The Moon and I

Mmmm.... this is a b s o l u t e l y stunning!!! Tea-addicts dream, nose glued to wrist aiming to catch every single whiff wishing it would last forever... but soon, the pain settles in... and grows rapidly as you realise that this scent is is also s t u n n i n g l y fleeting!!! Never have I felt so frustrated with a longevity before! Moon and I promises the world and more, yet is gone in a bare blink of an eye.... In the early morning it is the dark brew of fresh earl grey with a drop of milk that kicks off my day. Soon after getting to the office, my sanity and balance relies on calebasa with fresh yerba mate and an accompanying thermos. Every day. Throughout the meetings, calls and desk-focused moments. Therefore, its virtually impossible for me not to love this scent. This is the clearest most gorgeous fresh dry mate with smokey slightly bergamot-flavoured black tea. When I sniff it, it makes my gums ache demanding for a sip. Mind-clearing, perspective-providing, pure and simple. The absolute beauty of the moment. A deep meditation in the scent. Cedar pencil shavings note is a flawless second stage that is very fitting and preserves the gentle otherworldly equilibrium Moon and I transports you to. With minimalist concept, this smells straightforward yet extremely rare. Perfection in simplicity. But the fact it dissolves in just 30 min almost makes me cry... unless I'd double the cost of €250 and add Between Two Trees as a shadow to make it last for an hour. The cost for this pleasure would be criminal.

Green tea11/13/22 10:38 Tea perfume with tea with tea floraiku perfume "the moon and i" A story between the flower of the night and the moon A tea perfume in the sense of the word as if you smell a box of tea and papers The Moon and I - Chris's Fragrance Essay Chris read haiku content on the official website, “In this dreamy world, the moon solo, I think of the flowers that bloomed last night.” The moon is like a dream to me. The moon shines in my heart, the body is a little happy, and the well reflects the moon. I’m lonely Eventually it turned out to be empty. Haha~ That's why the fragrance suddenly showed a sense of nothingness and emptiness. When I drink this cup of tea I can rest. (This fragrance is very philosophical, Chris only smelled for 15 minutes, I recommend friends to measure it!) The performance of the perfume is magical 🧙 that does not last long and disappears suddenly The smell is picked up from 1-3 hours A philosophical perfume and an art painting as opposed to being a perfume used.

Heartbreaker: gorgeous, authentic, botanical tea that barely projects and doesn't survive much past 2-3h on my skin. One of the most startlingly true-to-life sense impressions of tea I've ever smelled, tea in its essence, just as realistic as the tea notes in, say, OJ Qi or Mona di Orio Bohea Boheme. In other words, truly great great tea - almost as good as the tea note in Memo Winter Palace, which would make sense as Floraiku is one of Memo's alternate brands I believe. Price shockingly high, sillage severely limited, longevity sickeningly short for the $$$. Still a stunningly original, classy, restrained sense impression and so discreet and unisex it could be worn anywhere by anyone. All is calm, tranquility, refinement. If you can afford it, the presentation is hugely classy and restrained, just like the scent itself. But why can't they just brew it a little stronger so its restorative healing properties can be felt for longer? An enchanting infusion, but a fatally weak one.

Ahhhh finally! I've been on the search for great tea perfume especially black tea or matcha, but not green tea especially like Elizabeth Arden Green Tea been smelling it for years got sick of it (sorry EA). So I bought the 10ml one, and this is how I think tea fragrance is. The fragrant smell of fresh steeped tea with enough bitterness. Other tea fragrances I found most of the time sweet floral with just a hint of tea, or even non-existent. Love it, but I do agree with other reviews that this doesn't last long only 3-5 hours and that's unfortunate quality for fragrance under MAMO. Thus $55 tax excluded for 10ml and full size cost around $300 for 60ml (set) is quite expensive. I'll see if this worth every penny or not. I just use it maybe 5-6 spray this week, as far as it goes other than longetivity I don't have any drawback yet.

This is a soothing tea bomb. The mate is very prominent, herbal and bitter but aromatic. A bit minty, but a dry mint, like dry crumbling leaves. Then it became a bit sweet on my skin, a bit creamy and green, but not the fresh type of green. Feels like you're in a Japanese natural hot tub (Onsen) in the middle of a pine forest, drinking a cup of warm tea. The dry is a soft woody scent, tea and I also got cardamom and tobacco notes here. Like a fresh tobacco, a bit sweet & green and a very subtle smoky scent. But it's very very weak on my skin, it probably last only for an hour then it's gone, completely gone. But it's still very good for bed time.

