Osmanthus Oolong Providence Perfume for women

Who, here, loves rainy days? Raise your hand! The too-often bemoaned, rainy day, with its grey, introspective moodiness, was one of the things I loved and looked forward to as a child. They offered, both, an opportunity for cozy, imaginative contemplation and a true feeling of being "in the present" -- a sensual awareness. Everything glows in technicolor on a rainy day, wet and inky and crisp. There's an intensity and immediacy to experience -- run or succumb, melodramatically, to the raindrops! -- but what I loved most, besides playing with umbrellas and sploshing in puddles, was quietly walking in the woods behind my house, listening to the musical trickle of water on trees; to smell the rich, resinous sweetness of soaked, fallen leaves and damp pine needles, matted with moss, like an intricately woven carpet on the woods floor.

"Osmanthus Oolong" opens on a polished, watery peach- nectar note, that quickly enters into the wet-dry territory of tea. A sweet, dark woodsiness -- wet and liquored ever so slightly mossy -- emerges, like a fallen bough soaking under a quiet trickle. The tea note mixes with an astringent, oily osmanthus. With its lily-like elegance, it offers a cozy warmth, a kind of quiet room with a crackling fire as refuge from a dark storm; puffs of steam rising from a mug of dark, rich, oolong tea with a dash of honey and sake. The slightly animalic/lanolin smell of a hot cashmere, or a silk sweater or shirt, is warming by the fire.

This wet, charcoal beauty is like a sweeter version of "Mitsouko" (with that fascinating, oily-peach combo) mixed with a hint of Patou's "1000" (must be the shared osmanthus). But "Osmanthus Oolong" is wetter and sweeter than "Mitsouko" and the osmanthus never comes across as potpurri-like as it does in "1000".

The peach-osmanthus combo is fresh and sweet in "Osmanthus Oolong" and despite my initial impression of this being purely a dark woods, brooding scent -- too operatic for casual loafing -- its rainy, quiet aesthetic and steamy tea notes are quite dependably cozy and I've found myself wearing this sample to bed on multiple occasions.

It's a must-try for intellectual introverts or those who love deep thought and intense debate and anyone who loves true orientals, with their woody, bittersweet undertones. I hink it's stunning. Another great all-natural blend from "Providence Perfume Co."

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I was expecting something rather delicate, maybe because of the tea note, but this is quite dark and boozy. I guess the color of the perfume should have been a clue as to how intense this composition really is.

The fruit very much has a fermented quality which is complimented by the smoky apricot nuances of the osmanthus flower. Jasmine is fairly prominent, rich and beautiful but takes a while to surface above the booziness. I've read that aglaia flower smells like sweet, floral lemon rind before being cut and I detect a little hint of that here (or it could be the citrus and floral accord).

The culmination becomes smoother and somewhat intoxicating but without much of the oolong present. You really have to give this one quite some time on your skin for it to bloom to its full magnificence.

A rather indulgent floral fruit liquor with a deep, rustic and tenacious quality.