Tea Rose Perfumer`s Workshop for women

I really wanted to like this because I've really gotten in Rose scents lately but it just didn't work with my skin chemistry. The rose is definitely there and it's a green fresh cut rose. But the Bergamot was just too sharp and abrasive for me. It made it smell too strong and raw. I like my rose a little softer and a dash of floral sweetness.

Until a couple of days ago, I had always steered clear of this one for a few reasons. Mainly because of the cheap price ($10-15 for 120ml bottle), but also because the bottle looks cheap and tacky and the perfume itself looks like dish detergent.

Anyway, I've been on the hunt for that 'perfect' rose scent for a while now. I've also spent a lot of money and time over the years trying to find it. I was actually going to settle for either Rose Essentielle by Bvlgari or Rose by Paul Smith, even though neither one of them fit the smell I was looking for perfectly. I figured that's as close as I was going to get as the essential oils and Body Shop rose perfumes I'd tried just didn't measure up to my expectations.

For some reason, I decided to try this particular fragrance the other day and WOW. WOW. WOW. This was absolutely NOT what I expected. I honestly thought from it's cheap, ugly packaging and dirt cheap price that it would be worse than any celebrity or bargain basement perfume I'd ever stung my nostrils with....I was wrong.

This is, hands down, *THE* Rose fragrance. If you're like me and you are looking for a true, pure, fresh, non-complicated rose scent...save your money and go and purchase this. It is nothing but roses :) which is what I've personally been looking for for a very long time. Big, blooming, freshly cut, wet, BEAUTIFUL roses - and it's longevity is amazing!! Seems to last and last and last.

I've also found this to be a fantastic perfume for layering. I've found using this and True Love by Elizabeth Arden together to be an adorably feminine, original and lovely floral combination. So if you have both these perfumes but don't like them on their own, try them together!

I will ALWAYS have a bottle of this :)

It's cheap but good! It smells great! When I wear the one, it always makes my mouth watery! If the color of the liquid can be changed, it may be better! Every time when i wear this, i would worry about my white clothes~!

I FINALLY found this in Singapore at some obscure perfume store.
A 2 oz bottle cost $9.90 (~USD 8). 4oz bottle costs S$14.50 (USD~11.60). The stock flies off the shelves apparently. I had time to grab 2 2oz and 1 4oz bottles before they were sold out. This is likely a pre 2003 formula as allergens are not listed.

----Editing the whole review because for some reason, this started smelling exceptional on my skin-----

Tea Rose opens up like sweet, giant pink roses. It is a rose that is alive, in full bloom, and is ready to flaunt about it. Somewhere down the drydown, the (probably) synthetic tuberose note appears to give a bitter, rubbery edge to it like a freshly cut rose stalk. It is nothing too synthetic though, unlike many trashy fragrances on the market today.

Initially, this fragrance turned a little sour on me and I feared it would descend into "cat pee" territory(this really depends on your skin chemistry!). It also had a dusty smell like an old rose. I gave this a few more tries and suddenly tea rose just started smelling so fantastic to me. The dying rose suddenly sprang to life and I'm being sent to rose heaven everytime I put this on. Its cheap price means I can run around spraying this everywhere too.

This wasn't a rose-zilla I thought it'd be. Sure, its sillage is similar to perfumes like Armani's Acqua di Gioia and Versace Eros but you should be safe with 1-2 spritz. I actually spritzed 3-4 times as it doesn't last if I started sweating profusely in this hot and humid country.

Longevity: on bad days 3-4 hours. On good days, an easy 8-9hours.

Verdict: Fantastic realistic smelling rose. Exceptional for its price range! However, if you don't even like rose to begin with, you probably won't like it.

P.S: The colour is yellow because Tea Rose is attempting to imitate the colour of real rose oil (which it obviously isn't, since rose oil is exorbitant).

OMG this smells like a real flower. Its just what I was looking for. Its not powdery or stale. I dont think old lady when I smell this. My mom would though (she's 53) because I guess during her time older people wore more natural smells. It just smells real to me. I dont know the difference nuances of roses that give them their particular scent, so I cant say it smells just like a tea rose. But I can say it smells like a rose. A real rose that has been recently cut. I like it. Its fresh like the scent of rose water. Im kinda sad that I havent tried this before and I see it at tjmaxx all of the time and its so affordable.

I decanted some of this to send as a sample, and my husband told me "you smell like wet toilet paper". Guess this needs to go into the swap pile....

I do wish hygiene product manufacturers would stop stealing scents; although, this is a pretty realistic soliflora so maybe it's to be expected.

