasing Scents is different – they use actual tea extracts to create realistic and true tea fragrances. Tinctures and soxhlet extractions of dried whole flower buds and loose tea leaves are performed over multiple cycles under strict conditions to obtain aromatic concentrates that smell good enough to drink.
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