Elizabeth Arden
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Yuzu and plum burst forth with bright, almost lip-smacking citrus-stone fruit immediacy, the cherry blossom adding a subtle almond-skin texture before the composition suddenly pivots toward transparency. Within moments, the brightness begins its descent into something far quieter and more introspective.
The tea emerges with its pale, vegetal sweetness whilst osmanthus unfolds with honeyed peachy tones, creating an almost creamy floral blanket. Lily enters peripherally, keeping the composition fresh and preventing any cloying development as the fruity notes fade entirely into the background.
What remains is primarily musk and birch—a gentle, almost skin-like woody-floral whisper that evokes the faint scent of linens dried in spring breeze. The fragrance becomes nearly imperceptible, living entirely in the olfactory periphery, asking to be rediscovered rather than observed.
Green Tea Lotus is a fragrance that understands restraint—a whispered conversation rather than a proclamation. Rodrigo Flores-Roux has crafted something deliberately gentle, where the yuzu and plum top notes arrive with a delicate stone-fruit sweetness before immediately surrendering to the heart's aqueous green tea. This is where the composition reveals its true intent: the tea note doesn't perform as a bracing, tannic force but rather as a pale, almost transparent backdrop, allowing the lotus and osmanthus to drift forward with soft, honeyed floral characteristics. The osmanthus particularly lends an apricot-tinged sweetness that prevents the composition from becoming austere.
What makes this fragrance compelling is its refusal to linger. This is a scent for someone who values subtlety over projection—the type of wearer who considers fragrance an intimate second skin rather than an announcement of arrival. It's distinctly unisex precisely because it carries no aggressive masculinity or saccharine femininity; instead, it occupies a serene middle ground. The birch in the base provides a whisper of woody structure without weight, while the musk acts as a skin scent anchoring the greener elements.
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