Eight bottles and noses that still define Tea.
Darker cells mean a higher score for this topic on that metric.
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An infusion accord — green, smoked or osmanthus tea as steam, paper and leaf, not dessert.
Concentration is oil in alcohol, not a quality score. EDT (about 5–15%) shows more top; EDP (about 15–20%) shows more heart and base. Houses vary; this is not a lab assay.
One or two sprays on skin or cloth — sternum or hair, not a cloud in a lift. Let it turn an hour before you add more.
All year, close to skin. Heat can turn smoked tea into ash.
Yes. Warm, moist skin amplifies sweet and spice; dry or cool skin can turn the same juice woody, soapy or short. Test on your skin, not only a blotter.
IFRA sets industry limits on some naturals and synthetics. A reformulation is usually a legal edit, not a betrayal. This atlas is not a safety sheet.
Icons for Tea are bottles and people — Nahéma, Chanel, Guerlain stay as names.
Scores below are editorial marks inside this atlas, not lab assays.
1992– · Italy
Ellena’s green tea for Bvlgari; the family’s birth certificate.
Eau Parfumée au Thé Vert (1992–, Italy) is still the story a counter tells when this family needs a name.
Read Eau Parfumée au Thé Vert as dose and geometry, not a mood board — that is how Tea is argued.
2004– · France
Ellena’s osmanthus-tea; watercolor place-name.
Osmanthe Yunnan (2004–, France) is still the story a counter tells when this family needs a name.
Read Osmanthe Yunnan as dose and geometry, not a mood board — that is how Tea is argued.
1999– · United States
Mall tea; citrus-leaf democracy.
Green Tea (1999–, United States) is still the story a counter tells when this family needs a name.
Read Green Tea as dose and geometry, not a mood board — that is how Tea is argued.
1995– · France
Tea-citrus-musk as clean luxury.
Silver Mountain Water (1995–, France) is still the story a counter tells when this family needs a name.
Read Silver Mountain Water as dose and geometry, not a mood board — that is how Tea is argued.
1996– · France
Olivia Giacobetti’s jasmine-tea summer.
Thé Pour un Été (1996–, France) is still the story a counter tells when this family needs a name.
Read Thé Pour un Été as dose and geometry, not a mood board — that is how Tea is argued.
1947– · France
Thé Vert and the watercolor ethic; tea’s chief theorist.
Jean-Claude Ellena (1947–, France) is still the story a counter tells when this family needs a name.
Read Jean-Claude Ellena as dose and geometry, not a mood board — that is how Tea is argued.
1966– · France
Tea, fig and watercolor greens; quiet as a method.
Olivia Giacobetti (1966–, France) is still the story a counter tells when this family needs a name.
Read Olivia Giacobetti as dose and geometry, not a mood board — that is how Tea is argued.
— · China
Guihua: the fruit-tea flower of Yunnan formulas.
Osmanthus (—, China) is still the story a counter tells when this family needs a name.
Read Osmanthus as dose and geometry, not a mood board — that is how Tea is argued.
An icon is a brief that other Tea formulas still answer.
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