Tea Rose Perfumer's Workshop for women

Adding my voice to the chorus -- this is an explosive rose. Dense, sweet, and overwhelming in close quarters, but undeniably true to the name. Sillage and longevity are impressive considering mine is a vintage bottle probably 30-40 years old. Provides incredible uplift and volume when layered underneath a green or citrus scent.

Smells like the catholic church, not saying it's bad but it's really bringing back all my religious trauma. Other than that, it smells like someone who's an avid church goer. I would still keep this in my shelf but will only use it when I feel like I have to fake my religion to someone (for safety purposes bec I live in a very religious country).

This is every rose you've ever known. It's wonderfully realistic. Almost sharp in the opening since it's very reminiscent of pure rose oil. Then it settles into a wonderful realistic fresh dewy rosebush. I include the bush because this is the smell of the whole thing. Stems and thorns included. It's very unassuming in its realisme and i am always reminded whenever i smell a rose that the best smells are often the most simple.

I bought a large bottle recently after having this in my early teens in the 90's. I loved it then and I still do.

I sprayed it on my shirt instead of my skin as it is soooo strong! I could smell it for many hours and even a hint of it after washing the shirt.

Smells like a hypercolour vintage rose. If you were alive in the 90s, you will remember hypercolour. It is exactly what a rose fragrance should smell like

Amazing fragrance and value if you are a rose lover.

Vivid fresh tea rose. It is good, in fact, very good. However, I don't reach for it for some reason. Nonetheless it is worth having as a reference tea rose fragrance if you are a collector or rose addict.

This starts out as a rich, velvety rose scent, exactly like cut flowers. Over time it stays rose-floral, but evolves a bit, as well—I start getting stems and leaves and a little bit of an ozonic rain smell. It smells either like fresh roses or like recently dried rose petals. I don't get any dust or must or rot.

I tried this side by side with Demeter's Bulgarian Rose, and although they start out a bit different, the drydown is very much the same. Honestly I prefer Tea Rose (which is convenient, given their respective prices). Also, longevity is ridiculous. I blind bought as part of my exploration of individual notes, but I don't at all mind owning it on its own merits. This is a realistic, pleasant soliflore, suitable for using to decide if you like perfumer's rose, layering, or just wearing.

“Se Zeus volesse dare un regno ai fiori, la rosa regnerebbe su tutto”. Questa affermazione è stata fatta nel 600 a.C. dal poeta greco Saffo; un ricordo d'infanzia: l'arcobaleno dopo una tempesta estiva. Il bergamotto dipinge i raggi del sole che brillano di nuovo, il legno di sandalo e il cedro ripristinano la sensazione della terra bagnata e la Rosa del Tè diventa un bicchiere che contiene l'acqua del cielo. Tea Rose crea un'aura elegante e sofisticata, pacifica e gentile. Buona persistenza e longevità a un prezzo trascurabile

What do I say? I bought it at a high-end department store, loved it, and wore it. THEN the boyfriend I had at the time said that it smelled of funeral parlours! Such a turnoff -- not just to the perfume but to him as well! Kept the perfume even though I never wore it again. Later, a neighbour spoke of an elegant woman she met in Saudi Arabia who wore a certain "Tea Rose" perfume that she liked. I retrieved the bottle and asked, "Is this it?" My neighbour tried it and affirmed, "Yes, this is the one!" I insisted, "TAKE IT!" She did and enjoyed it since.

Tea rose is everything you want to have if you are a rose lover.
This is nothing more than a true rose scent including stems and leaves.
The dominant note is rose. No other flowers, herbs or spices invited here, just roses. However there’s a green background that reminds me of green freshly cut rose stems.
The rose here is fresh and dewy not a single trace of dried musty roses.
The price and quality should put to shame those niche fragrances that cost one eye and half the other.
For those who adore the queen of flowers, search no more.

Memories hope to get a bottle again soon

It’s hands-down the most realistic rose I’ve ever smelled. makes me think of crushing a petal from a full, lush, red rose and holding my fingers up to my nose. the dry down smells rotten to me and makes me recoil unfortunately, and it really lasts…

Smells like Sadaf rose water! That said, Tearose is more potent ands it lasts longer as opposed to spraying straight rose water.

THE ROMANCE OF THE ROSE

Visually the rose has always been one of my most appreciated flowers. Its beauty is accompanied by a majesty that impresses and, at the same time, offers us a richness of detail and vivid colours that attract and hook us. The perfume is quite fragrant and singular. Despite its feminine floral aura, for me, the rose note is perfectly unisex. Different roses have a wide range of complicated smells, from floral and tea aromas to spicy, fruity, and musky scents. Despite its delicate appearance, it is by no means harmless as it defends itself very well with its sharp thorns. The plant as a whole is usually quite resilient.
Tea roses in particular were originally from China and were named Hybrid Tea because the fragrance of the plants reminded people of l of tea brewing smell. Tea roses are usually white and often grow much taller than shrub roses, producing a larger bloom as well.

[short review]
"Tea Rose" is a very linear fragrance made with immaculate tea roses, very red Bulgarian roses, and pink Damascene roses, surely all very carefully chosen. The perfume has a dewy rose bouquet that is quite intense and attention-grabbing. The flowers feel freshly picked and flood us with their olfactory pungency. It has slight nuances of herbal tea, more precisely chamomile tea or perhaps melissa in my opinion. My wife's opinion is that this perfume recalls facets of green tea.
I consider this perfume to bear similarities to the intense rose scent of some niche perfumes released more recently. Don't expect from it, neither a very sweet profile or a resinous and amber base. Here we find essentially a spicy and warm floral continuous scent, rounded off at the base with a light green and woody aroma.
It is really very pleasant! For its quality and price, it turns out to be an almost unbeatable perfume for a genuine lover of the rose note.
Its performance is above average, with a longevity of more than 10 hours and an acceptable projection and sillage.
It was released almost 60 years ago but still has an enviable performance. It is usually priced between 16 and 25 Euros on the web and is even easy to find.

My opinion: Normally a rose perfume is associated either with other flowers, with noble woods, or even with resinous hearts and bases.
This perfume gives us a clean scent of rose (or roses) without great distractions around it. The near absence of other flowers makes it not too feminine and makes it appealing to both genders.
The price is very attractive. Rose scent deep lovers have a justifiable blind purchase justification.

Music: "The Rose" by Bette Midler

Very linear and simple rose fragrance. Right away I miss the elements of patchouli or Oud or labdanum to anchor it. It’s a great value and has very good sillage and longevity but I think once you’ve smelled more modern rose perfumes this feels as though something is lacking. Another simple rose fragrance is Serge Lutens Une Fille de Berlin, but to me that one’s smells more round and delicious. It has more depth . There’s just something about this one that doesn’t appeal. I could see it being a good layering fragrance, just one spray to add a little rose to something and for that purpose it’s a good value but I wouldn’t wear on it’s own.

This scent alone is very strong and simple. It is a spot on tea rose scent! The longevity is great, lasts all day which is nice and a little will go a long way to the point where it could be overpowering. I prefer to layer it with a musk and deeper gourmand chocolatey or vanilla scents. It’s nothing too special but not bad. I’ve actually gotten a lot of compliments the few times I’ve worn it alone, especially from my husband.

I sprayed a couple sprays on a shirt inside my closet. My entire closet smells like a rose garden. I wish there was a way to dilute this. I love the scent, but there's no way I'd wear this to an office.

I usually adore most rose perfumes. This smelled dated to me. Something my Grandmother would wear. Out it goes!

Smells just like a chinese tea rose after rain, starts off slightly acidic but quickly turns into a gentle sweetness. Becomes more like dried tea rose petals that were preserved in an old book as time goes on. Personally love this and thinks it is just "me"
Silage and longevity are both good, just one spray on me would stay for the whole day and be quite mild. Afternote smells like a rose flavoured turkish delight.
edit: It's been three days and I can still smell it on me. I think I'm hallucinating at this point.

Very vintage scent. The smell reminds me of these little potpourri flower petals that were included with a fairy book I got from the book fair in elementary school. I don't know why it triggers such a memory but it instantly brought me there! All that being said, it's not for me. Smell reminds me of rose petals dried between old book pages. Overwhelming rose upon first spray but it dissipates almost immediately. I could use this more for a room spray over a wearable daily fragrance. I gave the bottle to my mom and she loved it, It will work for some.

I absolutely detest this scent. It's beast mode and can fill up an entire room easily. Very realistic smelling roses with hints of tea & very realistic smelling wood.
This is Gothic and dark but not I. a good way. It's the perfect perfume for a mortician. It's what I imagine a funeral home would smell like.
Where is nothing about this that says gee I should wear this as a perfume. I would appreciate it if no one ever wore this perfume. It's ghastly.

You see, I'm almost apprehensive writing this review. The glowing reviews led me to think this would be an absolute easy, everyday reach for me, but I've been wearing it for a couple months now and I just can't fully get into it.

A lot of people mention that this is a very realistic impression of a real, true rose in the flesh. Well, that piqued my interest seeing as how I'm kind of a rose buff. Rosarians, people like me call themselves, but it is kind of a goofy moniker to me i think. It's still nice that we got a name at all, makes it easier to try and find people who like roses as much as I.

So yeah, I collect rose varieties, I have about 60 at the moment, and I specially like old heritage ones which are often referred to globally as "old garden roses", but there are many classes of them.

This fragrance is most reminiscent to me to the "China" class, which, as the name should suggest, are varieties that were developed by ancient gardeners in China and the "Far East", out of crossing the many native wild species of roses there. China roses are said to have introduced important qualities to the modern rose DNA that we pretty much take for granted nowadays.

One such contribution was expanding the color possibilites for blooms. European varieties tended to fade lighter as the bloom aged whereas chinas went the opposite direction, they got darker or shifted hue as the bloom aged, and they made more vivid reds.
Another one, perhaps even more important is the fact that a lot of China roses are everblooming. Before their DNA was introduced in the European rose genetic makeup they were mostly once blooming bushes, meaning they only flowered once per year. Modern roses bloom all year long (provided winters aren't too harsh), and it's thanks to china roses, essentialy.

Cramoisi Superieur is one such variety that smells reminiscent of this frag. Yet, although I see the resemblance there's something offputting about it, it's about 85% there but it doesn't quite scratch the itch when you know roses so well... It's almost like an uncanny valley thing, it is terribly close but there's something off that's really annoying.

A lot of people mention a humid element to it and yeah, there's a wetness almost to the point of reminding me of the rotting petals when it rains for many days on end.

If you've ever dried a rose you may know that the scent of a fresh rose and a dried one are different. The scent of dried roses is actually the decomposition going on in there that emanates a very saccharine and slightly boozy smell, along with a musk. This is the reason why florist roses, which typycally have no scent at all when fresh (having a higher concentration of aromatic oils means that the bloom will last less, and with cut flowers you want them to last as long as possible), appear to be "scented" once you dry the petals.

Fresh rose scents vary depending on the variety but there's usually no alcoholic characteristics and tend to be less sweet than when dried. Some can be lemony, some have hints of raspberry, some are just really classic "Taif" or "Damask" "properly rose-like" scents. There's varieties that are musky, some smell like tea leaves, clove, spices, and there's even some that will smell acrid, like linseed oil (close hybrids of Rosa foetida).

So, this is kind of a realistic rose, except it's not. There's that "rain drenched, rotting petals" element and that slight "dry bloom stank" quality. The alcohol from the formula is also very noticeable for a few minutes after spraying.

I should also note that the label on my bottle is peeling off, despite being purchased new recently and not having spilled any juice or liquid of any sort on it. I don't really care, but you might want to have that in mind if you would want to gift this to someone.

I have tried layering it with other stuff, and it is wearable but I can't say I've fallen in love with any combination.

I wish I loved it, I really do. I don't hate it, but it's iffy to me, almost irksome, it makes me think "you're so close, just get there already" and it never really does, of course...

