Green Tea Victor

You can't go wrong with tea? I thought so too... but "Green Tea" by Victor proves the opposite for me. A lemony-rosy refresher with a hint of green tea. It could have been great given the weather - instead, it turned into a heat nightmare. Okay, nightmare is too much. At least it doesn't bother anyone but me, and you don't stink up the surroundings - yet every time I took a test sniff, my nose automatically wrinkled...

You don't have to search long for beautiful tea scents. They exist for 20 as well as for 500 euros, in the designer sector and the deepest niche. Even drugstore shoppers can find some nice discoveries there. "Green Tea" is not one of them. I'm almost glad that you don't see it too often in Rossmann and Co. Because for me, it is an below-average scent in many ways, which also runs quite contrary to my fragrance taste.

Rather floral, rather simple, rather watery, and also with an overpowering sharp jasmine note that makes me feel nauseous, which doesn't suit me at all. Still. Not just above 30 degrees. Nothing against simple and light scents, see many transparent, minimal Hermes bestsellers. With tea, there doesn't need to be much added. But "Green Tea" feels to me like a genetically engineered something, whose name is misleading and which probably just barely passed by a teabag. In a class with some of the (newer) 4711 scents. I would even feel sorry for a bargain-bin 10-euro scent. Luckily, it was a gift. And it will stay that way.

Bottle: handy for a large hand, otherwise a grab table spectacle.
Sillage: very close to the skin and hardly detectable.
Longevity: lasts longer than you think. One of its strengths. 6 hours. If you like it.

Conclusion: a tea scent that gets on my nerves faster than you can brew a real green tea. Piercing and poking, unfriendly and scratchy, unnatural and synthetic. Not a winner!