Imperial Tea (2024)

Bought this during the relaunch event. Tea fragrances are hard to love for me, especially those that are based on green tea. I find most of them to have an amazing opening followed by a quick deterioration into something faint and sour. Dior The Cachemire, and Kilians own Bamboo Harmony fall into that category. Vilhelms Dear Polly came very close to changing my opinion on tea, but unfortunately it's eureka moment comes way too late into the fragrance lifetime. I don't want to endure 3 hours of boringness for a pleasant dry down. Then came Imperial Tea and finally pushed me over the edge for green tea. This stuff is GORGEOUS. It is a profoundly soft fragrance, and not in a thin or absent way. The minimalist duo of tea and jasmine blend in a way that is petal soft yet rich and bold, but not cloying or heavy, not thin or sheer, just a perfect soft touch. Picture a constant tender caress: never overbearing but never absent either, just a permanent soft presence. That's the vibe I get from Imperial Tea. I don't know what kind of musk or ambroxan-adjecent molecule they've used in the base, but it acts as the perfect primer for the performance. It carries the scent of the tea and jasmine outwards while remaining undetectable itself to my nose. Adding a touch of Molecule 02 underneath works very well for this fragrance and gives it eternal longevity. Cannot recommend this fragrance enough. It will be a delight to wear this spring and summer.

I love Imperial Tea, it’s like a sister to Bamboo Harmony but with the most realistic jasmine tea that unfurls as it steeps and steams in zen-like purity. There’s a gentle aquatic note which helps with the realistic steam scent, combined with a grassy jasmine-floral sweetness, freshly cut grass, steamed greens and sweet seaweed. It’s fresh, warm and comforting. This is the perfect scent to cultivate mindfulness and inner peace. It just doesn’t last for longer than about 2 hours. It’s a real shame as I think this is what my spirit smells like. It’s nothing like Elizabeth Arden’s Green Tea if you’re trying to find a budget version, that stuff literally smells budget. It’s more like Eau De Magnolia by Frederic Malle in its delicate aquatic floral innocence. Although I have found a suitable budget replacement in JLo’s Still surprisingly. Update: I think this is an absolutely beautiful creation. I wore it to an evening meal out with friends and it was exquisite for the first hour then it left me. But I think it’s so beautiful but I can’t justify the price with it being amazing for only an hour. Please By Kilian can you make the extrait version of this. Update 2: I’ve managed to scratch my tea note itch with Still for a fraction of the price and it lasts.

Phenomenal. Best tea I’ve ever smelled. I’m really fussy about teas, I find a lot of them in fragrances are combined with bergamot (why??? They make the tea so astringent and sharp, and sometimes headache-inducing), but this one is so elegant, silky smooth and perfectly photorealistic. Nothing sharp or astringent at all. Just smooth, perfectly blended goodness. For those of you worried about (or hoping for) the seaweed, it doesn’t come through at all. This one smells like freshly and perfectly brewed pu’er, no milk, no astringency. Or if you’re a fan of Asian bubble tea - think the Chinese black tea they pour over ice before the milk is added. Phenomenal... best tea I’ve ever smelled. I’m torn between singing its praises everywhere, versus keeping it a secret so no one else around me has this. lol. Scent: gorgeously classy, realistic pu’er tea. Longevity: great for a tea! I get at least 6 hours and can usually faintly smell it at the end of my day Projection: average Polarity: unisex

I got a sample of this and it was love at first sniff. It smells like pure jasmine tea on me- I don't get any algae (thankfully) or other notes that detract from it's realistic beauty. As an aside, I was preparing to go on an extended trip and I didn't want to risk my bottle getting broken in my luggage so I ordered the roll-on dupe from oil perfumery, and I'm glad to say that it smells exactly the same as the original on me, with the added benefit of being much longer lasting than the original. In fact, a student I was traveling with told me that "you always smell so good, you definitely smell expensive." Now if your skin amps up the other notes in the original, I don't know if you'll get that here because all I get is photorealistic jasmine + green tea. This also layers really well with my decant of Santal 33 that I find too sharp to wear on its own.

This is an expensive tea store where they sell all kinds of tea by the weight. Hard to tell what’s more prominent : matcha , roasted green tea or black tea. Tea notes are so complex here , I even get sweetness and bitterness from them at the same time.There is something energetic in this fragrance; definitely a unique one. Longevity wise it is at least 6 hours, silage is strong (surprise for such a “light” notes). I would choose this over any other Killian perfume! 10/10.

My new favorite tea fragrance! Killian really knocked it out of the park with this one. I feel like this is what I wanted Guerlain Neroli Outrenoir to be. This is so elegant and well-rounded, a straight stunner! Don't allow the seaweed & laminaria notes scare you, it's pure magic and adds a uniqueness that you don't typically find from tea fragrances. I also get good longevity - around 7-8 hours!

