Spiced Green Tea

Man. Man oh man. I just received a sealed gift set of this from eBay, spritzed it on my arm, and I'm holding back tears at my desk. My first girlfriend wore this - she was my first love, and on my inhale of this warm, comforting scent this afternoon I was immediately and alarmingly transported back to 2004. I was 19, naive, and desperately and passionately in love in the way only 19 year olds can be. When she went away to university, she left behind her empty bottle of Spiced Green Tea so I could sniff the lid and think of her (I did, endlessly). I used to wear YSL Babydoll (RIP) at that time, and what I've give for another whiff of that. Trying to put my emotions aside, this is a beautiful perfume. Beast mode, complicated, or an absolute head-turner? No, not really, but that's not detrimental. Elizabeth Arden is my favourite perfume house, and delicacy is what they do best. I have several of the Green Tea flankers, including the original, and I think they're all pretty much unbeaten on light freshness. The tea note is spectacular, warming and zingy, and this flanker is shot through with a close warmth from the spices. To me, all of the Green Tea scents are degrees of uplifting. They make you feel like you've got your stuff together - not in a powerdressing, bad bitch way, but in that your house is ordered, your laundry is done, you're freshly showered, and all is well. Calming. I've decided I can't divorce my feelings from this. Completely biased, and I was lucky enough not to get a 'spoiled' bottle. Absolutely beautiful in its calm, uplifting simplicity.

Revisiting this one after a long, long while - I threw the last of my vintage bottle out because (as mentioned by others) it did indeed go off, but I loved the fragrance so much I was prepared to try again. So.. freshly sealed pack (tho still obviously dated as it was discontinued a while back) and - BIG smile! - this is still just as fresh and vibrant as I remember it! I know this one is a bit 'marmite' (you love it or hate it) and, like the original Green Tea, it is not the most taxing fragrance ever, but it doesn't pretend to be. To my mind though, this is still an infinitely wearable triumph! It is lightly warm and spicy. Gently fruity and comforting - a light spice with a little zing about it. Projection is good, it lasts and lasts, it makes me feel great, and it lifts my mood - what is there not to like here? I doubt you'll get samples these days, but I picked up my sealed pack for a tenner. If those spices appeal to you, honestly, you could do much worse!

Have you ever felt like you cheated on a school test when you find a special perfume for next to nothing? And even more so when it's an excellent alternative for an expensive niche fragrance that you've been hankering for? Spiced Green Tea is that for me, and is the fraternal twin to Serge Lutens Five O'Clock Au Gingembre. I bought this on thE bay for under $14 for 3.3oz (including shipping!). Slightly sharper and with woody anise instead of Five O'Clock's dry cacao. Neither fragrance has a whole lot of tenacity as far as longevity goes, but at $120 for SL's 1.7oz, I'm very happy with this less expensive option. Bright and citrussy to open with ginger and rhubarb adding an edginess. Then it warms down to a delectable spiced, floral incense with subtle tea and woods. Hot and energetic. I'm loving this all the way.

Really quite fabulous! It can still be found in the UK on some of the perfume websites for next to nothing, and is the deal of the century. Rich, warm, spicy; smells like liqourice to me and has an 'edible' quality. Lasts very well on my skin, and has a coziness to it. Very much a winter perfume for me, but I can wear it any time. I try to ration it as I know at some point I won't be able to find it any more. Get it while you can, ladies (and gents as I think men could wear it too!)

This fragrance on its own is nice, but not all that exciting... however pair it with M Mariah Carey and the combination is divine! UPDATE: Also layers very nicely with Bvlgari Omnia... maybe even better then M...

I like this and use it when I am hanging around the house in the fall and winter. I also pair this with Hugo Boss Deep red.

love it... I smell like an apple pie...

