Note
Mate
14 perfumes feature this note.
Davidoff
Adventure
2008Davidoff Adventure opens with a bright citrus volley—lemon and bergamot edged with mandarin—that feels scrubbed and energetic rather than sweet.
FreshAromaticGreenFresh Spicy3.9 / 5· 1,352Rasasi
La Yuqawam Ambergris Showers
2016La Yuqawam Ambergris Showers opens with something sharp and vegetal — galbanum's bitter green note cutting through violet leaf and a brief citrus flash of tangerine before they all subside into the herbal core.
LeatherAmberFreshSoft Spicy4.3 / 5· 501Prada
Infusion de Rose
2011The Infusion line's house language — transparent, sheer, ingredient-focused — applies to Infusion de Rose with characteristic precision.
RoseFreshAromaticSweet4.0 / 5· 485Elizabeth Arden
Green Tea Bamboo
2014Green Tea Bamboo opens with a spray of citrus — bright lemon, grapefruit, bergamot — and the sharp green bite of galbanum and bamboo stalk.
CitrusFreshAromaticAquatic3.5 / 5· 433Penhaligon'S
The Ruthless Countess Dorothea
2017Bergamot opens like the best Earl Grey — clean, faintly bitter, almost tannic.
CinnamonVanillaAmberHoney4.2 / 5· 427Goutal
L’Ile au Thé
2015A pale-green tea served with a bit of cold fruit on the side.
FreshWhite FloralFloralMusky4.0 / 5· 402Elizabeth Arden
White Tea Wild Rose
2019White Tea Wild Rose opens on a deliberate tension: the clean, slightly astringent quality of white tea set against pear blossom sweetness and a wisp of currant.
RoseFreshSoft SpicyAromatic3.9 / 5· 389L'Occitane en Provence
Thé Vert & Bigarade
2013Green tea and bitter orange open clean and tart — unsweetened, with the astringency of brewed tea.
4.2 / 5· 320Azzaro
Azzaro Chrome Intense
2015An intensified take on the original Chrome's marine-aromatic blueprint.
FreshAromaticWarm SpicyOzonic3.7 / 5· 286Avon
Just Play for Her
2009Just Play for Her opens with an unusual register for a 2009 mass-market feminine: petitgrain's bitter citrus-green and cardamom's warm spice flank lily of the valley in the top, setting up something fresher and more aromatic than the typical fruity-floral contemporaries.
FreshSoft SpicyAromaticWhite Floral3.4 / 5· 209Carolina Herrera
CH Men Grand Tour
2014CH Men Grand Tour opens with a smoky, incense-led dryness — frankincense and mate working in tandem, the latter adding a light herbal bitterness that keeps the opening from becoming purely ecclesiastical.
SmokyCinnamonSoft SpicyAromatic4.1 / 5· 197Montale
White Aoud
Damascene rose and jasmine open the composition with warmth rather than freshness — the florals already softened, set up to be carried rather than to lead.
AmberRoseSoft SpicyWoody3.6 / 5· 158Zara
Accord No 3 Woody
2017Accord No.
FreshAromaticAquaticViolet4.3 / 5· 151Oriflame
Sir Avebury
2013Sir Avebury opens with grapefruit, cypress, and bay leaf — a bracing herbal-citrus accord that is outdoorsy and slightly resinous.
FreshSoft SpicyAromaticWoody4.3 / 5· 141