Tea for Two L'Artisan Parfumeur for women and men

Applies extra warm/sexy Gucci Pour Homme II with smoky lapsang souchong.

Rich with spice from dry cinnamon/gingerbread adds complicated edge. Nuanced honey and vanilla creates a sexy sweet tobacco vibe countered by tangy/metallic burnt sandalwood.

Gucci Homme II is bigger and more in your face blue, while this is spicy and sexy with a smoky manly edgy.

I randomly chose this for a recent decant splurge and I am soooo glad I did. It's got a nice amount of tea in the opening but dries down to a sophisticated gingerbread biscuit. Just exquisite and now in search for a bottle!

A Delicious,Comforting and Top Quality perfume.
I could wear it every day,and all year round.
So sad it's getting harder to find..
Nothing Compares.

Been wearing this in past 2 weeks now , love this scent, I smell something new at each wear. This proves that this perfume uses more than one fragrance oil

Tea for 2 starts of with notes of candle burnings, strong tea leaves, earthy, warm, spicy. later on the notes are still the tea leaves, candle burning, warm
7.5/10 (interesting, wouldn't wear)

It actually smells like a real tea leaf (dried one) with a freshness from bergamot and beautiful mix of soft (yet refreshing) spices. It’s not too sour or too green (as some other tea based fragrances). Perfect balance!

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I have smelled this on a test strip. The opening was strong and pungent and reminded me of barbecue sauce and beef jerky. Not something I would want to smell like. The only fragrance I have tried in the “reminds me of” section is Tobacco Vanille. I would say Tobacco Vanille is softer and sweeter. I disagree that the two smell similar.

I have a review on Gucci Pour Homme 2 basically saying how good this one is lol & not much else..I own Both in they are almost the same but this is niche quality where the other is more designer quality if you’re really trying hard to pick them apart…This is the most comforting scent! It smells like actual black tea bags and reminds me of the soft golden foil with some of the tobacco out of the cigarettes at the bottom of the pack of ciggerettes…No note breakdown I’m not that good. I can just say what the fragrance makes me think of…One of my 1st niche purchases & only wear it on special occasions. I need to buy another so I can just wear it all the time

It's truly amazing how a blend of vanillan, clove, guaiac wood, ginger, orange, cinnamon, and coumarin can mimic the smell of chai, or even black tea, with milk. No dihydroactinidiolide or other natural or artificial tea aroma chemical is needed. I'd love to know what the smoke accord is based around.

This one is gorgeous. It opens spicy, aromatic, with a bite from the star anise. It’s more lactonic than Serge Lutens’ 5 o’clock, calmer, more comforting. Nothing like Jo Malone Ginger Biscuit- that one is very sweet to my nose.
Lasts about 4-6 hours on my skin.

I thought I would love this, but it's too smoky for me. I absolutely love Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille, so tobacco note is not a problem for me. The tobacco here however is dry and old. It doesn't smell anything like tea. It's a mixture of old tobacco and old, dusty books.

An Absolutely GORGEOUS perfume. When I wear this,my imagination takes me to a High Class Cafe, somewhere in London,in the 1950's, when fashions were a lot more elegant than today.
Exquisite!!!

Opens up beautifully with a bitter and heavy tobacco note accompanied by citrus, reminding me a bit of an oversteeped earl grey tea. The longevity and sillage are quite disappointing though (lasts around 4hrs). It's a scent thats classified as being warm based on the notes, yet it has this cold and empty quality to it, like something is missing in the drydown. It also smells a bit like chlorinated water. Odd.

Spicy cinnamon chai tea with infused with warm tobacco honey. Not too heavy but definitely has a presence, perfect for autumn & winter.
No more than arms length projection, you can definitely apply more than your usual without overwhelming anyone.

Disappointed. According to the notes listed, it should be a great spicy-smoky-aromatic tea fragrance, but upon the first spray, I smelled only a ghost of a fragrance Tea for Two could be. It smells like a diluted sweetened black tea with dried fruits (dried plum) that you left on the table for a few hours. Tobacco is weak and honey is off-putting here. The fragrance also has this prominent soapiness which I get from most of the L'Artisan perfumes and which is supposedly the DNA of the brand.
I prefer Indigo Smoke from Arquiste.

Personal rating: 2/13

Sweet tea but not iced and with spices, maybe nutmeg, maybe coriander. Also, a background of woods.

Good but doesn't last very long.

This perfume condenses my favourite notes in a magic, mysterious concoction which lasts all day and is never boring. Fresh, smokey, spicy but not heavy.
My best layering combination: Tea for Two on skin, and Vaniglia e zenzero by L'Erbolario on clothes. Spicy Tea gourmand heaven ❤️

Ugh, I ordered two of these from the website when I heard it would be discontinued, have been waiting patiently and just learned my order was lost, and now it’s unavailable in the US. 🥺
If anyone could help me get a 100 ml I would be ever so grateful!
Oh and for the review- I have so many teas but was struck by this darker spicier smoky creation that is sweeter than I usually go for. I think I washed it off the first time, but came across it again and just past the initial tobacco blast the ginger and tannins settled in and completely intrigued me.
It is not wonderful or anything and you definitely don’t need a bottle, so you might as well sell it to me. I have terrible taste and love to stink so would be happy to take it off your hands. ❤️

I love Tea for Two and hope that it will be added back to the line up at L’Artisan (along with Dzing!) and in their older formulations.

I don’t get gourmand from this, which is good since I don’t generally enjoy gourmands - it opens smoky on me, occasionally to the point of cigarette butts, but not quite.

As the smoke recedes I get spices over tea, in a way that is reminiscent of a Thai tea over a chai. There’s no milky note in this, on me. I get a little leather and vanilla as it goes on, occasional whiffs of smoked tobacco.

I have the new bottle, rather than the old version with the gold cap - and I don’t find it particularly long lasting. I am usually a spritz on each wrist and one on my chest, kind of sprayer, but I have to lay it on with this. It may just be my skin chemistry changing but I remember smelling this years ago and finding it stronger.

Not experienced enough to break down notes but this for me was a beautiful gourmond and I plan on buying more. Wore it on the bus and it filled the bus. One rider coughed twice which to me said too much and great sillage. Delicious but not for everyone. Not a blind buy especially if gourmonds aren't your cup of tea.

What a craftwork. Black or Mumbai Tea, cinnamon, tobacco…ginger bread cookies. Good stuff. Sophisticated and off beat.

An avant-garde fragrance. Bohemian, rich and refined. All purpose. Non-specific. Non-binary. Unisex. Gourmand. For the artist in all of us.

Doesn’t linger. Very pronounced, never deteriorates into a lotion or skin scent like so many fragrances. Tea for Two dissipates into the air like dew. Good longevity, projection and sillage. Master perfumery.

Lovely. The first time I smelled this I was reminded of staining paper with tea as a child. An antique smell of newspapers and strong black tea that has sat around for a few days. The second time round is an entirely different, and much better, experience. I still get the black tea base but with a nice synergy of ginger, cardamom, and loose tobacco. There's a very slight (and pleasant) leather note. I wouldn't describe this as a gourmand, but rather a spicy frag.

Mới xịt ra sẽ là mùi cay rất nồng, giống y như mùi lá trầu không vậy, sau 15p vị cay mất dần,còn lại là mùi ngọt nhẹ của mật ong, chút khói và mùi lá trà.
Mùi hương rất hay ho và không đụng hàng,rất thanh lịch,tuy nhiên độ lưu hương và tỏa hương kém

the store on rue st honore has one bottle left before this gets discontinued. someone is selling it for 50GBP on vinted though in the UK. i'm very tempted so someone please buy it so save my wallet

Just to let you know, this will be discontinued in some weeks. Such a shame.
If you can get a bottle while you can, go grab it…

Chai Tea, Ginger Bread and Cigar sounds so simple, but smell so good. Warm, in offensive sweet Gourmand. Very easy to use. Really love this.

I have the original formulation, which I love. It's my go to everyday scent most of the year when temperatures are cooler - a pleasant wave of tea, tobacco, and just a hint of spices. It's not overpowering, and wears beautifully on my skin.

Not my cup of tea. It is nice- for sure but nothing I want. A light tea and tobacco to begin with and then a pleasant skin scent. My sample was NOT strong at all. I used the entire sample in one wearing. Pleasant enough if this is what you are looking for but I like my scents bolder.

This is strong ! And super spicy. And dry.
I wouldn't call this a "gourmand" by any means!

Tea for two has a strong black tea note (no sugar, no milk!) with a bunch of spices: cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, cumin, anise.
And a lot of smoke. A dry tobacco leave.
It's not an easy frag, indeed i could find few occasions where it could be appropriate.

Conjures images of wooden paneled libraries, old gentlemen smoking pipes and sipping black tea.
Nice tea but... just not my cup of tea!

Very good projection and longevity, to be worn in cold seasons in a proper setting (dressed up!).
Not office friendly, way too much spicy, better targeted to distinguished gentlemen.

Totally reformulated. I loved every Artisan Parfumeur perfume but, due to the fact that they reformulated all of that perfumes I used to love, I'll never buy any of them anymore even it was the last Maison on earth. Such a pity 😭

Very dry smokey tobacco.
One spray of this with Burberry London men makes for a better crowd/wife pleaser as it sweetens it up.

A very pleasant tea gourmand fragrance. The tea note is definitely present, but not aggressively green, more so a slightly smokey black tea. The main accord I get is however that spiced biscuit/cookie accord, a good amount of a vanilla and a rich sweet undercurrent, loads of cinnamon in the mix, not much ginger to my nose, and some coumarin in the base for the tonak/tobacco feel.

To my nose this feels like the feminine counterpart to SL Five O'Clock au Gingembre. Where the Lutens is greener more aromatic and based around a more masculine fougere structure, Tea for Two is gentle, unisex and forgiving sweet.

Perfect. Huge musc ravageur vibes. Better sillage. Don’t sleep on this one. Easily Interchangeable with tobacco vanille and musc ravageur. So so good.

Na pasku nie była ciekawa ta herbatka ale na skórze ta historia brzmi tak.....

A tymczasem w kawiarni L'Artisan podchodzi do mnie kelner i pyta o dodatki do dzisiejszej herbaty dnia:
Anyż, cynamon?
Owszem, ale bez przesady.
Imbir?
Tak, poproszę.
Odrobinę aromatu bergamotki?
Do herbaty, zawsze.
Słodzi Pani?
Miodem.
Może pierniczka do herbaty?
Nie dziękuję.
Ooo.... tak szybko zamykacie?
Trudno, będę was wspominać.
Oto cała historia. Bez dymu, bez skóry, bez tytoniu. Herbatka szybko wypita, ale posmak cały czas w ustach pozostaje.

My first tea fragrance! Tea for Two opens with black tea, green tea, and star anise, but the anise soon fades. I'm a fool for cinnamon so its spiciness, freshened with ginger and stirred with honey in the tobacco heart of this unisex brew, carries the day. Late in the dry-down I barely detect the advertised gingerbread note. Soft and cozy, this eau de toilette's lightness would make it apropos for all four seasons. A weak tea that leaves me wanting a stronger cup.✿

Longevity on me: moderate
Scent family: Aromatic Spicy

The most realistic chai tea (sans milk) scent I have ever got my hands on. Very nice. Mellows out quickly but maintains that realistic tea smell. Love this so much.