If this perfume weren't so ludicrously expensive, I would happily wear it every day during the winter. It feels so cozy. I had a sample vial and used it to completion within a week. It lasted a surprisingly long while on me (12 hours or more). I couldn't stop smelling my wrists. It smells just like actual matcha powder does, with the slightest hint of vanilla, but not in a sweet way. It's earthy. I still think about it a year later. I want so badly to have a bottle of this, but my god, I could probably buy liquid gold cheaper per ounce than this perfume

I have a lot fragrances. I like to think I'm a connoisseur. Different fragrances call for different moods and I believe I understand the nuances of it all. This fragrance is incredible. You certainly have to love hot tea; and I do. I drink it every day. There is nothing like drinking a fresh cup of hot Japanese tea. That is what you get when you put on this fragrance. It's pure. Elegant. Traditional. Japan.

perfectly captures the green, slightly bitter (but not unpleasant) smell of tea. has a meditative element to it - like the tranquility of a rainy summer morning, warm enough to leave the windows open to hear it pour. never really got why/how people wear fragrances to bed until I smelled this. super calming, but super weak - good for at home but probably not for wearing out

Super herbal and aromatic! Very realistic and a bit sharp on my skin. It does dry down luxuriously, with spice lingering. However, the scent is very light and fleeting due to the notes they used. It lasted around 3-4 hours before completely dissipating on my skin. Works wonderfully as a layering fragrance.

Photorealistic mate, like they distilled the scraped dregs of the bottom of a damp mate gourd. I can even hallucinate some vague metallic bombilla aftertaste with this if I'm particularly bored. Ephemeral and exploitative of my nostalgia for the years my parents lived in Buenos Aires.

This is beautifully earthy and rustic, a calm and quiet kind of scent for a shy, bookish person. Unlike anything I've tried as a perfume and I'd love nothing more than to smell strongly like tea all day. That said, the price/volume/lasting power make this one quite a delicacy.

A FANTASTIC tea fragrance, unbelievably realistic and practically tasty. Sweet, black tea. Beautiful. Really truely if this wasn't $300 USD I would buy it immediately. 9/10

Imagine Drinking a Good Cup of Tea, Fast - Incredibly realistic bittersweet tea note - Nice bitter/sweet balance - Amazing drydown - Relatively linear - Absolutely unisex

To me, this smells like brewing Lapsang Souchong tea over an open fire. So warm and nice and comforting. I love it! Would really love to own a full bottle.

Perfume with tea notes, wood, very fresh, the smell of a forester! A real masculine scent, if you like to smell natural and natural, I advise

One of the fragrances I had once been unfair to; so I’m revisiting it now. The scent is a clear trio of matcha, mate, and bergamot. Its earthy and tea-like character comes through vividly. It’s also quite woody, but not in a soft way; more like sharp, slightly smoky cedar or guaiac wood. What I enjoy most here is the mate: its smoky, tobacco-like, black-tea nuance is beautiful. The matcha adds a fresh, uplifting, and slightly sweet counterpoint. In short, it’s a solid tea fragrance. Longevity is modest and it clings closely to the skin, which is why, despite my love for tea, it’s always lingered somewhere in the background of my sample collection. Tag(s): matcha, mate, realistic tea, earthy, smoky

I 100% agree with some of the reviews below (especially @bintTapputi and @katariina9). This is a tasty sweet black tea + a tiny hint of citrus scent (with the mate taking a prominent role, and an almost oolong note behind it), and if it wasn't so crazy expensive, I would like to have it too. I get nearly three hours longevity from it, with enough projection that I can smell it on myself, and I would definitely wear this to work. While it's not my favourite scent from the discovery set, it's very unique, and worth getting your nose on if you are a drinker of fancy tea, because it does smell of quality loose-leaf tea.

This is well of a tea-focused fragrance. I find it mostly oolang and mate, you can feel the dustiness of these tea sorts. It has some slight smokiness aspect to it as well, very gentle and present only in the opening. However, it has almost zero Power, gone after 2 hours and veeeeery soft sillage. It would be perfect for workplaces, where you are not allowed to wear perfume. Or in hot-hot summer. Since I don't have netither of these two condition, it is not for me. Well, I like the scent of my tea in a jar, not all over me. Definitely sample first.

