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TToRR92 – :
My favorite rose fragrance, plush pink velvet rose sweetness with a touch of greenery. Tea Rose is the ultimate rose perfume, the most realistic one I have tried.
Longevity and sillage are strong, she is not shy…she’s coy.
Really pleased with my 100ml bottle. I also bought the edp and they are the same to my nose except the edp lasts even longer…if you can believe that.
I wear this when I’m in a whimsical romantic mood, perfect for a tea dress and any occasion. Effortlessly feminine.
agarin666666 – :
Real rose, no additives, no preservatives, no other notes despite the list published here.
Never reformulated, never lets me down when I crave rose, lasts from shower to shower, strong as can be.
The rosiest rose of all.
But then again…I have been wearing this since I was sixteen. Could it be that I have smelled it so often that THIS smell has replaced the smell of actual roses in my olfactory dictionary?
Just like the kid who claims grapes are fake because they don’t taste like grape popsicles, I have supplanted nature with this chemical facsimile.
I’m OK with that. Love Tea Rose and should wear it more often.
korenmax – :
I had this and I hated it! It gave me a headache on multiple occasions.
I just purchased a fragrance from Bath and Body Works called Rose. It reminds me of this, but it doesn’t make me feel sick. Yay!
Neosterp – :
This one is a simple, feminine rose scent. The smell isn’t too authentic and I think that the price reflects that too, as this is really cheap.
If you want a plain, natural smelling rose, try Sa Majeste La Rose from Serge Lutens.
6/10
Hacok – :
Now, this is the thick, realistic red rose I was looking for for so long. Can’t believe I found it in such an inexpensive EdT! It sure performs like a real EdP should. I love orientals, but I also love big, realistic old-school florals such as this. I used to like Body Shop’s Atlas Mountain Rose, but I found it to be too citrusy, light and flim-dim. Some of the high-end rose perfumes have other notes that make them too jammy, sweet, and just not like a plain rose. This one hits the spot for me. I would highly recommend this to anyone who loves the romantic scent of a straightforward, beautiful red rose. Easy on the nozzle, the potency and longevity do not disappoint!
harri11 – :
There was a girl I knew in high school who wore this every day. She was the kind of girl who carried her Bible (with a handmade quilted Bible cozy) to every class and had big glasses & stiff, short, winged “mom hair” even when she was fifteen. She was fond of pastel cardigans worn over prim button-ups that were buttoned all the way up…
She always seemed much older than the rest of us. But not in a way I wanted to emulate.
I just can’t smell this without thinking of her. Every class I shared with her reeked of the stuff.
I wonder if she still wears it.
It smells like oppressive rural Midwestern classroom to me.
Elizmen – :
this is a strange scent for me. It reminds me of the sticky rose syrup. I wanted to reject it, but it grew on me, there’s no escaping me now. I am keeping this beautiful potent perfume. ❤️
cdr314speagoessenda – :
smells so much better in dewy in rainy days, rainy springs/autumns are the perfect frame for it.
was a regret and I can’t believe I really started to like it.
Maybe because I started to associate with my first best friend neighbor when I was little, her house and garden would smell like roses from spring to autumn and she herself was smelling like roses all the time. it relaxes and makes me daydream but keeping me down earth in the same time.
sacha01 – :
It’s been 9 months since I own this and had the chance to test it.
First impression was: my godmother as she used something similar when I was a child. Straight up rose, violent, green, screechy dark rose with thorns.
I started using it around the house in the seasons that followed and enjoy it’s drydown.
Now it’s summer and I constantly reach for it, my perception of it has changed drasticaly. To me right now is a creamy rose, velvety, it almost has a cashmere quality to it. I don’t know if it’s the season, but since spring started, it slowly grew on me.
I regreted it at first, but now I’m so happy with it!
yurnik271 – :
This fragrance smells like a whole bush of roses! Smell like those red and velvety roses. Like taking those petals and crushing them in your hands.
I’m not a fan of roses but this fragrance is so natural, it smells like a real rose. I do not feel anything artificial.