WoodWick's Sand and Driftwood candle or wax melt in a bottle.
I like it, but it's more of a home scent.

This is the best cozy Christmas spice scent out there. Firewood, ginger cookies and cinnamon mulled wine. Everything is balanced perfectly and so soft, done leagues better than the sharp and caustic Five O'Clock Au Gingembre. This is instead aromatic, almost like potpourri without the rose. Very slightly sweet, mostly sour (citric) and spicy. Many spicy scents are too dense, or trying very hard to be "exotic" eastern, so I really appreciate this one for being cozy, mellow, and close to the skin. Doesn't last long, maybe 2 hours, but I prefer it over something that's strong and possibly overwhelming.

The first spray was so peppery that I had to sneeze. When it settles it reminds me a really lot of YSL NU I used to have. Somewhere there was a moment when this just smelled like bad breath. Luckily this moment passed and it settled into spicy chai latte like edible smelling scent. How ever this isn't for me. I much prefer Kenzo Jungle L'elephant for spicy scent.

I received this carded sample vial from a friend, and it's definitely not what I expected!

It's almost like a chai-spiced lapsong souchong. The "leather" note is really prominent to me, and not in a good way. It's not sweet, to my taste.

I doubt I will finish my sample.

This is less tea and more tea + spicy tobacco smoke. It's nice, pleasant even. Overrated to me, though. I do prefer GPH2 as far as tea goes. Recommend.

I love this! It smells exactly how cinnamon raison bagel chips taste. As weird as that sounds, it smells delicious. Like a nice Chai Tea with your bagel. It's very warm and fall/winter like. I definitely will get a full bottle of this

One of Artisan's best. It's sweet but not weird like Dzing! The dry tea notes are some of the best - somewhat like Chai.

It’s smoky, yes. But that smokiness does fade away in a matter of minutes (unfortunately maybe). This is what I thought By the Fireplace would smell like, given the name, but it’s barely smoky. I actually layer them because they smell pretty much the same, (dry down is virtually the same) but Tea for Two gives that extra smokiness (like when you smell toasted mate leaves for exemple)

Gudam Garam cigarettes, as mentioned below… yes! I hadn’t thought of that.

So, don’t be overwhelmed by the initial smokiness because it will fade a lot. The scent is very cozy and warm, in fact like a nice sweetened tea. If you like By the Fireplace but wish it was smokier, you definitely need Tea For Two. Love it !

i didnt like this. i expected a spicy black tea with some sweetness, but this smells like smoke. the tobacco, tea & star anise combine to make a overwhelming smokiness. it is similar to jovoy remember me, but i liked that more.

For me straight up: Gudang garam cigarettes

Photorealistic Lady Grey tea with honey, incense and cinnamon. Imagine there still being some leftover tea in your cup, leaves still in, and putting your nose into it. You can smell some of the bitterness that has developed by leaving the leaves in for too long. It would be easy to make this scent into something powdery and sell it as a women's perfume, but this is not powdery. It's fresh and has more life to it.

An older L’artisan—22 years old to be exact—that I’ve never had a chance to sample until today. And I’m wondering what took me so long. This is a wonderful spice shop scent; sweetened tea, cinnamon and fresh ginger notes, among others.

It’s a rather cold spring in the Pacific Northwest, and Tea For Two is fitting in nicely. It’s warm, natural and somehow fresh.

I have not read any of the reviews below, and I’m sure everything has already been said about this beauty. Wow, I can’t get over that this came out in 2000, and there’s not a hint of being dated. That means it was ahead of its time.

I get the comparisons to Spice Bomb -- it actually initially feels like a (more basic -- not in a bad way) cousin of Jovoy Remember Me. If Remember Me is the one dancing on a table, Tea for Two is documenting it on the side. I smell ginger, tea, and tobacco most. I will say, though I find it very pleasant, it's not leaving a lasting impression. I had to smell this blotter several times before I had words to say about it, just because I had such a neutral reaction.

Spices and tobacco come off strong in the beginning. It's not peppery, and there is not much ginger. They fade away into lapsang souchong tea (not the drink but the tin of loose leaves itself) with a drop of lemon. The anise is noticeable but weak, but compliments the smoky green notes with a touch of dark sweetness.

This is not a tea party in the flower fields on a sunny day, this is dark.

Does not last long.

Just received a 2ml sample of this along with my big purchase …Poivre Picante (haven’t fully experienced that one enough for an opinion but im excited! I also love noir exquis) at first spray all I could smell with Tea for Two was Lapsang Souchong which is among my favorite black teas! Id describe it as bonfire tea, like drinking literal burning twigs and leaves…Smoky to say the least, but also lovely and earthy…that lasts about 5 min and then tea for two turns soapy for me and then after reading all the ginger bread notes and hobby lobby in other reviews…Im definitely getting that after about 20 min…it’s got that holiday candle your grandma is burning in the house in late autumn vibe..it’s warm and memory triggering and I like it! It’s definitely got a unisex vibe. But in a way that’s like I picture an older gentleman wearing it but also I picture my grandmothers house smelling like this and there’s something feminine and comforting about it. I do wish the initial lapsang souchong tea smell lasted throughout as it developed but I can’t detect it after about an hour. Hmmm not sure if id purchase a full size of this AND it’s discontinued but I might sample at a different time of the year and change my mind ugh that’s what’s awful about discontinued stuff, im tempted to buy it NOW. Where im at it’s late spring, first nice day after rain and gloom for weeks it seems like…but now it’s 65 degrees and it feels like the wrong time for this perfume.

EDIT: OK just sampled Byredo Slow Dance and OMG this is what I wish tea for two was. It gives me the smoky lapsang note mmmmm

Spicy, peppery chai tea being drank in a room filled with tobacco smoke. I don't get any anise, which I am a bit disappointed in because I love that black licorice scent, but it's still got a sultry sweetness to it. And, even with all of the strong, heavy notes, Tea for Two manages to still be delicate. This is such a cozy, warm scent, calming and mysterious and absolutely gorgeous.

L’artisan Parfumeur Tea for Two (2000) - masala chai - if I had a signature Tea perfume, it would be this delicious #oliviagiacobetti creation. Black tea mixed with ginger, black pepper, cardamom, Cinnamon and sweetened by #honey . My wife, who’s half-indian taught me this exact same recipe - the smell reminds me of that. Thankfully it’s not dense, but beautifully crafted - like smelling the warm aroma from the cup. Comforting.

Ginger Cinnamon Honey Sweet Tea. Very tasty and lovely, classified from leather and tobacco, I think this is more of a black tea, a spice tea with a wood element black tea base. A smoked tea. The taste smells very real, I don't know which kind of real tea this is close to in life.
But it should have vetiver to enhance the texture, Tea for two is warm and sweet, the liquid feels thick and golden. Stir it with a spoon, it's so fragrant and sweet... To nourish the throat, it must be served with snacks and drink slowly.

I was sent a sample of this, I had to write a review just because of this comment: "an 8 hour shift at hobby lobby"
This is so funny because it does smell almost like walking into a large chain hobby store.
That being said it's still very nice.

Opening is a very intense, very strong, realistic cup of black tea, then it gets warm spicy, then the tobacco vanille comes through. Wish the tea lasted longer , but maybe that could be obnoxious. As it dries it's Christmas spicy cinnamon and heavy handed ginger, and almost smells like a candle. It follows up with the tobacco vanille profile dominating.

Nice fragrance.

A milky tonka subsides into a soothing and smoky Russian caravan tea. Then comes the star, a rich, dark and dry tobacco. Perfection. A quintessentially Parisian tea time between two non-chalant intellectuals. The tea and tobacco play beautifully together and both are equally addictive. This creates such a wonderful characterisation, the type of cool, mature bookworm with dishevelled espresso hair and wearing a dark grey tweed jacket and brown Oxford shoes and a bottle green silk scarf…..the dark academic aesthetic and so so charming and fascinating to talk to. They are more artsy than scientific but in a non-pretentious and authentic way. They are even discrete about their penchant for romantic literature. It’s the tea accord, it’s so relaxed. This person has nothing to prove, they have mastered life.

Notes for self: spicy tea, smells kinda nice but makes me nauseous

An eight hour shift at Hobby Lobby.

A nice fragrance with strong enough projection for my friend to say: "something here smells like Christmas cookies!" while walking in the woods during my Christmas vacation. I do not think she meant it in an exclusively positive way, but it makes sense looking at the gingerbread note. I do not get a distinct tea note, maybe more of a lapsang souchong. The smokiness makes me cough. But I still really like it, and I find it very cozy and wearable.

Tea For Two is very simply spicy, smoky, ever-so-slightly-sweet heaven.

I have a great deal of personal affection for this fragrance, as it was one of the first niche fragrances I ever tried, way back when I was just a newbie on my fragrance journey. I read somewhere that Tea For Two was very similar to Gucci’s Gucci Pour Homme II, a scent that I owned and loved back in my university days before I was into the whole perfume thing.

I discovered that Gucci Pour Homme II and Tea For Two are not all that similar. But I also discovered one of my first fragrance loves.

When I got my sample of Tea For Two, I was pretty challenged by it at first. The opening of the fragrance is extremely spicy and even somewhat sharp, and I still think it’s like that today.

The note of star anise, just as polarizing a smell as it is a polarizing taste, is very much present. The star anise, combined with all the other spices, tobacco, and the smoky, almost gunpowder-like lapsang souchong tea note, were a bit of a shock to my system.

About twenty minutes into a wearing of the fragrance, though, magic starts to happen. The smokiness and sharpness begin to subside, and Tea For Two becomes a lot more mellow. The vanilla and honey serve to soften the rough, harsh edges, taking some of the astringency out of the mix and making the experience a whole lot cozier. The spices and smoke never fully go away, but their frequencies lower and blend seamlessly with the other elements of the fragrance.

This really does smell like opening up a box or a tin of holiday spice tea bags, almost bang on. You can imagine this sort of smell wafting through the air as your tea is brewing in a thick, snowman-shaped mug (though the tea-brewing smell is not as authentically captured here as it is in Masque Milano’s Russian Tea), a plate of gingerbread cookies off to one side. However, by no means does this smell like a candle or holiday room spray.

The blending, like in all L’Artisan fragrances in my experience, is superb. If you look at the note list, you might imagine that Tea For Two is a dense, heavy sort of fragrance that might quickly become overbearing, but it’s really not that at all.

There is a light touch, a transparency here that reminds me of Ambre Narguilé from Hermès. That fragrance similarly features a lot of heavy notes like tobacco, cinnamon, incense, and dried fruits, but somehow manages to be airy and effortless at the same time. Tea For Two might open with a spicy, smoky fullisade, but the overall wearing experience is quite comfy and unobtrusive.

In short, Tea For Two is a spicy tea lover’s dream. If you are at all a fan of chai, lapsang souchong, rooibos, or any kind of spiced tea, you need to get your mitts on this one right here.

Performance is perfect, just what it should be: long-lasting with intimate projection and sillage. It's a beautiful, cozy experience for yourself and for anyone who comes into close proximity, but it's not loud at all.

