FIRST BLUSH
Black-tea steam and Turkish rose, grounded by hay, leather and oud: a floral built on the wavering of a first great love.
Petals fall one by one to loves me, loves me not, though the heart knows the answer before the last one lands. First Blush returns to a first encounter with a great love, when certainty and uncertainty arrive together.
It opens with the bright bitterness of bergamot and the steam rising from black tea just steeped in boiling water; the tea's astringency keeps the rose that follows from turning syrupy. At the heart, a Turkish rose absolute (LMR) recalls rose fields in May. Hay brings the calm sweetness of dried meadow grass, and leather with the feel of handmade hide gives the flower something solid to lean on.
Oud, guaiac wood and patchouli oil (LMR) form the base, their smoky, earthy depth giving the dense rose a steadier, quieter character.
