Chai

I have finally found the chai tea fragrance we all are searching for! No it is not remember me. Surprisingly. Before this morning, it was a tossup between that one and Blue Madeline. No more! It is now baruti chai and I am just as surprised as you are. This brand is very experimental and very indie. I have not tried everything from this brand as of yet so I haven't made a formal opinion about whether or not I recommend this brand as a whole. I have tried oh my deer! And let's just say, these two fragrances cannot be farther apart. That one is tough to wear by everyone’s standards and my hat goes off to the person that can pull it off. I'm sure there is someone out there who can! And I don't particularly think it's a bad fragrance, but it is definitely musky. This one on the other hand, is one of their more mainstream fragrances. It simply is a great cup of chai tea. Perhaps been brewing for longer than usual just because of how intense it is. And that's pretty much it! If you can imagine a high quality chai tea in every sense of the word, this is what you have in front of you. If you put honey in your tea, you get a little bit of that in this as well. And of course you have the signature base that has a little bit of animal behavior. But it's all pretty straightforward. A beautiful chai tea scent and one of the best from the brand. That's all that needs to be said. I highly recommend if you are looking for something like this or you are a fan of remember me etc.

This perfume surprised me as it wasn't what I expected from a chai scent, but I was impressed nonetheless. At first spray, it's mainly leather and spices. It made me think of antique shops where there's a nondescript smell like incense lingering in the air among the dust—earthy, spicy, and smoky. The spices were very cardamom and pepper-forward, with some ginger peaking through but not a lot. There was a bit rose floating around in there somewhere at first too. It stays like this for about the first two hours. At the two-hour mark, the black tea starts to shine through rich and a bit earthy. Still in the antique shop, but they brought you a fresh cup of tea to enjoy while you peruse their wares. Then, the spices and leather back off a bit and let the tea be the star of the scent. It gets a little sweeter around the three or four-hour mark with the vanilla, musk, and milk slowly but persistently emerging. This has great longevity, lasting about 10 hours on me. Like I said, it's not a photorealistic chai tea/latte but it is a wonderful and intriguing take on it. I'm not a fan of leather in fragrances but I love this nevertheless as the leather is more manageable and balanced by some other notes.

Baruti Chai is a wonderfully aromatic gourmandish oriental. It's my new favourite. The pronounced black tea note is dark and delicious, the milk is warm and creamy, the cocoa powder adds some dryness, then a pinch of ginger joins in with a mild zesty kick in the background. I can also smell the cardamom but but not too much, my skin tends to highlight cardamom in most fragrances but in this one the cardamom is masterfully blended to create a warm, spicy accord. Fantastic fragrance, I recommend to oriental gourmand lovers, it's a delight to the senses, not to sweet and deliciously complex. It's an Extrait de Parfume so the longevity is excellent, so is the sillage. It's going to be one of my staples for the upcoming colder months for sure.

This is a mesmerising scent that has turned quite a few heads in my office! I bought a bottle a couple of weeks ago, and this is hands down the most realistic Chai perfume I've ever smelled in my life. I've had people consistently come up to me every day for the past two days asking what I'm wearing and where they can get it too. A warm, comforting bottle of deliciousness. I remember the first time I ever sprayed it in a shop, I sprayed it on my scarf and it lasted about 3 months on the scarf - the longevity is beastly. On the skin, I can smell it for 24-48 hours (if I don't shower haha) but even after the shower it still sometimes smells. Really well rounded, balanced and addictive. 10/10 - my new favourite.

I've been hunting for a good chai latte-type scent that isn't just a slightly different vanilla/caramel and this is super good! 5/5 for me :) Peppery spices, with a strong cinnamon and clove presence, that reminds me of a local tea/crystal shop and incense. While it doesn't smell edible, like a chai latte, it's really pleasant and cozy! Be warned though, if you or anyone who lives with you is sensitive to scents, this one is room-fillingly strong! A spritz on each wrist and each side of the neck is more than enough to surround you for hours. Update: I wore this on a date and woke up the next day still smelling like spices! Definitely plan to buy a full bottle in the future!

Though I'm still new to fragrance, Angels' Share and Chai are the only FBW samples so far—probably because they're both delicious warm cinnamon bombs. Chai is so reminiscent of the drink that it blows my mind. I get black tea, mixed spices, and milkiness. I don't get rose or leather, which I'm happy about. It's a straightforward scent in that it smells like chai, nothing more, nothing less. It comes across as a daytime scent. When I think of black tea, I think of breakfast and sunrises. I wore this for the first time on a sunny, cold winter morning, and felt so...right. Like I knew my frag matched the vibe.

Gorgeous, true chai. Lots of clove, lots of cardamom, fresh ginger, fresh black pepper, and the signature baruti quality, which is a honeyed, balsamic, waxy quality. Long lasting perfume, I love this line, one spray will last all day. High price here is so justified. I've tried this before a few times. If I didn't have so many warm spicy balsamic scents already I'd buy this. Maybe one day! In the meantime I have my beautiful gourmand chai teas to sip straight from India - smells exactly like this! Especially with some good honey.

Don't let the untrained, newby noses mislead you - if all you are used to smelling is designer fragrances, your nose may not know how to interpret this scent. However, let me tell you this: Chai is a phenomenal parfum. It is absolutely gorgeous and is beast mode. I have Chai, Perverso, Nooud and Berlin im Winter from this brand, and if i had to recommend 2, i would definitely go with Chai and Perverso. Both are perfect 10s for me, and I am always going to have a bottle of each in my collection

My second scent I have sampled from Baruti. This is an extremely accurate representation of chai tea, full of cinnamon, clove, ginger, tea, and everything else one would smell from such a drink. If you enjoy that smell, you should enjoy this. I don't find it a challenging scent at all. Longevity and overall performance are great, as one would expect from this house. A little will go a long way.

