Tea Rose

TRY OUTSTANDING ROSE NOTES ON A BUDGET! The rose is a true queen among all flowers being beautiful, majestic and very fragrant. Consequently, its fragrance must also be royal blood material. The olfactory note of the rose can lean towards a more masculine or more feminine facet and generally evokes oriental ambiences. I quite like the rose scent but I am by no means an unconditional fanatic of it, by accepting every perfume whiff with the rose tag on it. I am particularly picky about the different nuances that we can find in rose scents that may arrive with many different names like Centifolia, Alba, Tea, English, Bulgarian, Moroccan, Turkish, Damask, Taif... and others that I don't remember now. I am also a bit choosy about the notes that can be combined with this floral scent. I usually don't enjoy other flowers mixed with the rose note, and I dislike the sweet rose/jasmine blending in particular. My defences come down completely when a strong taif rose note is combined with woods like agarwood, sandalwood and ebony, or with resins like olibanum and myrrh. All rose/wood accords are powerful, seductive and mysterious. An intense rose scent is heavily used in many well-known, appreciated and very usually expensive top-end perfumes. The rose note is clearly dominant in fragrances such as: Noir De Noir by Tom Ford, Rose d'Arabie by Armani Privé, Les Sables Roses by Louis Vuitton, Une Rose de Kandahar by Tauer Perfumes, Atomic Rose by Initio, Perfume Calligraphy Rose by Aramis, Oud Silk Mood by Maison Francis Kurkdjian, Portrait of a Lady by Frédéric Malle, Lyric Man by Amouage, La fille de Berlin by Serge Lutens, Roses de Chloé by Chloé, Velvet Rose & Oud by Jo Malone, J'adore by Christian Dior, Rose Noir by Byredo, Ardent by Boadicea the Victorious... ... and many others. All these fantastic perfumes have a common feature besides the high seduction they exert on perfume buyers. Their high prices and habitual unwillingness to integrate in-store promotions, seasonal sales and Black Friday advertising. THE BUDGET ROSE MUSKETEER There is a near-pungent rose perfume, actually using three types of rose essential oil, from an almost unknown brand. I refer to Tea Rose by Perfumer's Workshop. This fragrance presents us with a gigantic heart of Damask, Tea and Bulgarian rose. The other supporting notes are completely secondary and go rather unnoticed. If other perfumes contain rose essential oils mixed with supporting notes, this perfume fools us and seems to be composed only of rose essences and in very high concentration. It delivers the most intense and realistic natural rose aroma I have probably ever experienced in any perfume. It is simply a rose bomb, a wonderfully antique scent, a divine fresh rose that feels classy and retro. Plus, it's wearable all year round. Anyone who loves the scent of roses cannot go without this perfume in his or her wardrobe. If you don't like a rose scent, don't even try it because you will hate this fresh, natural and green bottled rose. Its longevity exceeds 8 hours and its sillage is close to two metres. The price? I bought my first 100ml bottle last month for €16. I hope you enjoyed my suggestion. If you are tired of smelling natural roses for a high price, now you can start doing it on a budget. Music: "(I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden" - by Lynn Anderson"

This is no fanciful suggestion - this is truly Tea Rose! I will be the first to admit I am an incorrigible rose lover and have been on the prowl for roses that speak volumes to me. I don't want perfumers' abstractions, I don't want it buried under mounds of patchouli or praline or raspberry - just give me one deft soliflore! I'm telling you, if you love roses as I do, this one belongs on your shelf, if only for the price alone. All talk of budget fragrance aside, this one is absolutely glorious. Upon a blind purchase of Tea Rose several months ago, at first spray, I completely overdid it in my excitement. Every review on here was true! I could smell the glorious, rich red and white and pink and yellow petals wafting out of the bottle and I just sprayed the unholy heck out of it onto my wrists. Of course, I was accosted by a green and overwhelming cloud of thorns and leaves and rosewater that not only scented my skin, but my entire bedroom for about a day and a half! Make no mistake, for an EDT this has MONSTROUS sillage and staying power. In fact, I shocked myself so badly I had to take about a month off of this divine fragrance to decide if I had made a terrible mistake and reflect on my questionable spraying choices. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea culpa. And then, the summer heat hit and I was positively wilting, as one tends to do, and desperately searched my shelf for a pick me up. Glow? Not today. Eternity? Wouldn't cut it. Tea Rose? What the heck! Give it a go! And let me tell you, this is THE rose perfume for summer. That thorny blast I had irresponsibly brought upon myself was nowhere to be found, once I wised up and spritzed delicately in the crook of my elbows and dabbed on my wrists. The sillage was still significant at 4-6 inches, and the staying power upwards of 8 hours, but much more tolerable in judicious amounts. It blossoms and blooms in heat, walking around leaves a trail of delicate petals behind you. Rose, and rose, and rose. Thorn and leaf and stem create the beautiful framework for the flower at the heart. Out of the drydown I detect a really pretty, gentle beeswax note that slowly descends into skin musk, as if you had rubbed the rose petals directly into your skin. It's vegetal and sexy, two words that honestly I'm not sure should be in the same sentence but look at it this way - it's as if you'd been rolling around damp earth covered in petals with your lover. Looking over the other notes fellow Fragranticans have detected, I have to say I sense no white floral or sandalwood presence, but that may be a matter of my skin chemistry alone. This is a green rose soliflore one hundred percent on me, for as long as it lasts, and it does last. In closing, learn from my mistakes, never overspray any enchanted juice that speaks in glorious subtleties, and you will be transported into the most paradisiacal lush rose garden for like, $10 a bottle. Come on. Rose lovers, you already know what to do.