I'm curious about the harder to find and decidedly less inexpensive edp version. Don't know if I'll commit to it though...

This is dreamy. A natural smelling, wet, garden fresh Bulgarian & Taif rose bouquet, concentrated × 10. Simply lovely. I picture a beautiful Tzigan woman, with long black hair, red lips, and kohl smudged sparkling honey eyes. She's draped in gold coins and scarves, dancing in her flowing skirts and velvet bolero; a giant red rose tucked behind her ear, OWNing this fragrance.

I cannot wait to experiment with this bold, pure rose smell -- layering it with my favorite vanilla fragrances, and/or patchouli essential oil. Fire at Will and Tea Rose together will be so pretty 😍. Such a great value for such a beautiful and versatile fragrance!

Coming back to say this fra is nuclear ☢️. I layered 1 spray of Tea Rose over 4 sprays of the ambery cherry beauty, Not Another Cherry, at 6 a.m this morning on my bare chest. By lunch time, NAC had faded out, but I could still very much smell rose. So at 1 p.m. I layered 2 sprays of Vanilla Sex over the remaining Tea Rose (which is a STUNNING combination, btw!). Finally, arriving home at 6 p.m., VS was mostly gone but Tea Rose was still noticeable! This was one spray -- 12 hours, all day. Unbelievable!

Another update! I sprayed 3 sprays on a coworkers fake plastic rose on Valentine's Day. I smelled it again last Friday and it was still detectable 😲!

I keep a bottle of Perfumers Workshop Tea Rose for nostalgia’s sake. Decades ago, this was richer and deeper than it is today, and it was a polarizing fragrance. I usually received raves when I wore Tea Rose, but a few people couldn’t abide it. It really annoyed them. Its sillage and longevity were staggering. Today’s version isn’t nearly as long lasting. I think it makes a lovely summer room spray. I still wear it from time to time because I do passionately love roses.

On Twitter I kept seeing this note called Big Strawberry, and this feels like if there were a note called Big Rose. The sweetness of having a perfume that is mainly rose is balanced out nicely by the sandalwood and cedar. Definitely more of a room spray than a traditional perfume, (I think due to the amber) but still surprisingly wearable! Lasts much better on clothes than skin.

At first, I didn’t love this. I was searching for the greens. This is rose petals with not a steam, leaf or thorn in sight. Just soft, nose straight on a velvety red rose petal. There is a slight bitter tea note under all the rose, and it’s quite a lot of rose. It was super cheap so that’s a plus, and I might like it more if I layered it with something really green and fresh. I think if I were to wear this it would be one spritz high in the air and I’d walk through it, just to get that rose essence and not bomb everyone with a big rose room filler. I do like that it smells pretty realistic. Maybe it will grow on me.

This was my signature scent in high school. I love it for that reason. Delightfully rosy 🌹

Sharp. Green. Realistic Rose. Musky. Floral.
Longevity: 9/10
Sillage: 6/10

Smells so much like this oil I got from the witch store when I was 15. Very strong and fresh rose. If someone passed out and you had to wake them up, just spray this on your arm and put it under their nose.
Honestly at first I wasn't a fan, since it's such a powerhouse, but after wearing it a couple of times it's nice. Stays pretty strong for a few hours. I think I would love it if it lasted a bit longer.

Smells like wet roses in the garden, quite literally. I have received a compliment on it, and occasionally wear it on rainy days. But mostly, it's just a room spray. I've discovered that I'm not a massive fan of pink florals anyway.

Beautiful and affordable rose perfume for the rose fans. Available at any drugstore that sells fragrances like CVS or Walgreens. Tea Rose starts with a citrus kick via the bergamot orange. Then it gets into an apple scent which is rarely if ever discussed by the reviewers here. Totally a green granny smith apple scent. It does not contain such a note but it could be the citrus-into-rose floral scent with the green note that comes with the rose. This is an herbal scent, an earthy, green cabbage rose. The stem and the leaves are very much a part of the fragrance. It climaxes with the rose bloom and petals and the familiar rose scent but it is by that time in the dry down a dry rose not fresh rose. Smells like rose petals pressed in the pages of an antique book. The rose and the wood notes give it a very 'antique' scent. This is vintage and classy, with huge lasting power. Lasts all day. The sillage is a bomb and can be smelt by anyone a mile away! It's only rose and not complex. Really only rose and green notes with some slight wood. This is a fragrance to wear any time of th year but smells so beautiful on the skin or clothes in the fall/autumn time or winter. In summer if oversprayed it's a beast. Elegant and casual. Unisex. Men can wear this too because it's just a very dark green earthy rose with wood. Today many men's colognes offer rose notes anyways so it's become common to have men's fragrances with some rose on them. One of the most popular and beloved rose perfumes in the world.

I hate this
Truly
Desperately

Rose oil and nothing more, synthetic feeling, screechy opening
Not that long lasting on top of that
Why would anyone call this a "perfume"?!

I wanted to fall in love with this perfume, starting from its unabashedly 70s aesthetic side. The scent is the splendid and realistic one of a freshly picked rose. Green, austere, penetrating! The problem is that it literally lasts 20/30 minutes on my skin. Given the price, I certainly wasn't expecting monstrous performance, but I didn't even have time to spray it, leave the house, go down the stairs and turn the corner before he was already on his way. He probably hates me, but he is so beautiful and good that despite everything I will always keep him with me!

If you like roses scent this will be your cup of tea (rose;)). I am using this german brand soap from Kappus, they have this round shaped soaps with flower carved. And this perfum is exactly like that rose soap I love. I don't mind it's not complex scent. I came for roses I got roses and I got it for small amount of money.
Recently I was also testing other seemingly rose scent that many recommended to me Zara Fashionably London. The rose in there is sickening to me, or rather there's something in that smell that makes me nauseaus, here I get beautiful fresh rose, that's what I was looking in that first. It only shows how difficult it is to find the scent you are looking for based on notes only.

This was a blind buy for me, even though I don't like this scent too much I don't regret it because it's real cheap. I got the eau de toilette which doesn't last long. It DOES smell like fresh cut roses but something ALSO smells very "old granny" like. I can't understand what gives it that old lady smell. Kinda gives me white diamond vibes on this. Definitely not a youthful scent and it's definitely NOT for me!!!!!

Beautiful, realistic *wet* garden rose. My husband loves this one on me. I just layered it today with Philosophy Fresh Cream and it was magical in a totally new and different way…Enjoy!

I bought this because it was described as a natural rose scent just as if you come up to a rose bush and smell the flowers.

While the fragrance is rose heavy, it's not green, watery/rainy or natural smelling as you might expect. Specifically in the opening, there is this strawberry jello note that I do not appreciate as a guy, and it kinda ruins the fragrance for me... Mabe the scent could be reformulated?

If what you are looking for is heavy rose scent, with fruity/strawberry jello opening, this is it.

Tea Rose, what can I say? It’s beautifully made and if you love roses like I do then you will appreciate this fine perfume. If you don’t, this perfume is not for you. It’s pretty realistic as far as rose scents go, it’s also got that retro vibe to it as well reminding me of when I used to wear Avon’s Roses Roses while growing up. I have a few perfumes in my collection that were created around the time I was born so I kind of assumed this would also be a great contender in my collection. And surprise surprise it’s something I really enjoy. I wear it mainly during the Spring or over the Summer. When I visit my parents I wear it for my Mum as she never gets a headache with this perfume. She can’t wear them anymore sadly. It’s fresh, a little bit powdery and something you might think is best in your grandmothers house but try it and then wait for the compliments. I have had many when I have worn this. It’s pretty special.

I bought this months ago and never wanted to wear it, I found it very cloying. It’s the classic rose smell, I don’t know what the variety is called. Very staunch! I wondered round a rose garden to compare and some smelled exactly like this but I much preferred the others. But I’ve realised that it is the perfect scent for a rainy day. It’s like a rainy rose garden. I think flowers might smell stronger on a wet day, or maybe the other scents are just muted by the water. On a dry day this is unrealistically overpowering. I’m so glad to have discovered such a lovely way to enhance a rainy day.

Speaking of the devil.
This scent is the one with the Prada's shoes.

Red roses, Red, all things red.
I love this so much, but I truly couldn't use it on myself.
The red roses are overwhelmingly strong, although quite relaxing at that.

It does not suit me and that's fine!
I used to have this, but I gave it away to my beloved mom.
And surely mom does rock with it though. lol
Also, the fact that this perfume fills the whole 1st floor of my home with only 5 sprays....
This speaks of how powerful this scent was.

Pleasing and blown my mind.
The pricing is almost unreal.
Easily recommend for any matured woman whose will is strong and independent.
You will love it for sure!

Tea Rose is the cheapest perfume, but the best Rose perfume in my collection. Red Roses in the rain, oh I loveeee it!

I like fresh and pure Roses, so Tea Rose is the Queen of Roses in my heart. It's unbelievable that this wonderful perfume was released in 1977. I bought it today, and as soon as I unsealed it, I could smell the fragrant scent right out of the box. I was overwhelmed by this super realistic Rose scent, something I always look for in perfumes these days. A lot of Rose perfumes today don't have a natural Rose scent like this one, losing the characteristics of the Rose. When I tried spraying it, a whole garden of Red Roses appeared before my eyes, like I was actually placing my face in a Rose bush and enjoying its fragrance. It's very realistic... with green leaves, sharp thorns and even wet dew drops on the petals. But this is a scent that brings out classic Vibes, not modern Roses. It reminds me of the Red Rose gardens in the mist and rain in England in ancient castles, so romantic.

I think anyone who loves Roses should try this scent once in their life, wear it and you will turn into a girl lost in the endless Rose garden. The scent is very classic and natural, suitable for a romantic candlelit dinner with wine and Red Roses. I also often wear Tea Rose on rainy days, sipping a cup of tea and watching the rain fall outside the door.

Rating: 100+/10, I love Tea Rose so much that I bought a spare bottle

Do you need a very Rose dominant Perfume? you want a high quality niche perfume for maximum 30 dollars , you're right here.
Very fine Rose, light woody, light citrusy accordy. High quality, very strong.
Longevity and sillage hier in beast mode and very cheap.
Absolutely worth recommending.

This one I like the spray on my sheets will last until I wake up

I hear people bandy around the term ‘niche quality’, although I do always wonder what that means. But this is it.

It’s a niche brand by any definition— they only make fragrance and pretty much this one is the only one you will find. In terms of niche quality: define it how you will. This has everything— smells sublime, massive projection and longevity, well balanced and made with true attention to detail and quality.

What more can I say?
Sometimes it’s not about the money.

I don't personally understand how there are so many reviews about how realistic a rose this is. To me, the realism of that watery damp red rose upon initial spray quickly died about 10 minutes after when a vintage-smelling/synthetic, headache-inducing quality emerges in its place. This is too unnatural for my taste, but I agree that you cannot beat the price.

I love this! I currently can't afford expensive perfumes and WOW it's good for its price. When I first sprayed it, it DID smell a little bit like bug spray. It mellowed out on my skin a lot and got sweeter, almost jammy. Honestly I'm a bit surprised that it's not as herbal-smelling as the other comments make it out to be but that's probably just my skin chemistry. Makes me nostalgic for eating Turkish Delight as a kid

Low-cost, simple but classy bottle design, realistic, true rose that comes with the stems. Not the most pleasant rose eau de toilette out there, but definitely one of the most true and affordable in the market. Freshly cut rose stems, and then the rose petals start showing up. The dry down can get rather pungent on some skin types. Definitely not everybody's cup of tea. If you're not too crazy about rose notes, you can live without this.

However, I do think that it's perfect for layering fragrances, especially for the rose note lovers. It's nice to have in the fragrance stash despite barely being used. Got a boring fragrance and you want to add that rose note to make you like it a little better? Spray some of this. Just a reminder, though: This is EDT, so if you only use a little bit when you layer it with heavy EDP or absolu concentrations, it can easily get drowned by the stronger formulation.

