Imperial Tea

Kilian Hennessy's inspiration: Imperial Tea is a fresh and modern homage to Jasmine Tea, infused, served, and sipped in the most noble of Chinese traditions.

For our founder, travel always comes with surprises, new encounters, and love. This time, the sea breeze carried him to a new land where rich tea culture has endured for centuries. He witnessed the crafting of Jasmine Tea, with hand-picked white flowers layered on fermenting tea to infuse their oils. He watched the serving of Jasmine Tea with floating blooms and tasted it in a moment of timelessness and elegance, one he wished would never end. One sip, and all senses expand in Jasmine blooms outside of space and time.

The perfume: Imperial Tea is a pure, linear fragrance around a Green Tea accord infused with Jasmine Sambac absolute. An opening uplift of Bergamot and Laminaria Seaweed—a rare ingredient in perfumery offering mineral and airy equilibrium—captures the mist of ocean air, while the fragrance lasts long with rooted notes of Vetiver oil and Musk. Pulled toward the sky and back to the earth, at its core is the Jasmine Tea of a regal Chinese cultural ritual enduring across millennia.

Perfume notes: Laminaria seaweed, Green tea, Jasmine sambac absolute.

Olfactive Family: The Fresh.

Perfumer: Calice Becker.