Green Tea

The Original GREEN-TEA. Signed by master perfumer Francis Kurkdjian, this beauty opens with a trio of citruses (lemon, bergamot, orange-peel) accented by mint and rhubarb, with citrus, tart & fresh tones. That continues & deepens into the floral heart led by a citrus-y grape-leaning jasmine & carnation, suspended by oakmoss and underpinned by white-amber. This all rests on a green-tea base with fresh-spicy hints aplenty, including fennel, caraway & celery seed. This was groundbreaking at the time of release in 1999, and today has become a classic. Contrast to Fraicheur Vegetale Thé Vert Yves Rocher: These are similar but not the same. Both have a prominent green-tea vibe, but FVTV has a more forward green accord, while Green Tea EA has a more forward citrus accord. Roughly equivalent performance or slightly better for FVTV. Contrast to Wulóng Chá Nishane: These are similar but not the same. Both have a prominent green-tea vibe, and while Green Tea EA has a fruity accord, it's more forward in Wulóng Chá. Wulóng Chá outperforms. Contrast to Aqua Media Cologne Forte Maison Francis Kurkdjian: These are different, but there are striking similarities. Both are composed by Francis Kurkdjian and have a prominent green-tea vibe with fennel, but AMCF has a more forward anise note and outperforms. Contrast to Valentino Donna Rosa Verde: These are different, but there are remarkable similarities. Both are green-tea dominant scents, but Green-Tea Elizabeth Arden has a faint perfume-y vibe (when compared side-by-side) and slightly more forward fruity quality, while Valentino Donna Rosa Verde has a more forward lemon-y-rose-geranium and outperforms. Contrast to Un Jardin Sur Le Nil Hermes: These are different, but both have a prominent green-tea vibe. UJSLN is more of a complex green-tea (tea notes being evoked by bulrushes), with a more forward tropical accord and an opening tomato leaf note, UJSLN outperforms. Overall: gorgeous, classic refreshing green-tea scent that was the inspiration for many other scents, with light performance that improves to average when layered over its matching body lotion. I'm a longtime fan of this scent. It's a love for me. 10/10. Enjoy!

This perfume is life changing. It couldn’t be overpowering, you widerwally could never put on too much. It’s subtle, faint, but it’s still there. It’s like a breath of fresh air. It smells a little citrusy, with a little spice that I can’t quite put my finger on. It’s warm, but refreshing at the same time. It’s light, it’s airy, it’s comforting. It feels like June. Sitting in the summer sun, where your skin starts to tingle and you know you should put more sunscreen on but you don’t because you secretly like the way burning skin feels. You reach for a can of watermelon La Croix and it drips down your chin. La Croix is maybe a better example. It’s still water and still very refreshing but the bubbles make it spicy water in your throat. It’s like the oreo and the milk all in one. Ugh. It goes with anything, enhances whatever scent you’ve already got on - be it another perfume, your shampoo, lotion, anything. And don’t get me wrong, I know I said it smells like June, but I daresay this fragrance is appropriate for all year round. Controversial maybe, I don’t know. But I’d definitely wear this to Thanksgiving dinner and also to Mother’s Day brunch. It’s serotonin in a bottle and serotonin never goes out of style. I don’t have much else to say about the scent itself, I can’t pick out any of the notes really, but my nose sure likes it. Overall rating: 9.47/10 I would give it a full 10, but because it is really light, I be spraying it on all day. Longevity could be improved, but at the same time I do really like the subtleness of it.

This is so good. Like a tall glass of ice-tea. I'd bathe in this if I could, and, at least in my experience, it's physically impossible to overspray this. It's light and the longevity is not awesome, but I don't care because you can get a huge bottle for a song and spray away 'til the cows come home. I love this because it is lemony but mellow, it's gently sweet but not too sweet, it's got a delightful clean musk underneath, some whispery white flowers, and it has rhubarb! Why don't more things have rhubarb without being sour and pissy? It also has actual green tea in it, it says so right on the box: 'contains green tea', and it's in the ingredients as well (camellia sinensis leaf extract). I thought this was a really cool little detail. I am most definitely never going to be without a bottle of this nectar. It's absolutely *made* for the summer heat, but I think it's great for all year long, whenever you want to be in your happy place. I have the Green Tea Honey Drops Body Cream as well, a gigantic jar, and use it every day. This is absolutely unisex lemony goodness. Well played, to both Arden and Monsieur Kurkdjian!

I have been wearing this on and off since it came out. So has my Mum: it is one of her staple fragrances, and it very much reminds me of her. I love it, the tea note is prominent throughout, as is the mint, which I really like. As another reviewer said, it smells a bit like Moroccan mint tea without the sweetness. BTW if you want to see a Moroccan pull an 'interesting' face, try and convince them that mint tea doesn't need sugar - the result will be very like the expression of someone sucking a lemon. This fragrance is definitely quite complex for a summer freshie. Longevity is not great but you would struggle to spend much over £10 for a 100ml bottle, so re-spraying is not a problem. I also just obtained a nice big bottle of the matching shower gel - just the job in the current heatwave. I have not yet gone down the flankers rabbit-hole, though the Sakura Blossom one is seriously tempting me...just as well I have put myself on a new bottles diet for a while.

I will forever have this in my collection and I do wear this all year round. There is nothing groundbreaking about this perfume but I love how I could wear this on it's own whenever I feel like I just want something that will make me feel light and fresh during the extremely hot, humid, sunny days. I also wear this when I do not want my perfume to project or annoy anyone. I am speaking for myself but this scent also makes me feel grounded, maybe knowing that it contains green tea takes me to that mental state, who knows? Yes, I also wear this perfume when it's cold! I layer my heavy scents with this when I want to "brighten" it up a lil bit. I only spray this on my clothes NOT on my skin so I do not have any complaints with longevity. Also, for being $17 from a discount store? I definitely do not have any issues with this at all. I love this!