Green Tea Exotic Elizabeth Arden 2009

With winterly wet and grey I long for flowers and colour. Without booking a long-distance trip, I can visit the spacious greenhouses of the Botanika, a nature and adventure centre with Asian plants. Once you have completed the multimedia discovery part of the exhibition with school classes and families, an unusual surprise awaits you in the largest of the adjoining greenhouses: in a small wooden pavilion, you can sit a while and brew up a tea bag that you were allowed to choose at the beginning. Drinking the hot tea in the humid and cold climate of the Himalayan greenhouse while shivering, admiring the stunningly beautiful azalea or camellia blossoms and enjoying the peace and quiet: this memory comes back to me when I feel how exactly it smells, this fragrance. At the beginning it is tart citric-fruity, sourish, unsweet. At the same time also watery, without depth and somewhat pungent, with a distinct teeny note. After a few minutes it has a lighter, somewhat flowery fragrance, like a green tea with a strong citric aroma. In the further course it smells of softly flowery flavoured green tea (the cheap one in a tea bag, jasmine), does not become sweet in any phase, something citric and tart remains perceptible for a long time, until it disappears after three or four hours very close to the skin with a flowery and creamy fragrance. Thanks to Blauemaus for the tip to wear it in cold weather, I like it (too).