High Mountain Puchong | yúyú | Taiwan

I love oolong tea. I drink it like water, hot in the cold half of the year and iced in the warm half of the year. It pulses through my veins. The smell of fresh tea takes me right back to the living rooms of relatives, drinking tea from tiny cups that burn my fingers, the taste lingering long after. I love all kinds of oolong tea but there’s nothing quite like the freshness of puchong oolong tea from Wenshan mountain in Taiwan.

Yúyú is a niche perfume brand I happened upon in Taipei. Their perfume collection is all inspired by Taiwan: from various tea scents to mountain/nature inspired scents, to some special gourmands inspired by Taiwanese desserts. The puchong tea perfume is the most photorealistic tea scent I have ever encountered. It smells like the aftertaste (回甘) of really good tea. And it heals me from the inside out.