Nishane
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The litsea cubeba arrives with aggressive brightness, an almost citrus-pepper snap that makes the bergamot and yuzu feel crisp rather than creamy. Within seconds, green tea dampens this exuberance, introducing a slight dryness that makes the citrus smell fresher, more verdant than typical fragrances of this category.
The magnolia softens into focus during the second hour, adding a subtle floral creaminess that rounds the thyme's sharper edges. The green tea refuses to recede; instead it deepens, shifting from bright and grassy towards something more steeped, with fig beginning its slow emergence as a dried-fruit undertone that adds unexpected warmth.
Musk and fig assume dominion over a increasingly whisper-soft green tea, creating an almost skin-scent quality where citrus has become merely a memory. The fragrance settles into a dry, fig-forward base with herbal tea undertones—intimate rather than projective, demanding proximity to appreciate its final subtleties.
Wūlóng Chá X arrives as a conversation between East Asian tea culture and Mediterranean citrus agriculture—a fragrance that refuses to choose between its identities. Julien Rasquinet's composition opens with the sharp, almost peppery brightness of litsea cubeba cutting through bergamot and yuzu, but what sets this apart is the immediate presence of green tea in the heart, which grounds the citruses before they can spiral into typical aldehydic territory. The magnolia emerges as a creamy counterpoint, softening the thyme's herbal astringency into something almost sage-like rather than culinary.
This is fragrance for the intellectually restless—those who find standard citrus fragrances too one-dimensional, and floral scents too predictable. It's worn by people who contemplate rather than perform, who choose matcha lattes over coffee, who notice the difference between gyokuro and sencha. The green tea accord acts as a structural spine throughout, preventing the composition from fragmenting into its constituent parts. There's an almost mineral quality to how the florals sit atop the citrus base, as though you're smelling through layers of tissue paper.
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3.5/5 (125)