TRY OUTSTANDING ROSE NOTES ON A BUDGET!

The rose is a true queen among all flowers being beautiful, majestic and very fragrant. Consequently, its fragrance must also be royal blood material. The olfactory note of the rose can lean towards a more masculine or more feminine facet and generally evokes oriental ambiences. I quite like the rose scent but I am by no means an unconditional fanatic of it, by accepting every perfume whiff with the rose tag on it. I am particularly picky about the different nuances that we can find in rose scents that may arrive with many different names like Centifolia, Alba, Tea, English, Bulgarian, Moroccan, Turkish, Damask, Taif... and others that I don't remember now.
I am also a bit choosy about the notes that can be combined with this floral scent. I usually don't enjoy other flowers mixed with the rose note, and I dislike the sweet rose/jasmine blending in particular. My defences come down completely when a strong taif rose note is combined with woods like agarwood, sandalwood and ebony, or with resins like olibanum and myrrh. All rose/wood accords are powerful, seductive and mysterious.

An intense rose scent is heavily used in many well-known, appreciated and very usually expensive top-end perfumes. The rose note is clearly dominant in fragrances such as:
Noir De Noir by Tom Ford, Rose d'Arabie by Armani Privé, Les Sables Roses by Louis Vuitton, Une Rose de Kandahar by Tauer Perfumes, Atomic Rose by Initio, Perfume Calligraphy Rose by Aramis, Oud Silk Mood by Maison Francis Kurkdjian, Portrait of a Lady by Frédéric Malle, Lyric Man by Amouage, La fille de Berlin by Serge Lutens, Roses de Chloé by Chloé, Velvet Rose & Oud by Jo Malone, J'adore by Christian Dior, Rose Noir by Byredo, Ardent by Boadicea the Victorious...
... and many others. All these fantastic perfumes have a common feature besides the high seduction they exert on perfume buyers. Their high prices and habitual unwillingness to integrate in-store promotions, seasonal sales and Black Friday advertising.

THE BUDGET ROSE MUSKETEER
There is a near-pungent rose perfume, actually using three types of rose essential oil, from an almost unknown brand. I refer to Tea Rose by Perfumer's Workshop. This fragrance presents us with a gigantic heart of Damask, Tea and Bulgarian rose. The other supporting notes are completely secondary and go rather unnoticed. If other perfumes contain rose essential oils mixed with supporting notes, this perfume fools us and seems to be composed only of rose essences and in very high concentration. It delivers the most intense and realistic natural rose aroma I have probably ever experienced in any perfume. It is simply a rose bomb, a wonderfully antique scent, a divine fresh rose that feels classy and retro. Plus, it's wearable all year round. Anyone who loves the scent of roses cannot go without this perfume in his or her wardrobe. If you don't like a rose scent, don't even try it because you will hate this fresh, natural and green bottled rose. Its longevity exceeds 8 hours and its sillage is close to two metres. The price? I bought my first 100ml bottle last month for €16.
I hope you enjoyed my suggestion. If you are tired of smelling natural roses for a high price, now you can start doing it on a budget.

Music: "(I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden" - by Lynn Anderson"

This smells awful. It’s like the dreaded grandma’s purse floral collabed with Mr. Clean. I don’t know if it’s soapy or grassy or both but there’s a loud note in here that’s so intense, it’s nauseating. Rose can take so many forms in terms of scent profile and I was excited to rediscover, what has now become, a quite popular part of the perfume world because I’ve always written rose scents off as too green or bland or dated. This scent is all of that. If you like a more raw rose, you might like this. Luckily, a huge bottle of this pungent brew is only $12. A 2 ml sample of God of Fire cost more.

I could have bought a 2 ml sample of God of Fire

Budget Rose
This fragrance presents us with a gigantic heart of Damask, Tea and Bulgarian rose. The other supporting notes are completely secondary and go rather unnoticed. If other perfumes contain rose essential oils mixed with supporting notes, this perfume fools us and seems to be composed only of rose essences and in very high concentration. It delivers the most intense and realistic natural rose aroma I have probably ever experienced in any perfume. It is simply a rose bomb, a wonderfully antique scent, a divine fresh rose that feels classy and retro. Plus, it's wearable all year round. Anyone who loves the scent of roses cannot go without this perfume in his or her wardrobe. If you don't like a rose scent, don't even try it because you will hate this fresh, natural and green bottled rose. Its longevity exceeds 8 hours and its sillage is close to two metres. The price? I bought my first 100ml bottle last month for €16.

Music: "(I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden" - by Lynn Anderson"

So, at this price level, you shouldn't expect a high-quality atomizer, I'm pointing that out right now. The bottle looks elegant, but the atomizer is a tragedy, but.. A lot of music for little money. In my opinion this is the most authentic red rose I've ever smelled.. I also have Paul Smith Rose it's a beautiful fresh tea rose but this is a rose bomb! It's not the type of fresh tea, or "peony" Turkish or Moroccan rose, but rather Bulgarian rose oil, but be careful, the oil is not heavy at all like it usually is!.. I personally hate bulgarian rose oil, but this smells great .. In short, I hold a bouquet of fragrant red roses in my hand, I put my head in it, and I also smell a little of their green stems, but the smell is straight rose, rose and rose.. You don't need to be afraid of the first chemical spray, it goes away in a few seconds and starts just a beautiful pure simple rose to develop.. I don't think you need to wait for any extra development because it's a linear scent, but it's worth it...Rose lovers this is a must have!

Most realistic rose scent. Literally smells like a freshly cut rose bouquet in a vase with greeness from the stems while the roots are getting damp, wet from the water.

Bought this out of curiosity, and because this would act as a perfect base for layering scents. I don't think I enjoy it too much on its own, and it kinda smells sour to me. I did try it on a cold day though so maybe it needs heat to warm up? Not entirely sure, but I am in search of an oud/vanilla scent now to use with this!

Mi pare che nella piramide ci fosse anche la camomilla.
Questo profumo lo usava mia mamma 30 anni fa.
Lo ho ricomprato per ricordare, me lo sono spruzzato sulla pelle e in effetti è come lo ricordavo.
Rosa carnosa e profumata gialla...
Il problema è che dopo 10 minuti è completamente sparito. Non so a cosa possa servire,quando lo indosso a casa non faccio neanche in tempo ad arrivare alla macchina al parcheggio che non esiste gia più.

Good 'ol Tea rose, lol. My Mother and I swore this off years ago--labeled it as awful! As a collector, I decided to add Tea Rose to my collection, unsure if I'd be able to pull off such a strong, legendary, incomparable big rose. I've had it for a few months, I decided to wear it around the house this past Saturday. Ummmm, it starts off as a very strong powerhouse, but quickly dries into a skin scent. I couldn't believe it! Back in the day, when older ladies wore this, it would fill a room-- not the case with me. I quickly became both bored and overwhelmed with the rose, so I decided to layer Demeter's Gardenia with it. That did not work either because it quickly became a 'dirty' rose. Silage and longevity are weak. I would not recommend purchasing unless you're either a lover of rose, or a collector. So far, I cannot figure what to layer with Tea Rose, and I cannot see wearing it further than my backyard. If you do like big rose scents, I recommend Fleur Fatale by Kim Kardashian. Fleur Fatale is much more sophisticated and smoothed out. It has better longevity, it's affordable, and is slightly more modern. Tea Rose is definitely NOT a safe blind buy!

This is the a very photolistic bouquet of red roses.... absolutely gorgeous and classic!

This is definitely not for people wanting Centifolia or Damascus Rose.
But when you want a real raw rose scent instead of a perfumed rose, I think this is one of the perfect options.
This is a rose fragrance that includes not only the rose flower, but also the lushness of its leaves and stems. The lively smell of that plant that you feel from the cut end of a freshly cut rose.

And the price! It's amazing that you can get such a fresh rose scent at this price.

I don't just wear this perfume as it is, because I seek variety and fun in perfume. . Because it's a rose all the way.
However, it is perfect for layering with other perfumes that I find difficult to use on its own to add a rosy nuance.
You can also use it as a room spray or scent your bedding to make you feel as elegant as you sleep in a rose garden.

Anyway, I think this Tea Rose is one that you should have whether you are a beginner or an advanced perfum fun.

'Tis all Very Simple, simpler than any scent I have ever reviewed: Friends, if you do not like this scent, you do not like the smell of roses. (Which certainly is your right, of course.)

Everyone who knows anything about perfume or about roses has written of the pure, simple genius of this scent. No, I do mean *everyone.* (Go check any real perfume reviewer, or ask any perfume creator. Or any rose grower. I'll wait.)

It's an acid test, this one. When someone says something tritely negative about this scent (the "grandma" and "air freshener" children), it immediately discloses two things: (1) they know little about roses and (2) they know still less about fragrance. Nothing more to be said to them by anyone intelligent; all you can do is listen to them rant or babble and smile politely and knowingly . . . bless their hearts. Cheers.

It’s the most realistic rose perfume I’ve ever smelled. It’s not just the flower I smell, it’s the stem but it smells beautiful. If I were to picture this, I picture on a hot summer day, a person cruising through a pond on a row boat with moss trees above and rose bushes on the grass next to the pond but it suddenly starts to rain

This fragrance is THE rose - the queen of flowers. It's clean, fresh, soapy, captivating, and intoxicating all at once. Reminds me of a blooming rose grove post-rainfall where the scent of damp soil, the freshly mowed lawn, the sheared stems, and the blooming flowers just tickle your nose, and you wish you can stay in that grove for a little while. Beware, for this beauty is NOT for the faint of heart, or sad little incel p_ssyboys who prefer to bathe in $5 Axe bodyspray. This is strictly for grownups, and hardcore fragheads just like yours truly 😉

I fell in love with Jo Malone's Red Roses recently. It reminds me of my Great Grandma's garden. She loved growing flowers and fruit trees. I read that this was a dupe for a fraction of the price and it totally is. It's my bedtime scent.

This is a very realistic classic rose scent with great lasting power.

I wanted to love this. I love how this smells on paper. The notes all sound fantastic–who doesn't love the idea of a fragrance that smells like a photorealistic rose? I believe that is what this fragrance is going for–a real rose, in a real garden, wood, stems, green notes and all. Unfortunately, it's a poor match with my skin chemistry. Despite those lovely floral front notes, Tea Rose is very wood-centric, which is bad news for me, as predominantly woody fragrances translate as dirty and harsh on my skin.

I didn't get any citrus in the opening, and the other white floral notes–such as the nectary sweet little and fresh tuberose–are nowhere to be found. I got the rose, and it was lovely–until that bitter sandalwood kicked in. It came across as less garden rose and more health food store–not cute on me, alas.

There is nothing objectively wrong with this scent, but it's a mismatch for me. For $14 a bottle, it's not a bad choice, and for a EDT is has respectable sillage. Alas, I will have to search elsewhere for my go-to rose fragrance.

Vintage Rose Classic...

This is a must try for rose lovers. Although I was initially struck by a vintage vibe, this plays out to be a very hyper-realistic/photo-realistic rose. It could be that it reads vintage to me because it's so realistic and I myself am becoming vintage. I've smelt this before: a dozen roses from my father to my mother in a vase on the dining table, my grandmother's handcream, roses wrapped in paper from a special someone... Opens with a burst of rose with citrus and green nuances and develops powdery, velvety, peppery, fresh and soapy facets, resting on a soft cedar-sandalwood base that becomes root-y & earthy as it dries down. In the drydown, the rose expands taking on an airy & velvety quality. Well above average performance.

Contrast to Tea Rose EDP Perfumers' Workshop:
The EDP version smells very similar to Tea Rose, but side by side, you can tell there's a Taif rose in the EDP, taking on more of a whipped-velvety quality compared with the more powdery-velvety EDT version. Performance is excellent in both.

