Mélange des Chérubins

Thanks so much to Ruby Woo Scarlett for sharing this tea with me.

I wanted to try this one for ages and here I am : classic Dammann tea base and greedy ingredients such as chocolate, hazelnut + blood orange.

It is really quite similar to Velours Nacré (same tea base, same ingredients at the difference it has almonds in place of hazelnuts)

it’s a pleasant tea, not one I would buy as I own Velours Nacré but I’m happy to have had the chance to taste it

I could have sworn I smelled cherry in this, but I guess it is that almond/cherry crossover smell! I’m really not getting much flavor from this at all which is disappointing considering how delicious the ingredients sound.

I got the loveliest swap package from Courtney today! And she included a surprise jam gift! I guess this officially makes me the crazy jam lady, LOL!

I pulled this one out at random to try while I was making breakfast for dinner. Like a lot of Dammann’s tea, it’s quite subtly flavored. I didn’t look up the ingredients beforehand, and was guessing orange with some cream and nuts and maybe apricot? I was sort of close, it’s chocolate and hazelnut with orange! So I think the cream note I’m picking up on must be the chocolate. It reminds me a bit of their Noël à Vienne, which is chocolate, apricot, vanilla I think? The base is their usual one – very smooth, lightly woody, just a tinge earthy.

It’s pleasant! Probably not one I would order, just because I find it a bit muddled and chocolate teas are never my favorite anyway. But it’s fun to try, thanks Courtney!

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Another variable temperature kettle experiment!

I never get a lot of flavour from this one, but oddly, today it tastes like a light cinnamon cookie. What?!

I think the next experiment will be tea-sipper’s idea to steep this at a shorter time to attempt to let the flavours come out more than the base tea.

Chocolate, hazelnut, and orange. Although DF teas seem to hold their flavour very well, at least considering I’ve had these for nearly a year, the flavours in this one don’t really pop. Despite this being my first tasting note, I have had this when it was a lot fresher, and if I recall, it wasn’t particularly flavourful then either. I’m not getting much other than the base. Perhaps a vague nuttiness that is blending in so well with the base that it could pass as a base note itself. Orange? Not much, and the chocolate is faint too.

For a chocolate orange nut blend, I prefer Velours Nacré, which has almond instead. I could be wrong, but I swear the orange and chocolate notes are stronger in it too. Also prefer Coquelicot Gourmand when we’re talking about ultra desserty DF teas. This only makes it easier for me to decide on what to get in the future.