I've been looking for ages for what I define as "perfect rose". I found a used bottled of this for only 7€ (in my country it costs around 15€) so I decided it could make a good blind buy. And it was the BEST value I've ever gotten for such little money. It opens up as a classic geranium rose. Even though the geranium isn't listed, I think it's the citrus notes to give it a "geranium-rose" appearance. A few minutes after spraying it develops a weird, slightly acidic metallic note which reminds me of blood for some reason? (EDIT: I found out that it's probably rose oxide) At first I found that off-putting, but as someone who loves dark things, I've grown to like it. It feels like a jammy yet not sweet rose. Almost earthy and very damp. Sillage is really good, I like to spray it on my back and let it dry before I let my hair down. My hair keeps smelling like roses for like 48h. Projection isn't as good as some people described, but it might as well be me using too many rose scents and going nose blind. Many people said it's photorealistic rose, but I don't feel like it is. There's much more to it, at least on an emotional level. Someone on these reviews said that it reminded them of catholicism, and that is a spot on observation: it smells exactly like the rose scent that is used for rosary crowns and sacred scented oils. It smells flowery and opulent but in a damp, cold way which also makes it smell like funeral flowers. It's a fresh rose, but it can have a dark, churchy aura to some, which is personally my favorite part about it. I've gotten my bottle 4 days ago and I've already used 1/4 bottle, it's truly addictive. I've worn it this last weekend, bringing my bottle with me cause I just couldn't stay without it. At some point I sprayed it on, and some guy told me something like: "How gross. You smell like my grandma" I took it as a compliment, cause "smelling like grandma" is what unimaginative, Sauvage-wearing people will always say when confronted with scents that don't follow the trends. It's something too purely beautiful to be loved by everyone. It exists just to delight the person wearing it, and for that reason, I think it's going to be my signature. Edit: after some time wearing it, I've gotten to love and love its metallic quality. Why does no one mention how metallic it is? It feels damp and bloody. It sometimes revolts me how much it smells like blood, yet I cannot stop spraying it on. A few months ago I really really liked it, but now I'm actually fully obsessed with it. It's a vintage, gentle rose, hiding a bloody and metallic nature. I didn't think such a cheap and simple perfume could evoke so much.

THE ROMANCE OF THE ROSE Visually the rose has always been one of my most appreciated flowers. Its beauty is accompanied by a majesty that impresses and, at the same time, offers us a richness of detail and vivid colours that attract and hook us. The perfume is quite fragrant and singular. Despite its feminine floral aura, for me, the rose note is perfectly unisex. Different roses have a wide range of complicated smells, from floral and tea aromas to spicy, fruity, and musky scents. Despite its delicate appearance, it is by no means harmless as it defends itself very well with its sharp thorns. The plant as a whole is usually quite resilient. Tea roses in particular were originally from China and were named Hybrid Tea because the fragrance of the plants reminded people of l of tea brewing smell. Tea roses are usually white and often grow much taller than shrub roses, producing a larger bloom as well. [short review] "Tea Rose" is a very linear fragrance made with immaculate tea roses, very red Bulgarian roses, and pink Damascene roses, surely all very carefully chosen. The perfume has a dewy rose bouquet that is quite intense and attention-grabbing. The flowers feel freshly picked and flood us with their olfactory pungency. It has slight nuances of herbal tea, more precisely chamomile tea or perhaps melissa in my opinion. My wife's opinion is that this perfume recalls facets of green tea. I consider this perfume to bear similarities to the intense rose scent of some niche perfumes released more recently. Don't expect from it, neither a very sweet profile or a resinous and amber base. Here we find essentially a spicy and warm floral continuous scent, rounded off at the base with a light green and woody aroma. It is really very pleasant! For its quality and price, it turns out to be an almost unbeatable perfume for a genuine lover of the rose note. Its performance is above average, with a longevity of more than 10 hours and an acceptable projection and sillage. It was released almost 60 years ago but still has an enviable performance. It is usually priced between 16 and 25 Euros on the web and is even easy to find. My opinion: Normally a rose perfume is associated either with other flowers, with noble woods, or even with resinous hearts and bases. This perfume gives us a clean scent of rose (or roses) without great distractions around it. The near absence of other flowers makes it not too feminine and makes it appealing to both genders. The price is very attractive. Rose scent deep lovers have a justifiable blind purchase justification. Music: "The Rose" by Bette Midler

I really wonder if certain people here have smelled real flowers, or at least fresh cut. Granted everyone has a different nose and different skin, but I find this rose so palpably vivid, that I can't rightly imagine anyone not getting much rose from it, unless their reception of the experience was either overly informed by their emotional mood at the time or just a general ignorance of what a thing smells like apart from other fragrances that present it as a prominent note. This is a freshly misted florist's cooler full of roses in their cellphone cones. If the discontinued Paul Smith Rose is a walk under a garden arbor, pregnant with blossomed climbing roses after a summer rain, Tea Rose is a trip to the florist. Remarkably abundant and fresh. Practically tactile. Not just for its price, but period. Beautiful on its own, building depth as time passes, like a good soliflore ought, making up for an absence (not lack) of complexity with an entirely separate sort of dry down evolution. As many have already said, however, this is an incredible layering scent. I'm currently trying to find the right layering ratio to Approximate Aramis 900 as potently as possible, by layering it with regular Aramis. I'm 90% there. It's difficult to keep the strong-for-an-EDT Tea Rose from overpowering the very squarely cologne-strength Aramis which, while strong, is hardly an endurance athlete in current formulations. Regardless of how the dry down are going, the initial wear of every attempt is smelling a million times more like 900 than its swarthy sister, Aromatics Elixir. I'm also messing around with Tea Rose with Moschino Toy Boy, Montana Graphite, and Lalique Encre Noire A L'Extreme to reproduce some sort of a-la-minute layer dupe of Paul Smith Rose. It seems to be a fantastic contender for recreating discontinued rose masterpieces, provided the user has a partner fragrance with the right profile. I should have bought a gallon. I'm so in love, I'm straight-up simping. Thank goodness she's not a gold digger.

