Peer into the windows of a Private Teahouse, where the aroma of smoky black tea seeps out of the wooden frames, diffusing into the mountain fog. This fragrance is a warm invitation to a fragrant sanctuary separate from the daily world, centring around the deep aroma profiles of the Lapsang Souchong tea. Produced in the Wuyi Mountains, Lapsang Souchong is typically known for its wood-smoked black tea flavour.
NOTES
Top: Peach, Cacao, Smoke
Middle: Lapsang souchong tea, Cedarwood
Base: Labdanum, Peach sap
PERFUMER
Sandy Wong
HOW IT WEARS
Beginning with ripe, juicy peach, as Private Teahouse dries down, you begin to pick up the deep, tannin-infused smoke of Lapsang souchong tea which remains prominent throughout the wear of the fragrance. Cacao and peach sap enrichen the composition which settles to reveal an intense, sticky labdanum resin base. With a concentration of up to 25% parfum, this fragrance stays on the skin for 6-8 hours.
LORE LOVES
Private Teahouse has a real sensuality to it. It’s sweet, but it’s a resinous sweetness, not necessarily a gourmand sweetness. With accents of smoke and stone fruit, lapsang souchang remains the heart of this fragrance. A fruity fragrance for those who want a bit more depth, complexity, and even a little mystery…
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.
