Tea Rose
Tea Rose opens with a green-stemmed authenticity that feels less like perfume and more like standing in a florist's cooler at dawn.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Rose75
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Clove
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readTea Rose opens with a green-stemmed authenticity that feels less like perfume and more like standing in a florist's cooler at dawn. The rose here is cool, wet, and almost celery-crisp, with none of the heated sweetness that usually comes with floral soliflores. There's a slight chemical brightness in the topnotes—a reminder of its seventies heritage—but it quickly settles into something genuinely rose-like.
What makes this unusual is its commitment to the leafy, watery aspects of the flower rather than just the petals. You get sap and stem along with bloom. It stays close and linear, never developing into powder or fruit, which can feel either refreshingly honest or stubbornly one-dimensional depending on your mood.
This suits people who want their florals green and straightforward rather than romantic, and who don't mind a certain synthetic frankness in exchange for lasting power and price. It smells like what a rose actually smells like when you cut it.
Scent twins
In this family
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