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Replica

Lamplight Penance Maher Olfactive 2000

7.2 / 10 116 Ratings

A perfume by Maher Olfactive for women, released in 2000. The scent is fresh-floral. It was last marketed by L'Oréal.
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Main accords

Fresh

Floral

Green

Sweet

Creamy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Bergamot

Mint

Pink pepper

Heart Notes

Green tea

Jasmine sambac absolute

Osmanthus

Base Notes

Milk

Puffed rice

Maté absolute

Perfumers

Fabrice Pellegrin, DSM-Firmenich

Ratings

Scent

7.2116 Ratings

Longevity

6.595 Ratings

Sillage

6.199 Ratings

Bottle

7.4107 Ratings

Value for money

6.133 Ratings

Submitted by medicine, last update on 02/16/2025.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance was part of the collection Replica.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Matcha Meditation

Aqua Allegoria Teazzurra

Osmanthe Yunnan

Reviews

3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

11/24/2024

8.5Scent 6Longevity 5Sillage

Charades
33 Reviews

Charades

1

Tea Escape: Review 11

After a productive morning of stressful tasks to clean around the house,
you finally feel the weight fading off your shoulders as you sip away to a cup of milky green tea complimented with a bowl of steaming jasmine rice,
as you sit down on your cozy couch next to the glass wall overlooking the rainy forest during Japanese monsoon season.

Cozy, lactonic green puffy rice tea. 9/10
Yearning for a full bottle, unfortunately this is discontinued and is extremely expensive.

09/12/2021

8Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

EdithLyri
30 Reviews

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EdithLyri

Top Review 18

Concentrated Tea Shop Aroma Box

As is common with tea scents, Tea Escape starts with bergamot and mint. This is very refreshing, juicy, very cheerful, and you can't go wrong with it.
Flowers underscore the whole thing with floral sweetness, specifically jasmine and osmanthus here.

This is very clever, and it certainly impresses my tea seller's heart. Because jasmine is a very traditional tea flower; it was actually the first flower used in China to naturally flavor green tea. The jasmine flowers are picked and dried, then mixed with the tea leaves and left to infuse their scent into the tea. Afterward, the jasmine flowers are sifted out. Fun fact: unlike jasmine tea intended for the European market, it is considered a flaw in China if any flowers are still visible in the tea. We Germans, however, like colorful splashes, so the flowers are often not sifted out. Osmanthus has also been used as a tea flavoring flower for a very long time - even though this variation is less known here. Using osmanthus is even doubly clever because its naturally apricot-like honey scent perfectly emphasizes the powdery peachiness that is characteristic of green tea.

That being said,
I unfortunately do not smell the green tea.
I have no doubt that it is there, but it is overshadowed by all the aroma.

The scent wants a lot; it simply cannot decide.
Is it a Chinese jasmine tea?
Is it a Gui Ha Sweet Osmanthus?
Is it a green Earl Grey?
Is it a Moroccan mint tea?
All I ultimately smell is a floral-fruity summer perfume, and the emphasis is on 'perfume'. Because tea is usually flavored EITHER with jasmine OR with osmanthus OR with bergamot OR with mint, but not with everything together. And milk does not really fit the scent profile of the zesty-fresh bergamot and only partially with the flowers.

The milk would have been great if the tea had been allowed to shine as a single note. Or if a more suitable aroma had been chosen, something more in the gourmand direction. For example, Green Tea Vanilla with milk or Green Tea Caramel with milk or Green Tea Walnut with milk.

It still smells delicious. The puffed rice brings an exciting, slightly roasted note. And once again, I must say, very clever! This reminds me of teas like Genmaicha Tokiwa, a green tea with roasted rice and roasted corn (essentially popcorn), which is popular in Japan. However, Genmaicha has a completely different flavor profile, grainy-roasted, as you can surely imagine. The milk would have paired well with that too.

All the individual notes make total sense for a tea scent! So someone has indeed sat down and thought a lot about it. But all the notes together come across as a scent that feels arbitrary, which is really a shame. It does smell good, but it could just as well be a fruity floral from Escada.

01/28/2019

7Scent 5Longevity 5Sillage

Leimbacher
538 Reviews

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Leimbacher

Helpful Review 9

Milk Tea with Effort

"Tea Escape" is a vacation for the soul, its name does not promise too much. Sweet rice pudding meets relaxing mate tea... it works! I am neither a big tea pro nor a fan of the rather prominent jasmine here, but I am never too shy for a fine tea test.

Airy, light, high-quality, and affordable - "Tea Escape" reminds me of "Teazzura" by Guerlain mixed with the Bulgari tea line, most closely the white variant. "Tea Escape" starts (after a super quick mint burst) slightly fluffy and spicy, here I feel the creamy milk nuances on my skin the best. But soon the dominant, namesake tea joins in and surprisingly lingers for a long time. Green tea, black tea, delicious tea. Pure relaxation, swaying and dreaming away. A hammock scent. No matter how much you sweat in the midsummer heat. It transports you from the stuffy, overcrowded tram directly to a subtly luxurious spa in a suburb of Mumbai. Rather feminine.

Bottle: unique and solid. The price remains a highlight!
Sillage: very relaxed and unexcited... fits the scent
Longevity: after 5 hours maximum it's time for a re-spray alarm!

Conclusion: for fans of tea scents, a feel-good oasis of mate and milk, of friendliness and lightness, of being and dreaming. Indian and in the now. Due to a strong jasmine overtone, I personally have some minus points.

Statements

11 short views on the fragrance

Hermesh

10 years ago

6Scent 7.5Longevity 5Sillage

2

Mild fresh-invigorating (bergamot) tea scent with a slight soapy note.

Astralmonad

1 year ago

1

The delightfulness of this perfume cannot be talked about without mentioning the beautiful rice note. Genmaicha vibes

Kajsa5

8 years ago

8.5Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

13

an exceptionally beautiful tea scent, matcha, jasmine, mate with a very subtle sweetness. Not tied to any season, calming, soothing, zen

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Jennytammy

6 years ago

7Scent 6Longevity 6Sillage

5

2

Pleasant and refreshing mate tea scent with bergamot and a hint of jasmine.
Overall, a bit too soapy for me.

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Orletta

6 years ago

7.5Scent 6Longevity 7Sillage

4

First fresh and green, then the jasmine blooms quite strongly, and in the end, you find yourself in front of a bowl of rice pudding, served with jasmine tea.

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