Meh.
When I went to Ottawa a few months ago I got a ridiculous number of samples of this and other Four O’Clock teas foisted upon me at a Winterlude celebration. Goodness knows that I love flavoured tea, but this is tea for namby-pamby beginners – overly flavoured and sweetened, meant to be cute and candylike.
It honestly does smell like black forest cake when it’s brewing. But when it cools down, it smells and tastes very chemically, with a metallic sweetness on the back of my tongue and in my sinus cavities thats’ hard to avoid. I’m seriously considering tossing what I have left of this since the flavouring is so obtrusive.
Sounds nasty.
I’ve seen the brand on corporate “nutrition break” trays.It’s generally bad.
I’ll have the tea, if you don’t want it! laughs I think I see what you’re saying, though. The initial brewing scent is a lot nicer than the cooled cup.