For me, personally, it's a 10/10

The notes and description sound amazing - like we were meant to be! But I was cursed and this smells like burning rubber on my skin, unfortunately. I think it’s a me problem, more than the scent since it smelled fine before it met my skin

This scent is truly unique. I had to let it rest after it was delivered because all I could smell at first was the smokiness. After a couple of days, I could appreciate the spices, esp the anise. I sometimes find anise really overwhelming but it was very nicely balanced in this fragrance. It does smell very spicy and dry, like entering a store selling lots of tea and spices. The tea here is black and very deep and as others already said, smells like Lapsang Souchong tea. It's smoky and very distinct. Longevity is not the best, around 4-5 hours only on me. I think this scent is best worn during cold weather.

very sweet, too sweet for my liking but if you like honey scents you would love this but personally not my thing

I loved the initial cozy, sweet blast, but it immediately settled into a distinct medicinal camphor note that I found very unpleasant

I am reminded of a malty, sweet, smoky cup of Russian Caravan with a dollop of honey when wearing Tea for Two. Russian Caravan is is a blend of oolong, keemun, and lapsang souchong teas. Its name originates from the 18th century camel caravans that facilitated the transcontinental tea trade, from tea-producing areas to Russia. I first recall learning of Russian Caravan from purchasing the Twinings brand blend several years ago while perusing the various teas at Cardullo's in Harvard Sq, Cambridge MA.

Much like Russian Caravan, Tea for Two is mellow and subtle. It is no statement fragrance, but it is no gossamer milquetoast that must be detected by burying one's nares to their wrist, at least for the first five or so hours. In the heart, its as if tea has been served with some gingerbread and spiced cookies, which reminds me of how much I love to dip cookies and biscuits into a hot cup of tea. However, there is nothing overly sweet about the experience at all, as the further into the dry down we go, tea leaves merge into tobacco leaves and the experience is drier, with elusive wafts.

While outside, Tea for Two seems to augment rather than overpower the natural scents of my surroundings—which was especially nice on this autumn morning.

To me Tea for Two smells like a Lapsang Souchong tea with some dried fruits added. Beautiful. A black tea with a smoky twist and some fruity nuances, far from being sweet though.
I’ve heard stories, that L’Artisan Parfumeur discontinued it and then, few years ago they decided to re-release it. Is this true? Well, most likely yes, because this is available on the company’s website.

I like it very much! Fits my taste.

Spicy! So excited to wear this during the holidays . I smell everything listed-it’s beautiful, cozy and festive all at once

great scent. very warm and cozy. reminds me very strongly of musc ravageur. the OG had more clove than the current form.. very similar.

mix this with a vanilla frag and you'll get close to the DNA of loubirouge by louboutin
very spicy (almost soapy) in the beginning; smells like black tea with a saffron rock candy inside (not at all sweet to my nose), you have a bomb of spices specially star anise and a bit of ginger, then the leathery and tobacco notes kick in on the dry down. Very beautiful, might take time to become fond of it. Just let it sit on your skin.

Phenomenal. Spicy sweet black Tea. I've realised I enjoy darker tea fragrances more than lighter ones such as Wulong Cha and Atelier Colognes tea based scents

I'm not a big fan of tea fragrances, and lucky for me I don't get a ton of tea in this one. To my nose this is all about spices (mainly ginger and cinnamon) and tobacco. This opens very dry, and smells like a dry tea bag with a ton of spices. About 15-20 minutes in, the tobacco starts to come through and it's a honeyed tobacco which adds some sweetness. From that point on I honestly don't get much tea. It reminds me quite a bit of fragrances like Spicebomb and Tobacco Vanille--same vein for sure. Lasts on my skin about 4.5 hours, and longer on clothes. Would be really nice in the colder months.

Много е различен от Lutens и Tom Ford, с които го сравняват тук. Може би най-елегантният тютюн, който ми е попадал. чувствам се късметлийка да притежавам няколко великолепни парфюма от тази къща, това е един от скъпоценните камъни.

Tea for Two is a very Dry Tobacco, Tea with very subtle spices.
I don't get any sweetness, it's very dry.
A light skin scent.

L’artisan Parfumeur Tea for Two (2000) - masala chai - if I had a signature Tea perfume, it would be this delicious #oliviagiacobetti creation. Black tea mixed with ginger, black pepper, cardamom, Cinnamon and sweetened by #honey . My wife, who’s half-indian taught me this exact same recipe - and it the smell reminds me of that. Thankfully it’s not dense, but beautifully crafted - like smelling the warm aroma from the cup. Comforting.

Green Spices.

Tea For Two (TFT) is a spicy, green fragrance.

The green tea, supported by light bergamot, create a green, fresh, almost-watery smell. Then a combination of spices, mainly anise and cinnamon plus tobacco, combine with the green accord to give us TFT.

Green, warm, spicy, fresh, lightly-woody.

The resultant green spicy smell is..weird. It smells like spicy tea in a cool mountain area in an east Asian country. That is how it smells but that description, also, overrates the smell.

It's good & interesting but it is also strangely unique; like meat spices put in a cup of tea.

A spring & cool weather scent, unisex, leans more masculine.

"Like" for this unusual niche smell.

My second L’artisan (I also own and reviewed Couleur Vanille). A very bold and unique perfume - truely an olfactory journey. It conjures up images of dark smoke filled dens, off crowded market alleyways, with tea being sipped amongst the cloth bags filled with spices of the orient.

The tea is upfront and makes no apologies about it. To me it is like a Chinese black tea, but the subtle bergamot pulls it back a little to Earl Grey style tea. Maybe the tea is a mix of them both. Star anise follows for me, and then it’s the cinnamon lead rich oriental style mixed spices. Ginger plays softly in the background, popping up only time to time, but always there in the background keeping the balance fresh. Once the perfume dries down, the smoky undertones can fully be appreciated. I get a lot of tobacco and some vanilla, but not really leather / honey as per the perfume notes pyramid above. Possibly they are there in the background.

I support people describing this as a chai tea fragrance. The spice mix is very chai, at least to begin with. I can say that one small sample spray on the wrist is not enough. Wear this to test with 4 plus good sprays from a full bottle (not a sample bottle) - then and only then will you appreciate how dark and smoky this tea perfume is. After a few hours the spices mellow to sleep, and this really is a dark, mysterious, smoky black tea and tobacco scent. This is an autumn and winter superstar for me. Could wear at the office. Probably not good for going out for dinner. Great at home in front of the fire. Afternoon autumn / winter walks (it will keep you warm). Wouldn’t wear in summer time I don’t think. Down the middle unisex. High quality as expected from this house. I suppose this is a gourmand? About as far as you can get from Jo Malone earl grey and cucumber! Less versatile than some, but more interesting than most. Test for a day before buying. Thrilled with this purchase.

I just received a new bottle from an italian perfumery who still have them with the 2020 price, because i saw it disappeared from L’Artisan website and i was worried it would go discontinued (if anyone knows, please tell).

This is so wonderful and natural and realistic.

Such a realistic scent, comforting, cozy. Smells like you have in front of you, on the table, a hot cup of tea with a cinnamon stick, some sweet refined tobacco and some ginger cookies next to it. It’s raining outside and your hands are getting warmed up by keeping the cup.

This is so wonderful and natural and realistic.

I was really looking forward to this being a warm Chai tea scent because I love Chai, but I got mostly a sharp anise tea. A little cinnamon eventually came through for me, but not much else. I felt it was a bit masculine and maybe my son would like it, he gave it one sniff and said it smelled just like ginger bread to him, which I didn't get at all. Sooooo.... I am not letting him steal it just yet, I want to try again in winter because I can see how it has potential, but I will pass it on to him if it doesn't grow on me and just curl up with my Noir Exquis, which I LOVE.😍😍😍

Spiced tea with a hint of sweetness from the vanilla and honey. Very realistic from a gourmond perspective as I feel like I've had this poured in a cup before.

Not something to wear every day but a must have if you're trying to branch out and break up the monotony of all the run of the mill fragrances.

Not off putting but not a compliment magnet. Perfect for fall when it gets a little crisp outside and the leaves are changing color.

At L'Artisan they do not have, as other Houses, a distinguished "signature feature" that accomunate all their fragrances.
I mean, you smell a Chanel and even if you sniff blindfold, you know it is a Chanel.
Parfums de Nicolai are the same, so the old Guerlains. They all have a leading (or subduing) trail that is instantly recognisable.

Well, L'Artisan makes very different fragrances. Different one from the others I mean!
May I like them or hate them - I must admit that their variety ad originality must be praised in any way.

Ditto for Tea for Two. I was expecting an English Tea gathering with sandwiches and cookies smells.

Wrong! what you get is an instant medicinal blast (the Vicks VaporRub if you see) that totally uncompassed me.
The strange initial notes go away almost immediately just to leave space to...the smoke! Tobacco, cigar, cigarette and spices.
I am reminded of the smokey notes in good old (10 years or 16 years old one, to me) scotch whiskey. It is that crisp, dry smokey note.
A lot of spice: clove cinnamon ginger. All nose tickling.
Not what you thought teas would have been all about.
But then after a few minutes, you get those unique notes of fermented black tea - the finest quality one- and then you think... ah..."it was that tea!".

I basically do not get other notes other than than in this frag... lovely spices as I said and a hint of amber in the drydown.

Very interesting unisex frag leaning masculine.
You must try it!

I love tea as a perfume note, but I'm not fond of spicy scents, so I should have known that this one wouldn't be my thing. This really is like chai tea, not bitter or bright at all, just very warm and spicy. Besides smoky tea I get a lot of ginger, cinnamon, and star anise, with a good dollop of tobacco for good measure. Not bad, but just really not my taste - it's so warm I desperately long for something fresh for contrast, but unfortunately I don't get any bergamot, which could have done a lot to improve this composition for my personal taste, and I don't even get any honey or vanilla. No escape from the spicy dry warmth at all - which is a plus if that's your thing, but it isn't mine. On top of that, longevity is also quite poor; I'd expect more from such a strong scent but after an hour or two I can barely smell it anymore. Too bad, but I should have seen it coming!

Voilà, it is F.A.O. Schwarz around the Christmas holidays: piped-in spiced evergreen “holiday” scent is meant to induce customers to purchase plastic children's toys. Are these plastics BPA-free? Where is the tea?

Smells like chai tea.

On me, it opens with cinnamon and leathery feeling. I like to wear it in cooler atmosphere as the greenness could be boosted out along with the dark tea sort of note. The ginger and bergamot together generate a zingy kind of freshness. It's smoky, rather heavy. Summer days definitely can't hold it. It has to be worn during colder days among thicker clothes. It's mature and composed simultaneously sharp and bold.

like pou-ehr tea?? it's got that fermented/smokey thing to me. Almsot smells like miso paste to me :/ yikes. When i really dig my nose in and try i can pick up on the spices and tobacco. Not the scent for me from this house.

Since it's really starting to get colder and rainer in Sweden now, today felt like a good time to start going with the real autumn scents. And for those of you looking for a mature dark tea scent that isn't too saccharine or vegetal, here it is!

Tea for Two is one of my favorite fragrances for colder days, and it is a great smoky tea / spices / tobacco mix with a smooth finish from the leather, honey, and vanilla. Overall it feels like a warm cup of lapsang & earl grey tea with a side of gingerbread on a cold autumn day.
I am very skeptical of honey in perfumes, since it often has that cloying synthetic honey note that makes me sick to my stomach, but this one is soft and mixes very well with everything else.

