Ginseng Tea
Note Profile
About
Ginseng tea is the brewed root and stem, not the leaf. It smells earthy, as plain ginseng does, with a bitter forest-soil depth under it. Brewing thins the root and adds a dried-leaf tannin on top.
Scent Profile
Ginseng Tea smells earthy first, a musty forest-soil depth like the root itself but thinner. Brewing adds a dried, hay-like tannin on top. A pepper-woody warmth runs underneath, herbal and slightly bitter. A green, faintly sweet freshness rounds it out, lighter than the raw root.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
ScentArt
Origin
A hot water infusion. Premiere Peau's glossary describes that root as 'Earthy, slightly bitter, faintly sweet, with a musty forest-soil depth... A distant pepper-woody warmth (from sesquiterpenes) sits underneath.' Paper & Tea describes the brew itself but only by taste: 'slightly sweet at first, followed by a pleasantly bitter finish.'
Usage in Perfumery
Measured 2026-08-30: 2 Parfumo placements across 2 brands, and none on Fragrantica. Use it for a quiet, medicinal, East Asian tea accord where plain ginseng would sit too heavy and too rooty. It pairs with green tea, iris and camphor, which is the company Premiere Peau puts plain ginseng in. Caeleste Principalities is the one fragrance found that reads this way, and it lists Ginseng and Black Tea as two separate notes rather than one.
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