Tea Rose Perfumer`s Workshop for women

I like this frag....it delivers what it promises; ROSES. The smell is wonderful; very feminine. It is a strong smell, so it's not for everyone. I like to mix it with other frags like Rebel Rose(Avon)or Rock'n Rose (Valentino).

I'd like to share a little confidence about this scent. There are - at least - two existing versions of the same tea rose fragrance (this is quite normal in perfumery: if you buy "E. de bla bla" in Mexico you'll smell it differently from the one you bought in France, and they are both ORIGINAL!) Adoring roses and cultivating them as a hobby, I have a number of bottle on the same theme and lovely Tea Rose cannot be missing. In Europe you can find a far different T.R. e.d.t it's always from the same producer but not only the packaging (a pink box, a pink and gold label, no matter I always leave the bottle at home!), the colour of the essence being pale contrasting with the bright, yellow, American one; but BASICALLY also the fragrance - for a trained nose - is quite different as well: T.R. thought for the European market is BETTER don't ask me why (in both cases always ever-lasting) and quite EXPENSIVE. It's a niche product as it used to be and it is still rightly (for me) regarded! So when I tried my "bargain" while ordering a bottle from the U.S: it came a "nice" frag., resembling my version but I can't say why: it seems that this beautiful fragrance should be done missing or substituting something. Or to say it differently: take a cup of genuine coffee and make a similar drink but using instant coffee instead (though I must confess that I never drink coffee!)...... So I prefer the very beautiful Tea Rose that we find in Europe, it costs much more (a part from, tax, flight...) but it really worths each penny, sorry each cent ;)

I bought this on the recommendation of a friend at a ridiculous price for a four ounce bottle on the bay. She sprays it on her pillow at night when she is in the snowy northern part of the country to remind herself of her rose garden in sunny California. She thought I would enjoy it and indeed I do! This is a beautiful rose scent, and reminds me of an extensive rose garden an aunt once had. Isn't it wonderful how scents can take us back to remember wonderful memories? I haven't tried it as yet to enhance the rose notes in other fragrances I have, but very much look forward to doing so. And I may have to purchase another one to use to spray my closets! A delightful scent.

This fragrance is excellent. I love rose, but it's hard to find one that smells like the real thing. Well, this one is the real thing, from it's velvety petals down to the leaves and greenery: I can't find fault with it at all. The smell is lovely, sillage and longevity are good, the price is easy on the budget, smells good all by itself but would be wonderful layered, and a spritz on the pillow at bedtime makes for wonderful dreams...what else can I say? I love Tea Rose!

This particular review is for a vintage bottle of Tea Rose that I snapped up (for a bargain I might add) on Ebay. I have waxed lyrical on the topic of Tea Rose further down the page here ... my impressions of it have not changed. I will wear the re-formulation as much as I have been (I use it as a day scent in the Salon I work in from time to time on a tropical island)and simply just LOVE it.

The vintage variety, however, is an animal of a different nature. I am told that this particular bottle hails from the early 80's ... which I have no way of confirming ( I wish frag companies would date the bottles!!) or disputing. The box is a slightly deeper shade of grey with the label being a little more ivory than my new bottles have been. The juice is also a more golden colour and the sprayer seems better than the current version ... still plastic, but more opaque. The fragrance itself is pure heaven ... richer, deeper and rounder than the one I have become accustomed to with way more Sandalwood in the base. It's EFFING fabulous!!! I will keep this one for special and continue using the other for day ... 'reformulation' is fast becoming one of the dirtiest words in my vocabulary. Thankfully Ebay abounds with vintage bottles of this ... track one down ... you'll be so glad you did!!

I use it as a room spray and it's divine. It's like going to sleep in a rose garden.

I got half a bottle of this at a yard sale for a dollar. It's overpowering on my skin, but I spritz my bed with it and float off into rose-scented dreams.

I had this perfume when I was in junior high school. I remember the teacher saying once, "What is that wonderful smell? It smells like someone fell into a rose bush!" I raised my hand and told him it was my perfume. I definitely got everyone's attention after that.

Straight from the bottle, Tea Rose smells absolutely wonderful: a velvety red rose in full bloom, complete with dew-encrusted petals and leaves. My caveat is that once on skin, Tea Rose is best enjoyed from a distance (i.e. avoid direct nose-to-wrist sniffing at all costs). Lean too close, and the scent falls apart. Green notes become cheap and rubbery, the floral sweetness chokingly cloying and nearly medicinal.

In tiny amounts, however, Tea Rose gives you the absolute best bang for your buck in terms of lasting power, sillage, and an accurate virtual representation of the flower. As others have mentioned, it is *excellent* as a room or linen spray, a walk-through body mist, or a layering scent.

Wear it with an airy citrus like CK One for a bit of a lift, or a radiant musk like NR for Her for a sensuous skin scent.