Strong, on your face Rose...
For a good 3 hrs its a thick smell of rose...after 3 hrs...its starts getting fresher... i get something citrus-esq ...The citrus smell lasts for barely 30 mins...and then you get another round of flowery smell, which according to this site is tuberose and lily...
The dry down is amazing and also the best part of this fragrance....its slightly musky...I do get something woody...Its very nice.
Those who are not very fond of rose...SKIP THIS!!
Those who say its like an air freshener ... sure...air fresheners are mostly made to smell like rose or lime/lemon...'

The most amazing thing about this very inexpensive fragrance is its sillage and longevity. Bare in mind its an EDT(3-5% concentration) and not EDP(8-12%concentration)....and still it manages to outlive most of high end fragrances....

So if you love rose ...forget Bvlgari Rose Essentielle or D&G's The One Rose etc etc....
This one lasts longer and has more sillage...

PLEASE REMEMBER - LESS IS MORE.... atleast in the case of Perfumer's Workshop Tea Rose...!! xoxo

Tea Rose was signature for my Aunt Janis from its intro in the early '70's. She was a little lady who once stopped a bar fight between two men by whacking one over the head, so when I wear this perfume, I always smile and remember her with much love and respect. I like to wear Tea Rose at night, and often spray my sheets and blankets with it. It is comforting because it reminds me of growing up around flower gardens and woods. It smells like the spring months. If you want a true red rose, this little classic does a good job of recreating that smell.

اندر عجایب ایران زمین ! من واقعاً نمی فهمم چرا تو ایران مردا از این عطر استفاده میکنن و جالب تر اینکه کلی هم تعریف و تمجید از این بوی مزخرف شنیدم . هی داد بیداد

Tea Rose by Perfumer's Workshop, is possibly the most underrated fragrance on the market today. It can found so cheap that many consumers have come to believe that it is not a scent worth sniffing. That is a shame indeed.

Fans of Jo Malone's Red Roses may be completely unaware of its identical twin, Tea Rose. One fragrance costs $170 AUD per 100ml, another costs $14.95 AUD per 125ml. Price wise, you can only guess which one is more appealing.

One spritz of Tea Rose is enough to cloud you in its scent. The projection is quite strong, however despite its heaviness, it's a very beautiful fragrance. It smells of roses of course. Rich, concentrated and luscious red ones.

Tea Rose has a slight hint of greeness, mostly brought about by the bergamot accord. It's fresh but also classy. If you're a lover of roses, you probably already have Tea Rose in your collection, so I need not go on about how this is a rose lover's dream.

I have read on many perfume forums that Nicole Kidman is a fan of Tea Rose. I can somewhat picture her wearing it. She may have all the money in the world, but if she keeps re-purchasing this particular fragrance, then that's definitely saying something.

Tea Rose has an extra plus of excellent longevity. It's almost like you can't go wrong with Tea Rose. I highly recommend.

A true rose, green, wet, and fresh from the garden! I picked up a 4oz bottle for $10 and for the price this simple little frag is an absolute GEM. Great for home-wear or for casual, for tea, or afternoons on the patio.

This is a true rosé scent. I picked up for $5 at TJMaxx as a blond buy. It is beautiful and if you love the scent of roses this is perfect for you. However, I'm not the biggest rose fan so I sprayed vanila fields over it and well then it became more like what I would wear. My philosophy is to never give up on a scent, chances are layering it with something else will make it more wearable.

I absolutely love this scent! It is very strong and long lasting, but soft and precious. Reminds me of being a little girl. Pure sweet rose, not much else.

This is the longest lasting scent I've ever had. It gets in my nightclothes and stays til I wash them. However, I only like the top fresh note. After a bit it changes smell and I don't care for it anymore.

Terrible, ok as a bathroom spray.

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.

It smells very " rosey " and it's now part of my collection. I only wish the liquid in the bottle wasn't yellow..I'm not a fan of yellow , they could have made it " pink" :o)

I worked for a florist for a year when I was younger. This smells like the Valentine's Day rush, when the whole shop was crammed full of people buying dozens upon dozens of red roses. It's a monster, though. Gave me a headache after half an hour just from the intensity. If it weren't so strong, I'd have found my alternative to the Fleur de The Rose Bulgare that costs a fortune and fades right off my skin.

This is ALL rose and very strong! I do not smell any other notes but a big rose bouquet. It has a large presence and the lasting power is just as strong days after. I had to wash my robe as I wanted to smell a different scent on me but Tea Rose overpowers any other perfume. This is a light spritz in the air and walk through type of wear. I may never wear it again but it was only $10 so I will keep this classic in my collection.... However, it may end up as a room spray (reminds me of one too) because its just so strong on me... Doesn't dry down to a lull of softness, its the super power of rose fragrances.

A Warning: on some people this scent turns from a fresh very distinct rose to cat pee.

