White Chocolate Rabbit

[doomsday_disco]

Don’t let him know she liked cream best,

For this tea must ever be

A secret, kept from all the rest,

Between yourself and me.

White chocolate filled with black tea and cream, splooged with white pepper, ginger, honey and vanilla.

[Little Bird]

White Rabbit is a bpal that has always fascinated me and that I appreciate so much, but I find it really difficult to wear.  I've been wearing White Chocolate Rabbit for the past four days now, trying to understand it.  It is softer, easier to wear, and doesn't have the 'clean linens' that tend to dominate plain White Rabbit.  The tea here also smells more green than black to me, brighter and more vegetal than toasty.

The first hour of wear definitely reminds me of the OG Thirteen from 2005, which is a blend that I've grown to love and have hoarded over the years.  The white chocolate in that Thirteen and this blend manages to smell more milky and not as sweet as most white chocolates you could buy at the grocery store (so it smells like good white chocolate that's more milky than sugar bombed).  The clean tea and sharp citrus in Thirteen make it refreshing rather than sickly sweet.  The clean tea here does the same thing for me, with perhaps the ginger & pepper mimicking that almost citrusy bite.

After an hour when it's all settled and dried down, there's something weirdly floral here, though.  It smells like green tea with sweet, pink flower petals floating in it and a little bit of cream and honey.  My husband also says it smells like flowers (but.. then again.. he thinks almost everything smells like flowers - unless it's blatantly earthy and dark - and I still love him.. he's mine and I'mma stick beside him).

I don't think that I'd know this was supposed to be White Rabbit if I just smelled it blindly.  It reads very differently.

[Assimbya]

It's so interesting how different people's experiences of different scents can be! For me, in contrast to the poster above, this one was so so clearly White Rabbit - the white chocolate note, which is really quite gentle and only softly sweet, adds more creaminess and softens some of White Rabbit's crisp edges (from the pepper, ginger, and linen), but it's really quite close. As a fan of White Rabbit, that isn't a problem, and this is really pleasant and wearable. It's lovely, and I'm glad to have a decant, but for me it's not different enough from White Rabbit for me to need a bottle.