This scent to me is a well-crafted fragrance that reminds me of a Japanese traditional house. While the first whiff gives you a soft tea scent, the notes that follow shortly after and lasts smell like bamboo to me. So overall, I like it very much as a scent and an experience. It’s nostalgic. However, honestly speaking, I’m not sure it’s something I’d want to smell on myself all day. I wouldn’t mind smelling it on someone else though.

As a scent it's lovely, very realistic black loose tea and I love it. But as perfume it's a no from me. First of all I love the scent of tea, but do I want to smell like a tea shop? No. Also I put this on 1 hour ago and then did my hair with a mildly scented products and the subtle smell of those totally overpowered this and it's gone.

A lovely tea scent. After the initial spray dried down it smells purely like Earl Grey tea. It's a very mild, intimate scent and it does not last more than a hour or two, as other people have stated. This would be the perfect scent for me if it lasted longer. For it's price point I would definitely not buy a full bottle.

Very unique tea scent, almost bitter, definitely earthy. I imagine would be beautiful when layered with a more sweet or vanilla perfume, or maybe over a very simple vanilla body lotion. Smells like photorealistic mate/black tea in dry form.

A refreshing glass of iced, green tea packaged in a beautiful perfume bottle that lasts as long as a cold bevarage on a hot summer day. Sad but very pretty nonetheless.

Beautiful clean accord of matcha tea with relaxing mate and a touch of fresh cedar. EMBARRASSING PERFORMANCE. Nice package.

Actually smells like green tea. A little citrusy but not too much. Smells like cold brewed green tea I used to make.

This scent is perfect for work, spring, and summer. It has very strong tea notes, smells most like white tea to me.

A nice and soft fragrance with a short sillage and a weak lasting power.

Very nice subdued fragrance from Floraïku. Nice accords of tea and matcha, with a subtil hint of woody cedar floating around somewhere. Feels almost soapy in the opening, but sets rapidly in a nice tea/cedar scent that does not feel heavy at all. Very nice, would be a great inoffensive everyday wear or office scent if it was not for the outrageous price point combined with an overly poor longevity (maximum one hour, and I am being generous). So while I like this a lot, and it is a quality scent (thought not very complex in its evolution), the price is way too high to justify buying a full bottle.

This has a very interesting, spicy green opening, but the initial complexity doesn't last on me. The mate is immediately obvious and quite powerful at first. It slightly reminds me of Diptique's Tam Dao, because of the non-warm, green spiciness. This fragrance comes on strong but fades quite a bit, very quickly on me. The mate is so overpowering that the tea and cedar notes are lost to me. Don't purchase a decant if you want to try this - literally just take a good, deep whiff of the ground mate in your spice cupboard - there's no difference.

Dear Lord, calling this a bad perfume would be a travesty But I cannot recommend it in good faith knowing it smells exactly like Imperial from Granado I don't know if Imperial is a dupe of this one, but for half the price it might as well not be even considered for discussion (and this on europe, if you are in Brazil, just blind buy it) Average longevity and skin scent: clean and greeny, mostly clean I like it a lot too, but again, done similar for half the price (the bottle is not as cool if you care about that)

Overall very underwhelming. The opening is quite interesting, it's a very odd woody note, one that I swear I'm familiar with but at the same time can't put my finger on. It's a bit... powdery, or rubbery. Probably the mate. It settles down to a somewhat calm, pleasing scent pretty quickly, but the 2 times I've worn it so far, it is completely gone in 2-3 hours, not even a skin scent by then, just 100% gone.

Imagine waking up after a night of camping outside with the moon and stars above, it's rained and the fire from the night before is out, a lingering smokey wood fills the air around the fire but as you walk away to drink your morning tea it vanishes. This is the Moon and I. It's pleasant but not worth the money. Low in sillage and longevity.

The Moon and I blend of Mate tea, (not Matcha as stated below in comments – these are different types of tea) and sweet notes. One of the major drawbacks of this perfume is its longevity, as it barely lasted 30 minutes on my skin. This short duration was disappointing, especially considering the price point of the product.

Realistic calming tea fragrance but don’t know if it’s doing anything special for that price. The opening is the most herbal part of it and becomes sweet tea dominant and is balanced just right being smooth and relaxing but all happens throughout an hour and then disappears after the second.

A realistic tea scent, hence this perfume also feels therapeutic. Not quite my style and my bank account agrees. Sub par performance on my skin, but that happens often. If tea is your jam, and you’ve got Benjamin’s to spare, this might work for you.

