Once upon a time, there was a lonely dragon, alchemist and grump. At the age of 102, he moved to the island of Formosa to soothe his old age surrounded by water. The liquid element calmed the fire of his temperament and dissolved the hardness of his heart. The dragon took up residence on the ancestral mountain of Alishan, on the edge of a wild tea garden.
As he awoke from a deep sleep caused by his long journey through the heavens, the dawn offered him his first stirring of the heart: a thick mist forming a cotton carpet blurred the brilliant green of the camellia leaves and rose to reveal the whiteness of flowers so graceful that the dragon's soul was overwhelmed. Day and night, he gazed lovingly at the fragile vegetation.
One stormy monsoon day, he spread his wings over the beloved garden to protect it. As evening fell, the dragon gently blew its hot breath to dry the rain-soaked petals. A divine scent of praline and jasmine rose into the air, intoxicating and dizzying the exhausted dragon. In his drowsiness, or was it a dream, he saw the white flowers form a farandole and become the Serpent Woman.
All night long, the white lady undulated and danced a serpentine saraband in honour of her protector. From this union a perfume was born, as green as the leaves of a tea tree, as flowery as a carpet of violets, as warm as the breath of a dragon in love.
Although widely discussed in perfumery, tea inspired Isabelle Larignon and more particularly Milky Oolong, a semi-oxidized "blue" tea appreciated for its naturally milky note. The opportunity to work on the gourmet side by discarding vanilla or sticky notes of caramel and cotton candy.
Immersing your nose in the dry leaves of this tea is like diving into the fur of a home cat: it is warm, soft and dry. The olfaction is delicious like milk on the stove, comforting like a barely roasted chestnut in autumn. Coumarind notes reminiscent of hay dried by the summer that has passed, exude like a consolation. Cis-jasmone obliges, mixing with the whole a bouquet of white flowers. On the palate, the floral, creamy, milky liqueur is enriched with jammy fruit effects: apricot, mirabelle plum, fig…
This is all we feel in Milky Dragon. As well as the memory of a tea garden caught in the mist of the dawning day. Vegetation and humidity meet in the brilliance of green foliage beaded with dew, as shiny as lacquered leather.
bergamot, bucchu, cardamom, rose ketones, cis-jasmone, ionones, lactones, hazelnut, ozonic note, clary sage, Virginia cedar, fir balsam, evernyl (oakmoss)
Isabelle Larignon
Alcohol Denat (78% VOL.), Aqua (Water), Parfum (Fragrance), Tetramethyl acetyloctahydronaphthalenes, Citrus Aurantium Bergamia peel Oil, Linalyl acetate, Juniperus Virginia Oil, Limonene, Linalool, Pinene, Beta caryophyllene, Rose ketones, Citral, Pogostemon Cablin leaf Oil, Acetyl cedrene, Alpha-isomethyl ionone
*Credits last picture: Manon Jalibert