Nikolas677 – :
AK_Oud, to answer your question:
I have grown to Love rose, straightforward and unsweetened as it is here, so much that I would enjoy it on a very masculine man as well as I do on myself – which is quite a lot! I generally like rose even more when layered with moss or woody notes, but a fresh and ‘real’ rose like Tea Rose needs no embellishment to be wonderful on male or female! Please continue to wear the fragrance you love with JOY.
gqp652InsuffBooni – :
I was introduced to this by a lovely Fragrantica member who was kind enough to send me a sample.
For those who “don’t get the hype”, Tea Rose isn’t some unique, innovative composition like no other. It doesn’t smell like a “perfume” that features rose as a note, this smells like a hydrosol of the flower itself.
I envision a live, fresh, damp rose with “stem and leaves”, as some have so accurately put it. Also as others have said, Tea Rose by Perfumer’s Workshop is about as close to the real thing as an synthetic can get. It’s rare to find anything that’s even remotely comparable to the real thing. For the price I’m shocked that this doesn’t get MORE hype!
Tea Rose is linear. What you smell initially is what you’ll get end up with, until it fades (beautifully I might add). It won’t develop or “morph” into something else as you would with most perfumes.
If you want to smell like a rose, I would give this a try. If you want to smell like a rose perfume, I would look elsewhere.
rhicheplope – :
I love tea rose since my teenage. I am male 29. I still use it. It is so charming to me. And to me it is unisex.
I have a question for you respected girls and ladies
“Would you like tea rose on a man?”
What would be your expressions if a male friend or say husband or boyfriend of your wear it while being with you?
Please answer it. I shall be very thankful.
Update: Thank you “drugstore classics” for the uplifting reply.
kotyara110 – :
Purchased a new bottle from Amazon on 4/10/18. It’s just roses, people. Nothing extraordinary. Nothing objectionable. I don’t get the fuss.
Midas868 – :
I love this scent but I really wish it didn’t have bergamot in it. I wear this as an everyday scent whenever I want to smell like a freshly cut and sweet rose. I love rose scents and I love the price of this fabulous fragrance but I will need a new everyday rose without bergamot.
tolmaleks – :
I only smell fresh cut roses ONLY!!
ghinaldu – :
So this juice is banging the rose and its all rose laced with lime. Wow, good stuff. The lime makes it dirty and stemmy. blind buy worthy less than $15 bucks. Go ahead pull the trigger. 4.5 – 5.0 only for the confident rose frag head….
dosea22 – :
This is what I imagine rose bushes would smell like on a dewy warm summer misty morning. This starts out damp and green, stem, thorn and rose, a whole field of the thorny bushes, lasting a good hour or two and then, almost as the summer dew lifts, it becomes just the field of rose bushes green and floral with a hint of woodiness as if it were cedar chips covering the ground. This can easily be worn by men if roses do not frighten them. This man loves it.
hranitel78 – :
Not being one for simple floral fragrances, lately I’m exploring the floral family of perfumes, so decided to try this one. I mean, I like roses to a point but this is ridiculous. I recoiled in horror at the opening – smells like a mass of roses complete with the leaves and thorns! I waited an hour hoping that the scent would magically turn softer and more delicate, but no, this one is not for me. Will have to give it away and seek out a gentler rose perfume. Any suggestions?
ruzi – :
A real rose garden after a rainy summer afternoon. Nothing
sophisticated just raw tea rose, green leaves and herbal notes. I don’t believe it contains lily or tuberose (maybe the notes described here are not the real ones)but it surely contains, besides the mighty rose, some pink peony and chamomile and some green leaves such as geranium leaves or violet leaves, something very herbal. Actually this is the first thing that “hits” my nose in the first minutes, lots of green leaves, the real bush with roses, leaves, thorns and everything. Not old not new, just classic… memories about my childhood, my grandma’s garden with the dark pink rose bush, those ones from which we made rose jam, and this rose bush was surrounded by a lot of pink peony, maybe that’s why I got the sensation that this contains peony. I like it , but not on me, I use it rarely…but on my 14 years old daughter it smells heavenly, it suits her very well, being a delicate girl, very tall (for her age) ,a white pale skin, and long dark hair with a cold and distant attitude towards the others.
