Lemon Lavender Creamsicle

Mastress Alita’s Monthly Sipdown Challenge
May 2022 → A lemon tea

I think I’m coming to the realization that I’m just not a fan of lavender in teas. I did, however, finally get some flavor from a white tea by using boiling water instead of cooler water. Maybe this will help me get through the rest of my stash.

Latte Sipdown (599)!

Welp… I was actually really enjoying this latte; I’d finished about half of it, and I had it on the desk right next to my bed – I was sipping on it while working on tasting notes. I guess the last time I set it back on the desk it was a little bit too close to the edge though, and seemingly out of nowhere the glass just fell and spilled milk all over my bed and down the side of the desk. It took ages to clean up, and was a bit of a piss off since this was a nice latte and also the last of this tea…

Before the very tragic spill, I was finding that this tea was reminding me a lot of Lemon Pound Cake, from DT – same sort of creamy and buttery vanilla, with lots of lemongrass. The vanilla was a really nice touch! I saw lots of lavender in the dry leaf and I could smell it as the tea was steeping, but to be honest I wasn’t getting a lot of it in the flavour – definitely more of a lemon/vanilla sort of profile going on. I was a touch sad I wasn’t getting the lavender, but I’m also a TOTAL sucker for lemon and vanilla so I was pretty in love with the profile.

I’m just pissed that I dumped half of it. Ugh!

This blend is a little over a year old now. It is nice enough but not my favorite. I get a lot of creamy vanilla and lemon in the forefront but throughout the sip the lemon starts to meld more with the lavendar which pops up near the end and the two together are a bit lemon pledge/cleaning product like for my tastes. I blame lavender. It tastes like soap to me and I think soap and lemon are bringing up ideas of cleaning products in my mind. I think my description makes this sound more offensive than it is because its not bad per se…just not my favorite. The forefront when it is creamy and vanilla and lemon screams lemon creamsicle though so that’s cool.

(52teas (Anne) 2022: 83)

I guess the dashboard is acting up again; a bunch of my recent tasting notes have zero likes, which means nobody has seen them. Which also likely means that there are a bunch of notes from other people that I’m not seeing as well. Annoying.

Anyhow, this tea was predictably tasty. Maybe a little lighter than it could be, but still good.

On another note, I’m having trouble looking at screens today for some reason, and it’s really irritating. My eyes keep watering uncontrollably. Hopefully a side effect of lack of sleep or something?

This is lovely. It is subdued with a slightly lavender, vanilla, creamy flavor. If I had written this review when I first received the pouch it would have been meh. But, after going through the pouch I have found that I thought it was meh because it was different from what I traditionally like. Since that first steep, this tea has grown on me. Its soft, slightly sweet flavor is delightful and satisfying. The flavors meld together so that it is difficult to separate out the contributing elements even knowing what they are. I think it makes a great warm cup of tea that I found myself reaching for more and more. And, now I’m down to the last cup.

Cold Steeped this over night.

I love the concept but the jury’s still out on how I feel about this tea. I do think it’s neat how the lemon and lavender meld together to create a smooth and refreshing dessert tea. There’s a vanilla-sweet note that definitely reminds me of the centre of a creamsicle. It was the perfect companion for some low maintenance gardening today.

I’ll try this hot before saying goodbye.

first tasting note on this one – that’s unfortunate haha This is another sample from crowkettle First off, when someone says creamsicle my first thought is orange creamsicle. So drinking this i needed to keep reaminding myself that it was leamon/lavender NOT orange. Thankfully, this isn’t a bouquet of lavender – which is one of those scents that i am just not a fan of. That being said, this is a relatively subdued blend. It’s not super lemoney, lavender like…more of a light lemon cream with something going on in the background that i wouldn’t necessarily call out as being lavender. decent enough blend, but not my favourite.