I agree with the others that this makes a really good fragrance when going to sleep. It's very comforting with its single green rose characteristic. Remember the forest in The Neverending Story? Well, amongst all those weeds and brush, there must have been a little red rose around somewhere hiding in the green vines, and this is how I imagine it to have smelled. Tea Rose is one of the most true to life rose fragrances around. It's not really very sweet, more green and fresh. It has a mossy note in the base, giving the impression of a spring forest. Sometimes it's the simple things in life that bring the happiest moments, so is true of perfume.

I have this fragrance and i use it as Air refreshener before go to sleep and in my closet, i don't like how it smells on my skin and it's cheaper than L'occitane room sprays...

I posted my review yesterday and I'd add to it now.

Tea Rose is a night perfume. I sprayed some on me, before I spent and hour or so reading in my bed. It smelt heavenly and very uplifting. The trick is to spray just a tiny whiff at the base of your throat. It was a good scent to sleep on.

I havent tried the layering, primarily because my other perfumes arent likely to layer well with it. Perhaps layering would make it good for day wear.

I think its a private fragrance, if there is such a thing. Its for your private time, because you would'nt want to go out smelling like a rose ;) or perhaps if one is daring one may pull if off and see the reactions of people.

I was browsing this website yesterday, on impulse I looked up Tea Rose. Reading the reviews I bought it today. In general a soliflore is not my cup of tea and I prefer more sophisticated blends. I prefer designer brands and stay away from low-priced fragrances, so this was an unusual buy.

I sprayed on myself just a tad, an hour ago and I can smell a sweet, distinct rose aroma, which is tender and not cloying. It's a happy scent as I feel happy. I like it and I think this would make a great everyday wear perfume and I cant wait to layer it with another perfume. I like its sillage, given the tiny amount I sprayed. My 2 oz bottle should last me a year.

I'm happy I made this purchase.

WOW!!! This is STRONG!!! Even for me ... but a wonderful deep, rich rose right on the bush! I don't think I've ever said this about a fragrance before ... this one will have to be treated gently when sprayed. It could very well be a killer!! I just received this in the mail untested on my skin (I knew someone who wore it about 15 years ago and loved it on her) and gave my left arm 5 healthy blasts! That was a half hour ago and I am still reeling :o) ... albeit happily so. Looking forward to the development of this one!!

Update:
About an hour in and the 'rubbery' note has disappeared (I have a sneaky suspicion it may have been the tuberose) and I'm having a cigarette ... I think this would be incredible layered over a tobacco note. Very happy chappy here :o) ... as far as I am concerned this is a unisex frag. Why should gals be the only one's to smell so divine?

Tea Rose has been one of my favorites forever, partly because when I was a little girl apprenticing with a ballet company, a lot of the beautiful ballerinas I looked up to wore it. By the time I became a ballerina it was no longer in fashion as a scent, though I wore it, too, because it held a secret meaning for me. It still does.

On a less personal note, rose can take on different personalities - spicy, powdery, fruity, etc. - and this is a super green, tart rose, at least at the beginning. Lily has been mentioned as one of the notes in Tea Rose that creates the overall impression of a rose soliflore, and my skin pulls out a lot of lily-of-the-valley as opposed to stargazer or Easter lilies. If you ground Tea Rose with something more substantial on the bottom, say a smoky, resinous amber or a non-plasticky vanilla like Ecco Bella's, it loses a lot of its shrill quality and smells divine. I think it's divine as it comes, too, yet I do well with rosy, leafy, grassy scents, so I would!

An utterly realistic, linear rose that is pleasant in small doses. However, I've accidentally oversprayed and had to scrub after I found myself reciting "Sacred Emily." Wish the juice wasn't such a neon yellow-green. It reminds me of Gatorade. That aside, Tea Rose is an excellent rose for layering with other frags. Try it sometime.

After reading through all the reviews, I blindly bought a bottle online thinking it was so cheap, wouldn't be too much a loss. I'm so glad I did. I know it may sound crazy, but living in a concrete jungle (hong kong) all my life, I'd never actually known what real roses smelt like. Tea Rose smells so fresh, natural and rosy. I take everyone's advice and make sure I have a light hand when spraying. I just gave myself two light sprays (one light spray yesterday but it faded completely after just 4 hours) after shower and it was not overpowering at all.

Tea Rose was so common in my region and so welcomed by religious people.
This is a fresh limpid rose scent with soft woody support but it's not a soft perfume at all. It's so radiant and over-apply can cause headache. With these all it's potent and vibe too, a simple combination which you can't easily rank it as heavy or soft, classic or modern, etc.
But you can mention its vivid quality is superb; undoubtedly.
Let me say this way; it's a bee comes from hours of sucking rose honeydew!
And I think so, this perfume isn't sexy, yet so interesting indeed.
While most of perfumers try to marvel by blending notes, this one charms with a simple theme. It's one in a million.