I am so sad because all the fragrances I have sniffed with rose notes, the rose is not predominiant. In this one it is very one dimentionally rose, unitl it turns to ammonia. I would highly suggest a sample before purchasing. I had to order it online, thank goodness it was super cheap!

This is the strongest and longest lasting rose perfume I have ever encountered! The bottle is ugly and the juice is a yellow-chartreuse, toxic waste color. The sillage on this is enormous. I used one small squirt at 7 a.m. and when I saw my boss at 5 p.m. she commented "Something smells like pretty roses." So, yeah...that's some strong perfume. This would also make a good linen spray or make stationary smell nice.

Tea Rose perfume calls to mind a bouquet of 12 dozen iconic Mr. Lincoln red hybrid tea roses, or one huge rose that says, "Feed me Seymour." The fragrance is heavy, and heady. I've smell many many rose perfumes, and tea rose still smells the most "real" to me.As an avid rose gardener I feel confident in saying this smells incredibly like a bouquet of hybrid tea roses! A "tea rose" is a breed of rose, originally from China. Most popular garden roses these days are "hybrid tea roses" which were bred initially by crossing roses with hybrid perpetuals. There are literally thousands of breeds of hybrid teas, but their scent is quite distinctive to that of damask roses, moss roses, cabbage roses, bourbon roses, etc. So if you're looking for tea notes in this you won't find any.

The version I have is a bright golden-green liquid, very strong when initially applied (one spritz), but with only moderate longevity (about 3 hours until it faded nearly completely).

It is a stright forward rose scent--strong, sweet but well balanced with some bright citrus-green notes. It did not evolve at all on my skin. It does remind me of the roses I have in my garden. For the record, don't expect a tea-note; I'm fairly certain this is referring exclusively to the varietal of 'tea rose', a style of rose plant (tall and leggy, vs a shrub or climbing rose). Tea roses are very common, as gardeners like their shape and they have been extensively bred to produce a huge variety of colors and styles of roses. Interestingly, the characteristics of disease resistance and strong scent do not often appear together--making a strong, fragrant tea rose a rare thing.

I wore Tea Rose on a jeans-and-tshirt kind of day, a chilly morning in winter, a grocery shopping day; and I think that was a mistake. I think this is a warm spring or summer perfume, with a sundress that blows in the breeze and a picnic basket or butterfly net.

I also felt that this was a perfume that was begging to be mixed with another scent--something I never do! I have a tiny vial of "American Beauty" (by DSH), which to me is a very "just dug in the garden, I smell like earth, sweat and green rose leaves" kind of fragrance. Tea Rose and American Beauty could be perfect together.

Overall, a fun, true rose that is very feminine and fresh.

Not exactly long lasting.
This is more of a pick me up spray.
Really beautiful though. It smells as if you are living in a fresh rose flower shop. I have not smelled any other rose fragrance that really tops this.

Intense, dewy, hologram rose - just be extremely careful in your application of it. Another one of the "mist and walk through" perfumes. You'll smell like roses all day, and so will your dressing room :)

I'm convinced there must be two versions of this - one is bright, highlighter yellow in color and has the strength of the sun. It has to be used in small quantities or it will literally kill people within a two meter radius.

The other, I've seen in certain shoppes, is very pale in color and seems like a fake or drastically different version. It smells similar, but has a very short lifespan and none of the the strength or drydown of the former.

I don't know if this is a reformulation, and that what I've been buying (bright yellow) is new old stock. All I know is that if you get your hands on a 100ml bright yellow formula, it will last you for YEARS.

Oh, Tea Rose...I had SUCH high expectations from you based on the reviews here..but why do you not last longer than 2 hours on me and why can people not smell me even if I'm standing next to them? This despite spraying you behind my ears, on the base of my throat, on my wrists, nape, crook of my arm and back of my knees! And your sillage is supposed to be enormous! I wanted sooo badly to make you my signature, that one fragrance I'll be with from morning till night, from sunrise to sundown...why, Tea Rose, why??? :(

PS: Everything else that Fragranticans have said about you is true, though. You DO smell like a TRUE ROSE. :)

I got this because I was looking for a pure unadulterated rose.

At first, for about a week, I loved it.

Then I realized that when I put it on, it would make me sick, headaches and a little nausea. I finally figured out that it had a strong ammonia component. It smells like cat pee!! Yikes….

I’ve read reviews by a few other people who have said this, so be careful with this scent!

A rose is a rose is a rose. Can't find the tea. If you are a rose lover, or a Middle Eastern man, this is your scent. Enjoy.

