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AlfonsKingTiger – :
It starts with salty, pickle-juicy blast, which fades away in 15 min, and turns into very strong, black tea, like you put nose into the ‘English breakfast’ pack.
In more 20 min spices get their’s role – I feel cardamom, clove a bit more then others, but they are blended so much, it’s quite hard to detect any specific one. I don’t feel any milk note, which many reviewers mention.
Perfume overall is dry, not a hint of sweetness, sits quite close to skin. Comparing to other spices, like Diptique L’eau, that one is really quiet.
Overall to me it does not smell like masala chai, more some mix of notes with quite impressive performance. Nice experience, but don’t think I will wear it.
Need to mention, I have dry cold skin.
oljuwka5 – :
یک رایحه عجیب، سنگین ولی فوق العاده
اینجا با همه چیز مواجهید به جز تصوری که از چای دارید
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Scent & Qualiy: 10/10
Longevity: 9/10
Sillage: 9/10
Creativity & Uniqueness: 9/10
Affordability: 2/10
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Overall: 7.8 + 0.5 = 8.2/10
Aisel – :
This is my favorite Chai scent. It has a fullness that others are missing, that element of milk and tea to make it realistic.
mini-soul – :
Very nice tea scent, an elegant rose/ cardamom sort of artisan tea, nothing tacky about it. It’s not really the kind of tea fragrance I’m after, but – very good.
gzm923speagoessenda – :
Smell like honey and wet toilet paper.
klen-n – :
Baruti Chai impresses me. Considering it has so many things in it that have the potential to overwhelm (e.g. cinnamon, pepper, leather), it never does. It could be a study on the subtle use of spice in perfumery. If Opium, Cinnabar and Jungle l’Elephant are rough, Chai is smooth and polished.
Chai is more like a suggestion of the beverage, rather than the literal beverage. This is preferable to me because as much as I adore authentic masala chai, I’d rather not smell like I bathed in it. Instead, what I get smells like strong sandalwood and something wonderfully smoky, like a singed piece of bark. The perfume is marvelously sandalwoody on me, and I am baffled that there is no mention of woods anywhere on the internet because it is perhaps more sandalwood on me than anything else (works for me!).
There is something like mint in it, but it blends beautifully with the other notes, perhaps to imbue the scent of fresh, green cardamom husks. I don’t actually detect any cardamom; one of my favorite spices to cook with, I am quite familiar with the scent. I also notice fresh ginger from time to time as well as gentle hand of Saigon cinnamon and a hint of savory black pepper.
Then there is my favorite part–one of the most perfect and gorgeous *non-vanillic* creamy accords I have ever smelled, and I can not get enough of it! It smells like a cup of warm, sweetened milk. It was at the 10-hour mark that I felt there could be any vanilla at all.
It projects well enough for my liking for hours, though never a sillage monster, heavy, or cloying. Longevity is excellent.
I don’t take this as the literal scent of chai, nor did I ever expect it to be based on the notes, which list things that I have never seen in any authetic chai recipe, much less drunk: leather, rose, musk, cocoa. It does not even read as gourmand on my skin, rather a floral-woody-musk.
In any case, Chai is a definite winner!
abisoxomon – :
Scent – sour milk, cinnamon & ginger.
Season/Time of Day – I prefer to use this one in the colder months, day or night.
Projection – I didn’t get noticed, I didn’t get a compliment.
Longevity – I get 8hrs consistently.
bublBig – :
This sparked my interest because of the ingredient list and the picture of something tasty and gourmand.
It turns out to be more Impressionistic bordering on abstract.
It starts with an explosion of the spices mentioned,
followed by a wide stripe of something waxy and transparent. The spice dissipates quickly, however remains in whispers in the background throughout the journey. Next is the gentle introduction of rose, vague, the concentration upon the lower regions of the pink Alberta Rose scent profile. In the midst of this movement there is a passing note. It is the light and dusty scent of cocoa combined with the glorious fragrance of reduced cream and the caramelized lactose thereof. The picture collapses quite quickly and remains as a light caramel, scented with rose and whisper of tannin on my skin for a couple of hours.
A very enjoyable, textured experience.
pauntewshunse – :
Opening dry and spicy. This is cardamom done well and it enhances the cinnamon lending an exotic vibe. It doesn’t hit hard like it does in kenzo L’Elephant.
The black tea tempers the spices, so you get the richness without an off putting punch. The ingredients make a whole haze of a dry spicy slightly cacao leather scent. The cocoa rose heart is a nice pairing rather than the overdone cocoa/patch combo.
I don’t have anything like this in my collection so I really like its uniqueness. I’m not sure if I’d sport this as a female as I prefer very feminine scents but a woman can wear it, but on a man it be sexy hot.
Dinya – :
*Sigh* I was sooo looking forward to a sweet, frothy chai scent here, but sadly this did not deliver. Though the elements are here, the blending is not as refined as it could be and the emphasis, for me at least, is in the wrong place.
“Chai” is extremely spicy, perhaps to a fault. Piquant and peppery, with an intense clove and soapy ginger, the initial burst is sharp and slightly overwhelming.
In the heart of the composition lies a dry, dusty rose and bitter black tea. I really wasn’t expecting the rose to be so prominent, but its medicinal aspects are only amplified by the bitterness of the tea and clove. A dark cacao note -more evident on skin- casts a muggy haze over the whole composition, dulling the elements which I had expected to sparkle, notably cardamom and cinnamon, which are sadly all too faint here.
There is a distinct lack of vanilla and I don’t detect the smooth lactonic notes that others have spoken of. Rather than smelling like the sweet, milky glass of chai I was expecting, Baruti’s interpretation smells more like a cupboard in which there are stored various boxes of spice infused teas all blended together into one indiscernible spicy fog.
On my skin, it is even more disappointing. The notes blur into a musty alcohol smell that reminds me of whiskey o_0
In my opinion, a far more realistic chai scent is “Lumiére Blanche” by Olfactive Studio, which emphasizes cardamom, anise and cinnamon on top of a light sandalwood and tonka base. Unfortunately it’s a poor performer, otherwise I would stick with that, but it seems my search for the perfect chai scent is not over.
Alex the White – :
Baruti Chai is a wonderfully aromatic gourmandish oriental. It’s my new favourite. The pronounced black tea note is dark and delicious, the milk is warm and creamy, the cocoa powder adds some dryness, then a pinch of ginger joins in with a mild zesty kick in the background.
I can also smell the cardamom but but not too much, my skin tends to highlight cardamom in most fragrances but in this one the cardamom is masterfully blended to create a warm, spicy accord.
Fantastic fragrance, I recommend to oriental gourmand lovers, it’s a delight to the senses, not to sweet and deliciously complex.
It’s an Extrait de Parfume so the longevity is excellent, so is the sillage.
It’s going to be one of my staples for the upcoming colder months for sure.
ramzan1994 – :
This has an (at first) odd warm herbal profile, but the longer it warms into my skin the more I like it. Spicy, creamy, semi-sweet and warm, it’s like a chai tea made in some foreign land that departs from the Starbucks variety of tea ingredients and throws in a handful of exotic, strange spices. The initial taste may not be what you were expecting but it brings the same warm glow of comfort as the Chai back home, plus a twist of foreign excitement.
Wanting to try more of this brand now!
Edit to add: sillage/longevity are great by the way, which is rare for me.