This perfume is not about sex. It's got nothing to do with grinding club kids, or tattooed vamps. It's not about glossy painted lips or towering stilettoes. It's probably the most un-sexy fragrance I've ever experienced. And that's what makes it so good.

An innocent and thoughtful fresh rose scent that stands out in a sea of over-sexed clones. It's no accident that this one has been around for so long.

I was introduced to this "oldies but goldies" perfume when I was on vacation and spent a night at my cousin's house. At her dressing table sitting nicely this fragrance. I was tempted and without her permission I sprayed it once at my left wrist.
Hmmm what an aroma! Such single wet -freshly picked rose, and it goes as a monotonous (linear)scent from the beginning until the end.
What a treasure!
I must go grab it soon! Could not wait patiently trying to mix this up with another frags that I have!

Unfortunately my husband doesn't like it at all! He thinks it stinks or somewhat like rotten thing!

Now that's the most beautiful rose scent ever.
Rose smells here very real.
At first it's strong, little too strong, too woody (at least on my skin).
After few minutes it develops into a pure rose scent with woody undertone.
Good thing about it is that it isn't too sweet or cloying.
It's a very romantic fragrance.
Very different from others I have in my collection.
The price is great.
And the lasting power is excellent.

I love Tea Rose. I've been wearing it since the 90s and the 4 oz bottle lasts a very long time. It is strong but I love a strong rose scent. Most other rose perfumes don't last long at all and aren't all that strong so I use Tea Rose as a base and mix other perfumes with it. It's amazing how well it goes with other scents. So, when I pick up a perfume to try that I don't like, I just mix the Tea Rose with it and voila a new fragrance that makes the one I was sorry I bought even better.

Yes, it does smell like a rose. :-) What else would I expect? It reminds me Bulgarian Rose oil in the wooden containers that was very popular when I was a child. It is very potent and I agree with everyone here that it should not be over-applied. I like the simplicity of it. Overall it is a quality fragrance, the only concern I have is the huge 4 oz bottle that I got: it will take me centuries to finish.

Update! Just like a real rose! It has lasted over 8 hours now! This is one of my favorite perfumes. I picked it up blind at Marshalls for I think $15. I got the 4oz and a matching lotion... I think the lotion was old, it's a bit on the runny side but still useable. What it smells like when you first spray it on is what it smells like for hours. I've been wearing it for over 6 hours now and it still smells quite strong! To me it's worth way more then I paid for it! It smells more like an EDP then an EDT.

This is a very linear fragrance. True Tea Rose scent. It's very lovely and a bit old fashioned. It's a bit on the strong side, 1 spritz is enough to make you smell like a rose garden in bloom. Truly one of the best rose scent that I've ever encountered.

This is definitely a whole rose scent,sharp, green and very strong. While it evoked memories of my mothers rose garden I found it gave me a bit of a headache and I just couldn't enjoy it. Will try it again and use very, very, very little.

Tea Rose is one of those ridiculous bargains that no other brand can touch. $14 for 4 ounces? Come on, you can't beat that. Unless the fragrance smells like crap . . . which it certainly doesn't. While not exactly up to niche standards, this perfume surprises in its bold and realistic representation of an old, green-studded rose. We're talking the whole flower here, not just the oily petals. Leaves, stem, everything. You even get a sense of the cloudy water this beauty's been sitting in for the last twelve days. There is an unfortunate synthetic rubber edge to the drydown, but it's not enough to distract. This is a strong scent with excellent longevity, and I can't think of anything better on a budget. It's worth noting that Nicole Kidman wore this on the red carpet. If it's good enough for her, it's good enough for anybody.

An earlier poster described it as "authentic", and I don't think you can get any more accurate than that. It smells like rose, plain and simple. It's uncomplicated, natural, sophisticated, and incredibly versatile. One of my favorites from way back.

I have a small bottle of the parfum and dabbing pulse with this is an absolute delight. As others have said this is as realistic as you can get to a true living rose, thorns and all. Ridiculously inexpensive and under-rated for many years because of this, the boom in niche roses in perfume ought to cause more perfumistas to seek this gem out. As others have also said great for layering with other fragrances.

I had this one and also "Tea Rose Musk". Both are close to each other and I didn't like both of them. There is rose in it but a strange kind of, maybe a faded rose. All in all it is very very strong. To me it was like a bunch of faded or even rotten flowers, maybe roses. I gave it away.

Tea Rose is my Aunt Janis from front to back. She has worn this for decades and still wears it today. Tea Rose, like so many of the other nice members have said below, is a true lipstick red, classic rose scent. It may be cheap in price, but smells as if it could be any of the Les Parfums De Rosine's or any of the other expensive niche rose fragrances.

