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Rose Scented from Harney & Sons
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Rose is such a love/hate scent. Most people I know and indeed most companies that produce anything with rose prefer it mild, shy, ‘this is a MODERN rose’, ’it’s not old lady-ish’, ’it’s not too overpowering’. To hell with all that. I’m a rose addict and the stronger, the better. Give me a posy, nay, a garden and I’ll be in heaven. When I heard this was quite a full-on rose tea (said in hushed, ‘I warn you’ tones), my first thought was ‘AT LONG LAST. BRING IT ON.’
This lives up to my expectations, it’s wonderfully rich and unapologetic. Fresh and heady at the same time. Oh, so good. If only I could find a perfume this brave. Thank you Jackie for such a wonderful start to the new year.

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JacquelineM
JacquelineM 2013-01-03 07:45:40 -0500

Have you ever tried Perfumer’s Workshop Tea Rose?

http://www.amazon.com/Tea-Rose-Perfumers-Workshop-Women/dp/B000C234ZY

I think of it as this tea’s perfume version! It’s so rosy (and so inexpensive!) I most like to layer it, as this essay talks about (Tea Rose is mentioned mid-way through ish) but alone it smells like a dozen roses. If I wear it alone at least two people ask me where the flowers are in the office!

P.S. Would yu like a tin of this with your next letter? :)

JacquelineM
JacquelineM 2013-01-03 07:47:01 -0500

Wait – the essay: http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/on-the-scent-adventures-in-perfume-layering/

I just woke up :)

JacquelineM
JacquelineM 2013-01-03 07:47:38 -0500

…and am typing with a cat in my lap!

Ruby Woo Scarlett
Ruby Woo Scarlett 2013-01-04 06:34:01 -0500

I’ve never heard of this perfume house, I need to check it out! That essay is so informative, thank you. Have you read Perfumes: The Guide? It’s part how-to book about how to describe scents and an ecnylopaedia with the author’s ratings on every fragrance out there. The prose alone is worth the purchase (Luca Turin writes like Dorothy Parker). And here’s a link for you : http://theperfumedcourt.com she offers decants and samples of every expensive fragrance you could think of (sadly no Perfume’s Workshop, probably because a full bottle is so affordable). Your package is on its way :)

JacquelineM
JacquelineM 2013-01-04 20:30:04 -0500

I’ll have to look that book up! You would have loved Doulton here on Steepster (she hasn’t posted in quite awhile). She is a huge perfume fan too and she once sent me a large bag of samples of top notch perfumes, many of them rosy (she shared the rose love too).

I am afraid to check out the perfumed court – quaking!! :)

Ruby Woo Scarlett
Ruby Woo Scarlett 2013-01-06 06:11:00 -0500

Oh she sounds great! I’m so tempted by the comprehensive rose sample package on The Perfumed Court.

JacquelineM
JacquelineM 2013-01-06 08:28:01 -0500

They have the Diptique and Annik Goutal scents I’ve been wanting to try for years and years. Trouble! :)

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I discovered tea about two years ago, on a stormy night somewhere between benchmark 10,000 and 10,100 when I was trying to wrap up the first chapter of my dissertation (which ended up being 40K words – ludicrous, I know). I had to do something to distract me from the obvious – I was slowly but steadily losing my soul and personality in academia. I made a cup of Twinings Earl Grey (teabag) and was surprised to find it not only tasty but comforting.
I’ve come a long way since. I don’t drink Twinings anymore (though please enjoy your cup if you do) and left academia to face The Real World armed with a mug full of loose Mariage Freres Pleine Lune tea (yay!). My whole life I’ve been surrounded with coffee drinkers (love the smell, can handle the taste but twice a year) and it took me a while indeed to figure out that all tea wasn’t born Lipton lemon and wasn’t heated up in a microwave.
I’m very new to the tea drinking world but I’m nothing if not a perpetual learner and I look forward to this new adventure on Steepster!

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