Overall: Beautiful vintage leaning, realistic rose scent with well above average performance, this is the perfect scent to wear time travelling. It's a love for me. Enjoy!

Buy it if you want to smell like potpourri. Otherwise, no it’s not a good rose perfume, even at this price. I will be returning mine. Air freshener and potpourri vibe. It’s a no for me, unfortunately.

I'm so amazed by this simple 🌹 rose, it's so refreshing &realistic after drydown of course 😉 I have no memories with this,other than the real roses I grew up smelling in the front yard&getting into trouble for making Mudd pies,this is the only rose perfume I can wear&it doesn't smell like a perfume thankfully! ♡♡♡ I tried,Delina,roses musk,roses vanille,atomic rose,midnight rose,rose oils,red roses,this is the best!!!! I'm done with blind buys,samples,I got a fb of this&I have to face it,it's the ɓest realistic 🌹 rose&lasts very well! I figured out the hard way I hate roses in perfumes,and I only like rose as only rose&realistic by nature scent of a REAL rose.The bottles ugly but who cares!!!♡♡♡♡🌹 🌹 🌹 ♡♡♡ I can't believe how affordable this is!

This is an impressively realistic rose scent with absolutely nuclear projection. You won’t find anything better than this and for the price, it’s such a steal ! Not my thing but my family loves it :)

Beautiful! A freshly cut tea rose set in a vase. The fragrant petals, the bright green stem, and the water in the vase combine into an intoxicating scent.

I don’t see how anyone wouldn’t love this fragrance. It’s a timeless soliflore (single floral perfume) that evokes a natural and photorealistic image. Not only that, it performs like a beast! It’s an edt that performs better than many a newer edp. In fact, there’s an edp of this, and that honestly scares me.

In modern times, rose scents have a feminine and antiquated reputation, so much so that they’re often described as “grandma-ish.” But Tea Rose is none of these things. Fellas, give this a sniff! Anecdotally this perfume is very popular with Indian and Middle Eastern men, and I can see why! This is not a sentimental, dusty rose. This is thorns, this is dew, this is the flower of love!

Seriously, this is $12 online in spring 2023, and this 4 oz bottle is going to last me many more springs. So many powerhouse scents have been nerfed over the decades, and while I haven’t smelled an old bottle of this, I can say that the longevity and silage of Tea Rose are what I remember from perfumes of the past. This is an uncompromising classic, and I hope its formula and affordability never change.

It is a beautiful rose fragrance as long as you don't spray on much. It's very strong and very long lasting. It does smell like a real rose.

I remember smelling this on a friend on the late 80s at school.
My own teen signature fragrance back in those days was Alyssa Ashley Rose that you could buy at the drugstore, and it was really gorgeous. I was totally in love with it. I bought bottle after bottle over the years.

Very natural smelling, but no leaves, no greenery. Just fresh, bright, romantic, rose. It was long lasting and had great projection. Many compliments.

When I saw my friends much fancier bottle of Tea Rose (you could tell it was pricey) I was intrigued and excited. Until I smelled it.

I knew right then and there that it was not for me, and was not nearly as pleasing to me as my Alyssa Ashley Rose.

Recalling it now, it was quite sharp and even astringent. Bitter.
Cold, and clinical, compared to my HG.

I don't know what is going on with my body chemistry, but whenever I smell this I become naseous and ill in my stomach. I really wanted to love it because it does smell nice and give a very realistic fresh rose scent, but I don't want to feel like i'm on the verge of throwing up when I want to smell like roses.

I expected to love this based on online reviews but I HATE it!! To me, it smells like cheap rosewater mixed with a pine scented toilet cleaner. It smells so sharp and synthetic and unfortunately is so pungent that even hours later it still smells just as horrible.

Ateast it taught me a lesson to never blind buy another fragrance.

It will probably take you less than a minute of checking my profile to discover that I’m huge white floral fan and fanatic. However this rose scent🌹 completely swept me by the feet. Roses are my favorite flowers by looks and I love how a real rose smells, but in perfumery they are commonly made in overbearing combinations with either syrupy sweet or heavily oudy or chypre concoctions. To me roses have a complex and beautiful smell on their own with nuances of floral, fruity, sweet, fresh and woodsy all built in naturally, and any other notes added just make it overwhelming to my nose. Not that I don’t enjoy such perfumes and wear them, of course I do, but I much prefer rose as a solinote if done right. Somehow TPWS managed to do the perfect naturalistic rose with cheap synthetic ingredients and a humble flacon but a great performance. Now that’s a successful workshop!
Smelling TR is like burying your face in a rose bush full of huge numbers of red and pink roses in all stages, from young fresh closed blossoms to deep red large sweet ones in full bloom. You smell the green leaves, the woodsy thorny stems and the wet soil underneath.
It is the whole experience and a rose heaven to me 🌹❤️

This is the ideal base for all your rose-inspired fragrance layering experiments.

An extremely realistic embodiment of a tea rose bush. The greenery part overlaps the flowery, making the fragrance too dry for my nose. The smell of a freshly cut rose stem is not a pleasant one to wear, but I enjoy spraying it on the linen or curtains.

Finally - I think my quest for the perfect realistic rose scent is over. I've tested so many rose fragrances over the years and loved many of them, but they never smelled like the real thing, even highly praised ones like Jo Malone's Red Roses (which again I love, but it's not photorealistic to me).

This smells exactly like the roses in my great aunt's garden when I was a little girl. I loved walking around there and smelling all the different roses, and this perfume captures that exact scent of the fresh flowers, stem and all, when it's still a little bit chilly on a summer morning.

I'm a slut for rose perfumes so I was really excited to see this one has been around since '77 and ordered it immediately since it was only $10 for 4oz. And I didn't like it upon the first spray. But after a minute when it had some time to dry down I totally understood why everyone loves it. It's not a sickly sweet rose dripping is syrupy sugar. It's a real rose with the leaves and thorns attached and everything, but "green" is missing in the notes on here big time. It's lovely. However I disagree that it has a lot of longevity. It lasted about 3 hours before I wanted another spray....which is no problem at this price point. Anyway, I'm really glad I blind bought it and I'll repurchase when it runs out. If I'm in the mood to want something more feminine to it I spray one of my more sugary rose perfumes and spray this over it and it's perfect. It gives it a more authentic smell.

Just when I though I would never find a rose I could wear, I found Tea Rose.

People were NOT exaggerating when they said this is a realistic rose, freshly picked from the garden. This brings back such amazing memories of picking roses with my grandma and arranging them in vases around the house. The whole house would smell like this in the summer and those are some of the happiest memories I have.

Fair warning to those looking for sweet roses that they would associate with a pristine shop-bought bouquet of roses, this is a rose that has no sweetness, it's the rose in the garden along with the stem, pricks and leaves, slight watery, maybe covered by dew.

This will always be part of my collection from now on due to the authenticity of the scent.

The only time I have smelt a better rose was when it was still growing on the bush.

Tea roses were originally from China and were named Hybrid Tea because the fragrance of the flowers reminded people of a tea brewing smell. Tea roses are usually white and often grow much taller than shrub roses, producing a larger bloom as well.

Tea Rose by Perfumer's Workshop is a very linear fragrance made with immaculate tea roses, very red Bulgarian roses, and pink Damascene roses, surely all very carefully chosen. The perfume has a dewy rose bouquet that is quite intense and attention-grabbing. The flowers feel freshly picked and flood us with their olfactory pungency. It has slight nuances of herbal tea, more precisely chamomile tea or perhaps melissa in my opinion. My wife's opinion is that this perfume recalls facets of green tea.
I consider this perfume to bear similarities to the intense rose scent of some niche perfumes released more recently. Don't expect from it, neither a very sweet profile nor a resinous and amber base. Here we find essentially a spicy and warm floral continuous scent, rounded off at the base with a light green and woody aroma.
It is really very pleasant! For its quality and price, it turns out to be an almost unbeatable perfume for a genuine lover of the rose note.
Its performance is above average, with a longevity of more than 10 hours and an acceptable projection and sillage.
It was released almost 60 years ago but still has an enviable performance. It is usually priced between 16 and 25 Euros on the web and is even easy to find.

My opinion: Normally a rose perfume is associated either with other flowers, with noble woods, or even with resinous hearts and bases.
This perfume gives us a clean scent of rose (or roses) without great distractions around it. The near absence of other flowers makes it not too feminine and makes it appealing to both genders.
The price is very attractive. Rose scent deep lovers have a justifiable blind purchase justification.

Music: "The Rose" by Bette Midler

When this perfume is blended with aged dark patchouli and vanilla essential oil, it becomes softer, more rounded, and wearable. Otherwise, the boldness of this fragrance requires a red dress, chanel pearls, valentine's day, and personality. Bravo to the creators for bottling the most realistic rose I've ever smelled and that's why I'll keep coming back to this beauty to buy time and again

This perfume is seriously intoxicating. It is realistic roses with fresh cut green stems and vase water. I feel so beautiful when I wear this and you can't beat the price on this. This is an absolute gem!

Not a review, but a warning: delightful, but strong AF! I love the scent but it is easily irritating due to the strength. Literally feels like one spray filled my house!

This really is a charmingly realistic rose scent. It's the best inexpensive perfume I've stumbled upon to. Love it! The first time I saw Tea Rose and tried it on was years and years ago at the London Liberty's. It seemed to fit that place so well. The scent reminds me of Old England, Miss Marple books and delicious cream teas in the vicarage garden.

Why why why does this smell like mold to me :(

My mother had one of those, lovely memories, lovely scent.

This perfume smells like a real rose from the garden outside right after it rains. I only smell rose and some green notes with a hint of sandalwood at the end. It’s good for layering fragrances.

Tea Rose by Perfumer's Workshop is very intense and realistic. For strong personalities. I dont usually like or use any rose fragrances, but this one I bought by intuition and with low price. I love it and use it for layering. Recommend!

Tea Rose is a large foliage rose aroma. I prefer it to smell like fresh-cut roses in a large magnificent vase, and when you inhale deeply, you get the rose plus part of the green element. The rose is enhanced by the Brazillian Rosewood, while the amber adds warmth. Or, more precisely, many, many real roses, exquisitely bundled with green leaves, cool and velvety soft, still slightly damp from the morning dew. Absolutely magnificent.

It smells like what you would expect if you took a bouquet of roses, sniffed it, and amplified the strength. I like it but it is better as a room freshener to me. Something about spraying it in my room reminds me of walking into a botanical garden. Definitely beast mode fragrance.

An intense 70s/80s rose bomb. Bargain priced too. ($12 on Amazon at the time of this review.) This is not a powdery or soft rose. This one is round -- a strong, linear red tea rose, leaves and all -- divine for rose lovers. Unfortunately for me that beautiful photorealistic rose is undercut by a distinct lingering molded-plastic-bath-toy base note. It reminds me of a rose-scented My Little Pony figurine from the 1980s. Gives it a much more synthetic vibe than I expected based on the reviews. At this price, it's worth a blind buy either way, even if it's just for the history!

Probably one of the most realistic rose smelling perfumes I have experienced. If you are a rose lover, this is a must. It doesn’t really develop into anything but it doesn’t need to. Longevity and silage are superb. Great for layering. Repurchased over the years.

I just got a large bottle of this. The first thing I did was compare it to Jo Malone Red Roses, which is probably my favorite perfume (as simple as it is). While Tea Rose is very rosy, I can definitely smell the tuberose in the composition, as well as the bergamot. I am very happy I purchased this fragrance and I look forward to wearing it in the spring and summer. It's lovely. Tea Rose is an excellent value, that's for sure. Highly recommend.

Sweet and simple, fresh, clean, tea rose, exactly what it is. There are no other notes to me with this one, and thats perfectly fine! One of the only delicate rose fragrances that projects well and is long lasting. For the price, its an incredible buy and great for layering. A cult classic and a must have in your collection.

