Chai

I hate to be a dark cloud in everyone else's sunny day, but I must say I really don't enjoy this scent. It's like it's 90% amazing, but there's a weird undersmell (look at me, making up words, lol!) to the scent that I just can't get past. This perfume has a huge sillage, and lasts a lifetime (12 hours on my skin!), but the first four hours or so are just ugggh to my nose. I also don't find it smells much like chai tea; I find Label's Cinnamon & Maltol to bmore 'chai'...and much more delicious to my nose, too.

If you like aroma of chai you will love this. It is true Masala chai, black tea infused with strong fragrant spices, very slightly sweetened with a tiny bit of milk. The closest thing you can get in a fragrance. Beside black tea I can recognize the notes of cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, a bit of ginger and pepper, a smudge of cacao and vanilla. The fragrance is very strong, highly concentrated, long lasting for this kind of perfume. Quality is undisputable. Must go easy on spray, it is good also for layering, to add chai aroma to other fragrances. My second bottle, and that does not happen often.

Beautiful and I also found it to be long-lasting, a new favorite

Let me lead off by saying that I LOVE chai tea. I am a bit of a nut about it, which is what lead me to first seek out a new fragrance that would smell like chai, because I've often wished I could bathe in the smell in my tea mug and wear it all day. OH if only Baruti Chai had stayed what it was the first couple of minutes on my skin! I would be buying a thousand bottles. But what it is, is still lovely and great and many people should try it and see if it's for them. The first wonderful note out of the bottle which had me hooked was the black chai tea on my skin, right off the bat! As it began to warm up, it developed a brown-sugary, warmer scent-feel. This is not a strongly projecting fragrance; it is polite and stays close. After brown sugar, it warmed up to milkier tones. Enough so that my grown cat who still wants to suckle at any mommy figure moved very close to me and cuddled against me. He never moves that close and cuddles against me! I received head nuzzles. Following this stage, about 10 minutes in, a stronger brown sugar and vanilla tone came in. Followed later by more milk and possibly black pepper around the 25 minute mark. At the mid-point before drydown, I decided Baruti Chai had a crème brûlée kind of thing going on, which became crème brûlée and milk, with a little black pepper. But sweeter and softer than the fragrance had been before, when it was strong brown sugar. Some cinnamon notes come in later, as well. Overall Baruti Chai ends like an every-so slightly tobacco-y or crème brûlée (but softer) sweet milk. If this fragrance hadn't lost the black tea accord for me, and then gotten and stayed a little too sweet, I would have been purchasing a bottle. As it is, it's very interesting though and I encourage anyone to try it!

It is what it is, which is great. Dare I say perfect?