Darjeeling Tea

Note Profile

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Darjeeling is the black tea whose defining smell is muscatel: a grape-like, sweet, slightly musky note that no other tea is credited with. It sits over spring-leaf green and a light wildflower floral, with a bright astringent lift that one perfumer reads as champagne. It is lighter and fruitier than Assam or Ceylon.

Scent Profile

Darjeeling Tea smells of muscatel first, a grape-like sweetness that no other tea has. Underneath sits a spring-leaf green and the dry, cured smell of black tea leaf itself. A light wildflower floral runs through the middle, next to a bright, tart astringency some read as champagne. It is lighter and fruitier than other black teas.

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EnvelopeHeart · ~6h lasting

Family Fruity, Green & Aromatic, Amber · Musk · Leather

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Materials That Can Make This Note

Perfumers can build Darjeeling Tea from materials such as:

Linalool citrus · woody · lily
Trans-linalool oxide floral

Smell words come from published sources.

Allergens perfumes with this note can list: Linalool

A given perfume with this note may use some of these, or something else, and may or may not contain the allergens above.

Origin

Camellia sinensis grown in the Himalayan foothills of West Bengal, India. Golden Tips Tea attributes the muscatel character to that high-altitude terroir. The material reaching perfumery is a tea absolute or tincture of the leaf. Wild Veil Perfume builds a single-note perfume from first-flush Darjeeling, the lightly oxidised spring picking.

Usage in Perfumery

A tea note for bright, transparent compositions rather than the smoky or leathery tea accords. The muscatel gives a perfumer a fruit that is not a fruit note, so it can carry sweetness into a green or floral structure without reading as jam.