Armani Prive The Yulong why won’t you let me love you?

On paper you sounded divine. A beautiful combination of black and green tea with a hint of orange blossom. The reviews were amazingly positive. If you liked Wulong Cha you’ll LOVE The Yulong. Well I friggin’ adore Wulong Cha so sign me up!

I obsessed about getting my nose on this fabled beauty. I ordered a sample. Second guessed myself and made it a 10ml decant. Duh, right? Obviously I was going to love and wear the crud out of this unicorn perfume.

Decant came and I eagerly ran through the house making a high pitched EEEEEEEEEEE sound while wrestling the packing open. I gave it an air spray and stuck my nose in it. OMG THAT OPENER. It was glorious. I instantly spayed it on my skin…

Oh sweet baby Jesus! I’m in heaven. That citrus bust is glorious. Not too sweet but refreshingly smooth. I want to smell like this always! Wait…where are you going?!? You’re leaving so soon??? But we just met! Oh, you’re leaving your buddies black tea and woody musk? Cool cool. We can hang.

But, alas, they also left and I was left with…play dough. Straight up play dough. Nothing but play dough. It was like I had just spent 12 hours sequestered in the basement of a high end spa playing with play dough. Walking through the spa was divine and olfactory perfection but then I was quickly shown to the basement where a mountain of play dough awaited me.

I let the bottle sit for a couple days then revisited it for my Evening Ritual Test (patent pending). Gave a spritz to my forearm and went about my evening. Every so often I’d give myself a sniff and make notes about the progression of the dry down. Again it quickly ended in play dough. Heartbroken I subjected it to the final test, the Nighttime Sleepy Sleepy test (patient also pending). I gave another spritz on my forearm and one under my pjs then crawled into bed. I dozed off laying in a beautiful bed of ethereal citrus and tea…and woke up to play dough.

I think I might be the only tea fragrance loving person who doesn’t like The Yulong. What’s wrong with me?!?