Green tea absolute

[Pinkster]

Hello all! Hoping you all can help me with a tricky perfume problem I've stumbled into.

I grabbed some green tea absolute in White Lotus Aromatics' recent sale and I've absolutely fallen in love with it. I'd love to create a blend that showcases its musty, grassy smell, but unfortunately it's a very delicate scent and I'm having trouble blending something where the green tea really shines through.

I know green tea is usually used as a modifier rather than a central note, so this might be difficult. Does anyone have any suggestions for what I can add to my blend to support and bolster the green tea scent, rather than eclipse it? I've found that cypriol has a complementary earthy smell, but it seems to overwhelm the delicate grassy notes of the tea.

I'm a pretty rank beginner so I don't have a vast organ of ingredients, but I'm always willing to learn (and buy more aromachemicals... ) Thanks in advance for your help!

 

[Bill Roberts]

I don't know what materials but can suggest a method I think helpful which does not use up any materials at all:

Hold your bottle of green tea absolute where it has a medium odor strength to you.

Try other opened bottles, opening at full arms length and slowly bringing closer. You will find many materials impair your enjoyment of the green tea, others seem like they might or might not be useful, while others impress you with how they complement the green tea or even wow you.

This is a Rodney Dangerfield "No Respect" way of perfuming, or would be if you let out the secret you did it this way -- letting the materials tell you what they want to do rather than coming up with a grand fully-formed vision oneself -- but it suits me when I have no need to meet any particular preconception and I want to work with a material new to me.

Of course having found a lot of materials that work well with the green tea when it's just the two of them, this can then advance to bigger combinations still without yet having to consume any material. Very important in this case, as there will be no more WLA material. (I do hope that as need may arise you can find other material that works equally well for you but that kind of thing can be uncertain.)

 

[Pinkster]

Thanks Bill, that's really helpful! I definitely needed a method to experiment with this absolute without using any up--I only grabbed a small bottle, and as far as I know WLA was the only reputable place to find this material.

 

[pkiler]

Yes, you can very easily run green tea absolute over...
You can use my Black tea base as part of reinforcements,
But the particular green tea different topnote from black tea will be hard for you to try to amp.
I think you can best hope to extend the odor type with gentility.

I think of Lyral, for instance. but you can use other LOTV / muguet types...

 

[Pinkster]

Thank you so much for the suggestions! Your black tea base sounds like the perfect starting point--I want to add some jasmine to the green tea, but the tea absolute just can't stand up to even the lightest jasmine. Hopefully a bit of black tea in there will help, thanks again!

 

[Mak-7]

I am currently experimenting with mate, not sure if it will be same as your note.
My train of thoughts is : mate as main, hedione as support, and then in micro doses to get an interesting core with sandalwood, black tea, violet leaf, pear note i have from robertet, and i wish i had narcissus as apparently it has a hay note.

Maybe a little ambergris if it will be too vegetal. I finally found out an amazing smoothing power of ambergris on the tobacco blend i attempted, and it wonderfully tamed that tobacco.

Hope this helps.

 

[Sam Macer]

I don't know what materials but can suggest a method I think helpful which does not use up any materials at all:

Hold your bottle of green tea absolute where it has a medium odor strength to you.

Try other opened bottles, opening at full arms length and slowly bringing closer. You will find many materials impair your enjoyment of the green tea, others seem like they might or might not be useful, while others impress you with how they complement the green tea or even wow you.

This is a Rodney Dangerfield "No Respect" way of perfuming, or would be if you let out the secret you did it this way -- letting the materials tell you what they want to do rather than coming up with a grand fully-formed vision oneself -- but it suits me when I have no need to meet any particular preconception and I want to work with a material new to me.

Of course having found a lot of materials that work well with the green tea when it's just the two of them, this can then advance to bigger combinations still without yet having to consume any material. Very important in this case, as there will be no more WLA material. (I do hope that as need may arise you can find other material that works equally well for you but that kind of thing can be uncertain.)

I would recommend this method. The only thing I might add is that personally I would use scent scrips and different dilutions to do this instead of the open bottles. I don't have any experience with green tea unfortunately so I wouldn't want to guess what might work best.