Reviews of Yang (1999)
by Jacques Fath

The bottle is amazingly designed – the glossy chrome cover, which swivels away from the main body of the bottle (with the aid of a nifty hinge), is pretty ingenious. Also, the ergonomically contoured shape of the bottle (which often reminds me of a baton) with its dark-grey rubber cover is also very well-conceived. Unfortunately, that’s as good as it gets…

While it’s worth buying for the bottle alone, the juice is absolutely terrible – it’s simply an unnecessarily sweet, synthetic and short-lasting tea scent that irritates more with consecutive wears. Many have praised this one to high heaven (please see the reviews below). Personally, I’m still trying to figure out why this is the case.

This is simply another example of the bottle design being far better than its actual contents.

[Original submission date: 20 May 2008]

was expecting tea but all i get is lotion.its nice though

This smells like a greener, slightly citrusy Declaration. Has an "ugly" feel to it but I think that's the point behind it. Dark woody tea, not a clear brisk tea.

This smells more green and hay-like (coumarinic) to me than any of the pyramid notes would suggest, I suppose the green tea and cardamom-usk combination might fool my nose into imagining that. This is a very fine and subtly constructed scent. I think some people are put off by the impression that this is not very tea-like; this is immaterial to me, not being much of a tea scents fan. Edwards calls this a woody-oriental, but it has something of a fougère feel to my nose. I find it to have a moderate sillage for a while, but not an extraordinary longevity. Still, I would rate it a pleasant and nicely constructed scent. I find it somewhat reminiscent of 1998's Fath pour l'Homme (Olivier Gillotin, who also did Cereus No.7 Dior Higher and Higher Black, and the new Ed Hardy Men). I find that same slightly acerbic hay note in pour l'Homme, too; I do think, however, that I find pour l'Homme slightly preferable to this one.