Update: after having given it a full wear, It is absolutely true what I've read in this and other discussion boards - if you are a man, one or two sprays on the chest are more than enough for a close-to.the-skin, understated, refined smell of roses. I have to add that it did cause the same physiological reaction to when I smelt pure natural rose essential oil, a very wattery mouth.

So, for the price, it is obvious the blend must be made with the famous three different alcohols I cannot recall their names - natural rose essential oil is prohitively expensive.

Just ignore this, for the blend is excellent.

I love receiving pretty packages…and i love period dramas..particularly those which involve letter writing and other such romantic gestures. I was searching for a pure rose scent for the purpose of spritzing tissues/packing materials in outgoing packages. Though this isnt the only scent i use, i is the most "real". Rose, pure and simple. I can easily overlook the hideous bottle…its the scent which counts in this case. But, i raise the question..why does such a pretty rose scent look like nuclear waste?

same smell as the Body Shop Tea Rose perfume oil, only lighter

At first, and for an hour or so, it smells like a florist's shop. A bit too "literal" for many, I'd guess. However, a tea quality (presumably the beramot) soon emerges and the florals recede, making this more of a tea type scent for several hours (and it is strong). That's about it, so it's worth a try if it sounds good because it isn't too "synthetic" smelling.

@francesmay, this is also my bedtime perfume. it's very light and stays close to the skin. too bad the staying power isn't too good but just in time to put me in a calm mood and fall asleep.

Since the day I got it, it has been my before bed (including sheets) scent. I find the scent relaxing specially after a very long,tiring day. I love it most when I get whiffs of it in the middle of the night...when i might have been awaken by my kitties,it somehow lulls me back to dreamland.. I haven`t got the courage to use it to work. But,I am happy with it as my night scent.. :)

I love tea rose me and my sister both wanted this for X-mas and my perfume aunt who loved it too purchased it for us...yes it is a strong scent and it roses on steriods...but in a good way... brings back memories wonderful true rose fragrance....they still make it? wow ... no fakey rose here...just pure Rosa!!!

My mom (age 55) and grandmother (71) love this scent. I myself loathe it. It has always reminded me a funeral home, roses and plants and woods. It also reminds me of an older lady. Not a grandmother, just an older refined lady who really likes roses. My mother rarely wears this as her coworkers complained it's too strong and it's actually set off asthmatics in her office. On the bright side, it's super strong and has great staying power.

Tea Rose. old but still shows its worth, even if its come with cheap tag

the dominant rose notes stay almost linear and shows classy and simple scent. It have a really good projection and longevity.

personally, I found when I wear it outside, people would say like "I know this perfume", which I dislike, so I mainly wears it in home (I wear my perfume in home as well)

some would associate this as cheap and 'old-lady' gimmick, personally I think Tea Rose is a nice scent that goes right for daily fragrance, when all you want is to please yourself with Rosy scent. I never wear it for special occasion cause people tend to recognize it easily, and I dislike the synthetic Rose in here, anyway

A beautiful soapy-rose fragrance. This reminds me so much of the Crayola soap crayons I used to love as a kid. It smells like fresh roses---with the greens, woods, and gardener's soil.

I absolutely love it! The key is to apply a very little amount on selected areas. My room smells divine after each spray. I am keeping my fingers crossed that my man loves roses so I can use it on dates too. :)

My dog loves it too for some reason.

I bought the 120ml edt which came with a body lotion and I only paid 18AUD! So that was totally a bargain! It's a very linear rose fragrance, I do not smell any other notes but rosey rosey rose. I would say its a very clean or green kind of rose,its not sweet. Spray too much of this, it becomes very heady.It isnt powdery at all,the dry down is just this simple rose smell. From the beginning to the end,it smells of just this one flower and it really is very pretty smell. I'm wearing it now and its very warm outside, I find it to be nonoffensive to anyone who will smell this on me.
Dont let the price tag fool you for this fume,just give it a try. If you love rose scents and you want to smell like a natural bouquet of roses,this is for you! I dont particularly like rose notes that much but this made me become a rose lover!

i am a blind buy when buy this fragrance. i am falling in love at the first spritz. can not say any words again. eventhough this scent a lil bit similiar with toner in my country, i still love it. very traditional scent. feeling at spa when use this tea rose.
lovee so much....

to add to my previous comment this fragrance was a classic at that time (the 90's) i don't think it's dated at all as it's a timeless scent and will never grow old cuz of it's realism and smelling so much like straight up natural roses...i mean, how cld THAT smell ever go out of style!

this was my perfume for my late teens and early 20's. it earned me the nickname rosie lol (which i no longer go by thnk god!) my most memorable thing abt this fragrance was when i was at a stadium concert and among 10s of thousands of people and got a tap on the shoulder frm an ex i hadnt seen in some time telling me he knew i was there because he smelled roses and had to find me...hehehe scent is the sense most tied in with our memories as they say =)

I can't work out this fragrance. Every time I wear it I get more confused.

