Jasmine Tea.

Michael Wong designed Jasmine Tea around the way jasmine flowers and tea leaves come together, their fragrance becoming inseparable through the steeping process that overnight hours make possible. The fragrance isn't built around jasmine as a perfume accord, but around jasmine as a material, the way it behaves when it meets tea. Clary sage adds an aromatic bitterness that keeps the opening grounded, preventing the composition from drifting toward softness. Oolong sits at the heart, neither sharply green nor oxidatively heavy, but occupying a middle ground that carries the creamy weight of a longer steep. The fragrance takes its name from the botanical pairing itself, which gives it a different character than the house's destination-focused storytelling.

Jasmine and clary sage arrive together rather than in sequence, each asserting itself from the first spray. The jasmine opens with a green character rather than the indolic sweetness often associated with white florals, stubborn rather than sultry. Clary sage provides an herbal, almost medicinal counterweight that gives the jasmine a different quality than it would have on its own. The combination creates a jasmine that feels like a working flower rather than a decorative one, honest and slightly astringent, the kind of opening that establishes itself without apology.

The opening arrives with herbal sharpness as clary sage asserts itself, followed by jasmine that comes in green and insistent. The two notes coexist in the early wear, creating a tension between the floral and the herbal that gives the composition its character. As time passes, the texture shifts from sharp to something softer, and the oolong emerges to reshape the composition without replacing the jasmine, which stays present as a green thread running through the tea. The drydown settles into vetiver and musk, intimate and close to the skin, the kind of base that someone standing nearby might notice rather than something announced to a room. The jasmine persists through the wear, continuing to assert itself even as the overall character changes.

Jasmine Tea occupies a particular position among tea fragrances. Where other versions of this concept lean into freshness or sweetness, this interpretation is greener and more bitter, more direct. The result is a fragrance that feels honest rather than ornamental. Wearers describe it as meditative, as capturing a specific moment rather than a general mood. For those who have found green tea fragrances predictable, this one offers something different, a different way of working with these materials that feels less familiar and more considered.