Tea roses were originally from China and were named Hybrid Tea because the fragrance of the flowers reminded people of a tea brewing smell. Tea roses are usually white and often grow much taller than shrub roses, producing a larger bloom as well. Tea Rose by Perfumer's Workshop is a very linear fragrance made with immaculate tea roses, very red Bulgarian roses, and pink Damascene roses, surely all very carefully chosen. The perfume has a dewy rose bouquet that is quite intense and attention-grabbing. The flowers feel freshly picked and flood us with their olfactory pungency. It has slight nuances of herbal tea, more precisely chamomile tea or perhaps melissa in my opinion. My wife's opinion is that this perfume recalls facets of green tea. I consider this perfume to bear similarities to the intense rose scent of some niche perfumes released more recently. Don't expect from it, neither a very sweet profile nor a resinous and amber base. Here we find essentially a spicy and warm floral continuous scent, rounded off at the base with a light green and woody aroma. It is really very pleasant! For its quality and price, it turns out to be an almost unbeatable perfume for a genuine lover of the rose note. Its performance is above average, with a longevity of more than 10 hours and an acceptable projection and sillage. It was released almost 60 years ago but still has an enviable performance. It is usually priced between 16 and 25 Euros on the web and is even easy to find. My opinion: Normally a rose perfume is associated either with other flowers, with noble woods, or even with resinous hearts and bases. This perfume gives us a clean scent of rose (or roses) without great distractions around it. The near absence of other flowers makes it not too feminine and makes it appealing to both genders. The price is very attractive. Rose scent deep lovers have a justifiable blind purchase justification. Music: "The Rose" by Bette Midler

I can't discuss Perfumer's Workshop Tea Rose without pretty much paying a tribute to the inimitable Katie Puckrik, whose YouTube channel was instrumental in my burgeoning enthusiasm for fragrance over fifteen years ago. It was through of her grace, charm, and repartee that I acquired an appreciation for such greats as Clinique Aromatics Elixir, Annick Goutal Encens Flamboyant, Frederic Malle Dans Tes Bras, Keiko Mecheri Oliban—the list goes on. I recall her video where she showcases her collection and chats about the enduring classic that is Tea Rose. She shares memories of her friend Desirée, the coolest girl in her high school, who looked like Cleopatra and wore white lipstick. Katie and Desirée would bring their thermoses filled with coffee to school, something that immediately resonated with me as I myself was an adolescent beatnik coffee drinker and clove cigarette smoker. Desirée wore Tea Rose, a crisp and watery rose that first seems an uncomplicated soliflore, but beyond the freshness and vigor lies a shocking complexity. This is especially impressive given that a 100ml bottle can be had for around $16 US. I pick up the stems and the leaves beyond the blooms, and the feel is dewy and unadorned. How on earth can an ostensibly cheap formula yield what feels like a three-dimensional rose? It manages to seem both delicate and potent, carrying its garden-like vivacity for a good several hours. I regard it as a must-smell for rose lovers and one may be floored that it surpasses many rose-forward scents released in recent years that are more than ten times its price. I would caution, however, on going heavy on the trigger—this one favors a light hand for it to be best appreciated.

This is the most amazing rose fragrance you will ever buy. Period. First of all, I have no idea what all those other notes are doing up there... Bergamot? Sandalwood? Cedar? What drugs were they ON? This fragrance is a completely linear ROSE. It won't ever be woody, musky, citrusy, or anything else. It's very possibly the most potent rose you will ever smell, and no matter how long you wear it, it will never become anything on your skin except more ROSE. Did I mention POTENT??? This is the original "BEAST MODE" rose. A friend of mine applied three sprays before she and I went out for the day. We left the house at 7am... and at 11am, 4 hours later, I could STILL walk in her sillage when she was 30 feet away! Her wake was so thick with rose, it was practically visible as pink petals falling everywhere she walked. And there I was, with my Frederick Malle wussing out on me. Finally -- as other reviewers have mentioned again and again and AGAIN... This powerhouse rose fragrance is dirt cheap. I buy mine on Amazon, where it's currently priced at $10 for 4 ounces (120ml) with two-day delivery. (That's $80 per QUART!) And because it's so potent, that 4 ounce bottle can last a really long time. Tea Rose is so incredibly inexpensive that you can use it alone, as a soliflore; to layer with other scents as an added rose note; to scent your sheets, linens, bath, or even your entire home. It's the biggest bang for the buck I've ever found in the world of fragrance. If you find a better deal out there, I'd sure like to know about it! So go ahead, blind buy it! For less than the price of a couple pounds of butter, you can have roses, roses, roses, ROSES!!! ;-D

