Lapsang Lover

I honestly was offended by the smell at first. The myrrh and resins, at least on me, were very, very prominent and almost insulting to my nose, but I do acknowledge I'm very oversensitive to perfumes; this is just a warning for future buyers. After the dry-down though, it became this sweet black tea scent with cardamon, almost like a chilled tea with ice cream. I'm genuinely all over this perfume, and I will buy more from Providence Perfume despite living in Australia with obnoxiously long waits for shipping times.

Very honey-forward dry down (on my skin). Sexy, smokey, lightly herbal, amber-tea scent. The dry down is very similar to their Shivoo, but far less rose (and no coco), same level of dark sweetness. Very long lasting. I see what people are saying about the medicinal opening, but I love that! It's resinous and earthy and complex. Reminds me a bit of this gorgeous reishi lotion I got from Niawen (an indigenous skin care company that makes great stuff).

It smells a touch medicinal when wet (the resin maybe?), but that goes away when it dries. For a scent with honey, it's not sweet at all. It smells like a cup of tea. It's wonderful.

The best way to describe this scent is that of an old fireplace. Being next to the fireplace, sipping your tea, reading an old, dusty book. On my skin, this perfume unfolds as a most gorgeous Amber Fossil accord with a prominent Lapsang tea woody-smoky aroma. I get almost zero sweetness from it, although it lists honey. You have the smoky quality from the tea note, with a characteristic woody undertone adjoined to the smokiness of the amber fossil, labdanum, and other resins used. I love Amber Resin accords in perfumery, and this one is among the best I have come across. On top of that, all-natural, using actual fossilized amber resin. Hence, you get the typical facets of leather, dustiness, dryness, and toffee-like texture. There is also a slight bitter-medicinal feel to the perfume that works well with the other accords. When I smell an amber resin-themed perfume, I want it to make me think of something old and dusty. Very few managed to pull off that imagery, this one being one of them and the most realistic at that. In a market where all the Amber perfumes are overdosed on vanillin, ambrarome, and ambroxan, with the sweetness reaching sky-high limits, compositions like this are a breath of fresh air, or should I say, old air. IG:@memory.of.scents

Calming and hypnotizing. Imagine it's what a bee experiences when they encounter smoke. I'm distracted by any existing stress as my nose follows the smoke. Medicinal bitter opening (like Po Chai pills if anyone's familiar with this Chinese herbal stomach medicine). But the development is tantalizing, soft smokey, sandal woody - hint of cocoa next to a fire pit. If you like the smell of a wood burning fireplace, chimney or like the way a bonfire smells in your hair, you'll like this. The dry down is welcoming and gorgeous - leather, rose and honey with the smoke just trailing.