Comme des Garcons Series 7 Sweet: Nomad Tea

Ah, this is mint and tea-lovers dream! Which is exactly why I dared to buy it blind... and boy, does this Not disappoint! :) It arrived (in new bottle, thats the only sad aspect) this morning, so I tried carefully at first on wrist and within 5 min had already doused myself in number of sprays in not only happy relief but in obsessive enjoyment :) Awesome sugary mint tea, just glorious - with beautifully harmonised but notable artemisia/warmwood note that adds absinth-like touch to mint. Therefore mint accord here becomes multifaceted, there is no toothpaste or menthol mouthwash reference. Minty radiance is natural and manages to balance perfectly fresh punch of wild mint herbs at my parents' garden, greenness of fresh artemisia and slight ambery boozy cough syrup note. Its a comfort in a bottle and the tea here is like natural maroccan mint tea with semi-melted sugar cube adding sweetness whilst still being unisex wear... Its a fresh scent, yet captures the warmth of the hot tea (so rare in majority of the tea scents that lean citrusy and cool). But Nomad Tea I can see wearable year around and really giving a sensation of having a comforting aromatic hot drink. Although there is a notable velvet feel, I smell no geranium per se, just a bit of rosey freshness... the base is a little bit sweet amber on me, not woody, also not dense. And performance is actually decent (4 hours) for smth I expected to be pretty much cologne strength, it also sticks well to clothes... Massive immediate love, I can see myself wearing it often and with joy! :)

One of my top-5 fragrances and #1 in the herbal-aromatic genre (which is under-saturated due to the same irrational preferences that make customers reject Jagermeister). It is also my favorite CdG fragrance. I'm so happy it hasn't been discontinued. I gave it away once after it became a sensory anchor of a very stressful event that happened to me when I was wearing it, but then couldn't resist and bought it again. It is so complex and so unusual. It is very hard to not cross the line between a minty kick in a fragrance and a bitter mint overload that makes it smell like a cough mixture, and when this balance is maintained, the fragrance becomes magical. It smells so-so natural to me and has so many facets. It's bitter-sweet, and just a little bit sour (but not enough to become syrupy). The medicinal opening makes it slightly boozy (just one or two drops of alcohol, but the herbs do the rest and still give you wings). The herbal aspect is more of a dry camomile infusion that stayed in a teapot for days. The sweetness is transparent and clean, just like when you add sugar rather than honey or caramel. You do get a feeling of dark night, warm wind, a lot of space, and the anticipation of something unforgettable. It is just otherworldly.

Nomad Tea is such a unique, lovely tea fragrance. It smells just like the mint tea I often drank when I was in Tunisia, that is also served in some hookah cafés and middle eastern restaurants. A green tea based brew with lots of fresh mint and sugar added. This tea is not comparable to the bagged mint tea sold in supermarkets, just like Nomad Tea is not comparable to generic green tea fragrances. Nomad Tea also has a hint of smokey notes, and when it dries down, the geranium becomes noticeable and the sugariness calms down. So it doesn't smell like a boring novelty scent, but like a refreshing, mint-tea inspired perfume. I had an older sample of this which I emptied for this review and I'm happy to see they reissued this. I liked the old bottle better, but if the scent in the new one is the same, it doesn't matter.

A simple, pleasant, sweet, and fresh mix of green tea and mint. A few hints of citrus and green around the edges, but the feeling here is minimalist, clean, and transparent. If you're familiar with the mint tea served in much of the middle east, it's quite similar in smell. The mint is green and living rather than candied. For something so fresh, this lasts quite well on me. I could see reaching for it a lot in hot weather. It's noteworthy this and Philtre Ceylan are uncannily alike. I think Ceylan might be the slightly stronger, less fresh version, but I'd have a hard time telling them apart on a casual sniff.

Crisp sweet mint tea. It is sweet, but not cloying. I wish it lasted longer but it’s perfect for work since it’s not a heavy scent. This is exactly what I was looking for in a mint and tea scent. I got samples of Chasing Scents Rain Tea and Tea Service and OneDay’s Osmanthus Tea at the same time. I liked Rain Tea but it was much more floral and warm. I thought Tea Service was too spicy. Osmanthus Tea was a really nice white floral. I kept going back to the sweet simplicity of Nomad Tea. I liked that it’s a cold clean scent.