I wore this one when I was in high school. I came across it again and re-purchased it at a great price. Back in my day, there was also a hair care line called Salon Selectives. The hairspray from this line smelled like straight Granny Smith apples, and I loved it. In high school, my signature combination scent was the Tea Rose and the Salon Selectives: Roses and apples. The Proust Effect... The extraordinary ability that scent has to trigger memories. The days of long ago when I could eat a piece of chocolate cake and not gain 5 pounds. When I didn't have to worry about any bills. Ditching school, and going to the beach with my friends, flipping through fashion magazines, going to the mall, being able to spend all of the money I earned from my part-time job on clothes and makeup. A time wherein my largest concern was what I was going to wear to school the next day. Wonderful memories and smelling Tea Rose again brings it all back. One fragrance can indeed trigger memories, and Tea Rose does this for me. There's something to be said for a fragrance that has been around as long as Tea Rose has. I have found that most people that like rose scents are very particular, and some prefer a more modern rose scent. Tea Rose is a big leafy type of rose scent. I liken it to fresh-cut roses in a big beautiful vase, and when you deeply inhale you get the rose and some of the green element. The Brazillian Rosewood enhances the rose and the amber gives it a bit of warmth. Make no mistake, this is not a subtle rose scent. This is an in-your-face rose scent. I still love Tea Rose... It makes me smile.

I've been collecting perfume for around 7 years and I have been on a quest to find the perfect Rose. I have been through just about everything and they are either 1: too busy, 2:fruity,or 3 : just bad. Finally I got this one having passed over it because of the price thinking it would be a chemical mess that belongs in a bargain bucket at a thrift store but I couldn't have been more wrong! This is God level rose with performance to match. This is not grandma rose, jammy rose or potpourri, this is fresh roses on the bush, thorns, stems and dew. Perfectly unisex and trust me you will have people walking around with a puzzled look as they look for a rose bush. I couldn't be more in ecstasy as I am right now and my interest is piqued to the point that I might have to buy the EDP although I can't find any reviews on Youtube so I'm a bit hesitant. This in my opinion is the perfect summer fragrance, it has a massive sillage, and lasted 12h + on my skin. I could smell it in my bedroom the following day. It has no bloody lychee or raspberry to ruin it and no oud, patchouli or sandalwood to drag it down. Some people might find it too strong and I've seen some comments about spraying it and walking into the mist - why? I overspray most things and I'm getting the best performance on my skin from 4 sprays around my neck and 4 sprays on each arm top and bottom. I will be eternally grateful to Perfumer's Workshop for making a wish come true. And I will always have a bottle of this in my collection. 🇬🇧💜🙏🏼🌹🌹🌹🌹

Beautiful and affordable rose perfume for the rose fans. Available at any drugstore that sells fragrances like CVS or Walgreens. Tea Rose starts with a citrus kick via the bergamot orange. Then it gets into an apple scent which is rarely if ever discussed by the reviewers here. Totally a green granny smith apple scent. It does not contain such a note but it could be the citrus-into-rose floral scent with the green note that comes with the rose. This is an herbal scent, an earthy, green cabbage rose. The stem and the leaves are very much a part of the fragrance. It climaxes with the rose bloom and petals and the familiar rose scent but it is by that time in the dry down a dry rose not fresh rose. Smells like rose petals pressed in the pages of an antique book. The rose and the wood notes give it a very 'antique' scent. This is vintage and classy, with huge lasting power. Lasts all day. The sillage is a bomb and can be smelt by anyone a mile away! It's only rose and not complex. Really only rose and green notes with some slight wood. This is a fragrance to wear any time of th year but smells so beautiful on the skin or clothes in the fall/autumn time or winter. In summer if oversprayed it's a beast. Elegant and casual. Unisex. Men can wear this too because it's just a very dark green earthy rose with wood. Today many men's colognes offer rose notes anyways so it's become common to have men's fragrances with some rose on them. One of the most popular and beloved rose perfumes in the world.

Rose Classic... This is a must try for rose lovers. Although I was initially struck by a vintage vibe, this plays out to be a very hyper-realistic/photo-realistic rose. It could be that it reads vintage to me because it's so realistic and I myself am becoming vintage. I've smelt this before: a dozen roses from my father to my mother in a vase on the dining table, my grandmother's handcream, roses wrapped in paper from a special someone... Opens with a burst of rose with citrus and green nuances and develops powdery, velvety, peppery, fresh and soapy facets, resting on a soft cedar-sandalwood base that becomes root-y & earthy as it dries down. In the drydown, the rose expands taking on an airy & velvety quality. Overall: Beautiful vintage leaning, realistic rose scent with well above average performance, this is the perfect scent to wear time travelling. It's a love for me. 10/10 for a realistic rose. Enjoy! Contrast to Tea Rose EDP Perfumers' Workshop: The EDP version smells very similar to Tea Rose, but side by side, you can tell there's a Taif rose in the EDP, taking on more of a whipped-velvety quality compared with the more powdery-velvety EDT version. Performance is excellent in both. Update 03/26/25: Sprayed this on this morning and noticed it's gotten a lot sweeter and less powdery-vintage. Not quite jammy, but the rose has taken on an additional syrup-y quality but still has the green-leaning freshness as well. I enjoy this even more, every time I wear it. Still a love.

What do Nicole Kidman, Princess Diana, and Princess Grace of Monaco share? Their obsession with Tea Rose! This vintage gem hasn’t changed formula since the 70’s. Tbh, that fact both impressed and intimidated me, because A) Many vintage scents give “elderly” imho, and B) How good can a perfume be without ISO E, ambroxan, and all the modern chemicals that give fragrances depth and longevity? Riiiiight? WRONG! This little gem is a photorealistic POWERHOUSE. The eau de toilette’s longevity literally outperforms my Montales. There’s zero guilt in turning up the volume on silage with more sprays, because TR’s price = a drug store body spray. That’s it, from now on I live in an eternal rosebush. She’s juuuust woody and green enough to be 3D ALIVE, but not at all oudy or vegetal. All my linens, furniture, hair serums, will be drenched in THIS! She’s genuine. She’s Stronnng. Unexpected Win: since there’s no ambroxan or cetalox, you’re less likely to go nose-blind than, say, BR540 and JHAG. Bonus points for a perfume YOU can smell on yourself all day! The Experience: crushing a handful of dewy red petals to your nose, super early in the morning, and not even needing coffee. It’s rolling around on a bed of roses until they’re all mashed up in your hair, but you love it and you just don’t care. If “gardening” was a spotlessly clean fantasy fragrance, it would be this. There’s a reason LITERAL PRINCESSES call this a favorite. Tea Rose is the Real Thing.

