Having a pot of this with the housemate and a side of almond milk rice pudding with cardamom and rose that I made a few nights ago.
Housemate says the dry ingredients smells like a mix of Juicy Fruit gum with peppermint gum. I think it smells like vanilla-peppermint cream with pistachios and rose. The rosehips give the brew an appropriate color for the name. The tea smells fruity with apples and something else I can’t parse…, creamy nougat studded with pistachios and almonds and peppermint. The taste is like a mixture of herbal tea on the sip followed quickly by a very prominent vanilla-honey-caramel nougat flavor, an intense nuttiness of (I can’t shake it!) what smells like rubbery Barbie doll legs, a hint of red rooibos. It finishes mineral and lightly drying along with tangy rosehips. Lingering perfume of sweet apple, bittersweet rose and vanilla-honey nougat, some clean peppermint cooling but overall body warming. Housemate says it tastes kinda marshmallowy like those orange circus candy peanuts.
This tea is really very strange.
Flavors: Almond, Apple, Caramel, Cream, Creamy, Dark Bittersweet, Drying, Floral, Fruity, Herbaceous, Honey, Mineral, Nuts, Nutty, Peppermint, Perfume, Rose, Rosehips, Sweet, Tangy, Vanilla
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Barbie legs and circus peanuts… Well at least it’s not boring! :P
It’s pretty dang good! Between the circus peanuts (not at all my impression) and Barbie legs, this tea screams 1980s. I really can’t get over that association.
Someone gifted me two bags of this tea and I had a hard time pinning down the flavor as well! August Uncommon has some really unique tea blends for sure. The Apple and the Mint in it make me think of DT’s Midsummer Nights Dream though they aren’t that similar.
derk It’s a very gloomy morning here, probably going to rain. This tea note made my day. Do Barbie legs smell differently than doll heads? (Doll heads is a note descriptor often used in perfume reviews…)
Circus Peanuts is my all-time most hated candy. Bleeeeech.
Send the extra marshmallow peanuts my way!
Lexie Aleah, did you enjoy this tea? I’ve never had Midsummer Nights Dream. Heartbreaker is a very unique blend and I have no comparison to any other tea.
I remember you hate those peanuts, Mastress Alita, because I hate them, too. I did not get an impression of that vile candy at all.
I liked it but I don’t tend to reach for apple teas with the exception of A Midsummer Night’s Dream from DT that one has gooseberries in it as well though which is fun! That one is one of my absolute favorite herbal teas. Heartbreaker I think had a little too much going on for me.
You’re right, there is a lot going on, which I think makes it interesting but also a tea I wouldn’t want to drink often.
And White Antlers: it’s not doll heads. Those are more powdery :) I once tasted Cabbage Patch kids in this tea: https://steepster.com/derk/posts/392123
derk Yes! Doll head is another way of describing a powdery note in perfume, heliotrope often being the culprit. Cabbage Patch Kids always seemed to have an air of malovolence about them so I always gave ’em a wide berth which negated any tasting or smelling.
Barbie legs and circus peanuts… Well at least it’s not boring! :P
It’s pretty dang good! Between the circus peanuts (not at all my impression) and Barbie legs, this tea screams 1980s. I really can’t get over that association.
Someone gifted me two bags of this tea and I had a hard time pinning down the flavor as well! August Uncommon has some really unique tea blends for sure. The Apple and the Mint in it make me think of DT’s Midsummer Nights Dream though they aren’t that similar.
derk It’s a very gloomy morning here, probably going to rain. This tea note made my day. Do Barbie legs smell differently than doll heads? (Doll heads is a note descriptor often used in perfume reviews…)
Circus Peanuts is my all-time most hated candy. Bleeeeech.
Send the extra marshmallow peanuts my way!
Lexie Aleah, did you enjoy this tea? I’ve never had Midsummer Nights Dream. Heartbreaker is a very unique blend and I have no comparison to any other tea.
I remember you hate those peanuts, Mastress Alita, because I hate them, too. I did not get an impression of that vile candy at all.
I liked it but I don’t tend to reach for apple teas with the exception of A Midsummer Night’s Dream from DT that one has gooseberries in it as well though which is fun! That one is one of my absolute favorite herbal teas. Heartbreaker I think had a little too much going on for me.
You’re right, there is a lot going on, which I think makes it interesting but also a tea I wouldn’t want to drink often.
And White Antlers: it’s not doll heads. Those are more powdery :) I once tasted Cabbage Patch kids in this tea: https://steepster.com/derk/posts/392123
derk Yes! Doll head is another way of describing a powdery note in perfume, heliotrope often being the culprit. Cabbage Patch Kids always seemed to have an air of malovolence about them so I always gave ’em a wide berth which negated any tasting or smelling.