Pu'er Tea

Pu'Er Tea is an Aromatic Earthy Woody fragrance with an aromatic, green and subtle floral tone at the opening that leads to an earthy, more solid and very slightly bitter herbaceous heart that softens to a woody, slightly smoky and earthy base. Instead of recreating a straight forward Pu'Er Tea scent, One Day Perfume Pu'Er Tea presented how the freshly plugged tea leaves evolved (aged) from the green, aromatic, somewhat herbaceous and floral bitter raw stage to a dark, earthy, smoky and woody matured stage. "Puer is ripe time. From raw to ripe, green to carmine. In an old room served tea in purple boccaro clay on a wooden tray, at 80 degrees. Boiled water streams a crimson river from an altitude and settles a lake in the cup. Tea and walls fermented and tinted by the years, aged red and brown. The air travels through houses and highlands, and takes nostalgia back between the compressed leaves. Traces of people moving and leaving, become a wind that dries the tea. Then it rains. The color diffuses and unifies again in red, the water that runs through it becomes denser in time. Brew and pour the aged water anti-clockwise, breathe the moment, reverse time. Remember when the tea was new, when we still wrote letters, when it tasted fresh, bitter and left a sweet aftertaste." ~ from One Day Perfume

Many people mistaken One Day's Pu'Er Tea as a straight forward Pu'Er Tea scent and expected it to smell like the dark colour rich flavoured Pu'Er Tea they are used to. However, One Day's Pu'Er Tea is an interpretation of how the tea develops from when the tea leaves were freshly plugged while it smelled fresh, green and slightly bitter and how the scent of the tea leaves changed during fermentation and the aging process till the tea colour finally turned to Carmine red at the tea house. One Day's Pu'Er Tea is a true artistic interpretation of the journey of the tea leaves and the charm of Pu'Er Tea.

I’m a huge tea drinker, but puehr is a tea I have almost no experience with. The one tea whose smell is wholly unfamiliar to me. So I can’t say if this is the literal scent of puehr in the way that his other tea creations are. What I will say is that I smell some beautiful, smooth, green cypress, a black tea type of scent, vetiver and more musk than the other 3 perfumes in this series. I was surprised that this one is fairly light on my skin, compared to Oolong and Jasmine Tea, which are almost beastly in comparison. I really love Pu’er though and reach for it often.

The woodiest form the tea series While this isn’t a true puer smell it’s a pretty realistic dark green/oolong type scent! Fresh green and dark / Smokey throughout and eventually dries down into a kind of powdery herbalness and damp tea accord.. I can see this being worn year round and being the most versatile out of the series! Need this along with Oolong in my collection!

At first, I wasn't a huge fan. This scent really grew on me. I don't get much tea from this-- what comes through is almost medicinal, full of dried herbs in an old wooden shop. Certainly a unisex fragrance. There's not much sweetness, but the scent is gentle, warm, comforting. I think the cedar and incense are strongest here.