Tea Rose pretty much remains the same from start to finish. If you like roses, you must try this fragrance. It can be found for such a good price, it almost seems too good to be true.

I also think this is one of those fragrances that layers great with other scents with similar floral notes, or even the off the wall spices and leathers. Funny, I've mixed it with Hermes' Kelly Caleche and it made for one intoxicating soft leather rose aroma. So, go on and be creative with it, what do you have to lose for such a good price?

Even though Tea Rose has been around since 1975, it smells as modern as any other rose fragrance of today does, classy, too.

Don't listen to people who say roses smell elderly, that is just silly. Roses are one of the most beautiful flowers on earth, and their scent, even more. Tea Rose: for any age, any season, anyone.

Tea Rose is the most authentic rose scent I've ever encountered and, trust me, I've smelled dozens because rose is my mom's favorite fragrance. The trick is to apply lightly, as others have said. As life-long gardeners, both my mom and I have always grown roses and we agree on this one.

Tea Rose isn't just the rose blossom, it's the leaves and stems as well,as NLS says in her review, far below. I believe it's these green additions that keep Tea Rose from being too sweet. I think I smell sunshine and a bit of the moist earth as well.

I tend to apply it on my chest and ankles so the rising scent is diffused and sillage is therefore very light. When I want a full sniff I gently flutter my collar and the fragrance that's been warmed on my chest floats up like smoke from a genii's lamp. Gorgeous.

When Nicole Kidman was the spokesface for Chanel she was spotted in the audience at an Academy Awards ceremony as she took a bottle of Tea Rose from her purse & applied it. Chanel was not pleased. Yes, it's THAT good!

The usual low price of this beauty keeps many people from trying this under the mistaken impression that something this inexpensive can't possibly be good. They are wrong.

I just bought a bottle of tea rose today and to my surprise i really love and like it, smells just like a true rose. I recommed this to everyone who likes rose scents alot. To me, the price is affordable, it makes me relaxe, it doesn't give me headache effect that's the most important thing because some perfume brands makes me dizzy. It's worth having. :)

This is the truest rose scent since Coty's "La Rose Jacqueminot". I don't smell any of the other notes listed. You must have it, it is a "go to" perfume. How could the pure smell of tea roses -- clear, delicate, and moist -- ever be wrong? Just one problem: this is the monster of all sillage. Tea Rose doesn't seem to know it's own strength and can be totally overwhelming. Use a very, very light touch.

this perfume is very thick, yesterday I spray it on paper...man, the smell is really strong! But surprisingly it gave me comfort, like being surrounded by my mothers and aunties. Make me feel like a child, smelling this fragrance. Yes I agree it is not perfume for everyone, probably OLD for some people. Still I like this perfume, nice!

Normally I avoided too obvious rose scents, but I guess I am growing old and become more into roses now. This is a powerhorse tea rose, an absolutely sentimental fragrance of good old days, reminding me of the roses in a small garden by the house I used to live in as a kid. So nostalgic, almost herbal and so soothing that I love to use it as my night scent.

The lasting power is absolutely unbelievable. It is cheap in terms of price, but not in terms of quality! Very nice.

It's amazing how much stuff had to go into this bottle to smell precisely and entirely like rose attar that's volatile enough to wear as scent. This is an absolutely perfect reflection of what roses smelled like when they were bred for scent and color rather than sitting in a refrigerator after being shipped from South America. Unless you're of an age, have lived in the deep South, or grown heritage roses you've probably never smelled a real rose on the bush. I grew heritage roses (grafted from clips from cemeteries since they were often neglected and thus "unimproved") and my son used to love to pull the petals off and rub them on himself. On a damp cool morning this is precisely what he would smell like.

If you like the big scent luxuriate in and consider spraying it lightly on your sheets. If you find it a bit overwhelming use it with a light hand and layer it with orientals, fougeres or gourmands with a lot of pepper. In an case a true original at a criminally cheap price.

Sillage: 3 sprays fill a room
Durability: 8-10 hours
Fabulosity: Scarlett O'Hara at Tara
Price to value ratio: infinite, huge, unbelievable
7/10

Tea Rose truly rocks, and is the most natural true to real life rose scent that for the price and quality just doesn't get better. It impersonates a long stemmed thorny rose to absolute perfection. I doubt if I’ve ever sniffed a bouquet of roses, or roses growing in nature that came this close to a true rose aroma. It’s just a beautiful, fresh and almost green rose scent.

I love how it wears on the skin, just a straight floral soliflore throughout the composition. Tea Rose is extremely strong too, you could kill someone with this perfume if applied without consideration. I rarely if ever use it, yet when I do it makes me feel romantic, witchy, and beautiful.

I loved it, but it was not true rose... at least to me. My husband hated it. Very potent, apply lightly!

