Assam of India

I discovered this by accident. One day I was running late and forgot to spray on a perfume. I was looking through my bag to find something to wear and I dug out a sample of Assam of India. I sprayed it and didn’t give it a second thought. Throughout the day I kept getting a pleasant whiff of something clean, citrusy, soft and nice. I went around sniffing my coworkers trying to track it down. It wasn’t till I was on my way home when I realized it was me. I tested it a second time and I was pleasantly surprised how wonderful this smelled. It was far from what I was attracted to in a scent. I gravitate towards heavy florals and powdery scents so to fall in love with a tea and lemon scent was quite a surprise. This is a heavy tea scent. The lemon is bright and I admit a tad artificial. There is sandalwood which I don’t pick up at all but maybe in the dry down depending on the weather. Assam of India is just beautiful. I don’t usually care for compliments but this is a people pleaser, when I wear it I’m constantly being asked what I’m wearing or being told I smell nice. Since 2018 I have gone through a couple bottles and a few travel sizes. I use to get it from Sephora and they no longer carry it and I can't seem to find anywhere that that has it in stock. I don’t want to think that this is being discontinued. If I wasn’t afraid of commitment I would say this is my signature.

A summer time heaven. Assam of India is one of the best summer fragrances I've came across, period. It's as if a master perfumer wanted to create Elizabeth Arden's Green Tea with the best ingredients from scratch. Assam of India is a linear fragrance in the perfect way. It's smells of green, natural, fresh tea with an almost equal amount of invigorating, happy, & uplifting lemon. There is a certain soft & mild sweetness that compliments this scent so well. It prevents it from being too sharp or harsh, & makes it rather more relaxed & mellow. I don't detect the sandalwood. Here it's one of those unperceivable notes. Probably added to drive the scent toward a certain olfactory aspect or maybe for chemical reasons. Overall, an absolutely gorgeous, bright summer scent that is a must try for the lovers of fresh, citruses, or tea scents. It's not ground breaking but a it's a simple formula executed to perfection. The performance is good. The sillage drops down after an hour or two but the scent lasts for 6+ hours. Unisex, warm weather wear. "Love"!

Came back to update my review. This is my No 1 black tea fragrance now! I wasn't sure about the price tag at first, because the initial citrusy tea spritz reminded me of Green Tea by Elizabeth Arden. But no! This one is a true Lipton Lemon Ice Tea, whereas EA GT is just on the edge of being too citrusy, like a cleaning product. AoI is not only a photorealistic, refreshing tea scent but it is also super long lasting on clothes. I could still smell it 8 hours later which isn't typical for tea fragrances. I was lucky enough to get one for less than 50 EUR at a sale and it is one of the best deals I got so far this year. I actually blind bought this. A big recommendation to all tea fragrance lovers.

this is sooooo pretty and girly feeling to me. it's really nicely priced, and it lasted a full 8-hour shift on the fry station in a kitchen so i'd say it's worth the price. its a more refined, cleaner version of Elizabeth Arden green tea. this perfume house also makes perfumes that are good for layering more complex fragrances on top, so this really checks all my boxes. plus the bottle with the little elephant pattern is so cute!!

A perfect everyday perfume if you're looking for something bright and approachable, but not boring. The spiciness of the heart makes me feel like there's more going on here than just lemon, tea, and sandalwood. If that's really all it is, then they packed a lot of flavor into that tea note. This feels like waking up on a crisp morning and sipping orange juice in a spice market. Sunshine in a bottle.

This is a unique citrus tea scent with some woody notes that come out on the drydown. At first spritz it smells like strong, freshly-brewed, sweetened black tea with a squeeze of lemon. Although it's marketed as being for women, I would argue that this is quite unisex due to it smelling exactly like a brewed tea. It's fresh but refined. A great introduction into tea scents that isn't too sharp.

This is lovely! I am fussy with citrus notes but this is gentle and refreshing. It truly does smell like lemon tea. The perfect balance of tea and lemon. I imagine this is a delight on a hot summer day. I am a little confused by the name though, as it is not spicy at all. I will be getting a bottle of this ASAP :) Extra points for cute bottle.

Great frag! It's indeed gorgeous. Lemon tea with creamy sandelwood undertone, almost undetectable, but it is there. And together with the tea it lingers long, almost 10h, but mostly as a close skin scent. It project well for the first 2 hours or so. Great for everyday summer wear, office friendy and soft enough for dinner parties. Love it. 91

Simple but lovely work. A straightforward lemony tea scent, softened by the barest touch of sandalwood. Feels easygoing, natural and carefully put together with solid raw materials. Can’t wait to see how it performs in the warmer weather. Note: The juice is more clear than depicted here but the elephants on the bottle are beautiful.

A beautiful crisp, bright, lemony (but not sweet) tea. Reasonable longevity given the freshness of the notes. Not an ambroxan or calone bomb. Uncomplicated, easy to wear happiness in a bottle.

I really, really wanted to love Assam of India. Judging by the simple, enticing note list, it looked like a very promising candidate for one of my holy grail categories: the perfect lemon tea scent. I already own and love Carthusia's Mediterraneo, which comes pretty close to that epithet, but there's room for at least one more in my collection, especially if it's more straightforwardly focused on the tea note - and I thought this might be the one. On top of that, the name appeals to the imagination, the bottle design is absolutely delightful, and even the price is reasonable... what could go wrong? Of course, with expectations as overblown as that, plenty could go wrong when I finally managed to get my hands on a decant, and I was unsurprisingly disappointed. The kicker is, for about five minutes in the opening, it does smell exactly like I had dreamed it would: pure, delicious lemon tea, slightly bitter and not too sugary, refreshing and natural. But all too soon the balance of the scent is disturbed, at least to my nose, by a rather soapy accord. Combined with the dominant lemon note, this is inevitably reminiscent of cleaning products, and once that thought has entered my head it's hard to get rid of it. It's not bad at all, and I can imagine it even seems delicate and lovely to those fortunate enough never to have had occasion to smell Mr Clean. For me, unfortunately, it means the end of my beautiful dream about Assam of India: I'll keep my decant around to experience that wonderful opening from time to time, but unless my taste changes dramatically that beautiful bottle will never adorn my shelves. Too bad, but at least it's an excuse to keep sampling lemon tea scents, which I'll never get tired of doing!

