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Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · dry-down

Tea absolute

Dark, tannic, smoky tea; dried fruit, hay, leather and malt.

What it is
Natural absolute from solvent-extracted tea leaves.
Where it comes from
China, India
When you smell it
Dry-down: hours later.
What perfumers do with it
Adds real tea depth to tea accords, chypres, leathers and tobacco-hay compositions.
Worth knowing
Many famous 'tea' perfumes, such as Bulgari's green-tea cologne, build the note as an accord instead.
Rules
Limited. Tea leaf absolute carries its own IFRA dose limit
Also called
Camellia sinensis leaf absolute (black or green tea)