Tea/Rose

It's no surprise that I love a perfume that is called Tea/Rose, and is made with actual rose. The tea is very light. The rose is marvelous. The scent is subtle and stays close to my skin. I only wish it lasted longer. (My sample is of the water perfume; I probably should have tried the absolute.)

THE most on-the-nose recreation of Tea and Rose. Smells exactly like a container of black tea leaves and a fresh rose. The most accurate rose scent I've ever smelled. Smells exactly like sticking your nose in the flower.

Really really really love this great perfume!!The first one make me smell TEA.Tea,mixed with rose wonderfully!

This is the smell of Tea/Rose... A vase of green roses and a chubby brown pot of black tea laid out on a white, starched tablecloth. Tea/Rose is simply that...black breakfast tea and rose. The rose note is rich and rounded but with a green edge; like a just opened bud still wet with morning dew. This is no plastic rose but the living, real deal. The tea is dry and black yet subtle--a wisp of blue smoke curling about the rose's stem. All in all, Tea/Rose is a lovely, minimalist beauty that would smell magnificent on both men and women. Longevity: 5 hours Sillage: Moderate-Quiet Rating: 4/5

Nicely done mix of roses and tea. Moderately sweet floral fresh wonderfully combined with dry herbal tea substance. Drydown is clean, soapy and less sweeter as the time goes buy.

fine, very light, doesn't last long, but easy wear for a hot summer day

I love roses and I have been craving them nearly all of the time the past few years. After a fairly exhaustive search for a good summertime rose that smells natural, isn't dark, isn't musky, and isn't bright, I've finally happily settled on this one. I've gone through several samples of this scent over the years and always really loved it, but it's lack of sillage and longevity kept me from committing. But a bottle of the scented oil is now mine. I decided would rather look like a fool sniffing my wrists and reapplying than wear something that I don't absolutely love. I have spent the past few weekends sniffing my way through rose gardens in Seattle and Portland and this perfume makes the transition from the real flowers to perfume seamlessly. It smells very real to me. To my nose, the opening has a little green quality, and some days I smell citrus too--but it is more like the citrus-y facet of a good, mellow black tea than a bright citrus smell. The scent of black tea takes the place of the usual musk or amber, and provides a well blended base. I smell the tea and rose elements combined for the life or the perfume, which I have found is a bit longer in temperatures over 70 degrees F.

Properly, the fragrance is called Tea/Rose -- not Tea Rose. The CB I Hate Perfume website explains that this scent is simply its name, both TEA (black) and ROSE. I've been looking for a black tea fragrance for some time, and this is not it. This is, however, just glorious. Like Sonoma Scent Studio's Velvet Rose, Tea/Rose starts out with a rush of green, medicinal bitterness. Very quickly, it becomes a rich rose scent. Gradually the tea comes up to underscore the rose; the tea never becomes the star, but supports the rose like a male danseur supports and lifts the prima ballerina. The tea keeps this rose from veering off into cheap drawer-liner powderiness by toning down its sweetness. The tea note strengthens as time passes, but the rose never leaves; hand in hand, the tea and rose walk off the darkened stage at the end of the performance, leaving the audience to beg for an encore. Wonderful.

Picture Battenburg lace, silver tea servers, mismatched china, distressed painted wood . . . and 'old world' fragrant tea roses strewn everywhere. Delightful tea rose and tea! A perfume for the shabby chic aficiondos! Similar to Perfumer's Workshop Tea Rose, but not as potent or bold. More like an aristocratic relative with thoroughbred features. The tea highlights the powdery sylvan effect of these tiny roses. It lasts for hours and has a comforting accord like sleeping late under handmade quilts. Lovely!