Seajewel Report post Posted April 25 A new year’s blessing! Peony, China’s national flower, with bamboo for flexibility, plum blossom for perseverance, courage, and hope, tangerine for wealth, Calamondin orange for happiness, lychee for household peace, pine resin for constancy, golden kumquat for prosperity, King mandarin for good fortune, cypress for longevity, sticky rice cakes for abundance and hopes for a rich, sweet life, and a splash of blazing red of dragon’s blood to help you scare away the rampaging Nian. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ShadowEtienne Report post Posted May 6 I am in general a bit obsessed with the Lunar New Year scents, so I ordered 2 bottles of this on release. I'm very glad I did! Like all of the Lunar New Year scents this is reminiscent of the lacquer trays of dried and candied fruits my foster family would put out for Lunar New Year. This is definitely one of the strongly citrus leaning Lunar New Year scents with some beautiful bright orange notes. The floral and resinous elements are in the background but do provide balance and keep it from going too sweetly fruity. I really enjoy the sticky rice cakes note. It's quiet but present, like there's a fresh tray of Nian Gao out of the steamer, but I've not actually gotten one yet, just getting the waft of them across the room. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ScarletGryphon Report post Posted May 8 The bamboo and floral notes in this amp on me in a wonderful way. It's a lovely scent without being in your face with the fruits and the florals. The hint of sticky rice in the background lends it an almost earthy note which I adore. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Little Bird Report post Posted May 26 I like how all of the Lunar New Year scents smell similar, but there are subtle differences along the line of them. Water Rabbit is sweeter than many of the others and has a juicier, happy, sweet fruitiness, and it doesn't come off as soapy as many of the other Lunar New Year blends have on my skin. This one is juicy, shimmering, orange jellies, tropical lychee juice, a hint of watery green from the bamboo, and a little bit of warmth, intrigue, and red glow from the dragon's blood incense. Very pretty, playful, and cheerful. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
crystaltongue Report post Posted May 30 Ohhhh, I love this one. It is quite obviously a Lunar New Years scent, with all the notes that entails, but the sticky rice cake lends it a gentle sweetness that really rounds it out. Less fruity than, say, Wooden Goat, but still plenty of fruit to go around. A fine celebration of the year! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
doomsday_disco Report post Posted Thursday at 09:40 PM This was such a nice orange scent at first, but it didn't take long for my skin chemistry to turn this into soap. I weep tears of orange juice and drink them as they fall. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