It's definitely one of the strongest, loudest, most in-your-face perfumes I've ever encountered. It's just as loud as Knowing, and that one is hard to beat. One spray and I'm not surrounded by a cloud, but a thick fog! For hours. Amazing. It's gigantic, monstrous, just as I like them.

This is also the most rosey rose perfume I've met. When my daughters were small, they used to pick tons of petals from the wild roses to crush and soak in water to make "perfume" in marmalade jars. This is exactly the same smell - except for two things:
I find a certain bitterness in Tea Rose that is a little upsetting. It also - and this is very strange - makes me think of urine somehow. It doesn't smell like urine at all! But nevertheless it leads my thoughts there. I'm worried every time I wear it if others actually smell urine?

I keep putting it on, and I keep scrubbing it after a couple of hours. I don't know what is going on here. I like it, but I don't like it. Or do I like it?

Tea Rose is evocative, from the first sniff you are reminded of something familiar and pleasant. I think that is why I wear it so often, for the fond memories of times past. Even the subtle mustiness is like the end of summmer gardens, telling me that flowers fade. It is sweet and kind, and generous with its' presence.

This fragrance reminds me of when I was a child sitting near an elderly lady. It's an ok rose scent, but it has an alcohol smell to it that tends to put some people off. If you are after a modern-day rose scent, Paul Smith Rose, Stella Sheer or D&G Rose The One will probably be your thing.

So happy. Im not gonna pretend like i know the difference between types of roses, at least in the olfactory sense at this point in time. This smells like your simple run of the mill rose candle, late 90s victoria's secret rose garden lotion, etc. really just wanted a simple ROSE scent, not something obnoxiously muddled in with a bunch of other things to make it artsy and all compositional-like. I fell in love with crabtree&evelyns rosewater which is exactly that, but i cried at the thought of spending $50 on something mostly monochromatic. This sucker saved me so much money. I got a 4 ounces from fragrancenet for $16. MONTEY IN DA BANK! Its so perfectly simple, exactly what i wanted. I can see how theres some faint sandalwood in it, but its like 98% straight up rose and its amazing. Still testing the sillage but even if its weak i have so much and it was so cheap i wouldnt mind putting it on constantly, but i have gotten at least 3 hours so far. OH and i was worried it would smell cheap and synthetic based on some reviews. Im not getting that from it? Maybe im insensitive to synthetic scents? But this smells fairly natural to me. So just go ahead and spring for a bottle you'll love it

Agreeing with the masses here: Tea Rose smells like the entire rose bush - buds, blooms, stems, leaves and thorns, with a touch of spring humidity and fresh soil.

The fragrance is balanced; it never goes careening off into a tangy, musky or complicated realm. Just nice springtime roses.

A very familiar, universally-beloved scent that garners plenty of compliments on the regular.

BEST OF ALL: I wear it to work sprayed in multiple places on myself and no one finds it too cloying. In fact, only when someone walks directly up to me do they smell it as an ambient aroma. This is a good thing.

Spectacular sillage. I can easily get 12 hours of wear with this.

I do not have to say this smells exactly like a rose. Everyone here seems to have said it over and over and they are all right. What I will say is how amazed i am that something like this was ever produced.

In its day, 1975 there was no other "rose" perfume that smelled exactly like a rose. Indeed, Coco Chanel herself said a woman doesnt smell like a rose. Yet every one was/is amazed at its accuracy and flawless beauty. Rose is there, yet its difficult to make it this realistic, much less keep it going for hours. Enter the supporting notes, carefully blended and there you have it-a perfume masterpiece.

A few years later Nahema would introduce Damascena rose and shock the world. Paris followed suite. They are more playful. In fact, nearly all 20th C. perfume use rose in some form or another-male or female. Ah, the note we took for granted.

To this day, nothing has ever matched such realism as Tea Rose. It is a bit vintage and somber-almost gothic. I have a little of the vintage formula left. I use it on rainy days and curl up with a good book. This goes well with Jane Eyre.

i am not a rose lover ..but those who like roses will like it although its not refined rose its thensthetic ,acidic unmellow or soft or rounded scent of rose ..maybe the only rose i could like is moroccan rose and taief rose they have a more powdery creamy mellow note to them ...

When you scent yourself with this beware of the comments. People will turn around to look for the roses. When you finally own up to them it's you, you may chose not to wear it. I actually had someone say that it reminded her of a funeral to which I retorted that in my house we have fresh roses for many occasions. I remember paying a small fortune for this perfume at Neiman's because it was the only place that had it. Neiman's offered other Perfumers' Workshop scents that I was just too poor to buy. Now I'm in heaven since it has become so affordable. I place silk roses in round, glass bowls and spray them with Tea Rose for wonderful nose candy!