All of this being said, I think the perfume has a good longevity and a great sillage. but not everybody likes it!
vovangk – :
Strong green leaf opening, slightly sour yet unoffensive with a pure rose heart. This scent is all about the Rose. I do not detect spice or plastic synthetic notes as mentioned in other reviews. A soft and natural scent that doesn’t devolve to earthy dirt upon dry down, but instead mimics the lifespan of cut roses. Absolutely not powdery at all. A mild creamy, soapy, and velvety Victorian rose garden vibe on my skin. I spray from a distance for ideal longevity and sillage. I sampled this years ago before reformulation, but I don’t recall a huge difference. A pleasing and ridiculously affordable soliflore if roses are your cup of tea.
glonceice – :
This has a true tea rose scent. Tea roses are actual roses and they have a tea-type rose fragrance. It’s not rose plus tea; it’s tea rose. And this is it. I go back to this from time to time. It’s just the pure, sweet smell of tea roses.
mishelin_t – :
Wow all these reviews! How surprising!!
I’ve had this for a long time, but barely ever wore it.
I am falling in love with rose perfumes, so I think it’s about time I take this out 🙂
I only rember using it 3 times & put it away after that because it was way too strong/heavy for my liking, in saying that it did last a bloody long time!
(Lyon said in his review that this reminded him of Turkey, I can pin point why 🙂
We have something called “bayram kolanya” there’s a tea rose & rose water version. It’s used on nationally celebrated festivals, the main time we use it is on Bayram)
This smells just like Bayram 😉
kutiawin.edik – :
i love rose like declaration Du Un Soir and aramis caligraphy rose, but i wanted to buy lyric man by amouage, couldnt do it in the end, wasnt my cup of the tea, and that price point its not worth it for me.this however with a chanel no 5 vibe blew me away…esp the price point and amount of juice as well as how long it lasts.its a steal id say for the price.i dont get tea, i get very dark red roses…like a whole garden….not just one rose….from this.its not gonna be everybody’s cup of tea, i didnt like it initially, thought its over powering, but i fell in love with this.getting a bottle soon 🙂
Rich Papa – :
If you love the scent from actual tea roses, you will adore this fragrance. It makes other rose fragrances seem like wannabe’s. It is so strong however that it is one where I actually spray into the air and walk through the mist, because it can be pretty overpowering. I hope this is never discontinued. I owned my first bottle in the 1980’s and will forever have one in my collection.
rud-grid – :
Tea Rose is cultured pearls and effortless good manners having gin and tonics at a garden party.
Uncompromising rose, it will strip all other scents in the room of their flowers, and curtsies only to Joy.
I wore this in college when I could only afford silver jewelry, and needed my rayon dress to hold its own in a room full of silk.
Soloveu – :
This is a beast- in a good way. Any rose lover should try this. Sillage and longevity are great. Def love this and love the price.
musienkons – :
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.
severyanin – :
There’s a reason why this is a classic.
A gorgeous, simple, easy to wear fragrance. The scent as if you just submerged yourself in a tub of fresh rose petals.
I love this one for layering with other linear fragrances like Jovan Island Gardenia and White Musk, or for anything where I want to amp up the rose notes.
A must have for any perfume collection.
janitor2008 – :
I love Rose perfumes and this one does just as it says on the bottle – in fact it is a Tea Rose, freshly cut and squeezed in all its glory into a bottle. Great for layering too – I love it blended with a Fracaas dupe (Just wish I could afford the real thing!) or spiced up with Al Sharquiah by Al-Rehab
andry-san – :
So once there was a girl I was in high school with and little 15 year old me thought this other girl was the epitome of sophistication and beauty. And I wanted to be like her. She wore this perfume. It smelled so good on her. I copied her. Someone smelled this on me and said eeeeew what is that big spray smell? Something smells like bug spray! Sadly this was an epic fail for me. Which is too bad because I still love the scent.
Lexa25 – :
Not just the rose but the whole dang bush with this scent. I like it a lot.
Тёмка 2009 – :
I have worn this scent on and off since the 80’s, and just recently bought a new bottle.
Beware, that even though this is not a super expensive fragrance, there are bad knockoffs out there.Worst feature on those is no stay power.
Tea Rose is not a complex scent on me, in the sense that from first spray to 8 hours later, I prety much smell the same notes.
That can be a good thing, as I hate fragrances that have top notes very different from base notes, and what I buy is different from what i get when wearing it. I get none of that here.
And, sometimes you dont want to wear anything complicated, just one nice smell.Old faithful!
