White Tea

I blind bought this as it was on sale and I love a good tea fragrance. I love it! It's fresh but also creamy, particularly in the dry down. Smells somehow rich but also casual and effortless. Someone below mentioned a hidden vanilla note. I can see this, and even though I'm not a vanilla fan, here it's very nice. Definitely unisex, not that I put much stock into how any fragrance is gendered. I find it really unique and pleasant and an interesting take on the common white tea genre. I was also surprised by its great longevity. It lasts for hours on skin (I could still smell it faintly 8-10 hours later) and days subtly on clothing. Paired with it's restrained sillage (not overpowering but present), it's a stunner. I just got it last week and it's been below freezing here in the UK. It really works in this weather, and I'm excited to see how it behaves in warmer and hot weather. The bottle is nice and high quality and I love the simple design, but it's insanely thick and heavy. It's only 50ml but it feels like it should contain 100ml or more (there's like an inch of glass!) I can't help but feel it's trying to deceive you into thinking there's more inside than there actually is.

This has surprised me by becoming one of my most used scents this spring (Australia). It is so fresh, clean and grounding. I would describe it as a fresh floral musk. The white tea note adds to the freshness. You’ll enjoy it if you’re into softer sweet tea scents like Ellis Brooklyn Sci Fi, which is another favourite of mine. Freesia is the most prominent note to my nose and then it settles into a sweet mossy, musky dry down. It’s yummy smelling. I’m not sure what is giving the sweetness, perhaps tea or peony? I could have sworn this was a vanilla based scent. This is definitely a skin scent and unlikely to offend or cause a headache. Longevity on me is about 3-4 hours, so a top up is needed. However, at this price I don’t mind. I will be sampling more Korres fragrances! I have sampled all of the Elizabeth Arden White Tea flankers and this is a so much more youthful and well blended white tea frag. The EA ones come off screechy and dated to me. I had to scrub them.

I am allergic to caffeine so I can't drink tea (aside from herbal tea), but I can smell it and I love it. This is a refreshing loud, green scent similar to BBW Misty Morning (soapy lily of the valley, Green Tea, White amber) only not as grassy pungent as that one, with intense fresh bergamot, the sweet girly peony and a 90s freesia-ozonic and perfumey flare to it. It also has a soapy element to it by the dewy peony-neroli, and some tart tone from the mandarin. The calming white tea pairs great with the creamy oak moss-musk blend. Lasts about 2 hrs on me, perfect bed-time scent for the summer.

Oooh this is smooth. I see they have taken out the cotton and cyclamen from the 2011 vs. and I like it better! Peony is added and has that out of the bath, clean soapy feeling. It's called White Tea and if they would have called it Narcissus I think it would better suit the smell. It's a yellow floral that is sort of dusky, slightly sweet and the oak moss in the dry down makes this smell very expensive. It's not going to be an attention grabber but it's a nice finish to a casual outfit doing casual everyday things.

Clean, fresh, earthy floral. Perfect for summer and those warmer fall days, in my opinion. There’s something about it that’s just so pretty and clean, but not in a soapy way. It also has a lovely powdery, musky dry down that’s so good! For the price, it’s a real gem. Especially in Greece, you can easily find it for under 20 euros almost all year round in many online pharmacies. And the longevity and sillage are decent for an EDT.