It wears very close to the skin, but that's not a problem for me. Longevity is great.
When my sample runs out I will definitely buy a full bottle 😊

When I first smelled the perfume called Tea for Two, I got a smokey feeling. It felt like Tea, but it wasn't watery. These were tea leaves that had been burnt. When enjoying the aroma, I think you will get this feeling if you burn the tea leaves. When I go out, I want to spray this scent when meditating or deeply agonizing rather than spraying it on my body. On a sunny day, it would be nice to smell the mountain with fallen leaves, and on a rainy day, I want to smell this perfume when healing while listening to the sound of the rain.

I could feel a lot of the aroma of tea and tobacco leather.

This one isn't meant for smelling up close, because smelling up close (at least initially) is like smelling heated/warmed plastic. Like a HUGE plastic aspect to it.
Aside from the plastic aspect I might be picking up star anise + cinnamon combo? Not quite my thing.

On my quest for a good spicy chai-like perfume, I got a sample of Tea for Two. It's a bit gentle for my liking. The smoky tea opening is quite lovely, as are sweet, biscuity spice notes that it dries down to, but it doesn't have the richness that I was hoping for. There's very little projection on me, and the one person I encouraged to get in close to sniff said "aw, you smell like a grandma. in a nice way". Make of that what you will!

A darker tea scent for the colder months.
This opens smokey, before drying down into something quite reminiscent of Gucci pour homme II, although darker and heavier. The cinnamon here is amped up with ginger and further spices, with a touch of honey steering this into more of a warm spicy than a fresh spicy.
There is also a good dose of tobacco in here, with raises another fragrance similarity. If your'e familiar with TF Tobacco Vanille, the warm spicy tobacco facets are fairly similar between them. If you add a tea note to TV, you will have a fairly clear picture of Tea for Two.
The thing is, I don't know whether the tea really works in this type of fragrance. The fresh herbal greenness of it doesn't quite blend together with the bakery-like smells in the rest of the composition. It's a unique direction to take tea in, but I prefer the crisper slant Gucci takes. Such a shame they discontinued it.

I like it, but not bottle-worthy.

(dislike/indifferent/like, but not BW/like a lot, potentially BW/love, definitely BW/masterpiece)

Very beautiful and realistic tea scent- imagine drinking a pot of lapsang souchong tea, sweetened with honey with gingerbread biscuits on the side, and someone near you is smoking tobacco. Reminiscent of a more refined version of TF Tobacco Vanille.

I had high hopes for this perfume but ended up disappointment. Smells like synthetic bathroom spray. Enough said.

I've seen every type of tea in the book used to describe this scent. The one I'm imagining is a spiced chai tea latte. The creamy sweetness, some cinnamon/nutmeg, a nice herbal smoky tea. I don't really get a distinct tobacco, but I can see how some people would make that association with all the sweet spices that are used here. Upon the drydown it's a little powdery. Performance is average, and falls in line with the majority of L'Artisans releases. I really do like this, and if it were easier to come by I wouldn't mind having a full bottle. At the price it does go for, I don't think I'll need to seek out a large amount, but I will enjoy my sample.

This one reminds me a lot of Gucci Pour Homme II. Like a niche version of it but with more emphasis on Fall/Winter (GPII is more of Spring/Summer scent to me). The 3 main notes that make them similar are tea, cinnamon and tobacco. While Guci gets green (Violet Leaves) and fresh, this one gets more smokey in the opening (I assume that's the leather accord) and a lot spicier with honey on the background. While the openings are different, in the dry down they are a lot closer. Tea scents are not for everyone, so I suggest you test it with 2-3 full wearings before committing to a bottle. But if you already have tea frags in your collection, this might be worth a blind buy (especially if you are familiar with the Gucci).

Nice earl grey style opening quickly followed by tobacco and a honey accord. The scent gets a bit smokier and spicier as time passes but the tea note remains the main player throughout the life of the fragrance.

For me the tobacco is fairly present and in the far drydown I get a bit more pronounced sweetness reminding me of some sort of gingerbread. In typical Giacobetti style, the scent wears very light and after minutes it becomes a skin scent. The longevity is no more than a few hours, but this is to be expected with most L'Artisan's unfortunately. I have the new, black style bottle so I can't compare the current version with the ''vintage'' one.

Does lean more masculine in my opnion, but for anybody who is a fan of tea based scents this is definitely one to sample. Can be worn year round and suitable for most occasions as it's so ethereal.

7/10

Tea for two delivers a complex and quality sweet tea - a very "comfort zone" like aroma. I don't get much tobacco here - don't be afraid of it. What is felt in the heart is 1) spicy lemon tea; 2) honey; 3) some isolated spices - especially pepper. Ginger, anise and cinnamon do not appear alone, they are in less volume - a little immersed in the composition of the spicy palette that gives taste to the tea. Very sweet, hot, tasteful ... very pleasant, but it makes me afraid to get sick of a perfume that is so excessively comfortable. Respectable performance.

Been sniffing this on my wrist for ages trying to work out what it reminds me of and I finally realise!..... Tobacco Vanille by Tom Ford.

I'm really enjoying it, and love the warm gourmand style tea note. Rich and fruity too. The tobacco is lovely and sweet.

A delicious warm smoky tea, almost oolong. I thought it might be a bit dusty on me but it is delightful and not as heavy as it could be

I don't get tobacco here at all (tobacco makes me nauseous). What I DO get is Lapsang Souchong tea, a very strong, smoked, Chinese tea. I used to sell this tea back in the day, and sniffed it every chance I got. (Should've known then that I'd fall down the fragrance rabbit hole!)

Anyway, I love this eccentric fragrance. It's not for everybody, and it is quite smokey, but it's worth a try.

All I get from this is wet tobacco scent. Yuck.

Finally blind bought this one. Was really excited from the reviews in the community . I got it and I guess it’s what people said. To my nose, I get 100% chai tea, no smoke nothing else. I’m not sure I want to smell like that and I think I’ll return it. I let my MoM smell it on my hand and she said it smells like you just left a smoky casino. All she gets is cig smoke. So interesting how two noses get completely different smells. If you want to smell like you just smoked a pack of cigs, or you just walked out of Starbucks buy this. Not for me unfortunately. My ultimate tea scent continues.

So lovely! Bergamot, black tea, chai spices, ginger(bread), tobacco and a touch of leather. Divine tea ceremony! I generally don't like tobacco fragrances but this one is lifted by the citrus and spices which give it airiness rather than density. I love this! A bottle is a bit too pricey for me at the moment.

Heady. Slightly darker than 5 O'Click by Lutens. I can't decide which I like more, they're similar but quite different. In the end this one had a little too much tobacco for my liking. -

Tea for two is not working with my skinchemistry at all. I get wet cold spilled tea mixed with wet cigarette-tobacco and its very non-friendly to my nose. On paper its a fresh sparkling scent with some nice spicy airy notes around as well. Weird how it can get so different on paper vs my skin.

یه ترکیب دودی و ادویه ای از تنباکوی خشک و چای. آقای تورین این عطرو با چای هندی مقایسه می کنه اما من باهاش کاملا مخالفم. بخاطر اینکه توی چای هندی، هل نقش خیلی مهمی رو بازی می کنه درحالیکه توی این عطر اصلا هل وجود نداره. تو ادویه های این کار، دارچین و انیسون ستاره ای نقش مهم رو دارن، که به همراه مقداری وانیلِ با کهربا ترکیب شده، خشکیِ کلیِ عطر رو با یه مقدار شیرینی جزئی متعادل می کنن. به پیچیدگی دیگر آثار خانم جیاکوبتی نیست، اما هنوز یه عطر شرقیِ مدرنِ خوبه.

Spicy, smokey, sweet, green. Warm, exotic, sensual, comfy. All of these and more describe the beauty of Tea For Two, which has become my "cozy" home scent. I spray this on while watching something, playing games, or working on something and instantly feel more relaxed. This would be a beautiful cuddling scent for a lazy fall morning, sipping away at a cup of spiced tea and eating a bowl of oatmeal full of cinnamon and walnuts. Longevity is around 5-6 hours on my skin, with average longevity and meh sillage. This fragrance is not a loud, beast mode performer, and it never had any pretentions about being one. This is for intimate moments with yourself or your lover, or the times in your life when you feel most at peace. Try before you buy though, as star anise can be challenging, and this fragrance is definitely anise forward. I wasn't the biggest fan of it when I first tried it, but I've learned to love it, and it will always have a place in my collection.

8.5/10

The Alcoholic, Father Mathias by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1882

I‘m surprised how much I like this! I mainly got this sample because I desperately wanted to try Noir Exquis and needed to pick a second sample from the L‘Artisan website. And now I like Tea for Two even more than Noir Exquis.
This is such an unique scent, I have never smelled something quite like this before. The opening smells like a cup of black tea with lemon and honey, standing in some sweet smoke. Not sure where the smoke is coming from, but I can see a cinnamon stick and an anise star swimming in the tea cup. It‘s very warm and cozy, a little sweet, spicy and also fresh. This has a liquid feel, like freshly brewed tea, not like dry tea leaves, and it‘s not bitter.
As it dries down, it slowly and seamlessly transitions from tea to tobacco. It‘s starting to feel denser and smells like sweet pipe tobacco with spices, especially cinnamon. But there is still always a hint of tea and smoke left.

This is a really interesting take on tea and on the gourmand genre in general. This has nothing to do with the usual fresh and light tea fragrances. It‘s a fragrance I could imagine wearing on a stormy, rainy autumn day to warm myself up. A must try for anyone who likes unsual, warm fragrances.

it starts off creamy, delicately sweet, then you notice the mixture of spices & tea

then it got funky on my skin - i smelled an ozonic/aquatic note similar in blue fragrances that really turned me off

a thick heady ink pen mixed with synthetic chai, earl grey tea, & artificial gingerbread without the spicy kick of real ginger

not for me

It's a heavy, thick and dark tea scent... It resembles tobacco a bit, but it is really the scent of Lapsang Souchong tea. A very rich composition, it's dark and heavy without ever getting lighter. it smells bitter, warm, unforgivenly audacius. No wonder it is famous.

Do not blind buy this, it's not for everyone, but a must for tea lover.

If you are searching for matcha (japanese green tea) fragrance, you may want to check out Margiela's Tea Escape or Satori's Oribe, if you like ceylon tea try Atelier Cologne's Philtree Ceylan (FYI, Oolong Infini is an utter disappointment), if you feel like a English breakfast tea with flower addition, try Equinox Bloom from Penhaligon's, and if you love tea fusion, try Zoologist's Panda.

I've had Tea for two in my collection for some years now and I've come to love it dearly though I just liked it at first. It starts full of bitter bergamot, spices and ginger. The tea is there from the beginning but it gets my full attention once the opening notes settle a little. Then tobacco, vanilla and honey enter the stage. Finally a bit of dark leather joins them all for a more than perfect dry down. The longevity isn't bad and though I used to think the sillage wasn't that good, I've been getting lots of unexpected compliments while wearing it lately. True is a bit sweet but not as much as so many popular mainstream new perfumes recently launched for both men and women, and this one has an evolution and uniqueness that most gourmands lack of. In fact, I don't really think of it as a gourmand but as a tea centred perfume. My other favourite tea scent is another L'artisan parfumeur perfume: Coeur de Vetiver Sacre and they are both works by very interesting female perfumers.

