# Victoria's Secret — Tease Flower

> Tease Flower is a 2017 floral flanker of Victoria's Secret's flagship Tease line - a soft, sweet, springtime floral built on orchid, tulip, and a whipped-cream-and-vanilla base. It's lighter, "pinker,

## Essence
Tease Flower is a 2017 floral flanker of Victoria's Secret's flagship Tease line - a soft, sweet, springtime floral built on orchid, tulip, and a whipped-cream-and-vanilla base. It's lighter, "pinker," and more delicate than the original gourmand Tease, and wearers treat it as a pretty, easy, daytime crowd-pleaser hobbled by famously poor longevity.
## Scent Profile
Tease Flower opens sweet and floral with a sugar-dusted lift, and quickly reads as a fresh bouquet rather than a single flower - the listed tulip is described by attentive wearers as "the star of the show," with clean, powdery florals (some detect freesia, peony, or an iris-like facet) swirling underneath. There's almost no fruit, which distinguishes it from VS's typical fruity-floral default. The base is the gourmand anchor: a soft whipped-cream and vanilla accord that stays "mild" and sugary rather than heavy or cloying. One frequently echoed wearer reading is that it's a softer, "pinker," daytime cousin of VS Very Sexy (the red bottle) minus the pepper - even imagining a faint powdery-cappuccino/cactus whiff. It's light and linear; don't expect dramatic development.
## Performance
Performance is the universal complaint, and it's the most consistent thing wearers say about it: very short longevity and minimal sillage. Reports include the scent vanishing within the hour ("literally gone before I left the mall"), a "Houdini" disappearing act, and ratings as low as for both longevity and sillage. A few note it lingers better in the hair or on clothing than on skin. Practically: this is a re-apply-often or layer-with-matching-body-products scent. The EDP concentration does little to fix the staying power.
## Wearing Context
Squarely a spring/daytime, casual scent. The wearer consensus is "soft enough to be worn to any spring daytime event" but explicitly "not for a date night or any professional occasion" - light, playful, fun, youthful. It skews young and feminine ("pretty girl," "girly"), and works as an everyday, inoffensive, errands-and-class scent rather than a seductive or formal one. Warm-weather friendly given its lightness.
## Comparisons & DNA
Its primary DNA reference is internal: a lighter, more floral, less-pepper-and-vanilla spin within the Tease family, and a daytime/softer relative of VS Very Sexy per wearer accounts. The broader Tease line itself orbits Juicy Couture Viva La Juicy (the original Tease is repeatedly called a Viva La Juicy near-clone), but Tease Flower diverges from that gourmand-fruity lane by being floral-forward and largely fruitless, so the Viva La Juicy comparison fits the line more than this specific flanker. No named external dupes are documented for Tease Flower itself; honestly described, it's a soft tulip-and-cream floral in the mass-market sweet-floral idiom.
## Reception
For a discontinued mall fragrance the sentiment is warm but qualified. Praise: genuinely pretty, soft, feminine, "one of the best VS has ever put out" for its fans, and a nice fresh-floral change from VS's sweeter defaults; some wearers report compliments and stocked up after discontinuation. Criticisms: (1) the longevity, overwhelmingly; and (2) a "nothing special"/"uninspiring" camp who find it just another pleasant-but-forgettable sweet floral. The polarization is mild - it's a likeable-but-slight scent, not a love-it-or-hate-it. Blind-buy verdict: low-stakes and inexpensive on the secondary market, fine for fans of light spring florals who don't need projection or longevity; manage expectations on performance.
## Versions & Reformulation
Tease Flower circulated as an Eau de Parfum (including a 3.4 oz / 100 ml that some listings flag as a limited edition) and as a Fragrance Mist / body spray (8.4 oz / 250 ml), part of VS's standard EDP-plus-mist-plus-body-care model. No reformulations of the fragrance are documented; the meaningful split is simply EDP vs. the weaker, even shorter-lived body mist. Single composition otherwise.
## Acquisition Notes
Pricing sits in Victoria's Secret's accessible designer tier. Tease Flower was sold through Victoria's Secret in fine-fragrance and body-care formats depending on the release, typically EDP, mist, lotion, rollerball, or travel spray. For discontinued, limited, or renamed versions, verify the exact year, concentration, name, note set, and bottle before buying.
## Notable Facts & Lore
- There's little documented lore - this is a mass-market flanker, not a storied release.
- The most notable structural fact is its place in VS's sprawling Tease franchise, which spun off numerous flankers (Tease Rebel, Tease Creme Cloud, Tease Candy Noir, Tease Sugar Fleur, Tease Temptation, and the rebranded core Tease that descended from 2010's Sexy Little Things Noir Tease).
- No celebrity associations, viral moments, or controversies specific to Tease Flower are documented; its modest cult status now rests almost entirely on discontinuation-driven nostalgia.