INDIGO SMOKE

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   Intro 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. Eau de Parfum History 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 sou