It is right up my street! I was looking for a realistic jasmine tea like scent and it is exactly smells like jasmine tea! very elegant. The bottle design and composition are what you pay for. All the notes above are there and works perfectly together. Silage is not too strong, longevity is good. do not expect room filling kind of scent, it is closer to skin but still there...

High quality tea leaves in a bottle. Floral, elegant and composed. This fragrance is one of, if not the most uplifting and inoffensive one in my collection. It won't make you magnetize people, it will make people comfortable and calm around you. A truly sophisticated type of scent that you can enjoy daily. Rating: 9.5/10

Perfect photorealistic jasmine green tea. I haven't sprayed too much of it (it's expensive), but the sillage doesn't seem to extend very far. I didn't think it would to be fair. This is exactly what I was looking for and I'm very happy with it, though I do wish it were cheaper so I could justify a full bottle.

Perfect photorealistic jasmine green tea. I haven't sprayed too much of it (it's expensive), but the sillage doesn't seem to extend very far. I didn't think it would to be fair. This is exactly what I was looking for and I'm very happy with it, though I do wish it were cheaper so I could justify a full bottle.

Hyper realistic iced tea scent. It smells like I opened a jar of iced tea that was sitting in the sun. I really like it especially since most ice tea scents doesn’t smell like iced tea very much. Kilian has done it again.

@Ethkco is right. Smells like Chagee or Molly Tea store lol. Chagee was accused of adding fragrance in their teas..smelling this it really makes me wonder....

Very realistic scent of dried imperial jasmine dragon pearl tea. Tea drinkers likely to love this! I do.

Love it, but the performance is too weak

At initial spray, this leans more male, then it dries down unisex. The opening seemed a bit barber shop and sweet. Slightly a fougere. Sweeter than I prefer. The bergamot is prominent, as well as tea (I read more black than green tea) and mate notes. It gave me 30% resemblance to Matcha Meditation when I first sprayed, though I like MM better as MM doesn’t come off masculine. I don’t get seaweed. Some say that green tea can impart such notes when drinking the tea—I never experienced that though I regularly drink it (from Japan, China, Korea, including from regions well known for their green teas). I like the drydown of this perfume better, and this phase is quite nice. It slightly reminds me of One Day Jasmine Tea, but not quite as Imperial Tea has citrus. The drydown is like a combination of One Day Jasmine Tea and Fragonard Jasmin Perle de The. But IT is more masculine than the other two. In terms of Kilian’s tea fragrances, I love Princess as it’s very feminine, fluffy pretty. Imperial Tea is still well made. Update 09/22/2025. I layered it with One Day Jasmine Tea. The combo is a pretty good balance of jasmine tea the beverage and perfume. Very very nice.

as an Asian and avid tea drinker i find this tea scent hyper realistic. the opening is dried ,crushed green tea leaves that reminded me inside a luxury tea house...the drydown is an earthy, powdery,nutty dried green tea leaves dust/residue , almost like a matcha powder smell...what a natural dried tea smell with no vanilla and fruit notes that makes the scent smell anything except tea ..very high quality ingredients , the proyection doesnt make me sick at all this is a type of scent for the office, that you have to bring the bottle to work for reapplication because the perfomance is weak, almost like 3-4 hours skin scent and 1hr of proyection....

This gave me a lovely really jasmine scent, but I had to apply considerably more perfume than I usually do. Dry down only took about 30 minutes, and 12 hours later I could still smell it. However, I could only ever smell it when my wrist was physically pressed against my nose. Not what I want in a scent, but it was lovely.

It's not my perfect tea fragrance, but I like it. I'm actually upset that after an hour it becomes pretty boring as it disappears quickly. Still, very calming. Lately I have been feeling really nervous, and this one helps me more than any real green tea. So yeah, it's a personal one.

Don’t get me wrong this is a lovely fragrance there is that beautiful note of tea that dominates the whole fragrance, tones down to a lovely neroli. My whole problem with this fragrance is the price and the performances. It doesn’t last and it doesn’t project at all... you can get plenty of similar fragrances with a quarter of the price. To me it just doesn’t works out. If you want something similar that cost way less and projects much more get blue matcha by Montale

Realistic jasmine green tea scent. Subtle and understated. Performance is a crime especially for the price as it lasts only an hour on my skin. Mith Another Tea is an incredible dupe of this fragrance that is a quarter of the price, lasts much longer, and although Another Tea smells a bit more synthetic, it's closer to what you would smell upon walking into Molly Tea.