I got it on the basis of the popular positive reviews.But I am sorry to say, the smell is just nauseating and pungent coming from some kind of a bunch of stale roses .It is sitting on my dressing table as it is for years.I wish I never brought it.

Unfortunately this one doesn't work for me. While I appreciate the green notes the rose is very metallic smelling on me not unlike Rive Gauche which is another metallic rose on me. I smell like a mixture of baby wipes, rose scented drawer liners and tarnished silverware not the scent for me.

My second cheap frag I bought because of Jeremy Fragrance, also do not regret this one. This is such a wonderfully old school scent, a green fresh rose smell that feels classy and retro yet wearable in the summer. And the price is sooo good.

Fully fresh genuine garden roses watered with the morning dew. All I can smell is the whole rose with the green leaves and the stem and the thorns. The fragrance is enormous and longlasting. Later it is like a woody rose 🪵🌹 what I really like.

Velvety red rose with gnarly stems. One spray wonder. Good to have around. Repurchased.

This is the most realistic natural smelling rose fragrance I have ever smelled. This is a rose bomb. I'm sure there are other notes, but the rose is definitely dominant. It's linear, but I don't care because it smells so good I don't really want it to develop. I imagine it would also be a good fragrance for layering if you want to add a rose note to another fragrance. Projects well. I sprayed some on and went to do other things and could still smell roses in the room I sprayed it in when I came back an hour later.

A beautiful fresh, clean, dewy pink rose. Smells like rose water in the best way. Surprisingly long lasting—don’t over spray because it’s fresh! It’s strong even though it’s dewy. I would wear this in springtime, on rainy days, and even in cooler summer days. It’s different from Red Roses by Jo Malone—I find that one less dewy, more red, velvety, and bitter green from the stems.

Photorealistic tea rose bud. Uncomplicated but not plain, not perfumey, very natural scent. A must have for rose lovers. Sillage reminds of Lipstick rose by Malle but not as waxy. Did I say must have already? 🌹 A rose is a rose.

Cheap as chips, super strong and smells like roses which is all you can ask for surely at this price? I wouldn't wear it on its own but I spray this on my pillow before bed... I will always have a bottle of this. Lasts ages too🌹

Just as any other 80s Fragrance: great price, awesome performance but the smell is just hideous. This legit smells like the soap they use in mosques. I´m so sorry for these harsh words but I don´t find this any attractive on men, women or myself. Can´t recommend.

A natural rose scent I adore. Until I tried this perfume, I was not found of flowers. The first three hours, I smell a big natural blooming rose, and the dry down is the remaining stem after trimming the rose. Sillage is approximately six feet.

this smells like actual red roses. very fresh, green, and realistic, i envision this making people think there is a bouquet in whatever room you are in. great for daytime. any rose lover will like this. just from a couple of sprays its filling up my rose and i can tell this will leave a trail. super strong to be an eau de toilette??? not complaining tho! will definitely repurchase some as backups.

I am not a huge rose fan but Tea Rose is legendary so I ordered a bottle just for educational purposes. It's a super sparkling, slightly bitter, uber realistic and bombastic rose, stem, leaves, dew drops and all. The eau de parfum has the kind of longevity you rarely experience in mainstream perfumery anymore (days and days). I tend to like rose fragrances ON things, but not usually my skin, so it's lovely to spray a blotter and toss it in the pine chest that holds my linens at the end of my bed, or spritz a cotton ball and vacuum up. If I were going to attempt to wear it, I'd probably layer it with something strongly vanilla (maybe Coty's Vanilla Fields?). I get a noticeable vagal response in the back of my throat, on my upper palate, when I sniff it so I am worried it will be too overpowering for my use, but I'm working up the courage to give it a shot. ;)

This is timeless and elegant. Lovely for layering or wearing alone. I love layering with a simple sweet vanilla, like vanille abricot by CSP. Reminiscent of an old fashioned candy made with rose water.

This is as most have said a realistic rose. With the green stems and all. There are some similarities to Jo Malone. But they are not the same. Tea rose is sharper, the rose is in your face. While Jo Malone's rose is rounder, refined and it caresses your face instead of smacking it.

But this is beautiful in its own right. And it does satiate my want for the smell of beautiful, blossoming rose. Like most here I now use it mostly to spray my linens.

I've already reviewed this fragrance. I just wanted to let you all know of hair products that I believe smell just like it. The Carol's Daughter Wash Day Delight Rose Water collection will go along with this perfume quite well. Also, the stylers are strongly fragranced.

Realistic rose petals with green stems and leaves, very much like stepping into a florist's fridge before a big wedding. If you like roses and green, you'll like this. It's not my style, but I can appreciate it for what it is.

This one is a realistic rose scent. Like smelling a rosebush, not only the flowers but also the stems, leaves and all. Rose garden but but not in a romantic ideal way but in a literal way. A great scent for a great price. I mean, the bottle is bland, the design of it is subpar and I hate the feeling of taking on-off that metal cap but if you don't care about the presentation as much as you do about the content, I don't see it as a problem.

TRPW is a staple for me for years when it comes to realistic a rose scent..... and the key to enjoying this fragrance is:

LESS IS MORE.

Overspray is to overkill.

Maximum of 3 sprays.

Voila!

I tend to not hate on any perfume. Always forcing myself into appreciating any kind of perfume. But this thing to me smells exactly like bug spray called Biolit. To my nose this is nowhere to realistic roses. Sharp, synthetic and pungent. I have no intention of offending anyone. You should grab a bottle anyway and try it out for yourself. Very affordable and you might find it lovely.

Almost 50 Yrs old DNA, but what a masterpiece. This should be in a Hall of Fame composition. It's just an incredibly realistic rose and very long-lasting.

Except for the presentation and extremely cheap bottle, there's nothing I dislike

I bought this after the most excellent Katie Puckrik recommended it. I’m in the UK and not familiar with Perfumer’s Workshop, but I blind bought this for an absolute bargain and I’m delighted with it. A true rose, and lasts for hours.

I've been wearing this fragrance for 33 years, and still think it's the most beautiful (mostly soliflore) rose fragrance on the market, regardless of how many detractors it has. I'll be buried in it!

It smells similar to the tart jammy red rose in my garden ! I love it so much. Good value and lasting performance! I just smell a straight rose 🌹 No other notes !

Rose is my favorite note, so of course I tried this because so many people said it was a cheap and longer-lasting dupe for Jo Malone Red Roses, one of my favorite rose scents. While they are both straight forward Soliflores I don’t find that true at all! Tea Rose is a harsh, sharp synthetic “rose”, it doesn’t smell natural to me at all, rather like rose-scented cleaning chemicals. Unusually, it gave me a headache and I had to scrub it off. I’m super disappointed, this fragrance has so many good reviews

Smells exactly like a fresh deep red rose still on the bush in the garden on a hot summers day. Too much on its own to wear perhaps, a bit too mature or classical, but the absolute bomb for layering with another slightly under performing rose scent. This is a beast mode scent for sure…

strong, sweet rose tea. The syrupy sweetness of the rose folds beautifully into black tea. For a moment my nose imagined finding oakmoss, but it’s a tea. Absolutely brilliant combination!!

It smells like a single rose in water, just on the precipice of wilting, it's scent full and deep and pure

Fresh, Victorian or Edwardian rose. Rose petals, woodchips, taffeta, hot tea. Rose, rose, rose, grass, rose. Must like roses and Victoriana.

It makes no claims it can’t live up to and the claim it does make — tea rose! — it excels at like no other.

Some say it is the real smell of roses full of sap still on the branches of a rose garden. But I feel it dry, pungent and quite artificial.
In my opinion it is perfect for layering. I use it as a base, let it dry and then I overlay another perfume with a sweeter and softer rose or some fragrance that is not persistent enough. Yes it must be said that tea rose lasts on the skin for hours and hours ...

Bergamot is strong in the opening, then mellows after several minutes into the tea rose scent, alongside a slight waxiness of lily, with the lightest powder of amber. The tuberose may be only an impression of *slight* funkiness laid against the rose herself, blended well. I do not detect cedar as a discernible note, but it is a presence after everything has dried down. [Edit: I get a weak sandalwood more than any cedar.] There can be a fleeting metallic note in the opening on a cold or wet day. Projection is on the powerful side. I do not find it simple; on the contrary, I think she is tricking us into thinking she is simple when really she is utterly accomplished. Who made this???

Tea Rose is a smart accompaniment to early summer days, when plants and the land are still on the upswing, and the nights are starting to be a bit warm. Warm Sun is on the increase, but Earth still offers the possibility of escape to a mercifully green and shady spot. Late June memories. It's like expectancy, plus peace. The scent is good for the imagination, gives me that safe yet mysterious feeling of storytelling and make believe. May there be peace on Earth.

It's wonderful that this beautiful fragrance is so affordable, so long lasting, and still available to so many. I love the style of the box and the bottle. There was that time during the 1970s in the United States when it was fashionable to imitate the turn of the (previous) century.

On my skin alone, not a fan, still the cedar base that doesn't work on me. But I spray on sheets during summer and boy it lasts and getting a waft is lovely as you settle, I get the green-ness and the rose. I've layered it with perfumes I'm getting down, demeter chai latte is one and kinda works well.
I like it as I'm on a kick to collecting perfumes that have been around a while, like a social history kind of thing and why it became popular and against what's designed now. (I do understand formulas change but there's still mostly a connection).
So if you like a greenish rose where the cedar doesn't go stale on your skin, unlike mine, go for it, if you want obviously.

🌹🍃From the name I thought it might smell like rose and tea?! ..but this smells exactly like the rose water usually used in desserts! In milk pudding & Turkish dessert..baklava..hard candies...100% similar to the rosewater bottle in our fridge! I add rosewater to lemonade & orange juice, and cakes..this smells the same...very bright, refreshing, and very simple...just the basic rosewater scent (essence) ...imagine chopping the roses with the stems and leaves like a salad 😄 then soaking them in water overnight the water will smell like this the next day... I like it A LOT... no sandalwood or bergamot IMO ..just little Amber but mostly roses... I think it's better that way.. 🌹 garden👍

Unsure about the performance.. will add an update.

Update: it lasts 3 to 4 hours on skin average projection - on clothes it lasts 7 hours and it keeps the initial full profile and it leaves a beautiful trail.. refreshing..simple ... I love it 10/10 💗 1oz 5$

I was looking for a realistic rose like JM red roses without the price tag and I am so so happy I found this. It's so comforting for those of us who love roses. You can smell aquatic dew, green stems, and fresh mouthwatering rose. Smells just like sticking your nose in a rose. I use this every night as a sheet spray. Would be a great gift for someone who loves roses. I also like spraying some in my oil diffuser for a house scent.

At first spray its a green rose with sparkling citrus, almost reminiscent of lemon lime soda. Probably the bergamont. But I'm not convinced this has any other note besides pure rose extracted straight from the petals. Love this. So cheap and fresh and wonderful.

Simple, sweet (in character) and wonderful. I’m happy to have this one for layering or more likely, just to wear alone. I like simple, realistic soliflore scents and this one honestly smells like the roses my mom grew in our garden. You can smell the dew. And it is super affordable! It lasts and projects though… I got two compliments the first time I wore this out, and both were from some distance. Surprising, as it’s such a gentle scent, but it gets out there! I only wish the juice was a prettier color… it’s a pretty unappealing bright yellow.

100% safe blind buy if you know you like soliflores and/or roses.

Smells like old rose flavored Turkish delights. Could be fine to layer with something if you really like roses, but I’d never wear this by itself. Thankfully very cheap.

I have the modern version for reference - unfortunately this one is a synthetic metallic rose on me baby wipes and rose scented drawer liners come to mind. I layered it over some chypres Animale and Aromatics Elixir and it worked but I prefer Avon Foxfire as my rose/green layering scent. Okay for the price but worn alone definitely not for me I will gift this to a more appreciative home.

