Black tea

Black tea: A few leaves of leathery, smoky magic in our fragrances Black tea, a warm and fragrant delight, offers its refined scents not only in our beverages but also for creating delicate perfumed effluvia. The tea note, worked on white, green or black teas, is particularly appreciated by perfumery creators.

The black tea note, original and powerful, is used in feminine oriental juices or masculine woody fragrances to lend its venerable smoky vapors to fragrances that will showcase the delicate leathery aspect of its scent.

The trend of green tea, white tea and black tea fragrances

In perfumery, it is certain that each decade has its cult raw materials! Thus the 2000s are particularly marked by scents that aim to be natural, without always being so, but also by refined exoticisms without necessarily being deep sillages. 100% natural, tea corresponds precisely to these desires for escape that are both natural and exotic. So naturally tea and its many varieties came to be used to diffuse fragrances with natural or spicy accents, depending on the strength of the tea's scent chosen.
L'Eau parfumée au Thé Vert released in 1992 by Bulgari seems to be the first perfume to have opened a royal path for tea in perfumery. As for black teas, smoky and slightly balsamic, they lend to the fragrances that carry them notes of leather and honeyed wood particularly enhanced by spices or woods.

The captivating fragrances of black tea in perfumery

In the realm of masculine perfumes, the black tea note would seem particularly suited to spicy woody scents, which very often place black tea as a heart note.

Thus Gucci pour Homme II by Gucci and Chrome United by Azzaro, two fine woody juices, exude the scents of the black tea note in a heart built around chili pepper, cinnamon and violet for Gucci pour Homme II. As for Chrome United, it too exudes the association of violet and black tea, but accompanied by the famous fresh note. For Eau de Cèdre - Eau de Toilette by Armani, also a spicy woody, the black tea note blends into the base notes alongside cedar and a suede accord, an olfactory blend that is both animalic, spicy and, above all, very original.

Clearly, smoky and leathery black tea notes are naturally very well suited to sweet orientals, sometimes floral, but above all feminine. The same year, two fine floral orientals exuded black tea notes in their fragrances: Kapsule FLORIENTAL by Lagerfeld and Berbériades Extrême by Stéphanie de Saint Aignan. The first uses black tea as a base note to create a totally exotic and oriental sillage, while the second offers black tea as an opening to a spicy perfume with 1000 colors of the world.

How can one speak of black tea without mentioning the current best-seller: La petite Robe noire by Guerlain? Impossible! Indeed, black tea is one of those notes that stands out and surprises, that enchants without overdoing it, and that perfumes with a certain dexterity fragrances in which it never goes unnoticed!