Tea Rose is the cheapest perfume, but the best Rose perfume in my collection. Red Roses in the rain, oh I loveeee it! I like fresh and pure Roses, so Tea Rose is the Queen of Roses in my heart. It's unbelievable that this wonderful perfume was released in 1977. I bought it today, and as soon as I unsealed it, I could smell the fragrant scent right out of the box. I was overwhelmed by this super realistic Rose scent, something I always look for in perfumes these days. A lot of Rose perfumes today don't have a natural Rose scent like this one, losing the characteristics of the Rose. When I tried spraying it, a whole garden of Red Roses appeared before my eyes, like I was actually placing my face in a Rose bush and enjoying its fragrance. It's very realistic... with green leaves, sharp thorns and even wet dew drops on the petals. But this is a scent that brings out classic Vibes, not modern Roses. It reminds me of the Red Rose gardens in the mist and rain in England in ancient castles, so romantic. I think anyone who loves Roses should try this scent once in their life, wear it and you will turn into a girl lost in the endless Rose garden. The scent is very classic and natural, suitable for a romantic candlelit dinner with wine and Red Roses. I also often wear Tea Rose on rainy days, sipping a cup of tea and watching the rain fall outside the door. Rating: 100+/10, I love Tea Rose so much that I bought a spare bottle

Beautiful! A freshly cut tea rose set in a vase. The fragrant petals, the bright green stem, and the water in the vase combine into an intoxicating scent. I don’t see how anyone wouldn’t love this fragrance. It’s a timeless soliflore (single floral perfume) that evokes a natural and photorealistic image. Not only that, it performs like a beast! It’s an edt that performs better than many a newer edp. In fact, there’s an edp of this, and that honestly scares me. In modern times, rose scents have a feminine and antiquated reputation, so much so that they’re often described as “grandma-ish.” But Tea Rose is none of these things. Fellas, give this a sniff! Anecdotally this perfume is very popular with Indian and Middle Eastern men, and I can see why! This is not a sentimental, dusty rose. This is thorns, this is dew, this is the flower of love! Seriously, this is $12 online in spring 2023, and this 4 oz bottle is going to last me many more springs. So many powerhouse scents have been nerfed over the decades, and while I haven’t smelled an old bottle of this, I can say that the longevity and silage of Tea Rose are what I remember from perfumes of the past. This is an uncompromising classic, and I hope its formula and affordability never change.

It will probably take you less than a minute of checking my profile to discover that I’m huge white floral fan and fanatic. However this rose scent🌹 completely swept me by the feet. Roses are my favorite flowers by looks and I love how a real rose smells, but in perfumery they are commonly made in overbearing combinations with either syrupy sweet or heavily oudy or chypre concoctions. To me roses have a complex and beautiful smell on their own with nuances of floral, fruity, sweet, fresh and woodsy all built in naturally, and any other notes added just make it overwhelming to my nose. Not that I don’t enjoy such perfumes and wear them, of course I do, but I much prefer rose as a solinote if done right. Somehow TPWS managed to do the perfect naturalistic rose with cheap synthetic ingredients and a humble flacon but a great performance. Now that’s a successful workshop! Smelling TR is like burying your face in a rose bush full of huge numbers of red and pink roses in all stages, from young fresh closed blossoms to deep red large sweet ones in full bloom. You smell the green leaves, the woodsy thorny stems and the wet soil underneath. It is the whole experience and a rose heaven to me 🌹❤️

This is dreamy. A natural smelling, wet, garden fresh Bulgarian & Taif rose bouquet, concentrated × 10. Simply lovely. I picture a beautiful Tzigan woman, with long black hair, red lips, and kohl smudged sparkling honey eyes. She's draped in gold coins and scarves, dancing in her flowing skirts and velvet bolero; a giant red rose tucked behind her ear, OWNing this fragrance. I cannot wait to experiment with this bold, pure rose smell -- layering it with my favorite vanilla fragrances, and/or patchouli essential oil. Fire at Will and Tea Rose together will be so pretty 😍. Such a great value for such a beautiful and versatile fragrance! Coming back to say this fra is nuclear ☢️. I layered 1 spray of Tea Rose over 4 sprays of the ambery cherry beauty, Not Another Cherry, at 6 a.m this morning on my bare chest. By lunch time, NAC had faded out, but I could still very much smell rose. So at 1 p.m. I layered 2 sprays of Vanilla Sex over the remaining Tea Rose (which is a pretty combination fyi). Finally, arriving home at 6 p.m., VS was mostly gone but Tea Rose was still noticeable! This was one spray -- 12 hours, all day. Unbelievable!

