Green Tea Lychee Lime

What's interesting here is how the base keeps its promises. Green tea and black tea together create a drydown that actually smells like tea, not a tea accord doing impressions of something else. Lychee appears twice in the pyramid, which means it opens the fragrance and lingers quietly in the base, threading sweetness through the whole composition without ever becoming saccharine. It's a structural choice, not just a marketing one. The result is a fragrance that reads coherent from first spray to final fade, where most flankers feel like a collection of ingredients rather than a conversation.

The evolution

The opening is all brightness, lychee and key lime hitting together like something effervescent. The bergamot adds a brief stillness before the florals arrive. Water lily and magnolia move in around minute five, softening what came before without killing the spark. It's the difference between someone entering a room and someone settling into it. By the second hour, green tea takes over, not the sharp green of cut stems, but the smooth, slightly bitter warmth of a cup held between both hands. The lychee liqueur in the base adds a ghost of sweetness that keeps the tea from feeling austere. On most skin, expect 4-6 hours. On dry skin, it becomes intimate sooner, close projection, not a room-filler. The next morning, there's almost nothing left. A faint warmth at the wrist, maybe. That's it.