Indigo Smoke
Regular price
£195.00
Format
Evoking the traditional smoking of tea leaves in ancient China, Indigo Smoke is an aromatic landscape of narrow serpentine rivers, blue mountains and incense-filled temples condensed into a complex formula of black tea, woody notes and incense. Rich, realistic and long-lasting. With notes of lapsang souchong tea, mandarin orange, apricot, guaiac wood, incense and pine tar.
May 1646, Wuyi Mountains, Fujian.
For centuries, diligent monks in the Wuyi Mountains have grown tea and indigo plants in neatly terraced plantations. In 1646, their monasteries were attacked by Qing soldiers from the north. As the monks were forced to flee, they smoked batches of tea leaves over pinewood fire to preserve their crops. This would become the smoky lapsang souchong tea. Mixing with the fresh mountain air and the incense from nearby shrines, the intoxicating plumes of indigo smoke captured the colors of the Wuyi Mountains and their dramatic river narrows.
Developed with Calice Becker.
Top Notes
Bergamot
Bigarade orange oil
Lapsang souchong accord
Vetiver
Heart Notes
Apricot accord
Cassia oil
Carrot seed oil
Gaiac wood
Vanilla absolute
Base Notes
Maté tea absolute
Cedar leaf oil
Pine tar
Incense
We offer free shipping on orders over £50. Estimated delivery time of 2–4 days.
Regular price
£195.00
Format
Evoking the traditional smoking of tea leaves in ancient China, Indigo Smoke is an aromatic landscape of narrow serpentine rivers, blue mountains and incense-filled temples condensed into a complex formula of black tea, woody notes and incense. Rich, realistic and long-lasting. With notes of lapsang souchong tea, mandarin orange, apricot, guaiac wood, incense and pine tar.
May 1646, Wuyi Mountains, Fujian.
For centuries, diligent monks in the Wuyi Mountains have grown tea and indigo plants in neatly terraced plantations. In 1646, their monasteries were attacked by Qing soldiers from the north. As the monks were forced to flee, they smoked batches of tea leaves over pinewood fire to preserve their crops. This would become the smoky lapsang souchong tea. Mixing with the fresh mountain air and the incense from nearby shrines, the intoxicating plumes of indigo smoke captured the colors of the Wuyi Mountains and their dramatic river narrows.
Developed with Calice Becker.
Top Notes
Bergamot
Bigarade orange oil
Lapsang souchong accord
Vetiver
Heart Notes
Apricot accord
Cassia oil
Carrot seed oil
Gaiac wood
Vanilla absolute
Base Notes
Maté tea absolute
Cedar leaf oil
Pine tar
Incense
We offer free shipping on orders over £50. Estimated delivery time of 2–4 days.
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