I remember my first love and the first rose he gave me. I still have it. Still appreciate it. I need it to warm me when I am outside on cold, cold, nights.

I bought this when it first came out in the mid 70's and adored it, wore it all the time. It was very realistic and a little went a VERY long way, so much so that the perfume went sour before I could even use half a bottle. Because I had only just left school and this perfume was very expensive (then) my Mum told me not to be wasteful and wouldn't let me throw it out. She snavelled it for herself and continued to wear it....which is why I won't be ever buying another bottle. Sour, rancid rose....ugh.

(It is a beautiful smell when FRESH.)

a strong rose/spice perfume. different from my favorite from crabtree and evelyn. this is when you want a little bit stronger and daring rose. i use this with a light hand. nice.

A beautiful, big, bright, realistic ROSE! So fresh and so green. I enjoy wearing this one in the fall and dead of winter. It is strong, so may I suggest spraying a mist and walking through a "garden of roses" for a softer application? One of my favorite rose fragrances...and they haven't changed it since I was a little girl...just made the juice brighter from what I observe.

THis is the best rose perfume ever if you really want to smell like a bouquet of roses blooming on a summer night. I love it and my husband loves the smell when I put it on in the morning. It lasts all day. I have tried to find other "rose" scents that are more complex, like Bulgari's Rose Esentialle, but, frankly I like Tea Rose the best for a simple, straightforward floral. Yes it is very cheap, but then I don't feel too extravagant wearing it around the house on weekends or to bed to read a book. it is also nice to spritz on the sheets.

I am a lover of rose scent but I have a huge bottle of this (it was cheap, and the reviews were great, so I didn't buy a sample) and I don't think I will ever get to the bottom of it. I like the scent in the bottle but find it too cloying to wear - I've given it a lot of tries! It's just too much no matter how little you use, and clings to every piece of fabric it goes near so that you have to wash your coat/scarf, for example, before you can wear something else. It is the closest thing I've every got to roses but as Tania Sanchez says, 'Women have no business smelling like flowers', and I'm starting to agree with her! I'd like to find a more complex rose perfume next time and avoid soliflores.

Totally awful scent-reminds me water closet desinfectant during soviet time.There are nothing about roses!Be aware,because I ordered it under impression of ecstased revievs.It's stinking like old stuffy mustines.

Definitely rose, very beautiful rose. Actual rose scent, like rose essence. Super glad I found it- I tried Bvlgari Rose, but this is what I was looking for all along. I got it in a gift set for around 10 dollars, but I would have paid more!!

If you love roses, this is the one. This rose is the month of June, when they first bloom, very fresh, and perhaps it just rained. I just picture velvety softness, a pliable green stem, and leftover raindrops from last night's storm.

Seriously, a 4 oz bottle of this EDT runs about 10 to 15 dollars, and it smells just beautiful.

I personally don't find this strong at all. Then again, on most reviews, if people say it disappears in minutes it lasts long on me, and if it's reviewed as too strong, I usually wish it was stronger.

Rose, rose, rose and more rose.

I agree with all of the reviews so far.

My contribution is to emphasis just how strong this fragrance is. Go gently.

I'm so happy for my sample (thanks sofiapap) and I'm already waiting for my FragranceX delivery of Tea Rose.

This sampling has surprised me a lot. I thought it would be much more green, harsh, sour and watery. Instead it's sweet, cloudy and very very pink: A big natural pink Tea Rose. I also expected it to fade away within half an hour like a light cologne. But no. It's still on my wrist smelling even more wonderful than before.

I will definetly use this in various occasions: at home, gardening, a light spray in the hair, layering ... but also on different social events; it is so plain and simple in the most adorable way so it would be an excellent counterweight to all heavy and complicated evening fragrances. I guess Nicole Kidman had that in mind while she was spraying herself with Tea Rose on the Oscar/Golden globe gala, eventhough she adventured her Chanel contract (myth or not, an interesting though, thanks moonruby).

I think, if you love roses this would be the ultimate Rose The One, not D&G.

Tea Rose smells just like a real rose. By itself it can be too much rose scent. However , I found it is a great one to have because it mixes well with other perfume that needs a lift. If you have a fragrance that is too musky or blah and you add a mist of Tea Rose on top it often improves the blah perfume.
Tea Rose is also nice to add to bath water.

The roses are so strong and so... optimistic... like some girls surrounding you and singing their happiness while you have no ideea what the hell they're so happy about.

I like to wear it when I'm in good moods.

This is how the dreamy blonde girl from Elton Jhon's "Original Sin" video must have smelled like. The fairy that comes in a bubble sprays her with this just before the "enters" the yellow brick road from the poster in her room and become glamorous, and "Up in the balcony all the Romeos are bleeding for her hand/ Blowing theater kisses, reciting lines that they don't understand..."

