Dead Leaves, Green Tea, and Tahitian Ginger

[doomsday_disco]

Every leaf tells a story.

[bheansidhe]

A gentle offering; a grassy-sweet, realistic green tea beautifully wedded to a dewy white ginger blossom. Here, the role of dead leaves is played by fermented black jasmine tea, merely added to the fresher notes to give them depth and cradle them like a cup. A lovely autumn Shunga offering a breath, a pause, and a palate cleanser to balance the heady excesses of the season. 

Edited November 3 by bheansidhe

[Saeva]

I have to agree with bheansidhe here. The main show is in the green tea, covering both the dead leaves and the white ginger-y notes pretty much effectively. You can get a hint of more, but it plays out as mostly green tea on the skin from touch down to last note. 

[LavenderCoffee]

lots of green tea! which almost creates the impression of a pile of dead leaves and green leaves. I was not able to find much of the ginger, but it's a lovely scent regardless.

[Poenari]

This is a lovely addition to my dead leaves collection because it is very different from my others. I don't typically go for Shungas or tea scents, but this one really works. The scent is green from the tea leaves, and not like the autumnal dead leaves I love. The ginger lends just a hint of spice, yet this is not a spicy blend.  I would love to drink this tea! (Note: do not drink your bpal.)

[leptonpyr]

Like others have already noted, this is mainly about the green tea on me. As I'm finding is usually the case with most dead leaves blends I've tried, this one goes on EXTREMELY green, big flare-up and subsequent die-down of dead leaves, and then the tea scent blooms and really takes center stage. I think BPAL's green tea note is softer than their black or white tea. I was looking *hard* for ginger, for spice or something citric, I *may* have picked up on something a little citric, but that also may have just been the tea. I'm really not sure I ever got ginger.

 

This wears very close to the skin and has pretty short longevity, it was mostly gone after about 4-5hrs in. If I pressed my nose right up against my skin, I swear what's left of the scent is an unlisted white musk note. This is a light, pretty, calming blend, but ultimately I'm not sure if I need a slightly greener version of Embalming Fluid. I like green scents and I like Embalming Fluid, but I can't see myself reaching for this one when I have so many much more interesting blends to wear.

Edited Tuesday at 04:27 PM by leptonpyr