Stepping into a flower shop and close to the rose cooler. Ripe rose, green stem & all. Everyone seems to get a certain color of rose. And I get it, lots of rose fragrances make me think like that. Like Delina is definitely a soft baby pink rose. This one IDK yet.....I guess I picture a white with yellow tipped tea rose. It doesn't seem as strong as others have proclaimed but it's staying decent for a toilette. I will say I think I will like this better in cooler weather. I definitely see the dewy aspect coming out more then. Nice affordable simple scent. Should do very nicely for layering. :) Also wanted to post the legit notes(straight from The Perfumer's Workshop website for this scent, the edt): TOP: Peony, Chamomile MID: Tea Rose, Damask Rose, Bulgarian Rose DRY: Geranium Leaves, Violet Leaves, Cedarwood Edited: Update....Okay, maybe people weren't exaggerating about it's strength. In less than a weeks time since its first spray it's already doubled in potency it feels. Can't imagine how much stronger it might get as it sits much longer and ages over time. 9/10 rating

This is something truly wonderful. I will say, you have to like the smell of roses cause that's all you're getting with this. It's enormous, it's loud, if you like a pure rose smell that's in say shampoo or air freshener, this is that. It smells like pure rose essential oil. I got this when I was sick and couldn't smell anything and I could smell this plainly. It lasts forever on fabric, and about 8 to 12 hours on skin. It stays linear on fabric, dries down to something woody and musky on the skin. It's an excellent blind buy for true rose lovers, not so much if you're picky. Oh and just a warning, don't over spray lest you give yourself or other people headaches, it's a bomb. Edit: I don't see how girls back in the day doused themselves in this. I gave it a good wear today and I just did 2 sprays and I felt like I was filling a room wherever I went. One thing I will say about it though. It is good to layer with. I added some Demeter Honey to this and put on sweet pea and violet deodorant and it smelled like a banana bubble bath to me.

So, at this price level, you shouldn't expect a high-quality atomizer, I'm pointing that out right now. The bottle looks elegant, but the atomizer is a tragedy, but.. A lot of music for little money. In my opinion this is the most authentic red rose I've ever smelled.. I also have Paul Smith Rose it's a beautiful fresh tea rose but this is a rose bomb! It's not the type of fresh tea, or "peony" Turkish or Moroccan rose, but rather Bulgarian rose oil, but be careful, the oil is not heavy at all like it usually is!.. I personally hate bulgarian rose oil, but this smells great .. In short, I hold a bouquet of fragrant red roses in my hand, I put my head in it, and I also smell a little of their green stems, but the smell is straight rose, rose and rose.. You don't need to be afraid of the first chemical spray, it goes away in a few seconds and starts just a beautiful pure simple rose to develop.. I don't think you need to wait for any extra development because it's a linear scent, but it's worth it...Rose lovers this is a must have!

Budget Rose This fragrance presents us with a gigantic heart of Damask, Tea and Bulgarian rose. The other supporting notes are completely secondary and go rather unnoticed. If other perfumes contain rose essential oils mixed with supporting notes, this perfume fools us and seems to be composed only of rose essences and in very high concentration. It delivers the most intense and realistic natural rose aroma I have probably ever experienced in any perfume. It is simply a rose bomb, a wonderfully antique scent, a divine fresh rose that feels classy and retro. Plus, it's wearable all year round. Anyone who loves the scent of roses cannot go without this perfume in his or her wardrobe. If you don't like a rose scent, don't even try it because you will hate this fresh, natural and green bottled rose. Its longevity exceeds 8 hours and its sillage is close to two metres. The price? I bought my first 100ml bottle last month for €16. Music: "(I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden" - by Lynn Anderson"

Tea Rose, what can I say? It’s beautifully made and if you love roses like I do then you will appreciate this fine perfume. If you don’t, this perfume is not for you. It’s pretty realistic as far as rose scents go, it’s also got that retro vibe to it as well reminding me of when I used to wear Avon’s Roses Roses while growing up. I have a few perfumes in my collection that were created around the time I was born so I kind of assumed this would also be a great contender in my collection. And surprise surprise it’s something I really enjoy. I wear it mainly during the Spring or over the Summer. When I visit my parents I wear it for my Mum as she never gets a headache with this perfume. She can’t wear them anymore sadly. It’s fresh, a little bit powdery and something you might think is best in your grandmothers house but try it and then wait for the compliments. I have had many when I have worn this. It’s pretty special.

This is definitely not for people wanting Centifolia or Damascus Rose. But when you want a real raw rose scent instead of a perfumed rose, I think this is one of the perfect options. This is a rose fragrance that includes not only the rose flower, but also the lushness of its leaves and stems. The lively smell of that plant that you feel from the cut end of a freshly cut rose. And the price! It's amazing that you can get such a fresh rose scent at this price. I don't just wear this perfume as it is, because I seek variety and fun in perfume. . Because it's a rose all the way. However, it is perfect for layering with other perfumes that I find difficult to use on its own to add a rosy nuance. You can also use it as a room spray or scent your bedding to make you feel as elegant as you sleep in a rose garden. Anyway, I think this Tea Rose is one that you should have whether you are a beginner or an advanced perfum fun.

I'm a slut for rose perfumes so I was really excited to see this one has been around since '77 and ordered it immediately since it was only $10 for 4oz. And I didn't like it upon the first spray. But after a minute when it had some time to dry down I totally understood why everyone loves it. It's not a sickly sweet rose dripping is syrupy sugar. It's a real rose with the leaves and thorns attached and everything, but "green" is missing in the notes on here big time. It's lovely. However I disagree that it has a lot of longevity. It lasted about 3 hours before I wanted another spray....which is no problem at this price point. Anyway, I'm really glad I blind bought it and I'll repurchase when it runs out. If I'm in the mood to want something more feminine to it I spray one of my more sugary rose perfumes and spray this over it and it's perfect. It gives it a more authentic smell.

