Old Shanghai

Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab

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    5.0
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    kngfrank

    13 years ago

    I am in love with this scent but I can't find it anywhere and it lasted about an hour on me. Need to find something comparable because it could have been my HG!

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    Age36-43

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    hallospaceboy

    17 years ago

    This smells very astringent - too astringent. It's a distant cousin of my beloved Kumiho, but without the sweetness and ginger. Shanghai is too bitter for my tastes.

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    Age19-24

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    5.0
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    oople

    18 years ago

    I got an imp of this to try first. This started off as a pleasant lemony scent, then sweetened as it mellowed. I am really liking this one, and it's reminding me of something that I can't...

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    Age30-35

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    nancybridget02091979

    19 years ago

    All I get here is lemon-lime herbal tea. Meh.

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    Age25-29

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    Sunegulf

    19 years ago

    Warm tea with lemon and a drop of something sweet and creamy. The web site says honeysuckle, but I don't get that at all. Very much a fruit tea scent when applied wet. On me the dry down brings...

    About reviewer (44 reviews)

    Age36-43

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    Tammy166

    20 years ago

    This is such a wonderful tea, lemon and herbal scent. If you've never been happy with any tea scent, give this one a try. Too bad I have to take off 1 lipstick because this one doesn't have very...

    About reviewer (153 reviews)

    Age19-24

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    ergi

    20 years ago

    A simple, subtle two or three note fragrance. Pervasive tea (very green, fresh-cut), faint lemony backdrop (more lemongrass than citrus), and weak floral buds. The floral peeks out after 2 or 3...

    About reviewer (161 reviews)

    Age30-35

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    dreamstorm

    20 years ago

    A surprisingly pleasant citrus blend. Thankfully it doesn't go the lemon-Pledge route and instead smells like a crisp, uplifiting lemon fragrance, touched with just a hint of rose in the...

    About reviewer (848 reviews)

    Age19-24

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    lemonlye

    20 years ago

    On me, smelled almost exactly like any of those aromatherapy "green tea" body washes/mists/lotions you can get cheap at the drugstore. Rather too dry and uninteresting for me, alas...

    About reviewer (142 reviews)

    Age25-29

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    Laurin

    20 years ago

    Old Shanghai is a great summer scent. It smells like lemon and tea. My only gripe is that is fades very quickly on me.

    About reviewer (61 reviews)

    Age36-43

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    AmyM

    20 years ago

    This one smells identical to Elizabeth Arden's Green Tea on my skin. Citrusy, refreshing, and light, great for summer. I won't be wearing it myself (prefer Kumiho, which I find a little more...

    About reviewer (205 reviews)

    Age19-24

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    luxed2

    20 years ago

    This is the lightest and most 'mainstream' smelling BPAL I've tried so far (reminds me a little of EA Green Tea). In contrast to most of their other scents, this one is very linear on me from wet...

    About reviewer (197 reviews)

    Age36-43

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    5.0
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    mangolassi

    21 years ago

    Normally I find "green tea" scents or "clean" scents very *boring*...I tend to run screaming in the other directions when someone mistakenly recommends them to me. But Old Shanghai is completey...

    About reviewer (94 reviews)

    Age25-29

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    theodote

    21 years ago

    This is a great scent to wake you up on a sleepy afternoon. The lemon hit me first, and was very revitalizing. That drowned out everything else for a few minutes. It dried to a lovely green tea...

    About reviewer (55 reviews)

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    5.0
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    djsaphira

    21 years ago

    A very lovely green tea scents that reminds me a lot of L'Occitane's The Verte.

    About reviewer (506 reviews)

    Age19-24

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    Ilse333

    21 years ago

    I got this as a free sample from BPAL and was really surprised by how much I liked it. It's a real wake-up scent, and I agree that it is redolent of a sharp glass of lemon iced tea, sweetened by...

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    allamanda

    21 years ago

    Lovely smell in bottle and when first applied. Green tea hit me first, rapidly followed by lemon. Very light. Fading quickly to a pretty, light, lemony fragrance. Clean smelling and very nice....

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    shriekingviolet

    21 years ago

    Very clean scent. The tea notes are very prevalent, with light suggestions of honey and lemon in the background. I'm not really big on tea scents, but this would be a winner for someone who does....

    About reviewer (460 reviews)

    Age19-24

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    5.0
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    marinablue

    21 years ago

    Amazing rendition of cold, lemony tea. No Pledge smell or synthetic citrus here. Goes on as a very strong bright lemon and softens in about 5 minutes so you won't smell yellow all day. I think the...

    About reviewer (249 reviews)

    Age30-35

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    kyttikat

    21 years ago

    This is the fragrance I reach for in the summer when it's sweltering and I'm so parched that no amount of cold water can quench my thirst. Old Shanghai is an icy lemon tea scent that immediately...

    About reviewer (268 reviews)

    Age19-24

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