TIP for those who find Tea Rose not fresh enough and Paul Smith Rose not long lasting (enough) : Spray TR first and then PSR directly on top.
This gives you the best of both worlds : a long lasting, fresh rose scent. (Don't rub wrists but gently press together)

For as low as $10 a bottle, this truly is magnifique.
It truly does smell like fresh cut roses. On it's OWN, it can be a show stopper. It lasted on my active teens all day @ school and then post a shower. I do believe this to be a unisex scent.
The beauty of this scent is you can layer it with another fragrance to as the best supporting role with similar scents.
If you have a floral scent you love but you feel it's missing 'something', try mixing it with this.
Tearose forever, it's great for all age groups. 💘💘✌️🕊️
My youngest son had a heart transplant and this didn't upset his lungs @ all. Can't beat the value and longevity of this product.

This is a typical balsamic turkish rose fragrance that you may have smelled on your grandmother. Not bad for what it is but do not expect anything extraordinary.

My elementary school principal wore this back in the 80's. She always smelled so calming and serene. All us kids loved the way she left trails of roses everywhere. I remember asking her the name and she said Tea Rose. I also had another teacher who wore Youth Dew and it was intoxicating and another who wore Fendi. Just beautiful. People wore scents more back then.

this perfume is just incredible. i bought a bottle of it years and years and YEARS ago. i used it only now and then, and ran out recently. those last few sprays smelled even more incredible. i don't know if scents can truly age, but i feel my bottle of this scent did and it got richer and deeper and more beautiful. it became spicier and more sultry.

anyhow, i bought myself a new bottle and had to get on here to write a review. i'm really only repeating what everyone has said - this scent is photorealistic. it's bizarre, i only really get that kind of experience (this smells EXACTLY like this real world item) from very talented indie perfumers. a lot of times perfumes say they smell like honey or rose or rain and it just smells like the abstract idea of those things. or the "perfumey" version of those things. but this perfume smells exactly like a real rose. like i've walked into a very green garden in the early morning, when it's still a bit cold. grass and dew and thorns and fresh rose petals.

i do not think this smells like lush's rose jam. i enjoy that scent too, but it's much sweeter, more gourmand. truly smells like a rose/strawberry jam you'd put on a scone at tea time. this scent is straight up a fresh, intense rose in a garden. this can make it unwearable to some. i really like it, and layer it sometimes, but it's also great as a scent to spray in your room. an incredible steal for the price. so even if you blind buy and hate it, its not a huge loss. incredible longevity, projection and sillage.

If you like roses and rose perfumes, this is a steal. For around 8 EUR you get 120ml EdT and it smells very realistically of wild roses. Maybe some tea roses smell like this, too, which would make sense given the name of the fragrance, but to me it smells like Rosa Canina. We had big hedges of those when I was a kid and I could never forget how intense and fresh their smell was. Also kind of spicy as the reviewer below me mentioned. Very well rounded perfume and finally not a watered down, half muted or sugar coated rose!

Tea Rose has superb Sillage and good longevity. I experimented a bit with layering and got some nice results, but to be honest I just enjoy this wonderful rose scent in it's pure form very much!

Ooof! Straight out the bottle it’s lethally strong for an EDT. I wanted to like this but one squirt and my nose and head hurt. The scent was oddly spicey and gave an effect like those odd little crystal/ice bathroom scent blocks that used to be public and school restrooms. Aye aye aye… I tried and had to wash off twice. It’s still lurking. I will try layering with something deep and woody. If that doesn’t work I’ll rehome.

I was not expecting to actually like this.

The opening is a little harsh but it dries down to smell like a jammy, green rose. It smells almost identical to Rose Jam by Lush.

Great scent but DO NOT BLIND BUY.
This is not going to please everybody

I'm having a rose moment so I thought I'd try 'the most accurate rose on the market' blind at its basement level price point.
Unfortunately it was disappointing, yes it smells like rose but it carries a chemical-y citrus note with it, it's not a smooth rose at all; there's a harshness on the backend of every sniff.
It would be great to use at a room spray, or coming from a diffuser but not applied on human skin it simply doesn't have the roundness a perfume should have.
Have I completely thrown away my 12GBP? No not really, I think it can be added as layer to a much higher quality fragrance that has a little rose to add that rose to the fore or as a room spray.
I'll never use this as standalone fragrance again.

EDIT: I don't really believe in 'oxidising' a fragrance but now it's been sprayed a few times, I find the chemically opening lingers for far less time than when I first experienced the fragrance. Now I'm getting a lot of body when it's applied, a beautiful wet garden rose, with stem, leaves and little bit of earth.

It's not complex enough to use for an occasion or to complete an outfit, in my view, but for everyday running around it's great, it's like you're carrying around a bouquet of fresh cut garden roses and that makes me happy.

Yep that's rose! It's fresh and juicy and realistic. I bought it blind because it was about $12 at the chemist, and I think it's well worth having. To be honest I don't think I'll really wear this much - once you stop being impressed by the accuracy, there's not really much to converse with. It doesn't really develop on the dry down, it's just yeah...it is what it says it is. I think I prefer rose when it's one note among others - a perfume I'd love to find is one that combines a wet rose like this with a really sharp black pepper - maybe i need to pull out the Demeter scents and start concocting...
Anyway, I use this as a room/bed sheet spray, and hope to dream about being a fairy in a bower, or a person who doesn't kill all their houseplants (equally distant fantasies, for me)

This taught me not to blind buy something that's cheap, even if it's hyped up. The first second is somewhat enjoyable. The rest is straight up floor cleaner/disinfectant.

The rose in this is more so like a drying bouquet of roses. It's overall really musty, like if that bouquet had been hanging in a damp basement for a while. And this projects like a monster, sticks around and lasts forever.

This has the scent of a dew soaked rose bush on a crisp morning and it's just so pretty. The rose scent that smells real without being too green and soil tinged. It's a classic for me and is the standard rose scent in my collection, I got this on a whim for the price and it was so worth it.

Smells exactly like a Tea Rose bud when it first opens (=
I just bought it and I think one who is a Rose lover would LOVE this. I personally am a Rose perfume lover because it uplifts my mood. It's pretty much a cure for depression for me and this one's working! It's very therapeutic <3
It's an all rounder 10/10
Price $15
Amount 120ml

My boyfriend had the brilliant idea of layering Tea Rose with The Body Shop Shea body spray - the result is very much a "we have Portrait of a Lady at home" type effect...

Definitely a tea rose scent. Not a deep dark red rose, not a sherbety fizzy white rose and not even a classic pink rose. This is the smell of the yellow and cream coloured tea roses that grow in my mother’s garden.

At first spray I get a classic rose perfume/ rose water scent but after a minute or two it settles into an incredible photorealistic tea rose. I can almost smell the morning dew on the petals. It has great longevity and silage but remains a true delicate rose to the end.

A longtime favorite of mine, smells exactly like wild rose. A happy, sunny, fresh photorealistic rose blooming on a rose bush. No powder, no anything else (even though it claims other notes I can’t detect them). Spray lightly, as it has a powerhouse sillage, but know that you will be the most beautifully scented flower in the garden of life.

From a man's perspective, this is a very beautiful and feminine fragrance. Absolutely love this. It's like everything beautiful about a woman put into a bottle.

I was scared of trying this one considering it has cedar, which sometimes comes across as cat piss to me (sorry).

The name is appropriate for somehow this does smell like tea, although not a pleasant kind to my nose. It has a moldy quality to it, like a forgotten tea bag left in a mug in the dark corner of a room. This has been officially downgraded to room spray.

If you also wanted to like Tea Rose, found it too offensive, and are willing to splurge, Frederic Malle’s Une Rose has a similar spirit but is polished and elegant, not harsh at all.

To my nose, this is the gold standard rose.

I grew up in Phoenix, surrounded by my neighbors and their yards, lined with decorative tea roses. This perfume is the only rose perfume I have ever found to capture the essence of those roses; the way they smell cool and fresh on hot summer days, but deep and sensual on warm humid nights. Never in my life have I ever experienced nostalgia from the scent of a perfume, but this immediately took me back to walking with my parents on the fourth of July.

At its price point, and with the longevity it has on my skin, hair, and clothes, I will be buying bottle after bottle for the rest of my life. I am in love.

An English rose garden.

Fresh, green, slightly sweet, and elegant. The bergamot gives a sunny day appeal to the composition with the lily adding sweetness to the lush, but also delicate rose note. I think this is meant to be a rose soliflore, so you won't pick up too much outside of notes that are added to give definition to the impression of rose.

I am a man and I do think this leans towards the feminine side, but not so much that I won't wear it. This fragrance feels like it would fit with a nice white button-up or polo in the spring. I might try layering it with something woody and citrusy like AdP Cedro di Taormina to see if I can get it to be slightly more masculine. I think I can pull it off by itself though.

As far as the accuracy of the rose, it gives the impression of a real rose, but it's not the most authentic rose fragrance ever. However, for the price and accuracy of the note, this cannot be beaten. I picked this up on Amazon for 11 bucks.

Even if I decide not to wear this myself, I can spray my bed and pretend I am sleeping in a rose garden. it's a 120ml bottle and it lasts forever.

This would be absolutely beautiful on a woman. I can just imagine her in a white sundress, smiling as the sun's rays grace her skin, and a garden in the background.

Great value for the money. I will update this later if I can pull this off. I believe I can.

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Other people have described this as 'the most authentic rose fragrance out there', and I have to say that I completely agree (relative to all the fragrances I've smelt in my life so far). To my nose, this just smells like pure rose water. It's quite light but still has some staying power. I do like it, but I'm not too sure when I'd reach for this. Maybe some time in the spring?

I spray this in my daughters hair (3) or as a room spray. Just very light, lovely rose perfume. You can detect the Tea tree which I didn’t love but I like the idea of a “fresh, non powder” rose. I feel the above listed notes are misplaced and flat out made up tbh.
I originally bought it because someone mentioned in a forum here of layering it with Clinique Aromatic Elixir. I don’t recommend it. For $12 it was a low risk buy but likely too synthetic for AE.

Tea Rose is a classic cheapie rose soliflore - a simple, light rose scent whose quality belies its price. While I am fussy about rose in perfume, and prefer a deeper, richer rose (Frédéric Malle Une Rose being my gold standard), I am very impressed with TR. Despite the rose note being green and subtle, it avoids being thin or screechy, and is one of the most natural-smelling roses I have encountered. I blind bought the 120ml EDT (for €10, it's a no-brainer).

TR opens with a watery, fresh, green rose that smells surprisingly like the real thing. My granny grew roses in her garden, and this scent brings me back to that time. It smells just like pale roses growing by a lawn after a rain shower. In simple terms, it is like concentrated rosewater.

As it dries down, rose remains dominant, and something akin to lily-of-the-valley emerges very subtly. I don't get lily or tuberose. The woody notes are barely there, and only emerge in the drydown. Sillage and longevity are both moderate, and it fades after about four hours (to be reapplied). Ideally worn as a spring daytime fragrance. For rose lovers. 4/5.

Oh my...
So, first of all, I'm usually not into rose fragrances because most of them remind me of my grandma's house, and, inevitably, of a very old person smell. So, anyways, I try to avoid rose perfumes in general. (although I absolutely love the smell of the flower).

It was until my boyfriend saw it and convinced me to buy it (the price was very low, about 10 euro per 120 ml, which is a great price for its performance I read about).

This smells nothing like a grandma apartment, but like a garden fool of roses, just that very rose scent I like to smell on the natural flower.

This is so well blended at this price and it smells so natural, idk how they managed to make such a natural smelling rose perfume for this price.

This is a very long lasting spring/summer perfume, fresh, natural smelling, with a slightly woody touch.
Wear this and you'll smell like a rose garden.

Lovely. Definitely one of the most beautiful pure rose perfumes.