Bought this on a whim because I love the original Green Tea, and someone on here had said it had notes reminiscent of YSL Opium (1977), which was absolutely fascinating to me because in my mind these two fragrances could not be more far apart in the spectrum of perfumery, and since Francis Kurkdjian has become somewhat of a legend at this point, I thought for a small gamble, I had to know what was the fuss all about. Bottle itself is nothing terribly special, though for being a "budget" fragrance, it has a rather lovely variation on the original EA Green Tea bottle in a soft autumnal colorway. They even took the time to make the seal along the atomizer a coppery orange, rather than the standard silver, which shows some care in its packaging design. Credit where credit is due for making the effort to continue the autumnal feel, even in the smaller details. The initial blast was very medicinal off the bat - strong peppery, ginger, and herbal experience though I am willing to overlook it at the moment. In my experience, I've found that with spicier fragrances (woody, incense etc), they sometimes require a little settling into themselves before their at their most enjoyable. The folks over on FragranceTube (aka FragTube) call this "maceration" but to me it is simply an aging in the components themselves, but I digress. I think I'll need another wear after 24 hours of opening to truly judge it properly. There is a very lovely secondary cardamom and anise scent that shines through that gave me a reminder of some really incredible Indian restaurants I've been to in my time, and under that, the softest brush of tea leaves - though I am not sure if it reads as a black leaf or green leaf to me in this composition. It feels almost chai tea like. After dry down and on the skin it has a nice mellow sandalwood and patchouli incense note that is probably the softest rendition of "clean spice" I've ever encountered in a fragrance. For me, beautiful memories of early fall, right as summer wanes and autumn begins - when the daytime is still hot, and the nights start to get that chilly snap as the leaves start to turn. Pumpkin spice feelings, no syrupy sugar aftermath. The man is a legend for a reason, to say so much with rather little is impressive. I would suggest this perfume to someone who loves oriental incense and spicy scents but has a tendency towards headaches in their stronger concentrations or to those of us who would willingly wear YSL Opium (1977) to the office, but out of respect to sharing close space, don't want to gas out our co-workers. It's a shame it's been discontinued, but gives me incentive to maybe check out some of his more expensive undertakings in his own scent atelier.

Revisiting this one after a year. Warm spicy or "amber spicy" is a very inaccurate description, this is a very dry, bitter, green fresh spicy fragrance. It's cardamom and an earthy, bitter spice rack with a healthy dose of chlorophyll. One of the most, if not the most, masculine Green Tea flankers ever made, and very, very different from the original. It's unusual, and worth the sample if you like bitter or fresh spicy fragrances. It is certainly very unapologetic about being a spiced tea with no cream or sugar! Lasts about 4 hours on me, which is on par with the original Green Tea. I like it, and recommend it as a fairly cheap spicy fragrance for those who want no vanilla or amber or musks in their spice, and like it nice and dry and earthy. All the early Green Tea flankers (and of course the original) are composed by Mr. Kurkdjian himself, and are much more strange and ambitious than most of what came after. It's nice to know that before the Green Tea flankers were seen as cheap body mists that lack ambition but are easily likeable, they were quite the opposite -- aromatic, bitter, dry, and deeply polarizing, in a way that is thoughtful and truly artistic! Lasts about 4 hours on me, on par with the original Green Tea. ★★★★☆ EDIT: Layering this with a milky vanilla cheapie like Pepe Jeans for Her or Curve Crush makes for a lovely milky/vanillic/earthy/peppery pairing. This is a nice one to layer.

A true unisex scent. Neither feminine nor masculine. Smells rather musty, honestly, but in a good way. Like a sophisticated, well-blended version of those cheap gas station "pheromone" oils. It's neither sweet, nor masculine aromatic. It's just very dry, rather sensual and "musty" in an old clothes way. I can't explain why, but I enjoy that a lot about it. I keep smelling my arm and will definitely keep it into rotation. It smells like thrifted linen shirts and old fur coats, ginger root tea and a kitchen spice rack. Unlit cigars too. I like all those things and want to smell like them. You have to have a bit of a sleazy side to like this one. I like that this is a Kurkdjian fragrance, it's an interesting side to him. This is very unabashedly cheap smelling, but has the sophistication of something blended by a very well-trained nose. Like a cult-classic drug store cheapie, but without any aldehydes or screechy white floral/syrupy notes. Just shameless, unabashed dry spices and musk. I've met countless women that could pull off Baccarat Rouge 540, but I'd like to meet the woman that reaches for this.

