Tea Service

Tea Service has earned a spot in my very small full bottle collection. If you find yourself wanting more from photorealistic tea fragrances like those by One Day, I would suggest giving the Chasing Scents line a chance. They are highly true to the earthy, slightly bitter scent of both dry and freshly brewed and steeped tea, but lean sweeter and more complex. I find Tea Service and Rain Tea are a bit like sisters, with the former pulling more bitter and dry. This ultimately makes it a bit more realistic of tea scent to my nose, but there is an undeniable sweet and lactonic quality here as well, even if it's not listed in the accords. Despite tea scents being notorious for having less-than-ideal longevity, I find that I can still smell this ages after I spray. It clings particularly strong to clothing. The other day, I put on a jacket that I had worn the week prior when I sprayed Tea Service, and could still distinctly smell it lingering on the cuff. Average-to-strong sillage. I don't get much jasmine on my skin, and the osmanthus is the more dominant of the white florals in Tea Service's composition. The peach here is not ripe, sweet, or jammy, but rather somewhat green and bitter in tandem with the oolong. The sweetness is coming from something that I can't entirely place... if you like the smell of Taiwanese milk tea or boba, that is definitely present in this. Tea Service is a delicious blend. I hope to see Ms. Sandy Wong release 100ml bottles sometime in the future!

This scent is mind blowing, as a scent that is. As a fragrance I’m less sure about it. Chasing Scents did a perfect job with Tea Service, it reminds me exactly of walking into a tea shop or opening a fresh tea cake. I really enjoy that scent profile but I’m not sure if it’s a fragrance I would want to wear very often. This feels more like an enjoyable scent to smell rather than to wear. Performance wise Tea Service is exactly what I would suspect from a fragrance like this. It’s lasts between 4 and 5 hours on my skin and less on my clothes, maybe about 3 hours. A 8/10 for longevity. The projection is also right in line with what I feel like a fragrance like this should have, it projects nicely but well within my arms length. It’s not quite a skin scent but it’s very close. A 7/10 here. Tea Service is the scent for you if you want to smell like tea. I love the way it smells and the fact that it perfectly replicates the rush of air from a tea house when you open the door. An 8/10 for me! I’m just not sure how often I would wear this fragrance, I think this is closer to art then it is daily wear fragrance. That said it is inoffensive and pleasent in the best ways.

I love tea and grew up drinking Taiwanese oolong and jasmine green. Tea Service fully captures the delicate beauty of those teas - bright, floral, and a bit green. There's also a touch of osmanthus in here - more osmanthus tea than the flower. Musks are a hit or miss for me, as I find a lot of them grating or I'm anosmic to them. In this composition, the musks get along harmoniously with all the other notes. The scent also has surprisingly good projection and longevity on me, I got a bit on my clothes and can still smell it the next day. This is also absolutely the most true-to-life tea notes I've ever encountered in a fragrance. The perfumer apparently makes her own tea extract (she documents the process on her Instagram), and it totally pays off in her creations. I got all the available Chasing Scents samples at Luckyscent, and so far they've all been pretty amazing. Very impressed with this house! Edit: Has enough backbone and versatile enough to be layered with other frags. Fantastic with a dab of Nishane’s Ani for extra freshness/greenery.

Tea Service is meant to represent oolong tea, not green tea. The strong presence of jasmine and the scent of tea in general can make this swing either direction, oolong or green... but when you objectively compare, Tea Service is perfectly expressive of oolong jasmine, as shown in the notes. (I'm emphasizing this because Tea Service keeps getting recommended as a "green jasmine tea" in the forums... a tea connoisseur may detect otherwise, so be careful selling it to someone as a "green tea" because they might know better.) The oolong is what makes this a little earthy, deeper than a green tea, and gives it a honey-like nuttiness at the base, with beautiful jasmine petals strewn over it. I agree with others, it gives the smell of a boba tea shop. It's phenomenal. If you want realistic jasmine oolong, this is it! But if you want realistic GREEN jasmine tea, go for One Day's Jasmine Tea.

Absolutely beautiful. As many have already said, the jasmine and oolong combine to capture an extremely realistic tea accord. For me, I'm instantly transported to sipping on an extra large iced jasmine tea on one of the first days of spring, when you're just getting bold enough to wear shorts and walk in the park. The peach and goji berry cut some of the dryness from the florals without being overly sweet. Like all of the perfumes from this house, I find the projection and longevity to be very good, especially for something that is so delicate and soft. If you are at all into tea fragrances, a Chasing Scents discovery set is kind of a must buy - Sandy Wong captures tea in a way I've never smelled before. Will definitely be adding a FB of this and Rain Tea to my collection.