I thought this would smell like a generic sweeter rose from reviews, but this is reminds me of Barbie dolls from my childhood. Like, pure Barbie (with some sweetness that reminds me of lychee jelly candy), from the first spray and 24h later, still Barbie. I probably need some time to warm up to it, but not too bad. Can't smell sandalwood or cedar which is unfortunate because I was really looking forward to those :(

This was my signature fragrance in my thirties. It's been a while. Back then, one could find lotions and bath products to build on one's EDP or EDT. Not these days. But, it's still out there. I have a full bottle of EDT, a backup bottle of EDT, a partially used bottle of EDP and a partially used bottle of lotion. Yeah...I still like it. A lot. If you don't like roses, you will hate this. I had 52 roses in my tiny little garden back then. Rose...rose...rose. That's what this is about. It's strong, with heavy sillage and longevity. I will always love it. But, just not every day. I have other gardens to play in nowadays.

Versatile yet feminine leaning rose-based fragrance, stunningly natural smelling. I do not get fatiguing synthetics in this fragrance, very affordable and has long-lasting performance.

There are different kinds of roses and this one smells of the Indian Damask rose which to some Indians might remind them of the funeral processions where these roses are showered during the ceremony.

This is the smell of Morticia Addams cutting the buds off her rose bouquet.
Wearing a white nightgown and being playfully chased by your lover through the rose bush maze of an old stone manor on a cold misty night.
Not a soft pink rose, a blood red rose with leaves and thorns.
I would say the EDT is not that strong and not that long lasting. Arm's length for 3 hours tops. My mom who is sensitive to scents asked if I put rosewater in my hair. I will need to try the EDP to hopefully experience the beast everyone is talking about

This is a cheapie. Yes, it is very powerful and rosy. It smells like the same rose component in Aramis 900, which is to say that it’s waxy, potent, and a bit dusty. I bought this as much to layer/use as an ingredient in home blends as to wear on its own, but now that I have discovered real rose oil (even as 10% dilution in FCO to use as a perfume or ingredient), I question whether I will use Tea Rose at all.

Sometimes on a jar of peanut butter there will appear a notice such as this: Warning: Contains Peanuts! In this same spirit, I will say that Tea Rose smells extremely like ROSES. Tea Rose is the most realistic rose I know about.

It's a great one to layer with other rose scents or other scent in general.
For example:
Balenciaga Rosabotanica: fresh & modern
Chloe Rose: warms it up
Bvlgari pour femme: rose + violet touch
Cool Water for Women: rose aquatic
Lavanila Pure Vanilla: vanilla, patchouli & rose
Lady Stetson: aldehydic rose - this combination is surprisingly brilliant
It's also good to feminize masculine scents if you so choose. For example, Lolita Lempicka Green Lover - minty vanilla rose, wow. Or Lagerfeld - a warm, sensual rose. Tea Rose is brilliant. Cannot go wrong if you love roses. Since it was my signature all through my twenties, I like to layer to avoid too much nostalgia (emphasis on the ALGIA).

I don’t know why people like this! Smells harsh and cheap. No good!

smells like a bar of my Camay soap :-) My husband loves it. To me it smells like a cross between a Damask Rose & the Hybrid Tea Rose named " Fragrant Cloud " I have only ever grown very fragrant roses in my home & outside, so that is my reference point. This is a representation of a true rose smell, I do not smell, musk, incense, vanilla, nor amber. It is very similar to the original Crabtree and Evelyn perfume named Evelyn, or maybe it was called Evelyn Rose, which I had & loved & it is no longer made, except for the lotion)
Reasons I LOVE it.
1)smells like fresh roses
2)great for layering with other scents
3)embarrassingly affordable (rose oil is terribly expensive, so great for me that they've mixed enough fragrances to make a rose smell)
4)because it's affordable, go ahead, spray a tad in the shower before you step in, it'll smell like a spa! spritz your pillowcases too!
5)it does NOT smell like diaper powder, which is what I smell (& I associate with dirty diapers) when I have smelled many other rose fragrances

This is the most amazing rose fragrance you will ever buy.
Period.

First of all, I have no idea what all those other notes are doing up there... Bergamot? Sandalwood? Cedar? What drugs were they ON?

This fragrance is a completely linear ROSE. It won't ever be woody, musky, citrusy, or anything else. It's very possibly the most potent rose you will ever smell, and no matter how long you wear it, it will never become anything on your skin except more ROSE.

Did I mention POTENT??? This is the original "BEAST MODE" rose. A friend of mine applied three sprays before she and I went out for the day. We left the house at 7am... and at 11am, 4 hours later, I could STILL walk in her sillage when she was 30 feet away! Her wake was so thick with rose, it was practically visible as pink petals falling everywhere she walked.

And there I was, with my Frederick Malle wussing out on me.

Finally -- as other reviewers have mentioned again and again and AGAIN... This powerhouse rose fragrance is dirt cheap. I buy mine on Amazon, where it's currently priced at $10 for 4 ounces (120ml) with two-day delivery. (That's $80 per QUART!) And because it's so potent, that 4 ounce bottle can last a really long time.

Tea Rose is so incredibly inexpensive that you can use it alone, as a soliflore; to layer with other scents as an added rose note; to scent your sheets, linens, bath, or even your entire home.

It's the biggest bang for the buck I've ever found in the world of fragrance. If you find a better deal out there, I'd sure like to know about it!

So go ahead, blind buy it! For less than the price of a couple pounds of butter, you can have roses, roses, roses, ROSES!!!

;-D

Beautiful rose fragrance, great deal from Notino €8.50 for 120ml.
Smell exactly like the rose oil from Spiritual Sky which i love and wear it much (alone and for layering purposes with Shaghaf Oud Swiss Arabian and Oud Touch Franck Oliver).

I found a 30ml of this at a thrift store in Columbus, Ohio in 2013, 80% full and $2 (I left the price sticker on). I don't reach for it very often, but I love to layer this when I need to punch up the rose. My favorite combination is with ELDO's you or someone like you.
It's simple and direct, to my nose it's pure and accurate rose, and lasts all day.

Smells like 10th grade. The juice didn't used to be neon colored back then though.

I bought this blindly because it was under 10 bucks on Notino and has so many great reviews. (Not that other perfumes I have hated didn't have great reviews, but I love rose scents, so I risked it.)
It smells like an actual rose, like the flower you'd see and smell in gardens. Not sure I'll wear this as a perfume much (maybe I could layer it), but it's a lovely room fragrance, and I also sprayed some on some blankets and pillows.
Personally, I don't smell any of the other notes.

This perfume has a pleasant smell. I mostly smell the Rose, Lily and something soft and woody. I am not familiar with Brazilian Rosewood or Cedar but I am assuming it is one of them.

I find this scent to be more suitable for warmer climate. The scent can be worn on both formal and informal occasions.

Longevity, on my skin is slightly over an hour. It tends to be strong at the beginning but the scent would fade away in like an hour or so. Afterwards, only a lingering floral scent remains which sticks to the skin and is hardly noticeable. It stays there for 3 hours or so.
So in total the longevity on skin is 4 hours. On clothing it also last the same time, 4 hours.

Still, the fragrance is affordable and I don't mind respraying it again if I need to.

Smells really good! I use it as an air freshener 🥰😍

Probably wouldn't wear this solo, it's a very late 60s take on Victoriana that feels off & awkward because its romanticized filter no longer gels with our own, like a macramé high collar on the cover of a Masterpiece Theatre VHS. Tea Rose is what my mother wanted me to smell like back when she still thought "young ladies" should be "quiet & refined" (we wore her down over time) & my instinctive response is to kick it to the curb & run. On its own this smells like a polyester lace garotte & yes, I will be working it out in therapy.

But it's fun to layer it with every other note I've got just to see what happens. Favorite combos so far are Tea Rose plus Lime Basil & Mandarin: fresh & delightful;
Tea Rose plus Rogue's Jasmin Antique: operatic;
Tea Rose plus Ambre Loup: a lush growl.

What seems stuffy on its own is clear & bell-like juxtaposed against something richer. At this price it's silly not to add this to the collection, for experimentation reasons if nothing else. Grow your nose with a classic rose.

I'm so happy I got this wonderful fresh rose cheapie. Its beautiful to me, I love rose notes and this EDT is very fresh and yummy. I smell the roses the bergamot and a hint of the woods. I was a huge fan of Stella and of course this does not have the sophistication of that fragrance . It still gives me what I crave from the rose note!
I will be wearing it mostly to layer with other perfumes and body sprays, but also alone for a hit freshness right out the shower during the summer and bedtime scent going into fall.
I also agree this can be used as a room or bed spray as well , its so cheap ....why not have fun with it !

If you have a yearning for a bouquet of black roses, this is one of best bargain fragrances available. $15 for 120ml at my pharmacy. It's completely realistic and a bit green.

This is what I expected Guerlain's Nahema to smell like. Nahema is supposed to be the greatest rose perfume ever made. Instead, it smells like Turkish Delight next to this.

Wearing both those perfumes layered would create a stunning rose fragrance.

You don't need a lot of sprays of Tea Rose. It's pretty strong.

It lasts long and it's a great product given the price but for some reason when I smell it on myself it makes me feel like I am smelling an old grandma... Like not in an offensive way but what I mean is that it smells like a perfume your grandma would own. I don't see myself (23) being into this smell. It's rose but rose for old People

I bought a small bottle of this today. I find it to be absolutely astonishing. It literally smells like a vase of roses you would find in a florist's shop, captured in total simplicity. No complicated notes-- just pure sweet roses with no other explanation needed. If it is roses you crave, you can't do better than this. I can see why it has been around for so long as it is a true original masterpiece.

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Very nice rose fragrance for a great price not much to say about it, has decent projection/longevity

An inoffensive, green rose scent. Very fresh, no hint of added sweetness or musk. To me it just smells like a rose freshly picked from a garden. What I like the most is that the scent doesn’t really “change” as time goes by, and continues to stay rosy until the end. For the price and the amount you get, it’s great!

-Opens smelling rather unpleasant when worn on clothing.
-Spritz in the air, the top notes are reminiscent of Frederic Malle- Une Rose.
-But all similarity soon ends there.
-Unlike Une Rose, Perfumer's Workshop- Tea Rose is a linear scent.
-It lacks the depth, softness and complexity of Une Rose. And above all, it lacks refinement.
-Tea Rose comes across rather musty-smelling and sterile in comparison.
-Not fbw (-)

I wore this one when I was in high school. I came across it again and re-purchased it at a great price. Back in my day, there was also a hair care line called Salon Selectives. The hairspray from this line smelled like straight Granny Smith apples, and I loved it. In high school, my signature combination scent was the Tea Rose and the Salon Selectives: Roses and apples.

The Proust Effect... The extraordinary ability that scent has to trigger memories. The days of long ago when I could eat a piece of chocolate cake and not gain 5 pounds. When I didn't have to worry about any bills. Ditching school, and going to the beach with my friends, flipping through fashion magazines, going to the mall, being able to spend all of the money I earned from my part-time job on clothes and makeup. A time wherein my largest concern was what I was going to wear to school the next day. Wonderful memories and smelling Tea Rose again brings it all back. One fragrance can indeed trigger memories, and Tea Rose does this for me. There's something to be said for a fragrance that has been around as long as Tea Rose has.

I have found that most people that like rose scents are very particular, and some prefer a more modern rose scent. Tea Rose is a big leafy type of rose scent. I liken it to fresh-cut roses in a big beautiful vase, and when you deeply inhale you get the rose and some of the green element. The Brazillian Rosewood enhances the rose and the amber gives it a bit of warmth. Make no mistake, this is not a subtle rose scent. This is an in-your-face rose scent. I still love Tea Rose... It makes me smile.

This was a blind buy for me based on notes and other people’s opinion on lasting power. I’ve been using it for about 3 weeks now and I don’t enjoy it. It makes me sad to say that too. It’s not the best rose rendition. More importantly, it’s not a balanced perfume because of the sharp, unopposed tea rose. It needs something extra which is why I layer it with warmer and sweeter perfumes. It tends to take over any combination because it’s so strong and long lasting.