Not a bad fragrance. It starts off with the typical L'Artisan DNA that exists in Dzonkha and other scents...with a cinnamon/anise/vanilla spiced black tea. While I generally prefer green tea scents, I do like a few black tea scents.

But I personally don't like gourmand scents, and Tea for Two crosses that line for me. When a scent smells more like something I would eat/drink vs something I would wear, then I rethink wearing it.

The cinnamon and vanilla is just a bit too much for me. I feel like I am sitting down to tea and sweet biscuits at a british cafe. I think it is the biscuit part that bothers me the most.

Reasonable sillage and longevity. If you like gourmands or some of the notes, feel free to give this a look. It is a pass for me.

Ultimately a deeper and more potpourri-smelling Body and Soul by Lomani. The sillage is essentially identical, although the ashiness of T42 really comes out in the mid.

A great holiday scent that smells like it would layer nicely with some kind of vanilla; so if you can scoop it up for less than or equal to the price of Body and Soul, this is the better option IMO.

Incredible scent. I actually prefer the scent of Gucci Homme II but it doesn't have any staying power whatsoever, this one does.
It is a smokier and spicier tea than in GHII and is less sophisticated feeling as such but it is just as if not more comforting.

I have seen reviews that say this just smells like cigarette ash to them and I think that is a shame because if your nose can pickup some of the more subtle notes over the top of that smokey base it really elevates this into an absolutely top level scent imho.

9/10.

This should have been named Tobacco for Two.

It opens up with fresh bitter note which I guess is the tea, but that lasts for 3 minutes and then all I smell is tobacco all the way until the end. Starts dry and gets a bit sweeter with the anise, but that plays second or maybe even third fiddle.

If you like dry tobacco scents with just a tiny bit of sweetness, you will love this though.

یه ترکیب دودی و ادویه ای از تنباکوی خشک و چای. آقای تورین این عطرو با چای هندی مقایسه می کنه اما من باهاش کاملا مخالفم. بخاطر اینکه توی چای هندی، هل نقش خیلی مهمی رو بازی می کنه درحالیکه توی این عطر اصلا هل وجود نداره. تو ادویه های این کار، دارچین و انیسون ستاره ای نقش مهم رو دارن، که به همراه مقداری وانیلِ با کهربا ترکیب شده، خشکیِ کلیِ عطر رو با یه مقدار شیرینی جزئی متعادل می کنن. به پیچیدگی دیگر آثار خانم جیاکوبتی نیست، اما هنوز یه عطر شرقیِ مدرنِ خوبه.

I'm glad to have finally smelled L'Artisan Parfumeur Tea for Two, among the house's best-know scents, though I concede that I simply do not know the house well despite its significant catalog.

Tea for Two fittingly gives a tea-dominant vibe, somewhere in the chai or lapsang souchon range, teas that I don't like drinking but of which I enjoy the smell.

It's spicy due a mix of cinnamon and ginger that I can only describe as appealing but nonetheless slightly challenging to my nose, as ginger, in particular, sometimes is. Certainly more at the onset of application and first couple of hours than the later dry down does the ginger say, provoke me.

Fortunately, the honey aptly mitigates some of the spicy effects throughout the life of the fragrance, and the cinnamon, at least, is an ever-so-slightly sweet-leaning spice due to associations with dessert foods more so than savory items.

Performance is decent, certainly some nice projection for hours and for $102 for 100ml on FragranceNet, it's certainly a reasonable-enough price if one loves it, especially given its versatility and innovation.

8 out of 10

At first, after a couple of minutes, a strong combination of tobacco and honey hit me right in the face and I was soo disappointed cause I really don't like honey notes in perfumes. Once it gets past this combo, the gorgeous black tea comes out. Love the drydown, the honey - not so much.

Ever try taking some dried Chinese tea leaves and chew them in your mouth and swallow down? This smells exactly like the aftertaste that is left at your throat after that. I've been familiar with this kind of traditional tea all my life since I was a child staying with my grandparents'. Old but gold. Smoky but sweet. Dusty but elegant.
This is how feeling bittersweet is like <3

A nice calming and soothing tea with honey and some spices and amber in the background.

I did find this fragrance too sweet and a little too mass appealing for a niche. I would have enjoyed this with a stronger tea note or with some patchouli.

For some odd reason I was expecting there to be two prominent notes in this fragrance, which there isn't.

Overall this is a great niche for those new to niche and want a calming, fall, holiday kind of fragrance or maybe you have a nice library.

Anyways , i think 5 o clock gingembre is better personally

I get 4 to 6 hours and fair to weak projection here.

Both of my parents chain smoked Winston cigarettes when I was growing up. I remember the wonderful smell of unlit tobacco. Later I spent a summer in Chicago and remember the smell of nicotiana flowers neighbors grew in Evergreen Park.

I don't get tea at all in Tea for Two. It smells exactly like that light tobacco smell (not a cherry sweet pipe tobacco, just the cigarette smell) with a spicy nicotine plant bloom. My name for this is Unlit Winston In Bloom.

Nice stuffy cozy smell, like you spent a rainy afternoon in the basement of a college library looking through old yellowing books! It also smells like old paper.

Tea for sure...with other spices. This is not for me, I guess I really don't like tea as a fragrance. Sillage about right for this one...wouldn't want a beast mode tea blast...

Sweet (vanilla) with some cinnamon with something smokey at the end. If you keep your nose at your wrist long enough it becomes slightly masculine from the tobacco. Only when you look back into the scent profile and go over each ingredient will you nod your head that there is star anise, there is lemon (lime), ginger, ginger bread cookie, it's honey not vanilla, and something peppery (spices) and how the black tea is a very consistent smell from beginning to end as a top note.

Sweet, sultry, and tomboyish (or curiously masculine).

The perfume of Alice in Wonderland's tea party! Lapsang Souchong flavored with cinnamon, honey and ginger. The storybook opening is deliciously sweet, and the drydown is impressively elegant. There's a delectable powdery undercurrent, with all sorts of addictive wrist sniffing powers. A little bit of perfume magic, and a lot of fantastic smelling accords. The March Hare makes a mean tea!

I do have lasting memories of the last time I wore this cosy gourmand treat, for me it embodied every combination of warmth, relaxation and trust between companions. Initially and throughout the dominant period of wearing it evokes evry possible combination of hot tea, sugar, milk, toasted teacakes, lightly spiced biscuits like Lebkuchen, Gingernuts, Digestives, toast with honey, cakes...
A very specific description, I know, but it is towards the end of it’s life that even I get a dry, smokey Black tea stewing in the kettle note.
Adorable, and should be in every Englishman’s collection.

Oh my gosh, it's surprising and breathtaking. I do love drinking tea and the teatime, and I was not convinced it would be possibile to make a rich cup of tea into perfume. I was wrong. In the exact moment that I put this frag to my nose, I had a perfect vision of a Victorian living room lit by the sun of a spring afternoon, and two elegant ladies dressed in white and flowers, sitting on the sofa, chatting while sipping a fragrant and spicy hot black tea. On the small table next to the saucers, a small buffet of sweets, decorated with vases of white flowers. To be clear, they are not two elderly Victorian ladies, but two young women in their prime. And they are selfconfidents, sensual but elegant and full of dignity. I think it's an amazing day scent. I love it!

About 2 years ago i wrote a review after sampling it, and my impression was really good, though perhaps not in terms of perfume. I had written it would have been a wonderful scent for a home.

Based on that experience, i went on and bought it a month ago, from a company that still imports the original bottles (not the darker versions of today, that all look the same!)

Unfortunately, although i've worn it about 10 times already, all i can smell is cigarette butts.

Am i the only one experiencing this with T42???

I just sprayed a sample on maybe 30 minutes ago, and I can't stop smelling my forearm. The smoky note is so well done, and the tea seems so high quality. According to Luckyscent, the notes are ginger, cinnamon, green anise, honey, vanilla. I'm still not sure how those notes smell like this. I will continue enjoying this sample. It might end up a must buy.

I love this, on me, it smells like a firewood burning in the cold wintery snowy night.
To mean it's like walking in the falling snow while smelling a burning firewood from a house close by.
Will be my Halloween day and Christmas eve scent!!!!

This is super duper smoky on my skin. I have always been put off by smoke whether that's cigarette smoke, that liquid smoke that's added to so many bbq sauces, and just smoked foods/meats in general. Yeah, I cannot get into this one. For the first hour the sillage makes this nearly unbearable then it dries down to a barely there skin scent but I still don't like it. I do get a hint of an aromatic black tea type smell along with the smoke and maybe a wisp of something like leather but none of the sweetness others reference or any of the other listed notes. The whole scent is just completely overwhelmed by suffocating smoke.

Early in my fragrance journey I tried a sample of this and remembered liking it. Fast forward a few years and I ran across a good deal on a bottle, so I added TF2 to my collection. I am glad that I did.

The opening of this fragrance is the best part to my nose. I get a very strong tea note with great projection for about an hour, then it settles down to a skin scent. The tea note is joined by a slight tobacco and honey accord. Throughout the day I am getting whiffs of tea, tobacco and honey. A very nice combination. I will have to try this again in the warmer weather.

TF2 is very much a unisex fragrance to my nose and I can wear this in either formal or casual attire.

Bottom line: If you like tea, you should try a sample of this one.

Sentence Summary:

Last year I got my wife 'Un Jardin sur la Nil' which she said 'smelled of cat's piss', This Christmas I got 'Tea for Two' for her, which she said 'reeked of fag's'.
Luckily she used to be a smoker.

Next year, to complete the hat-trick, I intend on getting her 'Secretions Manifique'.

Overall rating 7/10

Sadly, I do not like this very much. I was hoping for a tranquil and understated fragrance, perhaps a warmer, spicier version of Osmanthe Yunnan...but, really, this is a tobacco- and honey-centred frag, and that's about it. The tobacco goes through a brash, almost ashtray-like phase, with honey and tea occasionally, somewhat desperately trying to announce themselves. It then settles into a fairly pleasant, indistinct, sweet base. Like some of the other reviewers, I like all the notes in principle, but the actual scent is just meh, despite being quite strong.

Firstly, I don't think this is unisex. It's so nuclear and gourmand in the opening that it comes across as very feminine. I like this fragrance but it switches around on me, between tea/tobacco, and fag ash/coca cola. I've tried a few different tobacco-based fragrances now, including TV and Tabac Rouge by Phaedon. Where TV is cloying and rich, and Tabac Rouge is airy and elusive, this one is kind of fizzy and distorted. Part of me feels that it doesn't meet the sophistication of it's own notes, and it comes across loud and frumpy even though I'd prefer otherwise.

Wonderful spicy tea fragrance that I really liked until the drydown, when all the sweet wore off

Oh, how I wish I got the smoke or spices other people talk about. Had high hopes for this as I've loved other Olivia Giacobetti things and I'm English, so have tea in my DNA. It's the smell of comfort and strength as well as warmth and the East, so a good fragrance would mean a lot to me. I get through mugs full of chai brewed with extra spice and very little sugar most days, and wanted something scented to take me there in the dark times between mugs. But Tea for Two? Sadly NOT what it says on the tin.

