Gyokuro

I got this as a birthday present from my husband. This is my first niche perfume 🥰 I love it! It is so soft, feminine, kind, gentle. You get whiffs of this for hours despite the very soft scent profile. My initial thought was sweet jasmine tea with a touch of candied lemon. There is nothing sharp about it. It turns a bit soapy after a while which gives it a fresh out of the shower feel to it. I can see this being a great everyday scent each season. It is more a daytime scent for me. Very relaxing, like when you enjoy a cup of tea near a flower market. Not a safe blind buy, you have to be into this kind of scent profile but if you are this is gonna calm you like an all-day aromatherapy session and a cup of warm jasmine tea.

This is straight up fresh green tea leaves with a hint of peach. It's so good. It's light and herbaceous and reminds of the colour green. I really enjoy the undercurrent of vetiver and crops up every now and then throughout the day. This is a solid tea scent. Great for everyday use. It's a tea scent that does lean a little bit more feminine because of the sweetness that the peach brings. But honestly I wouldn't mind smelling this on a man. It can be quite versatile. Also: 100% agree that this will remind you of Arizona Ice Tea!

Mainly a peach tea perfume. Beautiful but nothing unique. Beautiful bottle too. The black pepper opening the scent certainly wasn’t that strong but it was enough for me to sneeze. The other notes listed are more or less all there except for neroli which I was on the lookout for but couldn’t find. Edit. Wish I could say it lasted over twelve hours but now at a bit over ten hours, the scent almost can’t be smell off the sprayed spot already. At this it’s already very good for a citrus tea perfume.

As with most The Merchant of Venice perfumes, the performance just isn't there. I'm talking about 3 hours on skin and maybe 8 hours on clothes if you're lucky. It's such a shame as the scent is so pretty and I absolutely love it. Deeply rich sweet peach tea with florals, prodominantly tuberose which becomes more prominent in the dry down. Feminine-leaning. The box opens towards you and presents the bottle nicely.

To summarise, this perfume, in the dry down, smells exactly like a peach ice tea in the best possible way. The opening smells like fresh cut wet grass but it dissipates quickly and the peach makes its entrance and elevates the perfume to a very elegant and refined tea scent with a slight green nuance. An easy and enjoyable wear for day or night.