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茶马, the tea-horse road. For a thousand years, compressed tea travelled by caravan from Yunnan and Sichuan across high passes into Tibet. The routes were not single paths but a living network, through forests, along rivers, over mountains where the air thinned and the light changed. The stone underfoot, worn by hooves and decades of passage, took on the smoothness of jade.

Jade of Chama is built from that altitude. Seven roses, among them Indian red and pink, open into black tea and green tea, clean and almost alpine in character. Osmanthus brings a quiet, apricot-edged warmth. Himalayan cedarwood holds the base: dry, resinous, mountain wood rather than perfumed sweetness. In the drydown the cedarwood pulls the composition rounded and grounded.

The effect is not floral in any conventional sense. It is tea served at elevation, calm, bright, slightly cool, with the roses dissolved into it rather than standing apart. A fragrance of stillness and passage.

Acacia, 7 Roses, Saffron, Rosewood, White Lotus, Rose Oud Co-distill, Rose Honey Co-distill, Cedar Wood, Green Tea, Black Tea, Osmanthus, Nanmu Wood, Bai Zhi, Chuan Xiong, Hainan Oud, Tangerine Peels, Honeysuckle, Chamomile, Helichrysum, Red Rose, Pink Rose, Taifi Rose, Bulgarian Rose, Omani Rose, French Rose

Extrait de Parfum. 25% concentration. 30ml.