If you want to smell like a fresh, green, sweet and dewy rose bush, this is your scent. Tea Rose has everything from the delicate, sweet petals of a rose to the crisp, green, earthy and slightly astringent scent of the leaves and stems. Of all the rose scents I have sniffed, this probably comes the closest to capturing the experience of burying your nose in a rose bush. It's also the dewiest rose scent I have experienced, giving off the impression that a gentle spring rain has just fallen on the petals and leaves.

The only thing that would improve this scent for me would be if it were a little less sweet. Especially as it dries down, it feels just a touch too sweet to be natural…which interrupts the illusion of a real rose bush. I find that I prefer "green" rose scents to be less sweet than other types of rose fragrances though, as I just find them more convincing. Overall, this is a gem of a scent...especially at such a low price point.

It's quite interesting that this perfume has grown on me. From the first shock and dislike, i am now addicted, especially as night time scent, it calms down and helps me to relax and feel at home. I have noticed that I also like to catch a wiff from my hair occasionally the next day, from beneath a layer of my day time perfumes.

I went through alot of rose perfumes until I received this one. I was looking for a true rose scent. It can be harsh if over sprayed. I love the rose note in perfumes. I was looking for something to wear by itself but also to layer ontop of other perfumes when the rose note was not quite enough. Lesson learn do not judge a perfume by it's price. This one is dirt cheap.

Life is short so let's wear the good stuff and now with that out of the way here is my review of The Perfumer's Workshop Tea Rose EDT. I simply adore this feminine perfume! Even though other notes are in this perfume the heady rose outshines it's counterparts and therefore this perfume behaves like a soliflore from opening note to end. It is the truest of tea rose scents but beware as others have said 1 to 2 spritz is all you need or you will overwhelm others up to 2 miles! It is a wonderful summer time perfume when applied lightly and when I wear it I receive oh so many compliments, some even remark how it smells just like a bouquet of roses. It is a long lasting perfume, great sillage even in the most humid conditions this perfume will last all day!

I seem to be into rose fragrances this summer, so when I saw this at Marshall's for a great price, I bought it. It's a very strong, straightforward rose scent, and very long lasting. A spray or two will do for hours. But unfortunately, it is simply too harsh on me and doesn't soften with time. My husband said it smelled "too chemically" and coincidentally, the color is bright yellow, like the color of some household cleaner (Mr. Clean?). The bright yellow color does fit with how it comes across, i.e. a bit too brash rather than pretty. It is almost masculine in attitude. I'm much happier with Stella McCartney's Stella Nude, although unfortunately it doesn't last nearly as long.

THIS is the rose perfume I have been looking for! I was looking for something I could spray on and wear everyday even when I am at home. I got it for such a great price for 4 oz. I immediately went and purchased another 4 oz and then a 2 oz for my purse....It is strong so 2 or 3 sprays should do it and it lasts for hours. YAY!

For the last three months I have been surreptiously moving TRPW from the "men's" to the "women's" shelf at our local Marshall's and one of the SA's has been just as doggedly moving it back. Finally, someone wised up and it is now staying in the "women's" section. Phew.

Still, although I love the scent of roses, I don't love TRPW. Years ago I had an extensive collection of essential oils and among them were several roses...the ones I remember were the "Tea", the "Damask" and the "Musk". It was the first time I realised that there are very different types of roses and that I do not like them all equally. Tea rose is, to me, a little too sharp and penetrating; musk too soft and "musty"...I am a damask rose lover, or the slightly lemony scented rose that you find in David Austen's heritage roses. But if you love tea roses, TRPW is a very good replication of a true tea rose. And as such, I respect it...but I don't love it.

I bought Tea Rose for 2 reasons: 1) I've been so curious about this scent because I've seen it available for years, and 2) I'm a guy who happens to love rose scents. I guess there is a third reason - I've always been intrigued by the very understated packaging. Most floral perfumes have a light and airy presentation, but this looks VERY serious, and almost masculine (perhaps I've subliminally thought this was really a man's perfume?) When the bottle comes out of the box, again, you see a rather stately and handsome creation that would look perfectly in place on any guy's shelf.

The perfume is pure, fresh roses. I'm echoing many other reviews, but I can't stress enough how much this perfume smells brilliantly of roses on the back porch just opening from their buds. But it's more than that - it's a bouquet of roses on a dining room table; wild and single-bloomed roses picked surreptitiously from a garden at night; the lingering scent of a dried rosebud bouquet.