That said, I find Tea Rose a strong green rose; no soft powdery sweetness here. So, great in hot weather or the office ( applied lightly, as the silage is great!) Rose scents can be tricky I have learned, as the variation among them is so great. So try before you buy.
Though the 70’s may have been big on green fragrances,I think this one defies being categorized the same way. Yes, strong silage, but in a way it comes across as clean, if not truely sheer. It is highly floral. Side by side with the green are roses, make no mistake. For that reason, I personally think it isn’t unisex. To me, this screams femininity.
Because of the linear nature of this scent, it lends itself well to layering, particularly to tone down sweeter concoctions…i use it with Charlie Red…but you msy try your own.
Will always have a bottle, for the days i feel the urge to wear this. And as a final note, the compliments to this abound when wearing it.
LickinDF – :
Tea Rose
A Green Unisex Seventies Floral
I Compare You To A Kiss From A Rose On The Grey
Personally my impression of the Eau de Toilette is that men can sport this fragrance. This is a unisex green rose. It’s authentic to the period (1970s, launched in 1977) with an emphasized greenery that was so prized by 70’s colognes and perfumes i.e. Givenchy III Aliage Estee Lauder No 19 Chanel Charlie Revlon. Tea Rose is a green is good, Green Earth, save the planet, Greenpeace peaceful, soothing, medicinal type of scent. Yes it is a rose but this is not your ordinary, typical feminine rose with a sweet, powdery, soapy waxy, honey candied or artificial type of scent. The noses behind this fragrance did their homework as far as recreating the true rose absolute smell, or came as close to it as possible in ’77.
The aroma is the most accurate rendition of a rosebush as I’ve ever encountered in my life. This reminds me of when I was a little boy and I would deliberately get dirty by going into my grandmother’s Long Island rose garden in the back of the house. I would crawl around the bed of roses and hide behind bushes and the green leaves and thorny stems would rub against me, leaving me with that rose bush smell.
The Eau de Toilette as pictured on this page is inexpensive and of the drugstore cheapie mold but it’s the most beautiful longest lasting and realistic rose fragrance of all time. It opens with green notes with citrus, coming through as a citrus floral scent. The bergamot orange is quite a sour citrus and thrown into the mix appears to be a little bit of a green apple. Smells of an orchard, with roses and orange trees and apple trees. This is a pastoral garden in a country house (again reminds me of the house my grandmother owned on Long Island) warmed by a sunshine amber, dipped in what smells like green earth. It’s oily, patchouli-ish, bitter, spicy, strong, aromatic, herbal. This is a tea rose with cabbages and bushes all around it, evocative of being out in the rose garden for an entire day, catching not only the whiffs of the rose and the bush, but the scent permeates your skin and stays on you for hours.
Like I said before, this scent is not soapy, powdery or feminine like one would imagine most rose perfumes to smell like. This is purely herbal. It’s the equivalent of weed but in the form of roses. Though marketed for women, this needs to change as it’s clearly unisex. Rose fragrances, rose oil (especially Turkish rose oil) is commonly worn by men in Middle Eastern nations, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey and regions like Saudi Arabia and Asian countries like India and China. The rose in Western culture is regarded as being a female flower but the rose and it’s scented possibilities is seen as unisex by Eastern tradition. For centuries rose oil was used by both men and women. The rose had a mystic air and a religiosity around it. Roses were considered to be symbols of the Virgin Mary and the blood of Christ. Nuns and monks who lived a secluded monastic life grew roses and made fragrances out of them. It was a pleasant herbal green floral scent to soothe the nose of the wearer and others who could smell it on the wearer. It was good for inducing sleep and for a spiritual lift and energy.
For me this is not something you’d smell on a daily basis. It has it’s time and place. This is a therapeutic fragrance to wear when you’re feeling sick, depressed and you need your endorphins stimulated. You need this the way you need that marijuana when you’re going through some issues and rough patches. Both men and women go through hard times and fragrance is universal without labels and without gender.
Tea Rose is total aroma therapy. When you first wear it’s sour, sharp, green and quite strong, fresh, with a narcotic air as it wears on your skin for hours. The latter stages contain rose petals as if drying on your skin like the withered rose that leaves behind that particular ‘old rose’ scent and or crushed petals between the pages of an old leather bound book. Has that antique quality about it which makes it undeniably mature and for a more experienced fragrance lover than a novice.
