Tokyo Spring Blossom / Urura's Tokyo Cafe
4160 Tuesdays (2013)
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About Tokyo Spring Blossom / Urura's Tokyo Cafe by 4160 Tuesdays
Perfumer Sarah McCartney says of this fragrance:
The one thing that makes it stand out (IMHO) is the raspberry leaf absolute, a deep, sticky green material which is very hard to work with and pretty expensive. You don't get it in 99% of fruity florals - raspberry in perfume is usually a creation, a good one but somehow it doesn't feel the same. This natural material settles down to a beautifully jammy fruit jelly raspberry scent in Urura's Tokyo Cafe at about the same time that the tolu balsam and aopoponax start to take you by the hand and lead you to a lovely place.
At the top I put mandarin and grapefruits because I find them so hard to leave out. I love my citrus fruits. You'll probably get the violets and rose too, with rose geranium (a geranium that smells half way between the two flowers).
Oddly enough I didn't know this when I named it by my friend Urura told me that her names means the breeze through spring blossoms, which is exactly what Jo Fairley said it smelled like to her. I love it when that happens.
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Reviews of Tokyo Spring Blossom / Urura's Tokyo Cafe by 4160 Tuesdays
There are 6 reviews of Tokyo Spring Blossom / Urura's Tokyo Cafe by 4160 Tuesdays.
Trying the Tokyo Today. It is a weird one. Very similar to Blue Raspberry Jolly rancher. Which I do love.
And some salty orange.
I do like it but smells too similar to the candy to be wearable and too strong (I guess it must be that raspberry leaf)
It does get much better as it develops. The blue raspberry note gives way to grapefruit,salt and something sweet.
Dont get me wrong, this is good but that Blue Raspberry note just does not work for me.
Neutral to Thumbs Up.
The raspberry leaf is gorgeous and sharp - literally bittersweet - and tones nicely with the mandarin. The bitterness is still apparent behind the jammy centre with an earthiness from the geranium. Powdery balsam at the back, shining on top of wood. A friend described the drydown as being akin to Refresher sweets - lemon sherbert. It's lovely stuff.
Smells amazing and lasts forever on fabrics. I've learned not to be shy with 4160 fragrances - their atomisers deliver quite lean sprays, so I generally double up the sprays to get a 'normal' amount.
It gave off an insistent and persistent metallic fug on me, and I'm sure it wasn't meant to do that! Very hard to clean off as well.
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