There is a sharpness to the scent that distinguishes itself from deeper rose scents - this isn't about potpourri or exotic Arabian elixirs. Tea Rose is almost green in its brightness.

The silage and longevity of this perfume is enormous - be warned! One spray will make a small room smell amazing for an entire day. I put one spray as a tester on my skin, and indeed it stays for hours and hours. It definitely doesn't work as a men's fragrance (much to floral and feminine), but I will confess I'm looking for something to layer it with that will bring about a hybrid men's concoction.

I think this is a quiet genius of a perfume for rose lovers. Its somewhat soliflore quality also makes it a great candidate for blending, no offense to the purists out there. A blind buy that was completely worth the risk.

I first remember using this perfume when I was about 11yrs old. My mom and I went to J C Penny and I sprayed our jackets down with this rosey perfume. We loved the scent until we got into the car. Oh my did we both get a fragrant headache:)
It lingered for MONTHS not weeks or days and it did not die down at all, everytime we put on those jackets she asked me, and I wondered why on earth did I spray them down like that. Those are fond memories and we laugh about it still after all these years.

Now that I am older and a little less spray happy (who am I kidding?) I oversprayed it resently and my family was opening the door to air out the room because I love to use this as an air freshener, it last like nothing else!
I really like the scent. One spray and you have a very conforting rose perfume that lasts all day. Spray 2 to 3 sprays in a room for a great garden breeze right inside your home, but be warned, over 5 sprays in a room and you will be having to air out your home.
100 rosebushes in every bottle!

I have always written off rose perfumesin the past.I love the smell on others, but always found they didn't suit me well.
Then I smelled this.
This is lush, green, wet and rose. This is not a rose petal scent, but a huge, blooming rose bush in the rain scent. It's amazing. It's incredible.
This is what I had always hoped a rose perfume would smell like.I bought it mostly for wearing, but I have a feeling I will also be using it as a room spray.
120 ml for 20 $ is a steal for such a smell.
Who knows, I might be a rose girl after all !!

One of the truest Tea Rose scents, that I've ever tested; it reminds me of distilled tea rose oil, from a local florist, that my Dad bought my Mom years ago -- I constantly begged for drops of it!

"Tea Rose" has that smooth, golden-oil, vegetal fattiness of real tea roses, but this blend is dewy and the rose is like a mix of sweet tea and boozy jam. Not too dry, not too sweet, the tuberose adds a kick of creaminess that keeps the herbally rose from ever smelling like an empty beer can. This is the perfect tea rose soliflore! A favorite of mine.

This...this...THIS IS GORGEOUS! I am a big fan of rose scents, true rose in particular. I always stick my nose in roses at flower shops (no bee stings on my sniffer yet!) and love the earthiness and purity of their scent. I don't have a lot of experience with fragrances, but feel that this must be close to perfection as far as roses go. I sprayed it on in the parking lot after a blind buy and was pleasantly and overwhelmingly surprised and pleased. As I was driving home with the window half-down, I passed a church that had just had its grass mowed (mown?) and the green-y-ness mingled with the rose and I felt so calm and content. Ahhhh, roses :)

I love single floral scents and Tea Rose is real rose essence. I started wearing this as a replacement for Avons Roses Roses when it was discontinued in the 70's. The price is very inexpensive and the perfume never comes across as cheap smelling like the old fashioned air freshners. I wish Perfumers workshop had made the box a beautiful rose pink and tinted the perfume faintly rose colored...that would have been perfect for this lovely fragrance.

Like everyone else said, this smells like real roses. Imagine yourself walking around with a fresh bouquet of roses and that's probably what you will smell like wearing this. Unfortunately the staying power is not great on my skin, and it turns a little sour after about an hour, which is quite common for me with all florals. Still this is not an old lady's scent and worth a try if you haven't already.

I must admit, this perfume sure amuses me. I made a blind purchasing from Amazon based on all the reviews here, and it's really surprising.
I have a bottle of Paul Smith Rose at home and I thought that was the best rose-alike perfume out there, the sweet, cute and lovely smell of rose petals is fantastic, not at all artificial like BVL Rose Essentielle (I couldn't find any rose note anywhere!), too bad it just doesn't last long on my skin.
Aside from that, Tea Rose really does smell like a bouquet of rose, with green leaves and even stems (I know people said this before). It gives off a very true rose scent, too true that if I have to tell the difference between a real vase full of roses and my wrist, I think I will not be able to.
I still prefer Paul Smith Rose, with its sweet and subtle scent of JUST rose petals, but Tea Rose is absolutely not a bad choice when you really do want to smell like a lovely rose garden in full bloom (including leaves and stems, of course).

