Chasing Scents.

The house, in one read

Chasing Scents is a Sydney-made perfume house with a single-minded obsession: tea. Every fragrance in the line is built around in-house tea extractions made from whole flower buds and loose leaf, giving the collection a botanical authenticity that most tea-adjacent perfumery can only approximate.

The range spans the full breadth of tea culture — from the convivial clatter of yum cha jasmine pours in Tea Service, to the contemplative smoke of a lapsang-laced Private Teahouse, to the hyper-specific inspiration of a bitter melon lemon tea ordered off a menu in Guangzhou. These are scents with a story and a place.

Chasing Scents also runs tea perfume-making workshops, opening its archive of tea accords to the public — a rare move that speaks to the house's confidence in its craft and its commitment to building a genuine tea-perfume culture in Australia.

“Best for buyers who want their perfume to smell genuinely, specifically of tea — not a synthetic tea accord spritzed over something generic, but the real cultured, botanical thing with a story behind every brew.