Green Tea
Green Tea is one of those scents that sells itself in about four seconds on a tester strip. Bergamot and lemon open it, both used plainly and brightly, with no attempt to disguise what they are. Green tea follows and is the whole point of the thing, slightly bitter and leafy in the way a cup left to steep too long is, and jasmine sits behind it adding just enough softness to round the edges. The surprise is celery seed, which sounds alarming and is in fact what makes the scent interesting: a cool, salty, faintly vegetal thread that keeps the tea from reading as a perfumed candle. Amber, oakmoss and musk finish it off, warm and a touch earthy, holding the brightness down so it does not vanish in twenty minutes.
This is a scent to spray without counting, before work, after the gym, over a jumper in the car. Four or five sprays is normal and still economical. It wears close and clean and is about as inoffensive as perfume gets in a shared office or a treatment room, and it is a reliable present for someone who says they do not really wear fragrance, because almost nobody objects to it. Hot weather is where it shines.
Elizabeth Arden is an American beauty name that began as a salon on Fifth Avenue and grew outward into skincare, cosmetics and fragrance. Blue Grass is the scent that made it, and the modern lineup runs through 5th Avenue, Red Door, White Tea and this one. Unusually for a brand of this age, the perfumes are not licensed to an outside company: Revlon completed its purchase of Arden in September 2016 and makes them itself.
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