For me it's just got the faintest touch of a good dark tea smell - like a nicely brewed cup of Assam - and there are hints of promise for the first 5-10 minutes. But then all that is almost completely overwhelmed in wave after sickly wave of sweet honey and syrup ... and that's all. It's a perfectly acceptable sort of sweetness but so much blander and less individual than I was hoping for.

ETA: delighted to say I was wrong about this one! It's all in the atmospherics. Trying it again on damper skin (just showered and moisturised), the tea blossomed and the spices finally turned up. Overall this is still too sweet and honeyed to be my perfect cup of tea, but so much better than I'd thought before. If you have problems with it, try in varying humidity/temperatures and see if mutates into something you like better.

I get no tea, just the most blessedly real, smoky, warm, dry pipe tobacco I've been searching for. Yum.

This fragrance did not impress me at all. I teased my olfactory imagination with the image of a black tea boiling, almost burning, in the teapot.

What I was greeted with instead, much to my dismay, the smell of hot dog water.

Although I love and respect Giacobetti's work, this one is not my cup of tea. Literally.

There is honey, spice, smokiness. This smells like an old wooden cupboard where you would store your tea supplies. There are many positive notes here, but much of it is lost in the complexity. I have mixed feelings, I like the individual notes on paper, but as a whole in this mixture, I think it’s underwhelming. So much potential is lost here. It is a very strong and interesting scent. One worth returning to for further evaluation. 6.5-7/10

Tea for two! Who can resist such a treat? I can’t speak for my wife, but I’ll have mine with extra spices and a touch of honey please! Coincidentally, Tea for Two (what an inviting name) is a dead ringer for this desired flavor. It is a very cozy and comforting scent that immediately conjures to mind the cold wintery nights when you just want to cuddle up with your loved one, hiding under a blanket, watching your favorite movies and simply enjoying a good ol' cup o' tea. In turn, this leads me to believe that it could be the cure for a dreadful long Canadian winter, or even a blistering Siberian winter.
This tea is noticeably smoky considering the leading role in the fragrance is lapsang souchong – a popular variety of black tea originated from China where the leaves are smoke-dried. Though not the type of tea we’re probably accustomed to, and very likely an acquired taste, the smokiness is by no means overpowering in this composition. It serves like a fireplace, burning slowly by your side to provide you with its subtle warmth, and always reminding you of its presence. As the lapsang souchong smolders in the background a bold mixture of spices strike an entrance. Actually, let me rephrase that; a raging army of spices! Just close your eyes for a few seconds and babble out the names of spices that instantly come to your mind, whatever they are I’m willing to bet that those spices are all blended in Tea for Two. Sure, that might sound a bit of an exaggeration, but I cannot deny how nostalgic this part of the fragrance becomes as it literally transports me to Christmas time when chai tea, eggnog and gingerbread cookies are regularly indulged. This sense of nostalgia is exactly why I keep Tea for Two within reach; for those times that I just want to recollect the wonderful holiday memories. Simply put, the experience is as close as it gets to time travel!
But, do allow the fragrance to settle as it sweetens up a smidge with the additions of honey and vanilla, think of it as adding a sugar cube to your chai if you will. And, to wrap up my overall impressions, I can definitely confirm that Tea for Two could easily be enjoyed by both sexes. So, rekindle those beautiful memories with that special someone, together.

I've bougth this after many positive reviews I've read...without trying on my skin. Even though I prefer Gucci II, both have terrible performance. I've worn Gucci II in windy days that way I could get whiffs of it time to time. With Tea For Two, no matter what I do I don't smell it on me. Also it burns my skin so bad. So far I am wearing this at home while having tea sesions with friends in our apartment, no one ever told me any positive or negative thoughts about how I smell because they can't smell anything. After an hour I even can't tell myself if I am wearing this.
Anyway after months of using today before I leave to work at 8:30 a.m. I decided not to burn my skin anymore and sprayed it in my underwear twice, six hours passed I can still smell it now at my office! That's I believe how I'm going to finish the bottle.

Most reviews says they smell vanilla in this. My nose don't agree with that. The sweetness is from honey note.

While Gucci II is just right for Spring this is good for Fall...ofcourse only if I sprayed on my underwear!

Oh wow. I'm in love! This is perfect. So spicy and yummy. Buy list. Reminds me of Tom Ford tobacco vanilla but in a more complex spicy less overbearing tobacco kindof way. It's great.

30 minutes later...this isn't really a laster :( That's sad, I love this scent. Might buy it anyway if it goes on megasale.

Tea for Two is one of the more scarce L'Artisan perfumes it seems. Even the most comprehensive stockists seem to be out of this stuff in recent years. I had tried this a long time ago and then got hold of some samples a few months back, which reminded me that T4T was on my radar. I was very surprised to see it in TK Maxx where I picked it up for a very reasonable £25 for 50ml.
It's clearly not a fragrance for everybody but as a tea enthusiast I'm always keen to expand my tea fragrances and this one represents a distinct difference from the norm of cutting metallic, freshness coupled with citrus or fruit. This is more like a proper cup of tea with milk in(not too suggest it's creamy in anyway) blended with tobacco it's got a freshness but it has the signature 'challenging', offset, darkness of other releases like Timbuktu or Dzing!
It's got the spicing of a chai tea, plenty of cinnamon which is spicy hot but not sweet, and clove representing an old cologne vibe. I'd say that there's vetiver in here and a leathery vibe but sort of clean in a traditional manly way like a knize Ten. To me the drydown is like a very old type of soap that you just don't get anymore and somehow is indicative of the 1960's (not like I was around then!)
It's like the kind of toiletries a really, manly man can admit to using. You know...not Dior or Chanel it's the sort of purely functional moisturizer made famous by Icelandic fishermen or something? (So it's totally okay to use and not gay!)
Tea for Two is never going to appeal to everyone and I'm almost one of those people, despite buying this fragrance. It does challenge me though and sometimes I enjoy that in a fragrance.

Sentence Summary:

You're sitting in your favourite Tobacconist / Coffee shop (?) with a hot chai tea with lemon and sugar, but no milk added.

Overall rating 7/10

This smells like the old wooden cupboard in your summer cottage where you keep all kinds of teas and spices (that have all been there since 1996). Stuffy.

A fragrance that puts a smile on my face everytime I smell it.

Unique...

Tea is an amazing note for perfumery. Tea for two thats that note to different level. Unique is the word comes to my mouth when I smell the Tea for Two because there is nothing that smells like this, except real tea...

Tea for Two opens up with slightly citrusy tea note. It is not really black tea, but it smells like a tea that I can't name it. Since I am a heavy tea drinker, I can pick up the tea note everytime I smell it. There are also spices where it doesn't dominate the fragrance but it is a nice touch. I also get some smoky vibe. Smoke isn't a frankincense like smoke, but more like tobacco slash green smoke which also very unique.

Tea for two lasted around 5-6 hours with light projection. If you want to smell different from anybody else around you, smell this masterpiece.

You are surrounded by a vast emptiness; nothing and no one can be seen or sensed. You can feel the air come alive, little by little, it sings. You close your eyes in anticipation - the air sparks with blistering life. Bolts rain from the heavens in a delicate dance around your vulnerable flesh. Rain falls in sighs of relief as you are left breathless in the heart of this wonder. Honey gold bolts strike in tandem with velvet purple arcs - the air is flush with the singe of smoked honeyed tobacco. Their tandem is met with emerald arching across the sky, thier smoked tea note tingles in your lungs. Despite the inherent danger, you crack a smile as if you were nestled safely in the arms of your love - nothing can harm you here. The storm settles and the earth glows in a gingered ash lying over the thick, leathery earth - you begin to waltz through the ash and the thick vanilla mist that dampens the air. The music in your head swells and quiets in some unseen rhythm - life is beautiful for this moment.

Day 102 - Electrify me
Listening to: London Grammar - Hey Now

Notes: I have the second most recent formulation...and I do believe it is different from the original. However, it is still a beautiful experience despite the inflated vanillin note in the base (it's not bad but it reminds me of many candy vanilla candles and scents). The fume opens with a gorgeous smoked tea and pepper mashed in with a dusty cinnamon and burning tobacco all accented by the unassuming yet pervasive smokiness of guaiac wood. These notes linger for a few hours while picking up a sweet ginger/bread note and the ever growing sweetness of vanillin contrasted with a soft, powdered honey and leather. The whole composition is laced with the smoked wood/tea accord which lasts throughout its 10 to 12 hour life. This is a beautiful and delightfully smoky scent that is sure to please the ladies and gents as it can easily play toward the sweet or the woody notes.

Tobacco Vanille's softer, more introverted friend. Tea for Two really is a gentler version of Tom Ford's Christmas party clove bombardment. Personally I have a bit of an aversion to the whole milky, chai tea and ginger vibe, but I can stomach this a lot more than Ford's hyped up powerhouse, most likely because the tobacco here is a thousand times more subdued. L'artisan Parfumeur is a classy house that seems to succeed in creating scents that are creative, wearable, and subtle. If it's loud you're looking for then these bottles are definitely not for you, as they often get slammed for longevity issues. That being said they do have something for everyone, but Tea for Two just isn't my cup of...eggnog. Again it's just a personal bias. Still a well composed scent. Try before bedtime and you're sure to dream about the land of milk and honey.

I'm surprised at just how much I didn't like this one - something about it was really pungent and off-putting, particularly in the first hour or so. After that it got a little better, definitely got more of a warm vibe from it, and the cinnamon + honey + spices became much more apparent. I had read about it for quite some time, and almost blind bought a bottle based on the notes, what I had heard in reviews and so on.. but i'm glad I didn't.

Thought it would be something that i'd love, and it definitely wasn't. Highly recommend getting a sample / decant of this one first if you're considering buying it, as you may be surprised.

tried a sample of this, it starts off with a rubbery/plasticky smell, reminds me of TF oud wood, then it drys down to a really nice and comforting tobacco tea with hints of spicy cinnamon. It is a unique scent and one which i find you have to warm up to.

Was very excited to try this, ended up being disappointed. The top notes were unpleasant, (plasticky sharp tobacco tea) and the dry down a weak cinnamon scent. I couldn't smell it despite spraying 3 times. I might have liked this a little more if I didn't own 5 o'clock gingembre which is all sorts of gorgeous.
Will be passing my decant along.

I was really disappointed. This opened very interesting but quickly gave way to the smell of cinnamon and as others have remarked it smells synthetic to me. It made me think of Red Hots candies. I'm going to try it again because I really wanted to like it so if anything changes update will follow.

Tried again today and I dislike it even more. This time the opening was sharp and plastic. I didn't get it last time but maybe it was because I had been smelling other fragrances at the same time. After a few minutes it gave way to the Red Hots again. Just does not work for me.

Its fantacy, very unique, very elegant and take you to a beutifull morning. unfotunatly, its discontinued.

For me, it smells like taking the plastic lid off the can of Lipton powdered iced tea mix which my grandma used, and cigarettes, two staples of my youth. For me it smells ballsy and uncomplicated, nostalgic in a great way. I just ordered a bottle of it.

