Chemical Bonding

I found this scent cozy, yet bright and cheerful. It reminds me somewhat of Elizabeth Arden’s Green Tea, but with more prominent citrus notes and a hint of powder in the dry down. It’s perfect for gloomy transitional weather.

Nice orange lemon and tea up front. As the Orange fades you get a hint at some light floral notes while the white musk sits in the back waiting for dry down. If you want to smell classy and different, this is a good one. I don't sense anything that smells "fuzzy" or like "drug store green tea", but I guess we all detect some different things when it comes to olfactory. Longevity seems good most days but not every day. I have a nice size sample direct from Ineke's website.

Chemical Bonding is perfect summer scent and very delicious as well as. Unlike many comment about this perfume, I found it very uplifting and pleasure to wear. I wore Elizabet Arden's Green Tea time to time but this is better in my opion. Yes not very natural but one of the best one if you like body mist or light perfume for hot summer days.

Ineke Chemical Bonding opens with a soapy blast, which is not unlike the opening of After My Own Heart from the same house. The tea and citrus is overshadowed on me by the soapy note and a clean white musk for quite some time. It's not until after 4 hours that the tea and citrus finally get to shine. The interpretation of tea in Chemical Bonding kind of reminds me of Atelier Cologne Oolang Infini, as both showcase slightly sweet, slightly smoky and tannic black tea in a fresh way. However, on me, Chemical Bonding seems much less realistic than Oolang Infini, and the reminants of clean white musk and soapy notes certainly don't help in this regard. Moreover, the citrus is more evident and more tart in Chemical Bonding, which unfortunately makes the tea feel kind of stale. The sillage is moderate to soft and the longevity is around 9 hours. Because of the overwhelming soapy note and the extremely clean white musk, Cheical Bonding is unfortunately not my cup of tea. For a natural and realistic fresh tea fragrances, I think there are other more intereting choices around the same price range.

It’s a cute name, but doesn’t seem relevant to the perfume. Initially this is an extremely strong citrus scent with a background that smells like a typical “men’s cologne” made with lavender. However, there is so much lemon that it pretty much overpowers everything else, making the overall impression that of a harsh, cleaning-product odor. Within a half hour it has developed a fuzzy, scratchy drugstore green tea note, the one that makes me sneeze. I really couldn’t take it once this super-strong and irritating note developed, so ended up scrubbing - and scrubbing - and scrubbing. Even after scrubbing with alcohol and acetone I still smell it. On second thought, maybe the name is apt, indicating that it bonds permanently to skin. Definitely not for me.