Advent Day 11
This tea smells so good dry! I’ve been letting it steep all day and that might have been a bit much. There is a tartness that I’m not super into, but the rest of it seems pretty delightful. I get almond extract and fruit. There was a huge star anise in there that is nice too. I wish I could figure out how I feel about this tea, but my tiny roommates keep interrupting my thoughts to tell me about bird videos on Instagram or some random joke they just read in a book. I love my tiny roomies, but I also really love complaining about them. I complain with love. Orange. There is orange in the finish that I’m not crazy about with the rest of what this blend has going on. Almond, anise then orange.
Update: Sitting next to my empty cup after a few hours of finishing it and the cup smelled exactly like honey candy! That floral sweet scent. I didn’t get any of that in the tea.
There wasn’t even any anise in the serving I got.
Wow. Weird. It was like 30% of what my sample was.