Scent Essence - Wild Bergamot
Wild Bergamot is built around a single gesture: bright Italian citrus shaded by tea.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 accords.
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The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Tea
- Woody Notes
By the editors · 2 min readWild Bergamot is built around a single gesture: bright Italian citrus shaded by tea. The opening is sharply hesperidic — bergamot oil at full volume, almost effervescent — before tea pulls it inward and gives it a faint dry bitterness, like the pith of the rind rather than the juice.
The drydown is barely there: a soft woody base that holds the citrus close to skin once the volatile top has burned off. There's no floral middle to soften the transition, which gives the whole thing a lean, transparent quality.
It reads as a quick refresher rather than a structured composition — a hot-weather splash that fades inside an hour or two and asks nothing of the wearer.
Scent twins
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