Tea Rose Perfumer's Workshop 1972 Eau de Toilette
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Simply the best rose out there
I know there's a certain school of thought that believes fragrances should not attempt to mimic nature. An existing flower, the theory goes, is beautiful in its own right: great perfumes are those which move away from slavish re-creations into abstract creativity. "Women have no business smelling like flowers", as Luca Turin put it. And I can certainly appreciate the merits of abstractism, but frankly, sometimes a girl *does* want to smell like roses, and I don't really give a damn whether Turin thinks I ought to.
I say all this preamble because I want to emphasize that Tea Rose is not a *rosy* fragrance, it is a capital-R Rose. This is as close to smelling like a real rose as you can get without carrying a bouquet of them around. The leaves, the stems, the drops of water clinging to the petals, everything is represented in completely literal detail. It is, frankly, nuclear, which is where I can imagine the complaints of potpourri come from— a single spray is more than enough, any more than that turns the picture-perfect snapshot of a rose into something that looks more like AI art, too overly-glossy to be real. But with a light hand, it's perfect.
Does it smell good? A rose smells good; ergo, Tea Rose smells good.
Is it worth it? I would buy this if it were four or five times the price. It's absurd to me that this is the best rose I've ever smelled and it cost less than my lunch did on the day I bought it.
Maybe it's not the most unique fragrance out there, but for pure, beautiful realism, you can't beat Tea Rose.
I say all this preamble because I want to emphasize that Tea Rose is not a *rosy* fragrance, it is a capital-R Rose. This is as close to smelling like a real rose as you can get without carrying a bouquet of them around. The leaves, the stems, the drops of water clinging to the petals, everything is represented in completely literal detail. It is, frankly, nuclear, which is where I can imagine the complaints of potpourri come from— a single spray is more than enough, any more than that turns the picture-perfect snapshot of a rose into something that looks more like AI art, too overly-glossy to be real. But with a light hand, it's perfect.
Does it smell good? A rose smells good; ergo, Tea Rose smells good.
Is it worth it? I would buy this if it were four or five times the price. It's absurd to me that this is the best rose I've ever smelled and it cost less than my lunch did on the day I bought it.
Maybe it's not the most unique fragrance out there, but for pure, beautiful realism, you can't beat Tea Rose.