Oolong Tea

I want to tell everybody here a story that might be useful: 3 weeks ago i ordered a 75ml bottle online from the company that had imported them to Greece and because they have been withdrawn from the shops their price had been reduced by 70%. When it arrived it smelled exceptionally heavy, magnificent, just as i had remembered.On the same evening, i found on their site a heavy discount / offer on the 175ml bottle, for just 5€ more! So the next morning i called them to ask if i could swap, they said yes, 5 days later the new bottle arrived Unluckily, the 175ml bottle doesn"t smell the same, it seems toned down, diluted, alcoholic, fleeting.I have used it 4 days in a row and now i can see why so many people were disappointed, and why Jo Malone decided to withdraw them from the market.

I received a partial of Oolong Tea in a swap. I really enjoy it and am perplexed as to why Jo Malone discontinued this. This is super comforting and the honey is really divine; not animalic one bit. Sweet but not cloying, simple but not boring, refined but not overly pretentious. Great to wear during the fall or spring, even winter. She is very smooth, I feel like I'm dripping in the most luxurious honey concoction while wearing her. Longevity may be lacking, so I can see why it may not be worth the higher discontinued price tag. If you can somehow get this stuff at a decent price I'd highly recommend.

I love tea scents so I blind bought this perfume from Jo Malone website during the holidays. It projects well for first hour then is a skin scent for about 5 hours. On my skin it smells like sweetened tea with hint of chocolate. Love it and highly recommend it!

I have mixed feelings about Jo Malone's limited editions. On the one hand, I think they tend to take this concept a little far: by the time I sample something of theirs that I like, it's invariably discontinued, which is frustrating in any case, and all the more so if even while it is still available, the prices are as inflated as they are with this one. On the other hand, some of these scents are really very good, enough to make me forgive their precarious availability. Oolong Tea might fall into that category: like others have mentioned, it might not smell specifically like actual oolong tea, but it's really delicious nevertheless, and the combination of notes does make for a rather effective evocation of warm, fragrant, sweetened black tea in general. I usually avoid anything with tobacco in it, but it's the mellow kind that I don't mind here, and it goes together very well with the sweet hay, tonka and honey: it's a rich, borderline gourmand sort of fragrance, the grown-up kind that succeeds in finding the right balance between indulgence and elegance. So I'm very impressed, and think I could grow to love this one. The only downsides are the decidedly sub-par longevity and the exorbitant price - and combined, they're kind of a dealbreaker. Still, if an opportunity to acquire a decant ever presents itself, I don't think I'll be able to resist...

This is a very sweet gourmand fragrance; although it's tea infused, I don't smell much oolong.. The sweetness is not defined; the cocoa-honey-tonka trinity is in equilibrium and shines alongside damp hay and sweet tobacco (I eat dark chocolate and raw honey sometimes so I don't perceive them as particularly strong here, especially not more than tonka). It could be sexier, smokier, and more tea, but still stands on its own as a semi-unique gourmand.