This is almost TOO realistic! It's a rose garden and every rose is in its peak bloom. The roses are vibrant and dewy with thick, green, thorny stalks. I'm afraid that I'll attract a bunch of bees if I wear this!

I don't think that I could wear this by itself, but I think this will be wonderful to layer with.

I remember a receptionist where I used to work many moons ago used to wear this. The entire front office reeked. This was her favourite scent and she sprayed liberal amounts. My eyes watered, my sinuses stung, my head pounded and my chest tightened as I fantasized about wringing her neck! A little goes a long, long way, uncontrolled it's just the most disturbing pong! That said, this scent is a good example and reference for what a soliflore is.

I loved the way this smelled in the department store when I was 12 and bought the whole lot, lotion, scented petals, you name it. Then after wearing it for a day, i realized it smelled like cat pee on me. Ho Hum.

My cat Wilbur (pictured to your left) is a passionate rose lover. Whenever my fiance brings me in roses from the garden and they are left unattended for any length of time, Wilbur will examine the rose in minute detail for a good 10 minutes before picking it up and taking it with him for a lie-down.

There he will be, lying on his side, with the rose clutched between his front paws, sniffing it. Later he will start biting it. Since he is not actually eating it, I can only surmise that he is piercing the velvety petal membranes to release more aromatic rose oil!

Today Wilbur had the opportunity to examine PWS Tearose in human form. He sniffed for a good while but when he made a tentative approach for an exploratory bite, I escaped to work.

So, if such a true rose connoisseur is impressed with the realism of this soliflore, then PWS has a resounding success on its hands.

On a more humble human note, to me, the reviews aren't lying - this is a real rose. Or more accurately, many, many real roses, exquisitely bundled together with thier green leaves, cool & velvety soft, still slightly damp from the morning dew.

tea rose smells exactly like pretty pink rose buds i bought in tea shop to make tea with!

rosy and fresh green and just a little woody to round it up! just like the smell of a bouquet of fresh roses like!

i am very pleased with this scent. there is no surprises here, fresh roses, fresh roses all the way! was pretty impressed this one didnt turn funny or sour on my skin...most dominantly roses scents turn sour on me.

the best thing is...this is not powdery rose. again, it is fresh roses with a hint of greens and light woods.

very economical too! and it last and last and last until 10pm! (I sprayed it at 8am).

lovin'it!

I am not ashamed to say I love Tea Rose. I just got it this morning and put on a little bit of Taylor of London Rose Talc and a small amount of Tea Rose....terrific. It smells just like an old rose bush that used to be in my parents yard. I say used to because Daddy dug it up and put in his fancy hybrid roses. Not a one of those roses had the wonderful fragrance of the old rose bush. This is a perfect analogy. The old rose bush, much like Tea Rose, was not packaged in beauty but smelled wonderful; the hybrid roses, much like many designer brands, are packaged in beauty but do not have the wonderful rose fragrance. Just smelling this takes me back to my childhood and that wonderful old rose bush.

I am truly baffled by the disparity in price between rose perfumes such as Perfumer's Workshop TEA ROSE and, say, Creed FLEUR DE THE ROSE BULGARE. I picked up a bottle of TEA ROSE on sale for all of $4. Yes, that's right, do the math: $2 per ounce. The comparable Creed composition costs about fifty times that much. So what's the difference?

TEA ROSE is a loud rose perfume, but it really does smell just like roses to me. These are greenish roses, complete with their leaves and stems, as rithacha says, but they are roses all the same. Since I am not a single-note rose kind of gal, I am happy to mix TEA ROSE with CUIR DE LANCOME or something along those lines, but I won't be wearing TEA ROSE alone. But the same is true for the Creed rose perfumes, which I tested but will not buy. Yet the reason for me is not one of quality or authenticity, I think. No, it's just a matter of the dominant note: rose.

As a stand alone rose perfume, I have a big bottle of Guerlain ROSA MAGNIFICA. Now, with TEA ROSE in my collection, I'll be able to satisfy all of my rose mixing needs for the foreseeable future. Or else I'll use this to spray my drawers.

I loved Tea Rose at first, but it is strong. Now I enjoy it more as a room freshener. And for the price at Marshalls or TJMaxx, it works well.

This is a great rose scent. It's just what I was looking for - a cheap, good, rose scent that I could wear daily as long as I only spray once.

Tea Rose comes on strong and lingers for many hours - a welcome thing when many of my more expensive perfumes fade before noon.

It's linear, it's floral and it's old fashioned, but for such a high quality fragrance the price cannot be beat. A giant, 4oz bottle was three dollars at my local TJMaxx.