I’m certain there is musk in this formula not to mention the woodsy notes of cedar and sandalwood which are totally detectable in the dry down and later stages. This fragrance is a rose’s life and death but the aroma is so good for you. At times melancholic and spiritual it seems suited for high religious holidays. It’s an autumnal fragrance (as opposed to spring and summer) smelling like fallen leaves and green rose bushes in late September and in October-November and I feel it’s much more complex than it smells or people make it out to be. Far more than just a simple rose, it’s a very meaningful very powerful and mood altering aroma.
Absolutely gorgeous. I’m glad I wear this. No regrets.
We all need that rose from time to me.
Soundtrack
Kiss From A Rose By Seal
ALANMAG – :
So I blind bought this perfume based on the reviews and my solid love of pretty much everything rose.
My first impression, is that it smells pretty much exactly like Tea Rose by Milton Lloyd, minus the huge nasal headache I felt coming on when I used that. Also much like the other Tea Rose, it’s a very pink glued-up-your-nostrils-and-unable-to-be-removed rose scent.
This has also proved to also have quite the blast radius already because my mother can smell it everywhere in the house. And I mean everywhere. Funniest part being, it isn’t that overwhelming to my nose, but the range it’s throwing seems to be deceptive.
To me and on me, yes, this is full roses. Full, in bloom roses, but the older variety I am used to smelling at home in my garden that gives off a very thick fragrant cloud during the summer. And this feels like summer, as it does have a heat to it like a rose in full sunlight in summer.
As for the longevity, I can’t attest to how long it wears just yet. I’ll have to edit this later in order to give my full review. However, so far, I think I can safely say I won’t regret my purchase. So far, it’s to die for.
EDIT:
I went out wearing this last night, and compliments practically fell into my lap. Now that I’ve been wearing it, I think I can safely give my full opinion on this perfume.
I washed it off before it wore off last night, so after my shower I reapplied it, and when I work up this morning, it was still hanging around, but only a little bit. That’s some pretty intense lasting power, especially on my skin. Also, I’ve been able to test the wear of this perfume on me and how it dries down.
This is rose from start to finish on me, like pretty much everyone else. But the progression of the rose when you spray it on, starts like a rose in a vase that’s just been cut, and is sitting in the warm sunlight. It smells like that. But on my skin as time goes on, it smells like the rose was probably cut a week ago, and as roses do, it gives off that heavy rose fragrance right before the point that it starts truly decaying. It also has a little bit of mausoleum dustiness about it when it gets to this point. So where it starts quite bright and sunny, it eventually becomes quite melancholy on my skin. Overall, it also remains quite strong for quite some time.
Some people might not like that but I think it’s lovely, and very unusual. I’ve never had a rose perfume that smelt like that. Usually they’re either sweet, or very watery and smell synthetic, but Tea Rose, on me anyway, has lasted a long time and shows a full progressive story about the life of a rose.
I think this perfume is worth testing if you can find it in person. Even though I blind bought this, I wouldn’t recommend doing so because rose perfumes are quite risky to blind buy. If you can find a sample too, test it first. Because I could see how this could quickly induce migraines in the wearer, and also may not be the type of rose the wearer is looking for. TRY BEFORE BUY, IF POSSIBLE!
comrad – :
Absolutely in love. The best rose frag on the market, and I have ones that cost hundreds. I wore this 25 years ago and never stopped. Green, sweet, lush rose that still has a little sharpness and isn’t jammy candied. Perfect to layer but so strong it overpowers things I wear with it.
r4d1sh – :
* These are my personal experiences/thoughts with this fragrance. Yours/others may differ. *
Initial – rose + bergamot
Drydown – rose + lily + amber + cedar
Duration – unknown (I have to remove it after an hour)
Projection – moderate
Experiences – I love roses, but this is unbearable. Very sharp and synthetic opening. The drydown smells like potpourri rather than fresh roses. Starts to give me a headache around the 30-45 minute mark.
Quick Thoughts – potpourri, rose, oppressive, synthetic, scrubber
patron2312 – :
Just adding to my previous review.
I sprayed tea rose on both arms today, then I sprayed Sarah Jessica Parker’s Lovely on top of one arm. It’s gorgeous, great sillage, longevity and really clean, Rose, powdery, class.
