Black Cherry & Oolong Tea

Black Cherry & Oolong Tea plays sweet fruit against smoky tea. It opens on ripe black cherry, bergamot, red berries and nutty almond, a sparkling and juicy start that wearers pick out straight away as rich and sweet. The heart is the twist: oolong tea, used for both its fruity and its smoky sides, sits with rose and a dark thread of liquorice. Underneath, aniseed, tonka bean, iris and patchouli add a soft powdery sweetness, with a little vanilla in the longer note list. Community feedback is warm about the scent and cooler about staying power. One wearer calls it the favourite of the whole range, praising the richness of the cherry and the way the tea rounds off the sweetness, yet finds that the opening is the star, that it changes little as it dries and that it does not last as long as they would like. Another picks out the sweet aromatic cherry that fades to an opulent finish. The house calls it all-day wear, so treat that as the best case and plan to top up. It sits in the floral family by the house's own labelling, reads a little feminine but is sold as unisex, and suits spring to autumn days and relaxed evenings. A good pick for anyone who wants a fruit scent with an unusual tea twist, from a small London house that makes its perfumes by hand in the UK.