A calming fragrance to soothe the heart’s desire for a warm cup of tea when it rains… Soft raindrops upon the foliage of the freshly bloomed wattle trees, adrift with the gentle breeze – melding with the scent of herbal tea.
NOTES
Top: Chrysanthemum, Wattle, Chamomile
Middle: White Tea, Rain
Base: Barley, Honey, Longan
PERFUMER
Sandy Wong
HOW IT WEARS
Opening with blooming chrysanthemum, white tea and rain, Rain Tea begins damp and fresh, before it develops to reveal the comforting warmth of chamomile and barley. The dry down is all about the mimosa, powdery and honeyed, complemented perfectly by fruity longan and of course actual honey. With a concentration of up to 20% parfum, this fragrance will last 6-8 hours on the skin. Best enjoyed on a day with a gentle breeze to carry the tea scent.
LORE LOVES
Rain Tea is truly a masterpiece of a fragrance. Beginning wet and damp like tea enjoyed on a balcony while raining, it gets warmer and more soothing as it wears. We love how this fragrance so perfectly encapsulates the roots of Chasing Scents – heroing an Australian native floral (our national flower in fact!) but also ancient tea traditions from East Asia. The result is a fragrance that celebrates both tea and the regenerative beauty of a rainy day.
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.