I'm so amazed by this simple 🌹 rose, it's so refreshing &realistic after drydown of course 😉 I have no memories with this,other than the real roses I grew up smelling in the front yard&getting into trouble for making Mudd pies,this is the only rose perfume I can wear&it doesn't smell like a perfume thankfully! ♡♡♡ I tried,Delina,roses musk,roses vanille,atomic rose,midnight rose,rose oils,red roses,this is the best!!!! I'm done with blind buys,samples,I got a fb of this&I have to face it,it's the ɓest realistic 🌹 rose&lasts very well! I figured out the hard way I hate roses in perfumes,and I only like rose as only rose&realistic by nature scent of a REAL rose.The bottles ugly but who cares!!!♡♡♡♡🌹 🌹 🌹 ♡♡♡ I can't believe how affordable this is!

Just when I though I would never find a rose I could wear, I found Tea Rose. People were NOT exaggerating when they said this is a realistic rose, freshly picked from the garden. This brings back such amazing memories of picking roses with my grandma and arranging them in vases around the house. The whole house would smell like this in the summer and those are some of the happiest memories I have. Fair warning to those looking for sweet roses that they would associate with a pristine shop-bought bouquet of roses, this is a rose that has no sweetness, it's the rose in the garden along with the stem, pricks and leaves, slight watery, maybe covered by dew. This will always be part of my collection from now on due to the authenticity of the scent.

If you like roses scent this will be your cup of tea (rose;)). I am using this german brand soap from Kappus, they have this round shaped soaps with flower carved. And this perfum is exactly like that rose soap I love. I don't mind it's not complex scent. I came for roses I got roses and I got it for small amount of money. Recently I was also testing other seemingly rose scent that many recommended to me Zara Fashionably London. The rose in there is sickening to me, or rather there's something in that smell that makes me nauseaus, here I get beautiful fresh rose, that's what I was looking in that first. It only shows how difficult it is to find the scent you are looking for based on notes only.

Finally - I think my quest for the perfect realistic rose scent is over. I've tested so many rose fragrances over the years and loved many of them, but they never smelled like the real thing, even highly praised ones like Jo Malone's Red Roses (which again I love, but it's not photorealistic to me). This smells exactly like the roses in my great aunt's garden when I was a little girl. I loved walking around there and smelling all the different roses, and this perfume captures that exact scent of the fresh flowers, stem and all, when it's still a little bit chilly on a summer morning.

I'm going to save a lot of people some trouble here. You will not like this if... 1. You don't like even slightly vintage scents. 2. You don't like the smell of a photorealistic rose which includes a velvet-like sharpness ....(not the 'pretty girl' rendition you get in a today's rose fragrance). 3. You don't like the smell of the whole rose, green stems and all.....wet & cool from a rain shower or a florist's cooler. Because that's exactly what you get with this fragrance. If you are down for all those, there's a very good chance you'll like this scent imo.

This fragrance is THE rose - the queen of flowers. It's clean, fresh, soapy, captivating, and intoxicating all at once. Reminds me of a blooming rose grove post-rainfall where the scent of damp soil, the freshly mowed lawn, the sheared stems, and the blooming flowers just tickle your nose, and you wish you can stay in that grove for a little while. Beware, for this beauty is NOT for the faint of heart, or sad little incel p_ssyboys who prefer to bathe in $5 Axe bodyspray. This is strictly for grownups, and hardcore fragheads just like yours truly 😉

Fresh red roses with cool dew on the petals, a little bit jammy the way some roses can smell almost fruity. It's quite beautiful, a true soliflore. The most beautiful part is that it stays fresh and dewy and never becomes musty stale petals rotting in water potpourri like so many rose perfumes. The price is amazing, especially for the quality. I find the projection and longevity to be somewhat weak. I can't tell if my nose becomes accustomed to the scent or if it really is weak. In any case, it's delicious and lovely. A must for rose lovers.

I've recently paid ~50€ for a 10ml decant of Rose de Jamal. I'd be able to buy 3 100ml bottles of Tea Rose instead and - honestly - I should have. As much as I love my other roses, i.e. Nahema, Portrait of a Lady, Fille de Berlin, Lyric Man & Woman, this one here is the ultimate REALISTIC green-dewy rose from my childhood memories. The price they're asking for this masterpiece is insanely low. Lutens's Sa Majeste La Rose was basically the same thing, only round 20 times more expensive. I want to be buried with it (and a cellphone).

This is the most realistic natural smelling rose fragrance I have ever smelled. This is a rose bomb. I'm sure there are other notes, but the rose is definitely dominant. It's linear, but I don't care because it smells so good I don't really want it to develop. I imagine it would also be a good fragrance for layering if you want to add a rose note to another fragrance. Projects well. I sprayed some on and went to do other things and could still smell roses in the room I sprayed it in when I came back an hour later.

This will forever live as a staple in my collection. My grandmother's little cottage in the outback has forever smelled of this perfume, each spritz reminds me of the long drives across country Australia to visit her, nothing but red dirt and tin-roofed farm houses for hundreds of kilometres - there's a lot of sentimentality behind my love for Tea Rose, but I'm sure I'd still want to bathe in the stuff regardless. The perfect realistic rose fragrance, so cheap and in such a big bottle that it'll last for years.

Hey y'all, ROSE LOVER HERE 🥰🌹 Stop && smell the roses !?️!?️ Look no further, you found it. I just got it yesterday & I can't stop spraying it. I just got finished twirling in circles both arms open spraying it in the air.. dramatic I know, but hey I sprayed it over my bath, on me, on my kids lol Ever since I found my favorite fragrance note I was on the hunt for a realistic rose, and after extensive research I found Tea Rose. Super affordable and has earned a permanent spot in my collection & heart.

