Tea Rose Perfumer's Workshop 1972 Eau de Toilette

Tea Rose (Eau de Toilette) by Perfumer's Workshop

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Tea Rose (Eau de Toilette) (Perfumer's Workshop)

7.0 / 10 145 Ratings

Tea Rose (Eau de Toilette) is a perfume by Perfumer's Workshop for women and was released in 1972. The scent is floral-green. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.

Goes well with Molecule 01

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Main accords

Floral

Green

Fresh

Woody

Sweet

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Chamomile

Peony

Heart Notes

Tea rose

Bulgarian rose

Damask rose

Base Notes

Geranium leaf

Cedarwood

Violet leaf

Perfumer

Firmenich

Ratings

Scent

7.0145 Ratings

Longevity

8.1111 Ratings

Sillage

8.0109 Ratings

Bottle

5.1112 Ratings

Value for money

9.555 Ratings

Submitted by Eternity, last update on 24.08.2023.

Reviews

17 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/08/2018

4
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 9
Scent

Gold
470 Reviews

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Gold

Top Review 25

I'm four again...

Tea Rose: simple, red garden rose... - as a child I picked rose petals and put them in water ; I was four years old when I was there. Then I was very surprised that I didn't find any rose water the next day, crushed the rose petals with my fingers and rubbed me with this flower mash.
Doesn't it really sound like a beautiful rose experience? But, for me it was fascinating, I loved this greenish watery, grassy flowery smell. My mother amused herself about my rose water experiments, then immediately explained to me that unfortunately no durable rose perfume can be produced in this way, which saddened me very much.
Luckily, in my adult life, there's Tea Rose!
"Tea Rose" captures exactly that rose scent from my childhood. It is not an elaborate perfume, not a complex creation, does not smell of multifaceted, heavy rose oil based on patchouli or the like and does not undergo any development.
In his "Perfume Guide" Luca Turin names Anna Buzantian as the nose behind "Tea Rose" and describes the fragrance as one of the first niche fragrances ever. That again I find very exciting, because personally the simplicity of "Tea Rose" fascinates me so much and The Perfumer's Workshop is not normally considered a "niche house" today.
Also the price of "Tea Rose" does not speak at present for "niche", for 14 € one finds in the net a 120 ml bottle of the carefree rose summer happiness.
By the way, "Tea Rose" has much more fans in other forums than here. On Fragrantica it is really celebrated by many users (and that for years). I even have a perfume buddy who thinks he can't live without Tea Rose.
I wouldn't go that far.
The memory of the rose hedge in our garden, of my bowl with the collected flowers is enough for me... - innocent scent of a carefree childhood

06/22/2012

10
Scent

Coutureguru
223 Reviews

Coutureguru

Top Review 9

Roses, Roses, Roses

WOW!!! This is STRONG!!! Even for me ... but a wonderful deep, rich rose right on the bush! I don't think I've ever said this about a fragrance before ... this one will have to be treated gently when sprayed. It could very well be a killer!! I just received this in the mail untested on my skin (I knew someone who wore it about 15 years ago and loved it on her) and gave my left arm 5 healthy blasts! That was a half hour ago and I am still reeling :o) ... albeit happily so. Looking forward to the development of this one!!

Update:
About an hour in and the 'rubbery' note has disappeared (I have a sneaky suspicion it may have been the tuberose) and I'm having a cigarette ... I think this would be incredible layered over a tobacco note. Very happy chappy here :o) ... as far as I am concerned this is a unisex frag. Why should gals be the only one's to smell so divine?

And a little bit more about this fabulous fragrance:

I managed to snap up a vintage 50ml bottle of this also. I will wear the re-formulation as much as I have been (I use it as a day scent in the Salon I work in from time to time on a tropical island)and simply just LOVE it.

The vintage variety, however, is an animal of a different nature. I am told that this particular bottle hails from the early 80's ... which I have no way of confirming ( I wish frag companies would date the bottles!!) or disputing. The box is a slightly deeper shade of grey with the label being a little more ivory than my new bottles have been. The juice is also a more golden colour and the sprayer seems better than the current version ... still plastic, but more opaque. The fragrance itself is pure heaven ... richer, deeper and rounder than the one I have become accustomed to with way more Sandalwood in the base. It's EFFING fabulous!!! I will keep this one for special and continue using the other for day ... 'reformulation' is fast becoming one of the dirtiest words in my vocabulary. Thankfully Ebay abounds with vintage bottles of this ... track one down ... you'll be so glad you did!

Update:

Not as many vintage bottles left as I thought!! Will definitely have to preserve mine ...

05/09/2014

10
Sillage 10
Longevity 10
Scent

ScentFan
332 Reviews

ScentFan

Very helpful Review 8

Rich Scent, Poor Scent

On my desk is a 50 ml bottle of perfume that cost my husband $220. Next to it is a 120 ml bottle of perfume that cost me $14.99 and I see it can be had for less (currently $8.49 at The Perfume Spot). The first one is FM's Une Rose, the second is Tea Rose by The Perfumer's Workshop. The top notes are different -- Tea Rose flowery, Une Rose full of dank, armomatic wine lees, dark geranium and the herbal, apple-like blue chamomile. Tea Rose's ultra flowery top note quickly dissipates, though, while Une Rose's top does not. What we're left with is a wearable, beautifully realistic quite woody, ambery rose in Tea Rose and a beautifully realistic ISO-Supery dark one in Une Rose that could be considered less wearable, reeking throughout as it does, if majestically in my opinion. Do I think Une Rose is worth 25 times more? No! These are country and city cousins, both utterly gorgeous, one rich, one poor.

p.s. Having since looked up the history, I see I'm not by myself. When it was introduced in '72, Tea Rose became an "instant classic" adored by Princesses Grace of Monaco and Diana, among illustrious others, its creator a maverick who meant for everyone to enjoy his perfumes.