Love this combination
RYBALKO – :
I was in chemist warehouse today and this was $15, so I bought it as I love rose fragrances, and thought it worth a try at that price.
Gave my forearm a really decent amount of sprays. Initially, full blast of rose & chemical concoction. After a few minutes I smell rose, a big blooming rose with thick lush velvety petals and a very distinct green, cut stem smell, as if somebody has just clipped the rose from its bush. I’ve never ever experienced such extremely powerful and quite clear smells within a fragrance before. After half an hour or so it settled down to a lovely rose and now 3 hours later that rose smell is still there, not the cut stem smell really, just rose.
It’s lovely, not old lady rose, oh no, not on me, it’s just exactly how you expect a freshly cut rose will smell.
petya_zorin – :
Very Nice, Very Simple Scent.
Fresh Roses. It’s strong, long lasting and very very inexpensive. Nice for those days when you want something clean and simple, just rose. A nice right out of the shower two spritz, good all day. It’s good for layering as well. It may not be my signature or something I’d wear everyday. But, it is nice, not offensive. I mean it smells just like a rose bush. it doesn’t smell “cheap” in the sense that it just smells like roses. Uncomplicated and linear from beginning to end….just roses.
*I would like to mention that this is very similar to Floris; White Rose. But, with stronger Silage and much greater longevity. At a fraction of the price.
kulibin_dk – :
Like most perfume sprays, insipid and not much scent. However, if you find a good Indian attar maker/seller, this is a lovely scent in oil form. It really is more intense as an oil, as are most perfumes duh! I can dislike a spray but love an oil. Strange, but I like my perfumes to have some oomph and not disappear quickly. I think this is exactly as the name suggests though, tea and rose scents. I really quite like it, I hated it at first but now really like it. Unusual, different but good.
I can’t imagine Princess Diana wearing this cheapie however!
egorovkir – :
A lovely rose soliflore – not a fresh dewy rose but more pot-pourri like. I’m not too keen on the citrusy screachy opening. Similarly to the reviewer below, I used it as a room fragrance.
Игорь Бутенко – :
I bought this as a blind buy.
It smells very nice and very similar to Turkish delight.
I got bored of it though very quickly and should’ve bought a smaller bottle.
I think I’m going to use it as an air freshener.
Great value for money though
Seduksin – :
One of my all time favorite drugstore cheapies. I’ve been in love with Tea Rose since I discovered it in the mid 80’s.
This intoxicating scent is all about bois de rose, rose, tuberose, and sandalwood. It’s a woody rose perfect for fall.
This is relentless. One spritz and you’re good for days.
Fun fact: The Body Shop used to sell a dupe of this in a perfume oil. It was also called Tea Rose. I found the Perfumer’s Workshop Tea Rose Eau de Toilette to last longer than the Body Shop pure perfume oil!
ipan – :
I really like this one. It’s a very uncomplicated scent in that it is a very easy to pinpoint/describe. As others have said, the rose smell here is very much like rose poutpourri, and the there’s a backdrop of woodiness, as if you had just opened a drawer from an antique that was filled with dried petals. Add some bergamot for the “tea” effect (but this is first and foremost about the rose, the tea is merely playing a supporting role). I don’t really pick up on the tuberose, but perhaps lily. Of the woods, I sense that Brazilian Rosewood if the most predominant, which lends a borderline sweet aromatic quality to the fragrance.
It has pretty good projection and has a nice density to it, not falling into the category of florals that are fresh and delicate. It borders on oriental, making this an interesting option for mild weather. It is more old-fashioned than modern, but not overbearing or “bank of England” (not that I mind Bank of England scents, I actually love quite a few of them).
willrock – :
Another blind buy – very low price for an insane amount (120ml? Really?!), good reviews, supposedly a photorealistic rose… and it is, like smelling a rose with thick, velvety petals on a hot, lazy summer afternoon. Longevity and projection doesn’t seem to be as insane as others noted, but it still lasts and projects nicely. I don’t get any other notes happening beside the rose, but they could be there. I am perfectly happy with this one for what it is, even though I would not wear it every day, but time to time Tea Rose satisfies my craving for a simple yet very realistic rose. Lovely, really.
Nadjakok – :
I’ve had it for one day. Only one day. Heard from other reviewers