Mint Tea
Note Profile
About
Mint Tea is the smell of Maghrebi mint tea: green tea leaf brewed with fresh spearmint and sugar. It is vegetal and grassy first, with a soft green mint lift over it, and a light sweetness the leaf itself does not have.
Scent Profile
Mint Tea smells vegetal and grassy first, the green tea leaf itself. A soft, green mint lift sits over it, herbal rather than icy, closer to spearmint than to a sharp menthol chill. A light sweetness runs through it from the sugar the tea is served with, not from the leaf. A dry, roasty tobacco-leaf edge shows underneath.
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Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
ScentArt
Origin
The drink is green tea, fresh mint leaves, sugar and boiling water. The mint used in the Maghreb is nana spearmint, described as having a clear, pungent, mild aroma. It is not the peppermint chemotype. Moroccan blends are often built on a roasted or gunpowder green tea, which is why vendors describe the base as roasty and charred-vegetal. In the cold season the pot may also carry orange blossom water, marjoram, sage, verbena or wormwood, so the note is a family of related smells rather than one fixed recipe.
Usage in Perfumery
Used as a fresh, non-citrus opening in tea-themed and Middle Eastern-style compositions. It gives the grassy astringency of a green tea accord with a cooling herbal lift, and it does not bring the sweet gourmand weight that milk-tea or iced-tea bring. Perfume houses treat it loosely: Les Princes du Golfe built its own Mint Tea around spiced mint, bergamot, pink pepper, incense, iris and vanilla, which shows the name is a brief, not a specification.
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