Elizabeth Arden
Elizabeth Arden
104 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The bergamot and tangerine burst with citrus brightness, immediately tempered by green tea's verdant, slightly astringent bite—like biting into the rind of a fresh Meyer lemon. Almond softens the edges, creating an unexpectedly creamy top that's both refreshing and faintly gourmand.
Cherry blossom and apricot emerge with gentle insistence, the stone fruits lending a warm, slightly jammy quality that sits atop the lingering moss-tinged base. The peony arrives quietly, never overstating itself, whilst plum adds depth without richness, creating a fruity-floral balance that feels almost edible.
Heliotrope, musk and white lily settle into a hushed, intimate finish—the almond thread reappears, softened now, wrapping around pale woody notes of silver birch. What remains is barely a whisper, more a subtle aura than a persistent fragrance, pleasant but decidedly ephemeral.
Elizabeth Arden's Green Tea Cherry Blossom occupies an intriguing middle ground between skincare fragrance and genuine perfumery—a scent that feels more like a refreshed complexion than a traditional composition. Rodrigo Flores-Roux has constructed something deliberately luminous here, where the interplay between green tea's grassy astringency and the Meyer lemon's candied citrus creates an almost sparkling effect on the skin. This isn't delicate floristry; instead, the cherry blossom and Chinese peony arrive with a quietly insistent fruitiness—the apricot and plum notes lending a stone-fruit warmth that prevents the composition from becoming merely herbaceous.
The fragrance speaks to those who seek subtlety without vapidity. It's the scent of someone who appreciates the ritualistic aspects of grooming, who understands that bergamot and almond can create a creamy, almost gourmand softness when paired thoughtfully. The base reveals Flores-Roux's restraint: moss and silver birch provide an earthy backbone rather than projection, whilst the heliotrope adds a whisper of almond-like sweetness that echoes the top notes, creating an oddly circular composition that feels coherent rather than scattered.
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