A lovely, soothing green tea/mate scent. I don't really like green tea but if I did I think I'd wear it all the time. Out of the sample set, this isn't going to be my pick but I'd understand if it was for other people.

This smells like dry tea leaves, straight up. You could get a similar experience by putting your face in a tin of loose leaf assam. That isn’t a bad thing necessarily but it doesn’t feel super wearable.

Sharp floral greenery. Sniff this stuff too long and it’ll send you to the moon 🌚 Spiked tea. Objectively 🙂 but I lowered my rating for the high end price and low end performance.

The Moon and I provides a lovely scent of black tea. As a tea drinker, I want to love it. But the price point is absurd, and it only lasts around four to five hours at best.

It is an authentic matcha scent. The mate stands out in the opening but soon fade into the background. It is a light, airy and comforting scent.

Extremely realistic mate/tea. A little dirty feeling. Cannot top my holy grail tea fragrance of Dear Polly by Vilhelm.

Tea vibe with a bit of matcha undertone, I don't think it's worth the price, and the performance is kind of a joke.

This is very subtle and relaxing. Like a spa scent. This is all about tea and here it is aromatic and fresh spiced.

I had really high hopes with this one. The green tea note in it is really realistic in a way I don't know if I like? It's not bad, but it's green grass green tea, not matcha green tea. But what absolutely kills this for me is whatever is unlisted in their house base. It rapidly turns into overpowering perfumed face cream with the grass note cutting through. I'm strongly reminded of old Lancome moisturizers. I can see why the right person would absolutely love it. It gives me the impression of a woman who does yoga in a modernist studio and wears a fancy niche yoga clothing brand that isn't Alo or Lulu.

This flat out smells like the dried Mate tea that I've got somewhere in my kitchen, which is a nice impression but makes for a dull fragrance. There's possibly a hint of wood very far in the background. Longevity barely describes it, it's hard to find anything right after spraying and it goes downhill from there. I've sprayed four times, different body parts, and there's not even a trace hint of anything in my nose half an hour later. This is just insulting.

I think this kind of perfume really depends on the body chemicals and how it react might differ from one person to another. Notes are: Mate Absolute Matcha Tea Cedar Oil The tea is the most dominant and the perfume overall is soft and only lasted on my skin for 2 hours! Aiming to smell like a walking Tea Bag? This is for you.

Wanted to love this as I am a cold scents lover but I founf it a bit too photorealistic tea bag.

Smells like a spilt bubble tea in a freshly bought car

Inspired by the O-Tsukimi ritual (celebration of the first full moon of autumn, at the end of September) on a night still warm, where people gather to make music and have a drink. A Japanese ritual during which people gift each other tsukimi dango (sticky rice balls) and moon-shaped Matcha mochi. A nighttime stroll by lantern light, where they contemplate the moon together... Main Notes: Matcha, Mate, Cedar Subtle Notes: Musk, Gaiac, Flouve (Sweet Vernal Grass from their website) Nonexistent Notes: Seaweed, Bergamot "The Moon And I" is a jade cup, the scent of Matcha suspended in the air, herbaceous and earthy, but above all natural. It is the majestic discretion of a shared silence, a train leaving the station silently. The Matcha here, soft, powdery and meditative, is the opposite of Maison Margiela's (bold and sweet, with white chocolate). But it's not bitter either, it's a ceremony. A tea of introspection. It smells almost of paper, of traditional shoji screens, of your ex's skin. A short and intimate trail, like a whispered "I love you," the echo of the words we think about after a breakup. Slightly musky and woody, and will coat your skin with the lunar halo of Earth's satellite...

On paper, it's tannic and bitter. On skin, it's delicately sweet and refreshing. I was expecting to be more green from the mate, but for me, it's a pitch perfect photorealistic black tea scent. My friends said it smelled like Earl Grey: a rejuvenating hit of bergamot freshness with the delicate yet complex black tea notes. Hands down the most photorealistic tea scent I've smelled. Many people are probably going to compare this to Elizabeth Arden's Green Tea, and while that fragrance is okay, I've always struggled with how "fake" it smells. I struggle to discern the tea notes amongst the haze of chemical smells that pull through in Green Tea. This, on the other hand, is tea, tea, and tea from start to finish. I respect a fragrance that commits to a simple scent story and executes it perfectly, and this fragrance absolutely hits the tea.