I used to wear this fragrance a lot when I was in my 20's but as I got older I couldn't wear many of my fragrances because I developed headaches and brain fog. I have started a natural/safe collection during the COVID lockdown and have really learned a lot about perfume making and what notes I like and do not like. Rose is one of my favorite notes and when you smell a natural rose fragrance like Gather perfumes Rainwater Rose you will never go back to a artificial rose scent like this one.

First 2 minutes: a bit medicinal, pungent, and offensive.
After that: a bright rose and nothing else. (Fantastic!)
Everything is already said, so i just want to tell you: for 10 euros, this is a treasure.
Projection and longevity: astronomical.

It does what is says on the tin.. Gives you a pretty, true to its name tea rose scent. Nothing juicy or lush, just fresh, natural rose, maybe a bit if its green stem and leaves as well. I get something slightly woody (cedar I think) as well, that is the other prominent note on my skin, and also a dash of bergamot - I don't get any of the other notes at all.. The only thing I don't fancy is the packaging.. The bottle is okay, but the box.. I guess it's a lesson not to judge a juice by its sleeve..I got a big 125 ml bottle for about 15 bucks, so for me it's a winner. Also, lasting power is quite impressive, especially in warmer weather. Thumbs up!

Totally realistic fresh and alive red rose as we can smell in the garden on a cool weather...
Just lovely ! But not everybody would like to smell like this themselves... Only a true rose lover !

At Epcot, there is a walkway to the world showcase lined with a bunch of rose bushes. You can stand on your toes and lean over the railing and smell the tiny pink roses on their bush, and this perfume smells exactly like that. It's not a perfume-y rose or an incense rose or a jammy rose. It's that rose bush. So realistic it's actually incredible.

I am one of those that finds this scent offensive. I tried it years ago and sprayed it about three times. It was so strong and overwhelming that I almost felt like I was suffocating in a vat of rose petals. In fact my experience with this put me off all rose perfumes for quite a while. Maybe for someone who loves the rose note it could be useful, applied very, very, lightly in layering with other perfumes, for me it is totally unwearable.

Also, for those of you who are smelling tea here, I can’t get inside your head and know how this smells to you but, I think you may be influenced by the name and not by the notes that are actually there. A Tea Rose is a type of rose, I’ve had several of them in my garden over the years, most of them do have a very strong perfume however in the garden they smell quite pleasant. Here ramped up about 100 times and applied to the skin it is not so nice.

Not my favorite kind of rose. My favorite type of rose is modern, such as Stella McCartney's Stella and Rose Essentielle by Bvlgari. This one strikes me as a stuffy, aristocratic, period-drama rose that is forbidden to leave a gated, locked-it-up-and-threw-away-the-key secret garden in fear of catching typhoid from an outsider. If you liked the roses from Portrait of a Lady and Une Rose from the Frederic Malle line, you may like this one. It's almost a stripped down version of the aforementioned, retaining the old world rose antiquity, but a touch fresher, or dewy I should say. Comparing with Une Rose, instead of the rose being truffley and dirty, Tea Rose is more dewy and dirty.

🙂 true to it's name. roses and tea. and so strong it should be considered a "concentrate". a very recognizable, distinct aroma. you know it when you smell it. personally, I don't wear it alone because of the almost overpowering "rose" which could offend others. but, i do add a tiny dash of this to other complimentary scents. superior staying power.
nice for the price.

I bought this during a Chemmy Warehouse sale in the early days of my perfume collecting, having read Luca Turin's review of it and liking roses. In those days, perfumes were being delivered to my door daily and Tea Rose was placed at the back of the To Be Trialed queue out of sheer, perverse snobbery, where it has stayed until now.

What changed was my discovery of a half-empty vintage bottle of Tea Rose in my mother's collection. She said she had been given Tea Rose in the 80's, but it was so powerful she rarely wore it. Half a bottle gone in almost 40 years and she's still wrinkling her nose and shaking her head at the ghost of its monstrous sillage.

So I pulled out my new bottle and sprayed it on paper last night before bed. A dreamy rose filled the room, conjuring images of pink boudoirs and langourous anticipation; that youthful feeling of being poised on the brink of life's great adventures. A ghostly hero appeared before me, delighting with wit and daring before (inevitably) sweeping me into his arms and laying me reverently on a sea of ivory-coloured satin before... well, it's a girly fantasy and bores within minutes.

Tea Rose is this girly fantasy in an unassuming bottle.

It's a lovely, dewy-petaled rose soliflore which doubles as a tool for conjuring prepubescent fantasies, shrouded as they are in the rosy mists of time.

Distillation:
a rose soliflore
romance and sweet fantasies
in Mills and Boon style

This soliflore is not a sweet rose, this is the kind of rose you would expect to find in a magical apothecary's shop. It smells like it means business. It would mix well with other herbs in an aromatic solution in order to provide you with a cure for the thing that ails you. If nothing else, it is strong enough to cause the placebo effect.
Some roses make you feel like you're a delicate fairy floating through the world in your own youthful little bubble. This rose says, buck up, remember where you are, let's go get things done and smell amazing while you're at it. Some roses you have to seek out to find, and even when you discover them, their scent is shy. This rose blooms in your face and demands you smell it.

This one is very interesting in its simplicity. It smells like a cold, wet, still-firm pink rosebud tightly wrapped in cellophane. No more, no less. I found it a bit much to wear on my body but I love spritzing it into my essential-oil diffuser and letting her dance around the room. If you love roses and have $10 to burn, I say go for it!

dewdrops gently forming on a rose bush surrounded by early morning fog. pressing your face into a bouquet taking a deep breath, condensation forming on the inside of the plastic wrap. cellophane lingerie sequined in tears protecting the green bundles of amputated chlorophyll within. citrine juices dripping down a tender pop-up page of rouge amidst the viridescent verdant grass of the doldrums.

freshly cut stems, close to contradictory gentle thorns, so silky as it graces the skin of a thumb with smoothness of its sides, the urge to prick yourself is present. a young girl moving away from her hometown, cheek pressed against her pink florets in the back seat of her parents' car, crying onto each petal (chihiro from spirited away!). innocence and naivety leading to pricked fingers, a tale as old as time. familiar and forever-comforting, curious--a pure, clean rose. god, yes, thrust your face into the cellophane, pirouette in the rosarium letting pollen alene your hair like a blessing from the heavens.

**this layers quite gorgeously with other perfumes--it provides a realistic edge of rose that can quickly make a fragrance more fresh and green. i must say, this perfume is incredibly strong and powerful despite the scent being that of a delicate, fresh rose, so i would advise caution in over-spraying this, as it would be very easy to overwhelm both yourself and others (if that is of any concern to you..).

You must be anosmic to the rose. On my skin it is all about roses, a dark rose very realistic, that lasts for more than 12 hours, it is sugarless and projects for 3/4 hours, a vintage very lifelike scent that is cheap because it is old and the makers don't have the cache of a chanel nor the money to market as a luxury "exclusive" scent (which it is). Red Roses by Jo Malone is very much alike to it on my skin, but it is dicountinued.

Well I ordered this because I love a good rose essence and the reviews said it was dirt cheap and it was. The quest for a new rose scent was on. I ordered two 100ml bottles of EDT on a discount... It arrived.. when I first sprayed it it felt like an assault. I let it dry down I didnt find it that rosey. Although numerous reviews had said it was ONLY rose. So I lived with it for a day. Didnt last that well. I may use it as a room spray, or try to mix it with some rose oil. Dont know. Not impressed.
The following day I tried layering it with some pure gardenia perfume I have and thats a little better. Im CONFUSED Ive since seen the same bottle in Pink and other vatiations whats going on.. Is this lime green juice a knock off.. Is that why its so cheap. Anyone care to enlighten me? I will just carry on experimenting.

Definitely old fashioned. I bought this because some said it was comparable to Jo Malone Red Roses-- it's not. But, it ain't bad, and for the price (I paid $14 for 4 ounces) it's definitely nicer than it could have been.

This smells just like something my aunt used to wear when I was a kid in the late 80's. It might even be the same thing, from what I can tell this has been in production since the 1970's. It's strong, floral, with a nice rose heart, a little fresh and soapy, maybe a tad salty. It reminds me of the scent of the wild pink roses that grow on the coast of New England. Al in all it's pretty nice. I'm not totally sure I want to wear this as a personal fragrance, but I'll absolutely keep it around to spray in the sheets when I make the bed, or as a room spray. It's fresh, pleasant, and cheerful.

Fresh, bright and green in the background with a beautiful tea rose at the center. I was worried about getting potpourri smell from some of the reviews but it's far too dewy and green to read as potpourri to me. Love spraying my linens with this before bed, the smells stays on until morning and you can smell it throughout the apartment.

A juicy and bright bouquet! It smells yellow, really really yellow. Cosy, full, rounded, harmonious, the rose, the lily and the bergamont being the most prominent at first, while drying down to a woody rose and tuberose perfume. I remember around 6 years ago I smelled it and absolutely loved it but it wasnt easily available. So I forgot about it and bought it just now. No wonders I loved it then. This is a scent of a performer's workshop you would smell if you came just at the time Tea Rose was being created. I mean it smells like those raw ingredients. Tea Rose isnt a perfumy rose, it is a living lively lovely bouquet/ raw ingredients found at a workshop - rose oil, bergamont oil, lily oil, tuberose absolute..... if you are looking for something beautiful, natural and raw - here it is.

Oh wow, blast from the past! I had this when I was a little girl in the early 80s, I remember the day that I got it, my mother and I were going to garage sales and one of them had all kinds of perfumes and this is the one I picked out. I'm wearing it now and memories are flooding back. To me, this smells just like a red long stemmed rose, it's dewy and garden fresh. And holy cats is it affordable! I got practically a keg of it for 15 bucks!

Uber-realistic 'stick your nose in a rose and breathe it in' scent. Can not wear it but use it as a drawer or room spray. Have loved this since I was a small child, my Mum had a bottle.

It's just WAAAAAY too concentrated. You know how if you make a powdered drink mix by adding it to a glass of water, it will taste severely strong if you add too much powder and not enough water...? That is what happens here.... there is too much rose extract/oil/whatever and not enough dilution.... That's the only way I can explain it as a layman.

There is zero chance of putting your nose to an actual rose and having it be THAT strong, headache inducing and concentrated. And although I know you won't precisely be able to recreate the delicate nature of a soft blooming rose due to extracts & oils not exactly smelling the same as what they are extracted from, the perfumer should at least try to replicate the actual rose as it's found in nature.

😭 I had my hopes up for this one but I just couldn't do it... It's not delicate and feminine but rather roughly intrusive on the senses and not in a good way (such as with indoles). It tows the line between something that COULD work but is just TOO aggravatingly concentrated on the senses or REALLY strong potpourri - not something I'd like to smell like.

I sprayed half a spritz far away from my wrist and it wound up filling the room and IMMEDIATELY giving me a migraine.

I wanted to love this because it was so classic & iconic in the community but...

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If you try this expecting to smell another soft, sweet, "pink" rose, you will be disappointed.

Instead, picture this: a rose bush in the early morning, still covered in dew. The rose buds haven't yet reached full maturity, they're just starting to unfurl their petals as the sun rises. Smelling Tea Rose is like falling face first into a freshly blooming rose bush.

A fully realized, true-to-life rose. The rose to end all roses. Bright, herbaceous, fresh, somewhat citrusy, and slightly bitter in a vegetal way. The leaves, stem, & thorns are very present. Plenty of rose fragrances smell pretty and sweet, but how many smell invigorating? This release is special. Complex, unique, and very well done.

Completely unisex. If you love green floral fragrances, you owe it to yourself to try this. It's easily one of the best rose fragrances I've tried, a true work of art. If you can, buy direct and support independent American perfumery.