Korres
Korres
137 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Bergamot and neroli burst through with immediate citrus clarity, undercut by cyclamen's peculiar peppery-green bite that strips away any breakfast-time sweetness. Mandarin adds a whisper of brightness without assertiveness, and within moments you're immersed in what reads as cool, almost sharp florality—nothing comforting, purely luminous.
The white tea accord emerges as the florals finally cohere, with peony and freesia creating a softly spiced bed for jasmine's indolic whisper. Violet leaf (rather than violet flower) settles across everything like a fine powder, and the musk base begins its quiet work, anchoring what might otherwise float away. The composition becomes increasingly skin-like, less perfume, more olfactory extension of yourself.
Musk and cedarwood form a pale, woody-soft foundation whilst moss adds a faint green-grey texture to the lingering trace of violet and tea. What remains is barely there—a ghost of freesia, the faintest jasmine sweetness—as if the fragrance is whispering its goodbye rather than announcing its departure. Skin scent territory, intimate and enduring.
Korres White Tea occupies that rare middle ground between skincare minimalism and fragrance indulgence—it reads less like a traditional perfume and more like a scented second skin, the olfactory equivalent of a linen shirt that's been worn so often it's become inseparable from your body chemistry.
The composition leans heavily into the powdery-fresh axis, a tightrope walk between citrus brightness and floralcy that never quite tips into sweetness. Bergamot and neroli arrive with the expected morning-shower vitality, but they're immediately tempered by cyclamen's peppery, slightly metallic green character—there's no honeyed warmth here, just clean, almost austere luminosity. This is where mandarin orange attempts to inject some juiciness, yet the formula keeps it subdued, refusing the candy-coated cheerfulness you'd find in lesser citrus fragrances.
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