Indigo Smoke ARQUISTE

Evoking the traditional smoking of tea leaves in ancient China
Indigo Smoke created by Calice Beker for ARQUISTE is an aromatic landscape of narrow serpentine rivers, blue mountains and incense-filled temples condensed into a complex formula of black tea, woody notes and incense. Rich, sophisticated and long-lasting.
With notes of lapsang souchong tea, mandarin orange, apricot, guaiac wood, incense and pine tar.

History inspiration
May 1646, Wuyi Mountains, Fujian
For centuries, diligent monks in the Wuyi Mountains have grown tea and indigo plants in neatly terraced plantations. In 1646, their monasteries were attacked by Qing soldiers from the north. As the monks were forced to flee, they smoked batches of tea leaves over pinewood fire to preserve their crops.
This would become the smoky lapsang souchong tea. Mixing with the fresh mountain air and the incense from nearby shrines, the intoxicating plumes of indigo smoke captured the colors of the Wuyi Mountains and their dramatic river narrows.

OLFACTIVE NOTES
Top notes: Bergamot, Mandarin orange oil, Lapsang souchong accord, Vetiver
Heart notes: Apricot accord, Cassia oil, Carrot seed oil, Gaiac wood
Base notes:Maté tea absolute, Cedar leaf oil, Pine tar, Incense