Very nice tea scent, an elegant rose/ cardamom sort of artisan tea, nothing tacky about it. It's not really the kind of tea fragrance I'm after, but - very good. Update: dug this out in cold weather, and - love! For me, it's a delicious chocolate rose, a perfect balance between sweetness and spice. Dries down to a textured, sensuous powder. Bliss.

I've had this lovely perfume for a moment now, and I'm starting to really notice the rose and musk nuances. If you spray lightly, the drydown will start revealing itself to be a floral musky chai. Really beautiful. * If anyone in the UK wants to swap a sample of this for something ambery / niche / tropical / green get in touch! *

This is my absolute favorite from the sample set. Overall, many fun profiles like Hot Cotton and and Indigo (another nice one). The name says it. Certainly a nice spiced milk tea. Slightly sweetened of course. It generates a comforting bubble around you (at least on me) and it takes no effort to "drink" it in. Cozy and enjoyable.

Funny enough, when I sprayed this the first time, it wasn't love at first sniff. But a few hours later, the spices, the lactonic notes and the black tea really come together to do some sort of magic that grows on you. Very photorealistic spicy milk tea fragrance. If you're a chai lover, then I definitely recommend.

Amazing scent. Not usually a fan of gourmands but this is epic. Is exactly what it says on the bottle. Caution: may be tempting to drink it! It smells soo edible - its actually incredible. Spicy and sweet (but not cloyingly sweet) and the milky tea in the background - literally a cup of Chai.

It was on my wishlist and was hoping to get it. But as a surprise my uncle n cousin got me this as my b day gift and im happy. It smells amazing. It reminds me of the best drink ever chai karak. It’s like a milk tea mixture. I love it. Worth every penny

This is hands down the best gourmand fragrance I've ever smelled in my life. Absolutely astonishing stuff. Not exactly for the summer months I guess but will be wearing it a lot during winter/autumn. Bravo bravo.

This is deeper and richer than that - but if someone accused it of smelling like a candle then I would understand.

Baruti Chai impresses me. Considering it has so many things in it that have the potential to overwhelm (e.g. cinnamon, pepper, leather), it never does. It could be a study on the subtle use of spice in perfumery. If Opium, Cinnabar and Jungle l'Elephant are rough, Chai is smooth and polished. Chai is more like a suggestion of the beverage, rather than the literal beverage. This is preferable to me because as much as I adore authentic masala chai, I'd rather not smell like I bathed in it. Instead, what I get smells like strong sandalwood and something wonderfully smoky, like a singed piece of bark. The perfume is marvelously sandalwoody on me, and I am baffled that there is no mention of woods anywhere on the internet because it is perhaps more sandalwood on me than anything else (works for me!). There is something like mint in it, but it blends beautifully with the other notes, perhaps to imbue the scent of fresh, green cardamom husks. I don't actually detect any cardamom; one of my favorite spices to cook with, I am quite familiar with the scent. I also notice fresh ginger from time to time as well as gentle hand of Saigon cinnamon and a hint of savory black pepper. Then there is my favorite part--one of the most perfect and gorgeous *non-vanillic* creamy accords I have ever smelled, and I can not get enough of it! It smells like a cup of warm, sweetened milk. It was at the 10-hour mark that I felt there could be any vanilla at all. It projects well enough for my liking for hours, though never a sillage monster, heavy, or cloying. Longevity is excellent. I don't take this as the literal scent of chai, nor did I ever expect it to be based on the notes, which list things that I have never seen in any authetic chai recipe, much less drunk: leather, rose, musk, cocoa. It does not even read as gourmand on my skin, rather a floral-woody-musk. In any case, Chai is a definite winner!

54th I think this is a well composed scent. The black tea note is realistic, tannic(?), bitter, robust, and the spices are descent. It is not the chai I am acquainted with, as this needs more spices in my opinion and less of that very sweet burnt caramel note. I like the burnt caramel note (made from a combination of other notes?), but since it is the dry-down, it smells pretty linear for a long time and it really stays with you. There is some off note that another reviewer pointed out, but it’s hard to pinpoint what makes this chai a little off, other than different from the burnt caramel note. It also has very sweet vanilla. Basically it’s like chai creme brûlée. I do like it a lot and it is well made; I just wish there was a smaller size, because this is powerful stuff and I don't see myself reaching for it too often. It’s like a perfume dessert along the lines of unknown pleasures, a lemon creme brûlée tart. 7/10 Warning Edit: While I like this spiced black tea creme brûlée, it has come to me that the off note is CUMIN. It is not listed, but once all the other notes burn off, it’s screaming. Too bad. Still looking for a perfect chai tea without notes that don’t belong there (ex: tea for two with cigarette ashes).

Very high quality. Tea extract smoothed with lactonic sandalwood and embellished with heaps of spice, a bold ginger accord sitting right in the center. In fact the dry down continues being heavily gingery and woodier. My problem with it is that lacks a bit in the terms of uniqueness, for example I could name two fragrance off the top of my head, Five O'Clock Au Gingembre Serge Lutens and Costume National Homme that evoke a very similar spiced chai tea effect with a 60-70% similarity while also being much more wearable. Both of the aforementioned have a smoother dry down too. For the 350$ mark per 100ml I would expect either more innovation or more of a wow factor that I personally haven't found here. That being said, if you are looking for picture perfect chai you will not find a better fragrance out there.