Crazy.

i came across this at a very very young age and thought it was the most beautiful thing i had ever smelled just like a real perfect long stem red rose-notice i included the stem- because it smells so real after all its not called ''tea rose petals''?right? right! i was 11 and myolder female family members soooo bursted my bubble by saying no wonder it was from longs drug store . . smells like room deoderizer ..you stink ...now that i am a grown ^%$##& woman i think they was jealous! lol no i dont know but im not a baby anymore and it is one of my favorites my 9.99 bottle of tea rose sits on my dresser with my 90.00 dollar stuff its not what they cost or who they where put out by its how much you love the way they smell & i do love my tea rose

there's a downside to how this smells like a real rose: when the day is over, you start smelling like a wilting rose:-( nothing is ever perfect.

Fresh, wide-eyed and green! The first rose up in the morning and the last one to close its pretty eyes. On and on it lasts without ever losing its rosiness to amber. Its so hard to champion a nice cheap rose fragrance without without having to contend with upmarket, nichey, and overproduced rose perfumes, with their cynical claims to abstractions. What I wouldn't give to pull the fragranceworld equivalent of Marshall McLuhan out from behind a MPG poster and we could spray the world with 'Tea Rose'.

I hoped to like Tea Rose because I'm looking for a dewy rose scent for the daytime on the cheap cheap and the reviews below indicate that Tea Rose would fit the bill. It's my own lament that Tea Rose does not work for me.

The opening is plasticy bergamont. It smells like a plastic Fisher Price chair on me that some thoughtless toddler broke his mother's full flower vase across. I find this plasticy note in most perfumes that have a strong appearance by LILY, and I suspect this might be the cause. I adore lilies in nature, but no lily perfume has worked out on my skin.

But the rose, you ask? Where's the rose? Oh yes, it's there. I would say Tea Rose didn't just stop at the flower, it includes the stem, thorns, hip, and leaves too. It smells very floral, green, and herby. It's authentic to the flower, as the reviewers below will attest to. A Rose fragrance. Too much for me, personally, and so I know now to look for a "rose" fragrance instead.

EDIT: Oh God I dislike this perfume so much that I quarantined my sample in its own ziplock baggie.

it is a very green rose smell, not sweet or soft as i expected. It doesn't have much development, only gets fainter and fainter as time goes by. Imagine....rather than the flower itself, you get the bud and leaves in with it too. Might work for some, not for others. But, it's by no means offensive...For me, I'd use this as a rooms spray rather than perfume - and it's cheap, so.....LOL.

I adore roses. I have this impossible ambition of growing them in my yard, but the type of soil I have and the lack of light make them not to thrive at all. Yet I am persevering.

I have been searching for a true rose scent for a while now. I found Tea Rose, finally!!!!( thanks to some Fragrantica members that recommended it)

It is the most exuberant alive and real rose I've ever smelled! It is also incredibly strong, I cannot believe it's an edt! The projection and the lasting power are downright incredible, and I love strong perfumes but this is almost too much, even for me. Must not overload on this, for sure....

The box looks slightly better than the bottle, which must be the ugliest thing I own. It is so cheap looking, the name is printed on a sticker, the atomizer seems made of aluminum foil and white plastic. The juice itself is the most poisonous yellow color you can imagine. Yet the smell is divine, for sure a great chemical achievement, it smells so real!

I am obviously very excited by my newest catch, yet I have to warn you that not everybody likes it. My husband reaction was not very positive ( whew, you smell like a jar of honey with roses) and my sister said it's terribly old and old fashioned. Yet my mother loved it....

I love it too... so I have to recommend it, but only to those that are trully rose afficionados, because this is the rosiest rose ever!!!

This rather simple fragrance may as well be my best rose scent ever!
I love rose fragrances but not all of them love me: couldn't wear Stella McCartney Stella or Bvlgari Rose Essentielle - both turned out too sour on my skin...
But this little bottle contains that early morning rose garden freshness in its purest form (I do not "hear" anything else but roses, may be a drop of sandalwood at the base). Love it!
And for the price of less than $15 for 50ml - it's a steal. :)

This bottle is a common sight in local drugstore display cabinets.

I read somewhere that Nicole Kidman was seen spraying this on at the Oscars or Golden Globes or whatever, and apparently this almost got her in trouble with her contract with Chanel.

Truly underrated and unpretentious.

This was my first perfume as a kid at the age of 10. I wanted to smell sweet and lovely. Everyone commented on it when I wore it. A little goes along way. You want to breathe not overdose on this perfume.

I was getting interested in makeup and skincare at that age. Now I am 31 and notice really the best makeup and/or cosmetic advice actually come from drag queens.

I am a woman and I like reading articles that can enhance one's inner and outer beauty. So it is funny that I get great tips from gay guys.