Just infuriating. A brilliant idea of combining some lovely notes (strong lemony tea, given some legs by sandalwood) but then completely let down by pathetic execution. Same problem as with a lot of other Berdoues: an absolutely ravishing opening that goes straight down the drain / into the ether within a heartbreakingly short time. For me it goes like this: TEA - actually detectable, astringent, woody black tea - one of the loveliest and truest captures of this obviously extremely elusive note, which I've not smelled done so well yet in any other perfume - that lasts for literally less than 2 minutes. And then morphs into... LEMON TEA - good, fresh, real-seeming, zesty lemon tea, not sour, just lovely, oddly reminds me of Lipton's Iced Tea mix (and that's a good thing) - with this phase lasting for all of an hour and a bit. then a bit of SANDALWOOD - very, very, very, very low key, so low key it's barely there, just hanging about in an ambient way for maybe another hour or so. So that's 2 hours of extreme subtlety after 2 minutes of beauty - and that's it, that's your lot, that's all you'll get. Aaaaaaaaargh absolutely exasperating. I would be 100% sold on this if they'd found a way to make the initial effect hang on. As it is it just makes me grumpy (did ya guess?). Try it if you think your skin might let it survive longer. Like the others in this line it claims to be an EDP but performance is barely EdT level. *throws things around in a tantrum*

By the name Assam of India I was really expecting a strong black tea smell...but this smells a lot like Elizabeth Arden's Green Tea. It's a better version for sure, lasts longer and is clearer, less muddled. Assam of India is like pulling all the facets of Green Tea into sharp focus. Everything in this perfume is brighter, sharper, more sparkling. Especially the lemon. Sweet, uplifting, smelling of sunshine filtering through clean windows and morning birds frittering through the air. This doesn't smell like actual green tea to me either - it smells like tea scented beauty products. I don't think tea scented beauty products have actually ever smelled like real tea to me. Maybe because they all smell cool and refreshing, whereas I always drink my tea hot? Perhaps if you had an iced green tea, sweetened well and with plenty of lemon, it might smell like this. Actually, yes, I remember now - I used to drink a Lipton green tea with lemon that they sell in bottles, cold. I can see the similarity between this fragrance and that drink. Very sugary, that drink was. Delicious, crisp, light, and very pleasant for a summer afternoon. Get this if Green Tea is your fragrance of choice but doesn't last on you.

Very nice for the price. If you enjoy the idea of a lemon note, over a slightly sweetened watery tea accord and a bit of a spicy edge (a bit of cardamom is mostly what I get), chances are you will like this one. Simple, straightforward, a very valid alternative to Carthusia Mediterraneo, which is slightly sweeter and less spicy. The Carthusia has a slight peachy fruity facet too it that further reinforces the ice tea vibe, but to my nose it is a bit too aggressive; it also has sligthly thyme-like herbal facets that are replaced by the warm spicy elements in Assam. Good longevity too, although the citrus portion itself is quite fleeting.

A light, bright, and lovely black tea with lemon. The sandalwood is a minor player, appearing in the far dry down. This is a cheerful and uncomplicated scent, perfect both for casual weekends and crisp white summer clothes, and it is wonderfully refreshing on hot days. Longevity is nothing short of astounding for an EDC; this easily lasts 10-12 hours on me without a refresh. If you have Dior's Escale a Pondichery, you won't need this, as they are virtually identical; however, I confess to having purchased it anyway, because I adore the bottle! Overall, a good bargain and a very easy to wear fragrance.

Smells nothing like Elizabeth Arden's Green Tea - I use that as a work fragrance due to its non-offensive/uncomplicated nature. On me this smells like strong expensive black tea paired with a note that softens the edges (although not lemony at all on my skin). The only scent I would compare it to is another favorite of mine Aqua Allegoria Herba Fresca - minus the mint plus a touch of Herbal Essences shampoo. Lovely for hot and humid weather.

Very nice Arnold Palmer type fragrance- a simple but well balanced citrus tea fragrance that is smooth. I picture a male/female professional golfer or tennis player using this fragrance - in other words, the person wearing this type of fragrance probably would be wearing a clean cut white sport outfit with a visor - perhaps staring in a feminine products commercial - fresh summer perfume.

Pretty straight forward, very nice and fresh black tea scent. It's like ultra strong dark unsweetened iced tea with plenty of fresh lemon. Soft woody dry down. Easily unisex. In hot humid weather longevity could be a bit better, but I think there's no harm in applying it liberally. I might just pick up a full bottle one day.

Lipton iced tea with plenty of lemon--an easy reach fragrance. This wasn't what I was expecting, but it is enjoyable and I will use it. I was actually hoping for more spices that I didn't get, so I'm surprised others are remarking on this. Maybe my nose just needs to rest. I will update if anything changes.

Agree with the comments it is a fresh delicious iced tea on a humid hot day. Light and airy with enough depth from the sandalwood. I would buy a full bottle if I did not already have Elizabeth Arden's Green Tea. This one does have a tinge more depth yet they do smell nearly identical.