Offering to the Moon
A woody green built on the astringency of green tea, set against moonlit offering smoke, with vetiver, cedar and damp moss.
Perfumer: Veronique Nyberg
On a clear moonlit night, smoke from a ritual offering drifts across a courtyard; the Chinese title, 月下煨桑, sets that scene. Yet the thread running through the scent is less smoke than the dry astringency of green tea.
Bergamot opens brightly, sharpened by a spark of black pepper and the cool backdrop of green leaf. Green tea then arrives alongside vetiver, dry and earthy, and clean-lined cedarwood, so the tea's bitterness meets the firmness of wood rather than any sweetness.
In the base, damp moss wraps around ambergris and a woody accord, like spent incense ash returning to the soil. It is a cool, unhurried composition built around stillness and solitude.
