Eau Parfumée au Thé Vert (Eau de Cologne) by Bvlgari

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Eau Parfumée au Thé Vert Bvlgari 1992 Eau de Cologne

7.6 / 10 343 Ratings

A popular perfume by Bvlgari for women and men, released in 1992. The scent is fresh-green. It is being marketed by LVMH.
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Main accords

Fresh

Green

Citrus

Floral

Spicy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Italian bergamot

Heart Notes

Green tea

Base Notes

Beeswax

Tonka bean

Perfumer

Jean-Claude Ellena

Ratings

Scent

7.6343 Ratings

Longevity

5.4266 Ratings

Sillage

5.0252 Ratings

Bottle

7.7260 Ratings

Value for money

6.986 Ratings

Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 10/17/2025.

Interesting Facts

End of the 1980s, Jean-Claude Ellena discovered that by combining the synthetic jasmine-scented hedione (methyldihydrojasmonate) with the violet fragrance ionone, the scent of tea could be recreated. He presented the new fragrance to houses such as Dior and Yves Saint Laurent, but they are said to have rejected the concept as “too creative” for them. It was only after a few years that Bulgari is said to have been interested in Ellena's tea fragrance - primarily as a fragrance for its boutiques in order to be able to offer interested customers a special perfume. Due to the great demand from customers, it was launched on a larger scale as an eau de cologne and became the forerunner of numerous tea fragrances.

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Thé pour un Été

Reviews

27 in-depth fragrance descriptions

05/14/2012

6Scent 7.5Longevity 5Sillage

Missk
1357 Reviews

Missk

Helpful Review 3

Watered down green tea

Eau Parfumee au The Vert is one of those fragrances that will appeal to those that don't usually like fragrances, if that makes any sense.

I rather like this fragrance's subtle and clean freshness, even though I expected a lot more green tea in this composition. I find it quite lemony and soft on the skin, which really works well in the warmer months.

Sometimes it can smell a little too detergent-like, it even reminds me of those medicated green tea gels for blemishes. However the sweet floral heart of jasmine and rose keeps the scent interesting and wearable.

I expected a stronger fragrance to be honest, something as strong as Eau Parfumee au The Rouge, which was a definite tea scent, very heady in its aromas. I wore this fragrance for the first time to a friend's birthday party, and while it didn't really suit the alcohol fuelled atmosphere, I quite enjoyed the subtle wafts of delicate greeness and refreshing soapiness every now and then.

Eau Parfumee au The Vert is nice, but it's not ground-breaking, even though Luca Turin finds it so. I find it inoffensive but a little too bland for my tastes. It's a scent that I'd wear for myself rather than for others. I'd use it as a refreshing bed-time scent or something to use as a means to freshen up during the day.

01/18/2012

SystemeD
58 Reviews

SystemeD

Helpful Review 4

Complex simplicity

Au The Vert opens with lightly spiced lemon and orange, and then moves to jasmine tinged with tea. The lily-of-the-valley is also perceptible, but not central.

The drydown is a clean, fresh cedar, still suffused with tea.

This is a lovely light summer refresher, but there's more to this little gem than that. It was, I think, the first green tea fragrance, and it certainly remains one of the very best. I think of it as being like a pointillist painting in which the great Jean-Claude Ellena has used many brushstrokes (notes) to create the contours of a single object (green tea).

12/12/2020

10Scent 5Longevity 7Sillage

Interdit
58 Reviews

Interdit

Helpful Review 4

Green punch

I need to spend more than just a word for this other masterpiece, creation of one of the best Master perfumers in the whole world.
When this fragrance was launched, there weren't many tea-centred fragrances around. I cannot recall one to be honest.

Needless to say, that summer Bvlgari took the market by storm and in Italy every woman literally showered in it - quite understandly I'd dare say. We have some 40C+ days that roast us in Italy, some years as early as June, and sweating is never an option for us as we like to be presentable at all times.
In fact, even going to buy bread at the bakery you would see ladies and gentlemen all dressed and done up... I know, vain but that's the hedonistic side of Italian people, whom grow surrounded by eternal beauty and art. We love "la dolce vita", it's all about that, the sun, food, and indulging surrounded by beauty :-) who wouldn't like it? LOL!

For those that have not yet visited Italy, during summer one would think to have landed by mistake in Africa or India: it is that hot. In case you plan to go, know that if you don't like roasting heat and humidity you gotta either go to the seaside to spend the whole vacation in the waters, or visit early May - late September. Not kidding: the heat and humidity will otherwise have your blood pressure fall below the ground.