It's interesting how this fragrance does not realistically smell of tea while you're drinking it but rather a strong tea smell that's in the air from a lot of tea bags and boxes/packages like when you walk into a tea shop or the section where they sell tea in a grocery store. This is very sweet, very sweet. I smell a delicious bergamot tea, but it's in a large size and has other ingredients like cinnamon, ginger and honey. People can detect a faint whiff of tobacco and leather but it's very subtle. It seems to be there towards the end after all the sweet notes of ginger and honey. It make the fragrance very unisex because it is so leathery and a bit of a smoky tobacco which are scents in men's colognes. Guys and gals can totally wear this freely. This is also sweetened by vanilla but it's not a big player. This is a warm winter fragrance perfect for actually wearing while drinking coffee or tea on rainy days. It's soothing and very much along the lines of an aroma therapy scent. Delicious warm and inviting one of the few sweet scents I wear when it's 30 or below weather.

I agree with all the previous reviewers who have said that this smells synthetic.
But synthetic doesn't necessarily equal icky.
For example, I bet most of you like red licorice. It is so artificially flavoured, that one can even taste the chemicals. But I (and nearly everyone I know) like it.
All that to say, this is a fun and pleasant scent. A little bit fake, but I still like (not love) it.

The firts time I was shocked, like "I made a BIG mistake" two minutes after I fell in love. I don't smoke so I just learned tobacco is not cigarrette. Tobacco smoky is warm, earthy, close to the skin and spicy. This perfume is breathtaking, is so good!! I can smell the honey the tea the cinammon and the slight vanilla... is DIFFERENT perfume. A blind purchase I cannot regret <3

Update:
ok I came across an offer so I'm buying a second bottle <3

Original Review from Jan 2016:

I don't have Colin Maillard's deep and sophisticated internal library - so can't do the comparisons. Accordingly, I don't have the automated "this smells better or worse than" response he has developed.

To me, Tea for Two is indeed quite short lived. But when I reapply after an hour, the second application seems to last much longer... I get few decent hours of performance then.

About that performance, I loved the very fact that I could identify smoky tea... I found the whole thing to be really enjoyable. So - now that Colin has set the metric for me (my "really enjoyable" is his "5/10"), I REALLY want to check out Gucci pour Homme II... Can't even begin to explain why I've ignored it.

(Note: Colin Maillard's review was not so positive - he rated GPHII as the scent this should have been - and in case you want to see it, Colin seems to have moved away from Fragrantica, but his review is still up on Base Notes).

UPDATE I:

I just ordered GPH II

UPDATE II - 2019:

Tea for Two is now one of my favourite perfumes - it keeps giving and I keep taking.

As an aside, I bought GPHII, and yes, GPHII is similar to T-4-2. Yet I find that I rarely reach for GPHII - maybe because I find its performance very meek.

Just a note: I have the original one, which I adore. I just got, from a lovely swap, another bottle, the newly released one. Making a comparison, the color is much more clear on this one, the other one is ambery. There is some richness and sweetness in the old version that you don't find here, but, overall, in my opinion, it has not been much reformulated but rather watered down. It is simply a more transparent version of what it used to be, nevertheless beautiful and enjoyable. I will use both as they are gorgeous. This is just a little lighter than it used to be, in the same spirit. Nothing wrong with this "reformulation" unless you have your heart stuck on massive strength and majestic silage .

I've more than 100 bottles in my collection. After smelling around 50 samples lately, this is one of the only fragrances I considered bottle worthy. It's a good blend, with just the right amount of tobacco as not to overpower other notes. Wonderful smokey,sweet,spicy tea.

Smoky, warm and soft. Tea for Two shares notes and accords with so many of my favourite big spicy woods, except it is the intimate, skin-scent version of them. Perfect for rainy days, and those occasions that call for a fragrance that doesn't impose.

Notes-wise, this is a stepped composition: it moves through its notes in a deliberate stages beginning with a dark, smoked tea with a leathery background, then vanilla and spices, before moving onto saliva-ish honey and tobacco base (a lot like the final dry down of Comme des Garcons Original). It is interesting, elegant and comfortable all at once. An absolute delight.

i like it, in my skin smell black tea

I got a bottle of this perfume from my lover for christmas. First it was too stingy for me but after a couple of tries I fell in love with this.

It's definitely a winter scent. I couldn't imagine wearing this in the summer. I love wearing this and warming up the house with fire. The warm tea scent goes well with smoke. It's not a sexy smell but somehow still sensual. It makes me feel very cosy.

This also reminds me of Big Edie from Grey Gardens! Maybe she could have wore this while singing "Tea for two" out of tune! For Little Edie this perfume probably would have not been eccentric enough.

This starts as a strong cinnamon aroma but quickly settles into a beautiful comfort scent of gingerbread and earl grey tea. Silage isn't huge but longevity is really good, I just feel so cosy wearing this and I think it's certainly unisex

the opening is a strong smoky black tea with tobacco and bergamot facets like you put your nose into a box of fresh Earl Grey tea leaves. then, after 2 or 3 hours it changes completely, it fades to a quite sweet white flower composition that reminds me of La Chasse aux Papillons, even sweetened by honey with milky, vanillic, indolic jasmine or tuberose-like aspects. the brassy tone of the tea is not gone but steps to the background. this is a surprising development and I wear Tea for Two on and off now for some years, but today I had a bigger dose than normal and this made it quite obvious...I always found it nice, because seldomly a gourmand or edible smelling scent has notes that I find interesting after the initial burst...longetivity is quite good and sillage also for the first few hours.

Smoky black tea and tobacco leaves are two main players, supported by spices, anise, ginger and cinnamon. I don't get much honey in this. Medium silage and longevity, suitable for colder weather. I like this one very much.

My first niche love. I discovered it right when it was discontinued and hunted high and low for a bottle. When I finally got one, I went off it. After two years, I have fallen back in love, but with realistic expectations.

Tea for Two is spicy, milky black tea. It does not really evolve much over the hours and this is one of the parts I don't enjoy as much. I would have liked it to be richer. It's my comforting, wintery, Christmas scent. It's very, very discreet (i.e. very low sillage) but I can smell it on me for hours.

Would I buy it now? No, there are other scents with the same vibe that I prefer. But I am glad I have given it a second chance and now that I have it, I plan to enjoy it all winter.

Lovely and unique scent of a cup of strong black tea with a hint of vanilla.
This fragrance is a 5 star creation. Unfortuately longevity and sillage is very poor, this is why I would not buy a full bottle for that price. The wearing of it is not recognizable by others, I have to smell my hands close to smell it :(

Smells like smoky BBQ sauce!

What on earth? Does "tea for two" actually refer to the fact that this is meant to smell like dinner?

I can sense the actual tea note, but there is a lot more going on here.

Beautiful smelling, on pair with Diptyque Volutes, which is similar in overall effect, but while the latter is smooth and velvety, Tea for Two is cozy, and smelling it feels like an aromatherapy. It's very unique, and my girlfriend was blown away when she first smelled it.

Such a let down!!! As a lover of spice and tea and tobacco I had very high hopes! But on me this smells like straight up airport or hospital sterile hand soap. Literally. I smell like I just cleansed in preparation for a medical procedure.

Some years ago I visited a Tea Room in the famous Maokong region of Taiwan, which is famous for it's beautiful terraced tea fields near Taipei. The wooden and ceramic roofed Tea Room we escaped to, to get out of the rain was ancient and covered with an abundency of moss and lichen as to appear mostly green and ghost-like. Since a koi pond surrounded the structure, you had to maneuver over some pretty slippery stones to get inside. Once in we were welcomed with strong steamy black tea scented with orange honey and spice. They served these little green "shortbread" like cakes made out of green beans and sugar. This fragrance brings this memory back to life for me.
Tea for Two is at first smoky or ashy; not unlike a freshly lit cigarette. This stage doesn't last too long for me, but I do enjoy it. Then comes the dry down or Sweet Tea stage with spice and vanilla, lasts about 4 hrs. I don't mind re-applying to smell the smoke again. I love the journey Tea for Two takes me on.

This is what the beautiful, too cool for school girl with the leather jacket and 30 year old boyfriend smelled like when I was in HS. Smoky, but somehow still sweet. Nice, but strange for a 49 year old, pearl wearing Mom of two! My fave part came abput 8 hours in. Sweet, like how I smell after baking something delicious. I don't get tea, mostly tobacco and honey, but it's a neat one to have in my collection. I will wear this when I don my Dr. Marten boots and velvet leggings. It is unexpected from me and I'm sure to get some mileage out of this cult classic!!

Here I am.
YEARS later, after binge reading all of the reviews for a few years now, after losing hope when L'Artisan discontinued this beauty, after not being able to smell it, test it, here I am, years later, with my own, 100ml bottle, bought completely blind.

I am in love. It took years of smelling roughly 2.5K of perfumes for me to understand that my nose LOVES tea. Loves black, red, green, dark, smokey, spicy, white tea. I didn't even consider it a risk, to buy it blind, not even for a second.

It's Tea for Two for sure - me and my boyfriend can enjoy it equally. Completely unisex. It's dry tobacco, dry, black tea and spices. No milk, no sugar, but a posh gingerbread biscuit by the side. It has a slight resemblance to Volutes by Diptyque, in terms of honey and tobacco/spices (minus the iris). Lasts for 4-5 hours, gets sweeter towards the end. I would imagine it's great for layering with milky/vanilla scents, too, perfect for fall/winter.

It's an exciting moment to write a review here, as it's actually 'a dream come true' for me - making the scent real, after only reading about it. If you like tea and spices (and aren't into mainstream sweetness) - you cannot go wrong with this beauty.

Honestly... because of the hype that I've been seeing specially the reviews written everywhere about this fragrance here & Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille i felt like these are going to be something beyond imagination!

When i tried it today morning from a sample i bought few days back ..... well... really!? this could be a signature! or even a favorite!? i mean it's a good blend balanced i can't deny but it doesn't deserve that huge hype that I've been seeing everywhere! in short, the juice presents a cinnamon tea essence sweetened with honey wax, and as it cools down the anise, & vanilla cake shows up a bit to sweeten the essence more! nothing more and nothing less!

I thought that I would really enjoy wearing this scent. However from wearing in once there is nothing really amazing about it in my opinion. It smells great on paper but on my skin it is nothing amazing. The tea and honey work well with the spices.
The smell is nice but does not work so well with my skin.

I tend to be attracted to fragrances with a clear, legible character - and Tea For Two is one of the best, most recognizable scents I've found. TF2 is comfortingly familiar, yet not so literal as to be a novelty scent like a Demeter. I'm also very impressed that Ms. Giacobetti managed to create a tea scent that has some staying power to it; Bvlgari Black is the only other tea that manages to last more than a couple hours on me. I have a feeling this is going to be as close to a signature scent as any could ever be.

I bought it some time ago and it took me several applications to appreciate this beauty.
The tabacco is really intensive in the opening. Star anise, green tea and spices with tabacco. Hopefully it is not a cigarette smoke which I cannot stand but more fresh tabacco smell.
Tabacco still persists in the middle notes but is overwritten by aromatic sweet (honey) good black tea with ginger and spices.
I adore this scent. There is something intriguing and so cozy and attractive in the smell. I think it can easily be used in aromatherapy for calming a spirit. It's a kind of sent to be used for all seasons.
P.S. I used lot of time the word "Tabacco" but I'm non-smoker :)

Thom Ford "Tobacco Cinnamonne", perhaps? :P lol!! Seriously, It's sorta-kinda like TV, but swap the 'vanille' for cinnamon and there you have it!