I remember when I was a 4 year old girl and my older sister had a big bottle of it.I don't have any decant to smell right now,but I always hated this perfume.
it was just too intoxicating,too warm and too rose and tea!
yeah the name matches the perfume perfectly.it's not a sophisticated perfume to wear.it's just too much to take,too floral and too powdery.
I wonder why anybody should go and wear such an old fashioned and cheap smelling.

Tea Rose is a lot greener, sharper and woodier than I expected. It does have a rose edge but it's not sweet like the flower only. Tea Rose is all about the green, hardy and earthy, dark green leaves, the woody stem attachd to the wet soil, or rather the cut off stem in the vase.

The sandalwood and amber are green, earthy and vegetal rather than oriental. It gets deeper with time but it never loses its sharpness and greeness. A strange an unusual rose scent I use to layer it with florals in summer when they risk becoming too thick, sweet and cloying.

I didn't know what to expect when I purchased this blindly from my local TJ Maxx, and, at the time, could have kicked myself for not recalling any of these reviews. But, being that it was such a great price ($9.99 USD for a 120 ml. (4 fl. oz.) bottle), I found it hard to resist.

Obviously, you have to enjoy rose scents, which I do. Although most, including this one, are rather linear, some days I really appreciate that constancy. I took my chances on this one and don't regret it. This Tea Rose is truly authentic in that it evokes the feeling of walking into a bustling florist shop filled to the brim with freshly-cut, long-stemmed beauties.

I find it layers quite nicely with other fragrances, but (word of warning) does pack a bit of a wallop if not used discretely. When used without layering, the "spray and walk" method of application suffices for me.

My only gripe is that, ironically (as with a couple of other rose scents), its authenticity makes me a target for bees during the summer months, especially if I wear bright colors. In fact I was just stung earlier this week, while wearing it. Could be a coincidence, I suppose, but you never know. I must have appeared to be a wanton flower, just "asking for it".

This smells just like a real rose dewy and green. it's like standing in the middle of the florist shop and sniffing a rose. tea rose is sharp and strong. i like to layer it with cabaret when the super rose feeling hits me.

When I was a little girl, about the time this perfume was created :) my Mom had a tiny bottle of some rose extract which I remember smelled like 'Tea Rose'. I remember snicking into her boudoir and sniffing the extract which I thought was created by angels.
Thirty years passed, I became a mom and I have the same fragrance!
(Whoever decided to grant a prize for one of my reviews here THANK YOU so much!, otherwise I don't think I'd have come across this fragrance)
It's a beautiful and so feminine scent of real roses, kind of cozy and nostalgic (maybe only to me)but nothing like old ladies. A little bit of Tea Rose makes me special as it can be easily distinguished in the sea of modern scents. It's warm and embracing, really nice.
I just wish my Mom would be around so I could have a cup of coffee with her and tell her how much I love the perfume she is wearing...

A rich and memorable scent of roses.

I can imagine a glass-house, full of beautiful red roses, surrounded by a mist of sandalwood and ambar, in a afternoon of sunshine.

Elegant, a bit mysterious and lovely, this fragrance brings me the feeling of a warm hug.

Roses are to me a symbol of beauty, femininity and delicacy. All these aspects are found in Tea Rose.

This fragance launched in 1972, has notes of bergamot, rose, lily, tuberose, sandalwood and amber...but the rose pure scent is all that we feel.

If you close your eyes you'll have the exact feeling you are in the middle of a rose garden.

The lasting power is great...so, be careful not to spray a lot.

It's an inexpensive perfume that is worthy buying...so, enjoy it!

Yes, it's the rose of roses! When I first saw it in the store, its price was so low and I throught it must be a cheap fragrance. But after I read the comments here, I dare to give it a try and I was not disappointed. I think it's strong, but not unbearably strong. I will use it when I wear lovely flower print cotton dress. So ladish!

This is a very pretty pure rose scent. I used to wear it when I was 12-13 years old. It IS strong, I recommend spraying it in the air and walking through the mist- that's all you need. Remarkably affordable. The only reason I stopped wearing it was because I got tired of it (I go through phases) and starting gravitating to the predictable vanilla fragrances later in my teens. The smell of roses always makes me think of elegance and beauty.

I agree with the comments already posted. This is the truest rose scent I have ever smelled, at any price point. It smells exactly like a bouquet of roses sitting in a vase on your table top. You can even smell a hint of the green leaves and stems, and a sour whisper of the first rose in the vase that has started to wither and decay. That's what makes it so magical, in my opinion. They did an excellent job of capturing the true aromatic experience of a bouquet of roses, rather than a perfume-y abstraction of a rose. Very affordable and worth seeking out if you love a good rose scent.

I find this in Filene's Basement,in a pile of discounted perfumes.I like the real rose smell,a little too strong.

This is a totally lovely, very beautiful TRUE rose scent. If it is REAl rose you are after - you should use this perfume and you will not be disappointed. One of the best rose fragrances ever.