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Cardamom tea, orange peel, mate, oakmoss, tonka bean, sweet cedar, and costus.

 

This has cardamom in it, so I needed to try it.

 

Wet: Wow! Interesting. I smell the cardamom for sure. Some orange and cedar. Something sharply floral too, the costus I guess. The sharpness is fading, and the tea is coming forward.

 

Dry: Lightly floral, citrusy cardamom tea. A beautiful combo. Different than other tea scents I have. It's also rare I get to wear anything orangey - orange is super iffy on me, but I have noticed that often when it does work is when it's listed as zest, peel, or rind. This will be beautiful in warmer months, a really lovely scent. I'll admit the drydown doesn't make me go "wow!" the way it does when wet, but I like it enough to keep my bottle.

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Cardamom and orange peel/mate combo hit me right in the nose. Quite a strong pair. It's an intense perfumey smell bordering on high-end potpuri. I think this beast will shine in rainy weather.

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The dominant note for me in Southern Cloudywing is mate.  This may be the first BPAL I've tried with this note, and it's quite realistic.  As it dries down I get orange zest and tonka but I'm not getting much cardamom and my skin tends to devour the tea note.  It really seems to be a mate blend.  Interesting but not quite my thing.  

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This is a cardamom mate tea with an herbal undernote.  It's very soothing. 

 

ETA: It reminds me of drinking my favorite coffee shop's chai mate.  If it had coconut, it would smell just like it. 

Edited by biggnerd

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Both in the bottle and on my skin, the cardamom, mate, and orange peel are working together in a way that makes me think of orange marmalade -- sweet and citrusy, but with a bitter, rind-y undertone. It softens and gets more tea-forward as it wears. Pleasant, but not the kind of thing I'd reach for often.

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