Joking aside, this is a very nice fragrance. Reminds me of smelling a bag of Earl Grey tea but with cinnamon, and someone nearby broke a fresh cigar in half that i can also smell. VERY nice.

For me, the cinnamon kills it. Cinnamon is a scent that, for me, never totally goes away. As far as any smokiness, IMO that's via the leather; often times in a fragrance leather notes will seem smoky, I feel that's the case here. Any tobacco I am picking up seems fresh, cigar-like and unsmoked. Like a tobacco tea, if there were such a thing. ..? 7/10, glad I tried it, i still enjoy it despite the overbearing cinnamon.

Oh wow!

This is an absolute gem of a fragrance and unlike anything I've ever smelt or owned before.

I had this on my wish list for months but never found it in a store to try so, eventually, when I saw it for a good price on eBay I took the plunge and blind bought.

It arrived today and oh. my. goodness! What a beauty. It opens, as you'd expect with a straight up, fragrant tea note, beautiful, but it's the heart that develops 10-20 minutes later that I simply can't get enough of. This perfume smells like Christmas! Cinamonny, gingerbready, warm, woody, honey - oh it's just delicious and not in an obvious vanillery (I'm using loads of non-existent adjectives here I know) gourmand way but in a cosy, could just bathe in this way.
Then, about an hour later its a soft, honey-wood base that is trans-seasonal, perfect for anyone, non-offensive and utterly beautiful.

This could never be headachey or nauseating, it is, in my humble opinion, a masterpiece of perfumery and now I understand the hype :)

Admittedly I am not a big tea drinker. But for what its worth I think the name is at least to me slightly misleading. Compared to something like gucci pour homme ii, at least which is a much more sorta to me at least classic tea in a bag kinda smell that lasts a good bit. The tea vibe in this doesnt last for very long, and its a much more spicy diverse sorta chai perhaps even tea.

Anyway at the top there is a definite tea smell to me, and its green. The greenness of this goes away quickly and the tea as the fragrance goes on also goes away not long after. The first part of the fragrance is pretty woody, and some smokey nuisances, with the spiciness and the sweetness in the background.

As the fragrance dries down the the smokey and wood factor leave and you have just a really great mix of sweet and spicy notes. Doesnt really remind me of tea anymore but man I dont care, I think it smells great really cozy nice scent.

Again perhaps misleading name to me. At least I was expecting a much more classic sorta tea smell at least from the name. But at the end of the day I suppose the smell is the most important thing, and this smells good. Its funny in a way because as I said I think the fragrance gets better as it goes on, and at the beginning is when there is the most tea for me. Go figure.


Performance was just ok.

As soon as I heard this was relaunched, I ordered it blindly. It is just as wonderful as I had hoped! I can't compare to the first release, but the current Tea For Two is plenty strong, not watered down, so I would like to think it smells the same as ever.

It is just as one could ever hope for based on the description and the notes--very smoky black tea (like Russian tea) coupled with warm spices of ginger and cinnamon. Massive gingerbread note—freshly baked, soft and moist.

On the whole, this is a gorgeous perfume. It is a modern spicy perfume, not too heavy nor too light, and the spices are well-balanced so as not to leave those around you wondering why you smell like a cinnamon Yankee Candle.

While I don't view Tea For Two as a masterpiece, despite its cult following, it is an undoubted crowd-pleaser as it is sure to satisfy the most discerning tea and spice lover.

Just to let you know tkmaxx uk online store has 50ml size for £19.99!

A "must have". Smokey black te, honey as well. Wonderful comfort scent.

Lovely on its own, but also very good to layer. Try layering with L'artisan Chasseur au Papillon or with a nice amber, for instance Yves Rocher Voile D'ambre.

Absolutely amazing. This is *my* scent.

For me, the magic is the leather, tobacco, and smoke. On me, there is no ashtray note—as far as I can tell, leastwise—and the tea and spices merely enhance the overall experience, bringing a little complexity and playfulness to it.

Some have described this as a cozy, blanket-and-tea wintry night scent, but for me it seems suited to any time and occasion with the possible exception of the most humid summer heat.

GPHII is not a bad comparison, but where it lingers in the playful sweet spiciness, TFT is all about depth and that powerful smokiness.

I’m forever grateful for its triumphant return—snatched up two bottles as soon as I heard the news.

Again, L'Artisan has brewed together what is an absolutely magical, iconic, shimmering fragrance.

This is a warm spicy to be sure, however honeyed superbly, skilfully, with a bright, happy dare I say cherry-cola note that is wonderful: a soda note might make it sound cheap, but no no no - the execution of that, however much it may not be deliberate, is stunning. It is glimmering golden mist, a settling warm, spicy, utterly artistic and sensual collaboration of notes.

The sillage is fair - hanging around the wearer in a subtle yet enticing aura. It's perfect for day or night too.

This is probably one of my favourites of the house - up there with M & M Extreme and Premier Figuier.

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I wore this out this afternoon/this evening, and I kept getting drifts of this perfect, cosy, sensual, yummy smell. It sweetens considerably and wow... just love it! Well worth the investment.

This has a light airy quality and a piquant sweetness that has much in common with other spicy cinnamon fragrances, like "Spicebomb" and "Gucci Pour Homme II".

For me tobacco and cinnamon are the strongest notes, while a pleasant green tea cuts through the sweetness to keep things fresh and alive. I get faint globules of honey too, but not has heavy or rich as the honey in "Back to Black" by Kilian, which has a very similar composition.

Very comforting and wearable scent, perfect for spring/Autumn, and perhaps leaning more towards the feminine side.

Tea for Two is unusual and perfect for a change. On my skin, the tea in this fragrance smells lovely - very green and fresh and the spices are quite warm (I'm guessing the warmth comes from the tobacco here) which creates a wonderful balance. Only a touch sweet on me, so it's not very sweet at all. The dry-down is just a fainter version of this.

In addition, this perfume fades really fast; I only got 4-5 hours out of it. Sillage is very soft, so I find it to be quite an intimate fragrance.

I don't get a lot of leather, smokiness, honey or vanilla, which would really elevate the scent for me for a kind of 'full-bodied tea experience'. As it stands, it's rather flat, which is a shame. Although this must just be my skin's chemistry.

Tea For Two?, Well Yes Please, Sit Down and Serve.

Lovely composition. It's very cozy, inviting, and pleasurable to smell. I love the smell of the warm tea, vanilla, ginger cookie, honey, and spice combination. The leather, tobacco and tea add balance and pull the fragrance from being too sweet. They are very prominent notes in T42. The ginger is piquant and the star anise adds a brightness to the spices. This is a perfect fragrance for Autumn. When I close my eyes and smell it what comes to mind is a softly windy and sunny cool Fall afternoon in New England.

Olivia Giacobetti doesn't disappoint, and delivers well with this one. She is a highly talented parfumeur in my opinion and it shows in this one, as well as being a beautiful woman--check her pictures out. There is no fragrance that appeals to 100% of the people, but this one appeals to most people with a big smile. I hope that L'Artisan Parfumeur has finally realized what it had in this one after it pulled it out of the shelves a couple of years ago. I hope T42 is now sold permanently. Many people were anxiously waiting and praying for this 2nd advent.

Have to say the first impression was not good, very smoky and bitter. However the dry down was so beautiful and unique, which made me drove 2 hours to the store again the next day to get it! My husband was quite against all the unisex perfumes we had tried before, but he does like this one.

Sorry to say. I don't like this one. This one of a few unisex perfumes by L'Artisan Parfumeur that I don't like and I'm more of a fan of this design house now. I kind of liked it when I first sampled it but after awhile, something in this just turns my stomach. The scent is almost cloying to me. I think it's the tea notes in this combined with some other notes that my chemistry doesn't agree with.

Superb enveloping evening scent

Superb enveloping evening scent

Wonderful stuff! A classic!

Tea for Two is a wonderfully fresh and spicy smoky tea fragrance. Very beautiful smoked tea with honey, vanilla, spices (including star anise, cinnamon & ginger), leather, a hint of bergamot... and even a little gingerbread! it's a wonderfully warm, cosy fragrance which I like very much.

It as a spicy aromatic opening of fresh bergamot & zingy star anise... before the spicy, smoky tea with honey gets there, and stays like that throughout the rest of the fragrance, before finally drying down to a leather and spiced vanilla tobacco with honey at the end. Just beautiful!

It's like drinking your favourite black tea (or spiced tea, like chai) with honey and gingerbread biscuits, on a warm sofa by the fire. A really warm & lovely feeling. The good news is that it's back (after it was discontinued for a couple of years), and it's easily one of the nicest fragrances out there! A perfect for the colder months. Love it!

This is back by popular demand and the message from them was simple:Hundreds of us asked them to bring it back and they were granting us our wish.
Not sure how long it will last for but am sure it will be around for a long time.Goes a long way to show with a united front we can get some of these houses to listen to us -the consumers!

Tea for Two is one of my signature scents. It's a warm, spicey vanilla which evokes an image of heavy chai tea and lingering pipe smoke. Very sweet and gourmand but also exotic and masculine/feminine. For me it's a fragrance which crosses gender and category boundaries. Very nice, one of my ultimate fragrance faves! It's a total shame that it's been discontinued, but I can understand it as it's slightly too "out there" to hold wide commercial appeal.

I envy those living in the Southern Hemisphere right now, because Tea For Two has just shot to the top of my Perfect Winter Scents list, and it will be some months before I can indulge in it properly.

TFT opens with star anise and gingerbread, and then gives you smoke and spiced milk. After you make it through those headwinds, you come to a lovely calm spicy green tea smell laced with, but not overpowered by, cinnamon. Hours later that's how it still smells, though rounded out by vanilla.

Beautiful and warm and comforting.

Very smoky! Opens up like strong burnt rubber and stays soft smoky to the end. Smoke overpowers the tea and vanilla in it. Although this one is absolutely not for me, I think it would smell great and even sexy on a guy.

This review is based on a decant. On my skin and to my nose this is basically GPHII with tobacco added. Opening is loud and in your face but calms down quickly and moves closer to the skin with below average projection. Longevity is moderate on my skin. It's quite a polarizing scent I would say with that ashy tobacco note and a spicy undertone. Weird but unique. I can see why some people love it but the ashy spicy tobacco note is a little too much for my liking. It may be an acquired taste and I probably would have to try it again. This discontinued scent is probably among one of the popular ones like Timbuktu and Dzing! from this house. If you like your tea scent with spicy tobacco, definitely give this one a try.

Seems like this inspired Tobacco Vanille, as they have the same sweet/fruity/vanillic qualities. TfT is a bit more complex but comparing vintage to vintage (my TfT bottle is from 2009), I'd say TV is stronger. This is the kind of niche scent I prefer, as it is strong, has notes I enjoy, smells natural, and doesn't have anything (such as the typical soapy lavender note in so many "masculines") that can distract from the core elements.