Black Tea
Black Tea is a tannic tea note with dark leaves, warm infusion, and refined aromatic depth.
Aromatic
About Black Tea
Black Tea is a tea note inspired by dark leaves and a brewed black-tea infusion. Compared with green tea, it emphasizes fermentation, tannin, warm steam, and a dry brown aromatic character.
Scent Profile
The profile is tannic, calm, leafy, and gently warm, sometimes with smoky, honeyed, or dried-fruit nuances. It is deeper than a transparent tea accord and less bitter than coffee, giving a fragrance a composed and intelligent atmosphere.
Use in Perfumery
Black Tea works in the heart with bergamot, rose, jasmine, spices, musks, woods, milk accords, and soft amber. It can make sweetness feel more restrained and give florals a more adult shadow.
Did You Know?
Its restraint makes it useful when a perfume needs depth without heaviness, especially in compositions that want transparency, calm, and a softly intellectual mood. It can also temper sweetness in florals and musks. Tea notes often evoke more than leaves. Steam, porcelain, tannin, and the pause around drinking tea all become part of the scent memory, which is why black tea can create such a quiet sense of space.
Perfumes with this note
10 WATER
Givenchy Désobéissant Eau de Parfum
Molecule 01 + Black Tea
Oolang Monochrome
Black Opium Eau de Parfum Over Red
Sellier
Milk Tea Blend
Phantasma
L'Enfant Terrible
Gris Charnel Extrait
Eau de Cèdre Eau de Toilette
Pu'er Tea
Black Karak
Gris Charnel Eau de Parfum
White Darjeeling
20 Curiosity at Immigration
05 Back on the Diagonal
Éclat d'Arpège White Tea
Osmanthus Absolu
Caravana
Eau de Citron Noir
Imagination
Fig Infusion
L'Heure Vagabonde
Sì Intense Eau de Parfum
Play Black
Velvet Infusion Eau de Parfum
L'Ombre des Merveilles
Gelsomino a Freddo Ambrosia
Gelsomino a Freddo
Bois Datchaï
Gaiac Eternel
Philtre d'Été
Tapageur
The Time
Philtre Ceylan
G.A.
Thé Yulong
Villa Nellcôte
Mesmerising Oudh Accord & Gold
Feuille de Thé
Elsewhere