

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)
Named by the house, not on the label, in 2