This is the fragrance that started my love of floral scents. On me, this is a bright, fresh, fragrant, young rose. You do get the green, but to me, that adds to the brightness. There is no powderiness at all. This is not a soft, quiet, or demure rose. This is front and center. If you don't like roses then you will not like this at all. This is a mood booster to me and puts a smile on my face. If you love a true rose that you get from smelling a rosebush in the garden - you will adore this scent!

I hear people bandy around the term ‘niche quality’, although I do always wonder what that means. But this is it. It’s a niche brand by any definition— they only make fragrance and pretty much this one is the only one you will find. In terms of niche quality: define it how you will. This has everything— smells sublime, massive projection and longevity, well balanced and made with true attention to detail and quality. What more can I say? Sometimes it’s not about the money.

I bought a large bottle recently after having this in my early teens in the 90's. I loved it then and I still do. I sprayed it on my shirt instead of my skin as it is soooo strong! I could smell it for many hours and even a hint of it after washing the shirt. Smells like a hypercolour vintage rose. If you were alive in the 90s, you will remember hypercolour. It is exactly what a rose fragrance should smell like Amazing fragrance and value if you are a rose lover.

When I was 11, my mom and I made a recipe from American Girl's Felicity cookbook that called for rose water. Tea Rose smells exactly like rose water. A wild, wet rose. Undomesticated and unapologetic. If you love it, it's a happy coincidence, because it does not exist for you to enjoy. As strong as it is bold. Eventually, the rose fades away and leaves behind woodsy and almost musky notes. But the rose is still there, and you may still smell it if you try.

This is as most have said a realistic rose. With the green stems and all. There are some similarities to Jo Malone. But they are not the same. Tea rose is sharper, the rose is in your face. While Jo Malone's rose is rounder, refined and it caresses your face instead of smacking it. But this is beautiful in its own right. And it does satiate my want for the smell of beautiful, blossoming rose. Like most here I now use it mostly to spray my linens.

This one is a realistic rose scent. Like smelling a rosebush, not only the flowers but also the stems, leaves and all. Rose garden but but not in a romantic ideal way but in a literal way. A great scent for a great price. I mean, the bottle is bland, the design of it is subpar and I hate the feeling of taking on-off that metal cap but if you don't care about the presentation as much as you do about the content, I don't see it as a problem.

This is every rose you've ever known. It's wonderfully realistic. Almost sharp in the opening since it's very reminiscent of pure rose oil. Then it settles into a wonderful realistic fresh dewy rosebush. I include the bush because this is the smell of the whole thing. Stems and thorns included. It's very unassuming in its realisme and i am always reminded whenever i smell a rose that the best smells are often the most simple.

I love this! I currently can't afford expensive perfumes and WOW it's good for its price. When I first sprayed it, it DID smell a little bit like bug spray. It mellowed out on my skin a lot and got sweeter, almost jammy. Honestly I'm a bit surprised that it's not as herbal-smelling as the other comments make it out to be but that's probably just my skin chemistry. Makes me nostalgic for eating Turkish Delight as a kid

One of my desert island perfumes. A big, fully bloomed, lush red garden rose, stem and leaves and all, with a hint of raindrops. No other rose scent comes close. That it is available so inexpensively is a miracle of this hobby, and I reach for it at least once a week. Vibrant, rich and green, though, so be kind and don't over spray if you're heading out. If you're home alone and want to luxuriate, though...

PRO TIP: IF you are a DUDE who is AFRAID of roses..... This is the one for YOU. It's neither masculine OR feminine. It's the smell of a rose. And for the cost; damn this smells NATURAL ! LAYER this with something else (maybe a scent that features rose- but it's weak in that department?). Get creative with this. Big giant bottle for $24.00 ! Will last you for years. I need to check out MORE from this brand.

this smells like actual red roses. very fresh, green, and realistic, i envision this making people think there is a bouquet in whatever room you are in. great for daytime. any rose lover will like this. just from a couple of sprays its filling up my rose and i can tell this will leave a trail. super strong to be an eau de toilette??? not complaining tho! will definitely repurchase some as backups.

I found a big bottle for $13 at CVS. I decided to try it and I’m not disappointed! It’s very rose forward and the other notes are there, but solely serving as background. Really it’s just a strong, powdery, fresh cut rose scent. I got the EDT and it lasted 12 hours on my skin! Projects well too. I can see this as a layering fragrance if you want to add fresh rose to any scent. Highly recommend!

A beautiful fresh, clean, dewy pink rose. Smells like rose water in the best way. Surprisingly long lasting—don’t over spray because it’s fresh! It’s strong even though it’s dewy. I would wear this in springtime, on rainy days, and even in cooler summer days. It’s different from Red Roses by Jo Malone—I find that one less dewy, more red, velvety, and bitter green from the stems.

Damp and photorealistic garden roses. It can come off as sharp-edged and synthetic, especially when worn alone or oversprayed. One or two sprays under your top are all you need for 6+ hours of moderate sillage. Where Tea Rose really shines, though, is when it's layered. I love mixing it with earthy or salty frags, but it works with just about everything. A cheapie superstar!

Peak rose. Smells a bit damp, even? Especially on my skin. Like you are smelling the inside of a wet stem. I am very grateful for this perfume. Anyone who loves roses will love this perfume. As it says, Soliflore. You can use for layering, if you wish. I am absolutely sure that they use real rose oils in this. I could also smell it from the outside of the box. I got the EDT