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Quick answers
What is Tea?
An infusion accord — green, smoked or osmanthus tea as steam, paper and leaf, not dessert.
EDP vs EDT — what changes?
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.
How should I wear Tea?
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.
Which season fits?
All year, close to skin. Heat can turn smoked tea into ash.
Does skin chemistry change it?
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.
What about IFRA and oakmoss?
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.
The market for Tea runs from body mist to otto extrait.
Chanel, Guerlain and niche counters share a family and disagree on dose.
Houses
- Bvlgari — The tea line’s inventor in perfume.
- Hermès — Ellena’s Yunnan and sheers.
- Elizabeth Arden — Volume green tea.
- L’Artisan — Giacobetti teas.
- Creed — Silver Mountain Water.
- Japanese niche — Sencha and incense-tea.
Price bands
- Mall green tea — Arden-type EDT.
- Jewelry-house tea — Bvlgari eaux.
- Watercolor niche — Hermès / L’Artisan.
- Smoked extraits — Incense-tea, still not oud-loud.
Trends
- Skin-tea musks — 2020s quiet.
- Matcha pastry — Border gourmand.
- Named gardens — Yunnan, Uji as copy.
- Anti-Calone tea — Steam instead of melon-sea.
Stats
- 1992 origin — A late family compared with rose or cologne.
- Oil yield — Tea leaf is not a commercial essential-oil crop for perfume.
- Sillage — Among the lowest of the 24 by intent.
- Ellena effect — One nose defined the genre’s ethics.
Price is not quality; it is harvest, IFRA and a story about Tea.
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