Geisha O-Cha Aroma M for women

Super fresh and bright, zesty, almost fizzy. I get mostly orange with a bit of sage. And something almost minty? I think this would be really nice on a balmy summer day or evening. Dries down smoother, but still bright and fresh. It's a bit sweet, but not an unnatural syrupy sweet...just a nice fresh orange sweet.

This makes me really wish that I've smelled a fresh green tea plant. Because there's definitely something green/herby going on here in the dry-down which is not sage, but it doesn't smell like any dried tea I've ever smelled (and I'm a major tea-drinker/aficionado), so I wonder if it is fresh crushed tea-leaves.

There's also something very refreshing and cooling, kind of like how menthol is cooling and fresh (but don't worry, it doesn't actually smell like menthol haha).

When I apply this perfume oil, the first thing I smell is a strong green tea note, along with a bit of lemon and jasmine, pretty much like a bottled citrus-flavored tea drink. Arizona Iced Tea is the one that comes to mind.

Rather than a Japanese tea ceremony, O-Cha reminds me of road trips through the US Southwest, guzzling cold drinks from truck stops. As in other Aroma M oils, a lurking note of plastic shower curtain provides a backdrop for the main players. It has plenty of sillage and is long-lasting, becoming a bit more floral as it dries down, but never entirely losing the tea note.

For me, it seems too close to pure “green tea” fragrance oil, the kind used in soaps and lotions, but if you like that scent, O-Cha might appeal to you.

O-Cha is, as sofiii above already mentioned, a simple and straight-forward fragrance. I quite like the tea note in general, and alghouth O-Cha does not offer any unconventional twists on the theme, it quite fits in with my image of Japanese tea ceremony. It's quiet but remarkable. Most of my Japanese friends wear very very light perfume, and O-Cha transcribes itself into this trend- light, crisp, refreshing.

At first it's a burst of citrus- and one of the nicest citrus openings I have smelled in a while. It's followed by calm tea, and finally, by sage which gives it something that I call a 'cologne touch'. I actually think it would be very very nice on a man, since the fragrance is more unisex than feminine. EDIT: it is definitely more suitble for a man. After a while the citruses and sage become dominant, and O-Cha looses the softness it had at first.

I has not impressed me too much, but I think I might give it another go in hotter weather. Maybe it will bring out of the fragrance something more than a cold and mist did.

O-cha is really clean and refreshing in a splash-ink traditional Chinese painting way. The notes here really say less is more.

It starts with really optimistic lemonade + green tea sizzling. This reminds me a lot of those sweetened green tea drinks you can get from any Asian grocery shop. Really refreshingly comforting.

Then it gets a little bit sweeter due to the orange, and smoother. Have you ever bought a red bean stuffed, mocha/green-tea cake from a popular Asian bakery(I'm thinking about Bread Top here in Australia)? At this stage, the scent makes me feel the exact feeling when I was having the mocha cake served cold, with a touch of wipped cream on top.

The dry down comes smoothly, less the sweet orange, and the tea quality continues.

O-Cha is not offensive, simple, but still delicious. I would say it's more like a floral fruity.
If you are looking for something acient(as in mysterious, dusk, oriental), and had tea-ceremony in mind, this might disappoint you.
However, O-cha does have a modern Asia touch there, ready for daily wear, easy as finding somewhere for tea-sipping in a metropolis.