Perfumes with tea

Tea smells dry, slightly astringent and green, with a gentle smoky or hay-like nuance, giving a fragrance a calm, refined and transparent quality.

An absolute can be solvent-extracted from the leaves of Camellia sinensis, but in most perfumes tea is an accord built from synthetic materials. Depending on the interpretation it leans towards the airy freshness of green tea or the tannic, honeyed, smoky side of black tea. Tea is used mainly in the heart of a fragrance. It pairs with bergamot, lemon, jasmine, mate, fig, musks and woods.

tea appears in 1,494 perfumes in the Fisfis catalogue and is used mostly as a heart note.

Popular perfumes with tea

• Bvlgari Eau Parfumee au The Blanc (2003)
• Bvlgari Eau Parfumée au Thé Rouge (2006)
• Burberry Body Tender (2013)
• Bvlgari Extreme (1999)
• O Boticário Floratta in Blue O Boticário (1998)
• Guerlain Néroli Outrenoir (2016)
• Penhaligon s Artemisia Penhaligon's (2002)
• Calvin Klein CK Everyone Eau de Toilette (2020)
• Parfum d Empire Ambre Russe Parfum d'Empire (2003)
• Bvlgari Mon Jasmin Noir L'Eau Exquise (2012)
• Azzaro Chrome Legend (2007)
• Guerlain L'Instant de pour Homme EDP (2015)
• Memo Paris Inlé (2007)
• Givenchy Ange Ou Demon Le Secret Eau de Toilette (2013)
• Frederic Malle Bigarade Concentree (2002)
• Rabanne Paco (1995)
• Calvin Klein Women (2018)
• By Kilian Bamboo Harmony (2012)
• Kenzo Jeu d'Amour (2014)
• Ormonde Jayne 4. Montabaco Intensivo (2013)
• Escentric Molecules Escentric 03 (2010)
• Giorgio Armani Figuier Eden (2012)
• Jaguar Classic Black (2009)
• Hermès Hermessence Osmanthe Yunnan Hermès (2005)

Notes most often paired with tea

• Musk
• Bergamot
• Jasmine
• Amber
• Sandalwood
• Rose
• Patchouli
• Vanilla
• Cedar
• Mandarin Orange
• Vetiver
• Cardamom