08/24/2012

2.5
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 6
Scent

EvaK
30 Reviews

EvaK

Very helpful Review 11

Wonderful? Repulsive?

I can't work out this fragrance. Every time I wear it I get more confused.

It's definitely one of the strongest, loudest, most in-your-face perfumes I've ever encountered. It's just as loud as Knowing, and that one is hard to beat. One spray and I'm not surrounded by a cloud, but a thick fog! For hours. Amazing. It's gigantic, monstrous, just as I like them.

This is also the most rosey rose perfume I've met. When my daughters were small, they used to pick tons of petals from the wild roses to crush and soak in water to make "perfume" in marmalade jars. This is exactly the same smell - except for two things:
I find a certain bitterness in Tea Rose that is a little upsetting. It also - and this is very strange - makes me think of urine somehow. It doesn't smell like urine at all! But nevertheless it leads my thoughts there. I'm worried every time I wear it if others actually smell urine?

I keep putting it on, and I keep scrubbing it after a couple of hours. I don't know what is going on here. I like it, but I don't like it. Or do I like it?

03/03/2020

6
Bottle 6
Sillage 8
Longevity 7
Scent

DonJuanDeCat

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DonJuanDeCat

Helpful Review 7

Tea or no tea, this is the question?!

Hello sniffers! Welcome to a new fragrance comment from me!
Today I sniff a fragrance that was sent to me by a very nice Parfuma and which had immediately aroused my interest. Sure, you can already guess that this is certainly due to the fact that the term "Tea", so tea appears in the name. You know that I have to sniff everything that has to do with tea.

Alright, this is more about the tea rose though. Not to mention that I've never seen a tea rose or, more likely, didn't recognize these flowers upon sighting (I mean, what do I know about plants?? :D), these roses are supposed to actually smell like tea. Other theories as to why these roses are called tea roses say that the Chinese liked to have the roses planted at their tea gardens. Or that these roses were transported from Asia to Europe stored in tea chests. There are still some theories about the origin of the name, but firstly I do not want to bore you with it and secondly I am personally only interested in whether these roses really smell like tea.

Well... then I fill me a glass of tea (although I'm in Turkey right now and we drink tea here constantly at any time of day and every opportunity... I PLATZE right away, not to mention that I have to go to the bathroom constantly because of all the tea!!! :D) and sniff times at the fragrance!

The fragrance:

At the beginning, the fragrance immediately smells of roses as well as a slightly powdery sweetness. Chamomile I smell afterwards also, which are a little weak but quite still smellable and which also remind me a little of my Kamill hand cream :D
A slightly watered down and floral scent is also present, I can not quite identify, but guess here on lilies.
Tea... well, I wouldn't necessarily say that the roses here really smell like tea. Most likely I would guess here because of the chamomile on chamomile tea, which is also quite nice.
After a short while, the scent begins to smell much more intense roses, and now and then then even a small tea scent comes to one, but this I can also imagine, because I really want to smell tea!
Anyway, it also smells later most of roses, the tea scent then actually hardly occurs, but there's fresh-looking, green notes. Perhaps still a few light woods and sweetish notes, and that's it. All in all still okay, actually even nice, but still highly unspectacular.

The sillage and the durability:

The sillage is okay, the fragrance is neither particularly strong nor really weak, so that it could be perceived for a while up close on one. The shelf life is surprisingly long and lasts on the skin (although later weak) for over twelve hours. Partially I could smell the scent very weak even the next morning still in the sprayed place.

The bottle:

The bottle is rectangular and filled with yellowish fragrance liquid. On the front you can see a dark silver label, the lid is chrome and cylindrical. Okay, but nothing special.

Conclusion:

Soo... well... I must admit that I am now not so much excited about this fragrance. He smells unfortunately not strong enough after tea, that he would be interesting for me and on rose fragrances I stand personally also not so much. But of course, the fragrance is not grottenschlecht and that's just my personal opinion, because rose lovers could definitely do something with the fragrance, because it smells loose and partly also green-fresh, but the fragrance still lacks a little variety or something special. Thus, the fragrance makes something of the impression of a simple, 0815er rose fragrance, which has no particular strengths to offer and thus belongs more to the fragrances that you test once and then forget again with great probability. Otherwise, the fragrance is intended for spring and summer, where you could use it as a loose and simple day fragrance.

So you can already test it if you want, but should not have too many expectations. I also find that there are better rose fragrances. Apart from that, I am as I said slightly disappointed that I smell little to hardly tea here, which was the main reason why I tried the fragrance. Well, one (s) just can not have everything, I know that even from women you would like to have and... uhh... yes,... well :D

I can now console myself with the fact that I could still drink a cup of tea, or for a change also Turkish coffee, even if I then run the risk that one would like to "read" afterwards necessarily the rest of my coffee, which one then traditionally turns over, so that the viscous rest can run on the small plate on which the cup is placed. This is a kind of fortune telling, which does not interest me at all and I besides for years already always the same Leier hear from all the "fortune tellers":
"You're coming to a great success soon; something unexpected full of positive things is about to happen; you're going to find a great woman!" .... pffft.... If all this were true, I would be an astronaut, have had countless great women to date, and be a billionaire! Coffee fortune teller.... really... :DD

Well then, that's it again. I wish you all a nice evening, then until next time :)

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