1900 L'Heure De Proust

As a person who drinks tea every day and LOVES tea fragrances, I’m very obsessed with this one!! It opens with sweet, slowly simmered blueberry compote, paired with Earl Grey tea infused with juicy pomelo. On the initial spray, I noticed a kind of steam surrounding the aroma, not from the tea itself but from the air around it. The tea feels lukewarm, but it's something to reach for after a warm bath or on a hot summer day in the shade to cool down. It feels quite quenching, so I especially love spraying this after my long bath. As it settles, the tea gets faintly smoky and the blueberry starts to take on a slight caramelized quality. After about 1h however, the tea slips into the background. Like eating the fruit topping of a blueberry tart while sipping the very last bit of tea left in your cup. The drydown feels like the blueberry is cooked down further and sweeter, turning into something more like blueberry candies. The sillage stays just under arm's length with 1-2 sprays, and when I applied it after a shower, I was able to catch a trace of it overnight (8+ hours), but I’d say the main body of the scent usually lasts around 5-6 hours on my skin. What I love most about this perfume is how it has multiple facets, moving from tea to dessert to sweet treats. Definitely getting another bottle once this one runs out! :)

What a clever perfume. When I first smelled this as a sample, without looking at the notes, I straight away thought of a fruit punch with lots of passionfruit and I absolutely loved it. It spoke of thirst quenching and refreshment so I purchased the full bottle. It is so interesting to discover the listed notes, would not have guessed at the outset. Sure, you can read the note, sniff the perfume and identify the little bits and pieces, much more evident in the heart. But it will always be my initial impression, my summertime quencher. I have shared this scent with other perfume lovers and they are all impressed and enjoy it. Final comments... I love these bottles, I love how the text is on and around the lid - very smart considering that our usual perspective of selecting our perfumes is from above. Also the texture and facets on the body give it that luxury aspect.

This is a delicious tea party of a fragrance, with blueberry and juicy citrus and tea dominating, backed up by notes of sweet praline and vanilla. (In Swann's Way the narrator actually dips his madeleine in a lime-scented tisane to trigger his reclamation of the past, but the popular imagination has long since insisted that he dips it instead in tea.) It smells like a delicious lemon-blueberry scone or muffin dipped in tea. I've never put my nose on any other fragrance like this before, and it's pretty heavenly. If you can afford it, it would make for a real treat, as much as I usually do not care for gourmand fragrances. It winningly evokes the past without seeming old-fashioned.

I must correct my former review a bit: I absolutely love this fragrance. The citrus and blueberries, the slightly bitter herbal and smoky note of tea, the vanilla that is not too sweet and the woody base. When testing it for the first time it didn’t seem to last a long time, but I recently wore it to work on a hot day and it performed very well. I could smell it all day (and others too, given the many compliments I got), and it was just so fresh, well balanced and relaxing. I ordered a whole bottle today.

Absolutely love this unique fragrance! It smells like a forest fruit sparkling water. Very fizzy and fruity. You can definately smell the blueberry/grapefruit, the tea and also the woods. 9/10, the only thing that doesn't make it a 10 is bcs of the leather/wood notes. I adore Stricnina by V Canto, so I have no problem with the wood/unisex types of fragrances. I just think it's slightly too heavy in this one, which makes it more unisex than femenine. Will still wear it cuz it's so unique ♡