The secret to making this smell gorgeous is just one slight spray. That's it. Nothing more. It'll last the whole day and you'll smell like a wonderful happy rose. Not a stale oily rose; but a beautiful fresh lingering rose. Who says roses are for grannies?! I'm 23 and I love this one, it makes me feel happy. That's what a scent should do, it should evoke a positive feeling.

So don't overdo this, it'll smother you and everyone else around you. But use this VERY VERY lightly, and you'll love the compliments you get! Its also great to pair with a sandalwood oil, they're a match made in heaven.

I was looking for a rose fragrance for such a long time, and always ended up with something that had a vague rose scent but wasn't quite what I was looking for. Then I bought this and the search was over. This is nothing but roses and it's beautiful.

I've read almost ALL review for this one and I'm going ahead to buy it blind :)

Some of the reviews were wonderful to read:

Zocha' fond memories of her mother;

Lyndy Hop getting stung by a bee (thanks for sharing this; I'll keep in mind!);

moonruby talking about Nicole Kidman using this at the Oscar's (I Googled this out and there seem to be a couple of pictures too);

rithacha hating this one so much that she's ZipLocked it;

Catbiscuit's and her cat Wilbur who tried to check out the 'human' roses (haha, I love cats - I rescue them and they live in my back yard, I've got 8 of them);

cryptic says the color reminds her of Gatorade (haha);

A guest review was beautiful - she compared to her memories learning ballet (beautiful..);

daniela3 shares her knowledge cultivating roses;

yuwai lives in Hong Kong and says how this fragrance pulls her closer to nature.

Thanks guys! I'll post in a review once I get my bottle.

Sunday Morning-It's Turkish Delight candy, they make it with rose water. I do not get so much of this in Tea Rose though. I have just added review of A Maze people of Labyrinth-now this one really smells of turkish Delight-it is roses, but more gentle, as if distant or not open still) However, as I said before, Tea Rose has grown on me, it is kind of addictive. I have noticed i wanted to reach for it in the evening, when i wanted to feel grounded and in peace.

@Lumiere: well said!

And: there is a type of candy (with flour on) thats made out of rosewater and -THAT- is what it smells like. not real roses, at all,but a "dried old, squashed-rose".

Sadly, I must admit that blind buy failed me this time. I grabbed the last bottle at a local discount chemist for $12-hoping for a miracle, based on appreciation this unknown to me pefume usually receives on forums.

I do not know what is wrong with me this time. I like different notes in perfume, at times even strange notes. I like oakmoss, incense, i like cold white florals, i like male fragrances on myself. But sometimes perfume does not talk to me. I feel like I have put on someone else's clothes, different size and maybe not even washed, more so, even someone else's persona. I feel like an actor who just can't make it to reveal it's personage. It's just not me.

It made me think that maybe I don't like roses. It is so oily, so musky and sweet without sugar. I sprayed on my skin. Nah. On my hair. Too heavy. On my jeans. OMG, big mistake. Rose stem twisted around me, securing with it's prickly thorns, so i could not breethe or move.

I remebered about Diorissimo, and how best of it I felt when i went outside just before the thunderstorm, humidity having called forth it's lush aroma. I thought, maybe it's a similar story, Tea Rose is calling for humid, heavy with mist air.

But no. I can't make friends. I miss coldness. I miss crispiness. I miss mystery and aloofness. Maybe it would have worked 10-15 degrees Celsius below zero? Maybe, it's oily texture would protect me from biting frost?

UPDATE. I must say it has grown on me.
I use it as aromatherapy, and it is addictive. i fear my all house will soon smell of tea roses LOL.:))

tEA rOsE


A pleasant sleeping potion of a fragrance.Stays on decently but sure gives me a headache wen i apply behind my ears...good for layering as it is super strong projection...i'm using this with DKNY Delicious Night and it adds the missing dimension to it!
Quite like the holi colors in India ...Very Rose less Tea!

A fresh, cool, clean, sweet rose. Great silage and longevity. Innocent sweetness. I love it. Just GORGEOUS in the summer, in the heat, and at night for comfort.

Hmm.... there was a 3.4 oz bottle of this at Marshall's for $10, wish I had snagged it up.

Mmmmmmmmm......wow wow wow it smells exactly how I imagined it would, quite an accurate representation of a tea rose. Definitely a summer smell and a reasonable longevity. Reminds me a bit of Lanvin La Rose.

Tea rose to my nose smells very linear, it doesn't change nor develop through time, what you smell is what you get. However, this doesn't mean it's a bad thing, the fragrance does such great job capturing a rose scent. Pretty pretty pretty! Quick caution: The fragrance is strong, apply carefully... enjoy!

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!

Update:

Not as many vintage bottles left as I thought!! Will definitely have to preserve mine ...

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 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 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

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.