This fantastic number provides a blast of uplifting freshness, the bergamot a punch of energy that well counter matches the scorcing light, and temperatures. It has an incredible balance, with at bitter kick from the tea, definitely green. Fairly, I cannot say I did detect the other notes, other than some ghostly light floral and lemon whiff. My first bottle was purchased therefore during a record hot summer, just right before I took a sailing trip. It marked olfactorily quite possibly my best summer ever.

On the boat, we took off from Piombino heading to Isola d'Elba, and from there we intended to reach Ajaccio, passing the "bocche di Bonifacio" on return. What can I say: sailing burns your skin, because the splashes of salty water reach as high as the dock where one would stand, and both wind and sun take part in eroding every inch of uncovered skin, slowly as implacably. After 15 hours with the wind whooshing in your ears and the sun heating your skul under the hat, this eau "parfumee" provided a much desired rest from the suffering, keeping me sane though on the balance of a heat stroke! Its calming and envigorating notes had me and our skipper working happily the whole night shift, whilst everyone else slept :)

Worth to note that eau "perfumee" translates in Italian as acqua profumata, which means cologne. So goes by itself that it never had the lasting power of a parfum, but boys, what a kick for a few hours! When I sprayed it, the whole crew, also those very far from me, would smell it despite the wind. And loved it!

Back to the olfactive memory this fragrance left me with, it was not just related to the fantastic combo of notes. That night, I saw half the sky as if being pulled down on one side of the horizon, whilst the daylight rose up on the other. It was surreal to see stars and a sickle moon on my right, falling over the edge of the horizon, and the sun with golden pink and orange colours coming up on my left. The most incredible thing ever, until hundreds - and I mean it - of dolphins approached very silently our boat, which by now was gliding as silent on calm waters some 1 hour away from the coast. Magical, and in all that magic I had up my nostrils the salt of the air, the heat coming stronger by the minute on my arms, and this magnificent scent whiffing gently off my tired skin.

I cannot fail Bvlgari for having decided to produce this just as a cologne.
Dreams cannot and should not last forever: their ephemeral nature is what makes them more beautiful then reality, and the memory of them and their possile return is what enriches us eternally. This is how I feel about Eau perfumee au The' vert. I seek it to bring back one of them most intense and beautiful day of my whole life.

Thanks Monsieur Jean-Claude Ellena for succeeding in bringing to life my perfect Midsummer Night's Dream! For me, worth a blind buy no doubt about it.

10/23/2024

8Scent 4Longevity 5Sillage

WolfHunter
66 Reviews

WolfHunter

1

Cartier Déclaration’s Less Complex Cousin

To my nose, Bvlgari’s Eau Parfumée au thé Vert is a less complex and less strong version of the dry down of Cartier Déclaration, which is no surprise since both were created by Jean-Claude Ellena. Au the Vert has that spiced tea quality that Déclaration has, minus the citrusy opening and minus a lot of projection and longevity. I am wearing it as I write this and it is very delicate and beautiful. It sits close to the skin and serves as a really natural smelling aroma. This would definitely shine in the warm/hot weather months or in any work environment where you want to smell nice but don’t want others to smell you. In my opinion, this is perfectly unisex. It is elegant and natural smelling enough to have a feminine side but has some spice and earthiness to it that gives it a masculine touch as well. You can find Au thé Vert on discounter websites for around the $75, which is a little steep for a 2.5 oz Eau de Cologne in my opinion. I have seen it for more reasonable prices on resale sites for around the $40 range if you don’t mind not having a box.

08/27/2024

8Scent 6Longevity 6Sillage

Landshark321
743 Reviews

Landshark321

1

Great tea freshie, classily done with a variety of components

This is my first try Bvlgari Eau Parfumee Au The Vert, a 1992 release that I was previously unfamiliar with, a highly pleasant, fresh, well-blended assortment of citruses, florals, woods, and spices. Citruses mix with cardamom and coriander over lily of the valley and a prominent green tea note, drying down to tonka and beeswax to sort of add a powdery, creamy aspect. The green tea (and a greenish vetiver-type experience) are the most significant aspects of the fragrance, but it’s a great example of a blend put together by a master (in this case, Jean-Claude Ellena) of concealing specific notes in favor of a cohesive blend, creating something new out of different parts that doesn’t smell much like any of the constituent parts, with the notable exception of green tea, after which the fragrance is named. Overall, I love it, a classy freshie with a lot of quirks wrapped up into a pleasant unisex experience, and a use of green tea that is not particularly heavy-handed, but rather, restrained in concert with a lovely varied ensemble of citruses, spices, and florals, inoffensive but inarguably quite nice.

Its concentration is eau de cologne and fittingly, its performance is decent but not great, yet it still makes an impression after a robust opening into a mellow dry down. Retail pricing is $115 for 75ml, but it can be found for $76 for 75ml on FragranceNet, a very reasonable deal for such a classy perfume.

8 out of 10

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