Obsidian vs Teas Me: Which French Avenue Perfume Is Better for Formal Events in Sarawak?

Got a formal event coming up in Sarawak and stuck between two French Avenue bottles? Both Obsidian and Teas Me are unisex Eau de Parfums in the Oriental Woody family, so either one works whether you're a guy or a girl. The real difference is in how they smell and the occasions they're built for. Here's the honest breakdown.

Obsidian

Obsidian is a 100ml Eau de Parfum, unisex, and it sits in the Oriental Woody family. The opening is aldehydes, grapefruit and bergamot, which the store describes as bright, crisp and slightly sparkling. It's a clean, fresh start that suits walking into an event feeling put together.

As it settles, the heart brings myrrh, jasmine and labdanum, giving the scent a resinous floral warmth. The base is vanilla, amber and tonka bean, so the dry down turns smooth, sweet and ambery.

When does it fit? The listed occasions are office, evening, special event and daily wear. That special event tag is exactly why it earns a spot here — for an evening function in Sarawak, this is the one with a dressed-up, event-night character.

Teas Me

Teas Me is also a 100ml unisex Eau de Parfum, and it shares the same Oriental Woody family. Its opening goes a different way: lime, ginger and teakwood, a fresh citrus-spicy impression right from the first spray. The ginger gives it a bit of edge without being loud about it.

The heart is where it gets interesting — black tea, cardamom, hedione and geranium absolute, an aromatic, green and lightly floral mix. It then settles into amber, patchouli, vanilla, tonka bean and olibanum, leaving a smooth, gently sweet and resinous woody trail.

Its listed occasions are daily, office, evening and casual. So if your formal event is really a work dinner, a company function or an evening that starts at the office, this one ticks those boxes straight off its own list.

Which one should you pick?

• Pick Obsidian if... your event is a proper special occasion. It's the one with "special event" in its occasion list, and that sparkling aldehyde opening melting into a sweet ambery dry down reads very much like an evening scent.
• Pick Teas Me if... the event leans work — office dinners, functions, or anything you might also want to wear the next day. Its daily and office occasions make it the more flexible of the two.
• Good news for everyone: both are unisex, both are Oriental Woody, and both come as 100ml EDPs. Nobody's missing out with either choice.

One more thing for Sarawak: the heat and humidity here don't really change through the year, so think about where the event is held. An air-conditioned ballroom or mall function room is a very different setting from an outdoor tent. A citrus-spicy start like Teas Me's feels lighter up front, while Obsidian's sweet amber base leans warmer as the night goes on. Match the scent to the room and you can't really go wrong.