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Cripes, this tea makes me want to back slowly away from it. When I asked the sales associate which tea from the spring collection was her favourite, she said that this one was. I took a sniff and skeptically thought, “Reeeeeeally…” All of these medicinal notes were flying at me, but nevertheless, I grabbed 10g.

Once I took this pouch home, I kept sniffing, and sniffing and pondering, “Now what does this remind me of?” Something medicinal. But what are we talking about here? Robitussin? Tylenol chewable tablets for kids? Something like that, but yet it’s not cherry cough syrup or anything. Cherry Blossom was like that but not this. So what gives?

As I was steeping it, I caught a fleeting waft of red wine. Could my brain actually be thinking of wine instead? Nah. Ok, that was a thing of its own. But there’s still this other sharp medicinal thing that’s trying to be berry.

I take a sip, and it simply tastes like how it smells. Still bewildering. After half-an-hour of sipping on my mug, tasting and smelling the steeped tea, it finally dawns on me. This tastes like a potted raspberry lip balm that Upper Canada Soap made back when I was in junior high. It was in a clear container shaped like a raspberry and filled with a layer of lavender-coloured balm, which was topped off with darker purple balm molded into the shape of a raspberry. Eureka! I also used to have a tiny bottle of raspberry lotion in the same scent. Ugh, I don’t even think I finished either because it was just wrong. It didn’t bear any resemblance to raspberry at all, and didn’t smell like your typical artificial raspberry either.

So there you have it. This tea tastes like vile 90s lip balm/body lotion. Guh.