Green Tea (1999)
by Elizabeth Arden

I think that this smells really nice and fresh, but it just doesn't last. After 30 mins I can't smell a thing, so I can't give it a thumbs-up.

It has lived a good life as a fresh green, tea scent. But any one can admit that time is over and she is died out. Green tea is not a kind of scent that would survive a century, nor any one smelling it first time would find original. now with many similars it is completely worn out.

I'm spoiled by Nandebary Green, which offers superior-smelling ingredients and a more diverse experience which happens to include a green-tea-like segment. If to recommend a simple green tea scent that trumps Elizabeth Arden's, it would be the one by Roger & Gallet--same concept, finer quality, and, I think, in about the same price range as EA's (unlike Nanadebary, which, admittedly, is costly).

If you love clean, crisp green fragrances, this is the one for you. I wouldn't even think twice before recommending a cup of it for those nice summer days, and where I come from, it's summer every day so this perfume suits perfectly.

Green tea (original) Second Take -i already gave a shorter review and this might serve as a companion to that one...
Ok so this one has notes of Lemon, orange, rhubarb, bergamot,peppermint, green tea, jasmine, celery seed, carnation, oakmoss, musk, white amber, caraway and fennel.
First we have to look at what is green tea: it is a real tea (as opposed to any other herbal infusion) that has been processed differently from the “regular” or black tea, thus giving it the green quality. There are many, many types of green teas and most of them have a different smell, most varieties come from china, japan and other areas. I won’t go any further with this.
Now onto the fragrance itself: There weren’t too many fresh, true green tea scents at the time and most of them were either custom-made or discontinued or just plain difficult to find (niche or other), Bvlgari’s was a little too perfumey and it had many other ingredients and it seemed like a clone of other fresh scents that were heavy on the technological aspects and a rather dull tea note, not a bad scent, but it needed work (wich we got in 2000 with its updated formula).
Now, this Green Tea was launched when there was a need, if I may say so,for new things and close to the turn of a century and it would start yet another wide variety of clones and even its own offspring with the later GT formulas.
On this original GT, the top is marked by a good balance of a non-acid variety of lemon and a lightly sweet orange, with a blast of peppermint that combined, create a soothing and instantly calming sensation, the rhubarb is almost non existent as far as I’m concerned.
The green tea used here seems and reminds me more of the Matcha green tea used in the Tea ceremony in Japan , now the Matcha tea is of very high quality but this one falls a bit flat in comparison so that’s why I’m saying it reminds me of it ,but it never gets there, the thing is, it’s a very nice tea note, it’s at the same time delicate and it will remain with you until the end of the drydown. The jasmine and the carnation give it a more feminine touch (that up until that moment was a bit unisex) and it becomes more interesting, like a mix of seasons, first you get the fall then the summer, so the flowers give the whole composition a flash of light. There seems to be oakmoss there, but I can’t be sure if it’s the real thing or a really good chemical imitation of it, in any case, the white musk and the fennel are the notes that really stand out on the basenotes, and this fennel smells more like a fennel seed and the green part of it than the strongly scented bulb, and I like it that way.

Very fresh, very green, very youthful, problem is it only lasts as long as your finger is on the atomiser. I really think EA are taking people for fools expecting them to pay good money for a whiff of a scent. Forget talking about notes and drydown, it is not around long enough to make a comment.