unlike anything else i've ever smelt, in a good way :) i can smell the spice note very clearly on initial spraying... then i smell the tea, kinda mixed up with the spices. ginger, cardamom aren't distinguishable for me. but it smells like i walked out of the kitchen; albeit smelling great. this is a curious mixture of scents, and i gotta say, they've done it well. to have pulled off spiced green tea is no mean feat. not overpowering or annoying... this smells like a warm and mildly spicy fragrance on me. sticks to the skin, though and needs reapplication every 4 hours or so, if you really want other people to smell it! for me it's enough that i can catch a whiff of it every now and then, hopefully other people i come in close contact with catch a glimpse of this too. i would not buy this as a gift, this is an extremely individualistic scent. but i find it lovely.

When I first smelled the box and nozzle, it definitely smelled vintage, 90s oriental, which I think is right up my alley as I love Opium EDT. On my wrist, I first got a lot of the OG DNA of cool green tea with added warmth and, after a bit, some anise/liquorice. With a few sprays on body, I got a burst of ginger for a few moments before it dissipated. Somehow, getting more verbena afterward. Still trying it out, but I really like the profile, just wishing the performance is a bit stronger on me. MFK has that interesting crystalline quality, but I'm honestly way more impressed by Kurkdjian's EA works. To elevate a budget perfume to something beautiful must have taken a tremendous amount of talent and mastery.

This is great for gloomy days like today! It has a drowsy-like quality to match the weather. The ginger isn't too sharp, it's just warm, probably thanks to the cardamom. Thankfully I don't get any incense from this, or many of the other notes, just the ginger, cardamom, tea, sandalwood, and a HINT of lemon verbena. This has been known to last 12 hours on me with enough sprays (and I believe I layered it with Cashmere Glow from Bath & Body Works). This goes for all seasons, but I would only wear it when it's cool and cloudy/rainy. It's just that kind of scent for me. It certainly smells like tea with a bunch of spices. If you layer it with something vanilla or lactonic, you get a chai vibe.

I bought used Spiced Green Tea and the first spritz was terrible old man tobacco smell. But if I tried it later it was nice unisex version of the Green Tea. I think the beginning was just gotten bad in the tube (oxygen maybe). The green tea base makes it indeed cold, despite the spices like Nuppu said before. I think I won`t be wearing it in the winter. It is the first scent I can wear in the summer (fruity-florals always turn synthetic on my skin). If I want to get bit sexiness into this one then I layer it with sweet (also powdery) scents. I am not into sweet scents, this way I can make them tolerable and even nice.

This is really rather nice! Spiced Green Tea is a nicely blended spicy floral scent where the ginger and anise dominate the top notes instead of the usual citrus. The tea is in there somewhere but it isn't centre stage. I can see where other reviewers are coming from when they refer to Omnia/5 O'Clock au Gingembre - this is a lighter, sparklier version minus the chocolate notes. It's definitely unisex, but there's sweetness present when I tested it on my skin. I can definitely see myself wearing this in the summer, but I suspect I'll have to bring the bottle with me to boost its longevity.

The tea note in this perfume is not really intense, it is spicy and at the same time crisp. It is much more interesting than the Green Tea made by Elizabeth Arden. The only problem I have with this fragrance is that it does not last on the skin at all. I prefer to wear something that will stay with me and this one just didn't do it. For a person who doesn't like heavy perfumes, this may be a nice one to try.

In short - Green Tea Spiced smells like sweet granulated lactation fennel tea. It is a quite successful mix of Green Tea Intense and Guelain's Aqua Allegoria Anisia Bella. If you like both - this is gonna be your next favourite!

This smells very similar to Givenchy Eau Torride and also similar to Eau Ressourcante by Clarins. It has Spice and Bergamot at the same time. Very good, ideal for a summer evening when you want both lightness and character.

The tea note is not really intense. It's more spicy, fresh, and slightly sweet. It's definitely unisex. Doesn't last very long on my skin, just about 3 hours. And it is inexpensive 🙂

Fresh yet spicy, perfect for "Indian Summer" and what I would term a good "work smell", it's a bit non-descript but still nice.