Matcha and Bergamot

Avid tea drinker and I love this scent! It’s lovely and refreshing, bright, cheerful. I do get a citronella vibe from this one but not in a chemical way- Like the citronella plant in my garden way! Spells wonderful, relaxing, clean!

This IS a spa scent. It's incredible. I never could get myself to just LOVE this OOB. I sniffed it randomly for a long time. Then, designing for my Christmas Nativity with several layers and scents, I needed a fragrance for a thin layer of white clouds at the top -- something that would go with the other four layers and three scents. CS said that the Matcha & Bergamot blended well with some of my other scents (Saffron & Cedarwood, Egyptian Amber with Frankincense EO, Crystallized Ginger & Cardamom/Snickerdoodle with Coffee EO chopped up as "rocks" (from a seriously failed batch of Gingerbread Men) So.... I went for it with the Matcha & Bergamot clouds. OH MAN, OH MAN, am I glad I did!!! The scent profiles blended like a culinary masterpiece for the nose, and artistically worked for Cold Process designing. They caught the eye, even at a "specialty" price, and all 22 of them sold out quickly.

(I'm about to head to the kitchen to use up my remaining sample bottles in a spa salt bar. And I'm ordering the 16 oz today. It's THAT good of a scent. Don't hesitate if you're a cold process soaper. You won't be disappointed.

(I use Lard, refined 72 degree Coconut Oil, HO Sunflower Oil, Shea Butter and Castor, 6% SF and 40%l ye concentration)

While this fragrance does not really resemble green tea, it does remind me a bit of bergamot and amber. I've tried it in candles and it was my favorite scent. Especially nice in the bedroom as it's so relaxing and soothing. I added what I had left in a room spray and unfortunately I don't care for it as much in that application. It's definitely more like cologne.

This fragrance is lovely in its own right, but I think calling it Matcha may be a misnomer. Don't judge it OOB. It smells like a really beautiful musk scent, but it is more of a cologne scent, like so many CS fragrances are. At first I thought CS mislabeled the bottle and sent me the wrong FO. When it settles down, it has a nice sweet musk. But I am not getting anything other reviewers are squeezing from this fragrance, namely citrus. I'm getting Vanilla Egg Nog with a splash of Black Sea, and another splash of Skin Musk Cologne from the 80's to give it the musky note. It's a pretty scent, don't get me wrong. But I wouldn't call it a foodie scent by any stretch. It's neat, though.

I first made a candle with this scent alone and it was lovely. But I didn't understand the full power of this scent until I started mixing it with others. It is an amazing base scent. I have a candle that I made using this, the tomato vine and a little pear scent and I just keep needing to take hits off this thing! Pretty soon I'm gonna need rehab!!!