The second (and last) set of gift ideas for Mother’s Day 2015, which is coming up soon — Sunday, 10 May.
From Jo Malone, the limited edition White Lilac & Rhubarb candle: “Jo Malone White Lilac & Rhubarb Candle is scented with a daring juxtaposition of tart and vibrant rhubarb, powdery white lilac and sensual rose. It’s the blooming scent of an early summer garden.” 45 hour burn time, $70 at Nordstrom…
Happy May Day! And happy Tea Time Friday. Our community project for today: wear a fragrance with a tea note.
As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
I’m wearing Masque Milano Russian Tea. And my tea at the moment: Upton Saint Isaac’s Blend (a Russian-style variation on Earl Grey)…
There’s a kind of fragrance that especially intrigues me: it’s the type that reads as warm and cool at the same time. This kind of fragrance’s notes are warm — leather, spices, wood, for instance — but its overall feeling is thin and cool, like a splash of scented water. Masque Milano Russian Tea is that sort of fragrance.
Perfumer Julien Rasquinet developed Russian Tea. Its notes include mint, black pepper, raspberry, black tea, magnolia, everlasting flower (also known as immortelle), leather accord, incense, birchwood and labdanum. If you’re thinking this sounds a bit like Annick Goutal Duel, you’re right. Russian Tea might be Duel’s tougher brother, the one who came straight from the stables to lunch…
It’s been a good long while since we’ve talked about tea other than as an aside in the scent of the day polls. I used to post on the subject more frequently (even though I am no more an expert on tea than I am about perfume), and especially about green teas, which were my staple drink during the day. Those cups (not telling how many, let’s just say quite a few) were interspersed with heavier bursts of caffeine from the occasional latte. I’ve since had to give up coffee entirely, and not surprisingly, my collection of black teas has increased accordingly. I hope to do a post on Earl Grey teas soon, but today I’m concentrating on three black teas from the Russian-inspired French brand Kusmi, which as it happens was the subject of my last tea post…
A short 'underwater ballet' for Kusmi's Anastasia tea.