As I have already mentioned more often, I work in a tea store and therefore know the scent of different teas quite well. So far, I have not found a "tea scent" that really had an authentic teen note. The
Eau Parfumée au Thé Vert smelled more like pure coumarin/hayflower/woodruff - which I happen to love, too, so I fell in love right away - but you really look for real green tea notes in vain there, too. Many other tea scents, for example the
Green Tea Eau Parfumée just smell like iced tea, so primarily lemon aroma. Many tea fragrances follow this recipe and create an Earl Grey, in which bergamot is in the top note and something tart in the base (patchouli or similar is also suitable). This is also quite nice and often smells good, but the tea is so lost. I find that always such a pity, because if you sniff every day at pure tea, then you notice
what a wonderfully delicate hay-sweet, partly powdery-peachy-fruity scent of high-quality green tea has,
what a floral-pudgy, rice flour-related, very, very delicate fragrance white tea has,
what a malty-bread-like, sometimes powdery-lime scent oolong tea has,
what a bright, fresh, tart-bizzy fragrance Darjeeling tea has
and what a dark spicy partly sour-malty, smoky fragrance dark black tea (Assam, Ceylon, Java) has.
And all the flavors that you add so, lemon, orange, apricot, mango, raspberry, etc. etc. only mask that and the tea loses its character.
Well, I started this comment, euphoric - you can probably guess - because Bvlgari's blue tea has a really authentic malty oolong tea note! The Se Chung Finest, an oolong tea from China, an inexpensive variety, but full-bodied and of good quality. It is rarely bought, oolong is not particularly well known in Germany. But there are lovers and they take then equal to half a kilo.
But, woe oh woe, the Oolong lingers unfortunately only very briefly. As the top note says goodbye, lavender & shiso fused to herbaceous freshness, can the lipstick accord, the iris powder nothing more offer the forehead.
Now it becomes very proper, mid-parted and shirt-blousy. Was Thé Bleu initially very unisex, a kind of powdery Fougère, for which women's and men's perfume from the 1920s simply mixed together, it needs for the fragrance now already a man who likes powder, who loves flowers and has an androgynous charisma. (I would find the fragrance but great on a man, I like something like that).
Scents like
Misia Eau de Parfum or
L'Heure Bleue Eau de Parfum come to mind. For comparison I have Misia times aufgesprüht: I find him actually similar, but Misia is again 5 levels drüber, sweeter, raspberry, elf.
At least now I understand the naming, it is apparently to be understood as a timeline. First tea, then blue, in the form of IRISVEILCHENPUDER - capitalized, in yer face. I've already wondered what should be blue tea.
I like it anyway. This combination has not come across me so yet.
An echo of the lavender lingers into the heart, preventing the blue powder from becoming too feminine, and a reminder of the oolong grounds the scent, keeping it grounded before it can develop fairy wings. After a while, the blue powder finally weakens and indeed the lavender dares to emerge again! Only slightly powdery, rather lavender-minty-herbaceous-fresh the fragrance then remains for me until the end. The tea comes unfortunately not again.
Without consciously sniffing the fragrance, I perceive it as a refreshingly clear aura, which drifts now and then even slightly into shower gel. I'm not entirely sure I like it. I vacillate between "mmm soothingly fresh" and "boah eh shower gel, wash it off"