Tea type
Herbal Tea
Ingredients
Chamomile
Flavors
Floral, Spices, Sweet, Apple, Flowers, Grass, Straw, Creamy, Green Apple, Lemon, Pleasantly Sour, Dust, Honey, Mint, Perfume
Sold in
Bulk, Loose Leaf, Sachet, Tea Bag
Caffeine
Caffeine Free
Certification
Not available
Edit tea info Last updated by Jason
Average preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 5 min, 15 sec 8 g 16 oz / 473 ml

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  • “I can’t believe this wasn’t in my cupboard. I bought a one pound bag because it did wonders for my dog’s feet. (Because it is so light, the one pound bag looks HUGE.) He has grass pollen allergies...” Read full tasting note
  • “Another free sample from Harney, in sachet form. It’s not bad, but nothing like the vibrant fresh apple-y wonderful loose chamomile I’ve purchased elsewhere. It tastes more like the meh chamomile I...” Read full tasting note
  • “This is so good! I noticed right away there is a strong, almost wild, smell of chamomile. It’s so much stronger than other chamomiles I’ve tried. I’m glad I got this as a sample in my order. It...” Read full tasting note
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  • “The hunt for the perfect chamomile continues. These bags are from the stash my coworkers collected whilst we were at conference…the hotel rooms had tea as well as coffee, and they gathered me a...” Read full tasting note
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From Harney & Sons

Calm the mind and body with Chamomile Herbal. The tea’s unique strong scent reminiscent of fresh green apples comes from the finest handpicked Egyptian Chamomile flower heads. The pale yellow chamomile brew is a delicious tea with a definite body and honey-sweet infusion. Served for centuries as a calmative, Chamomile is also the perfect nighttime tisane, quieting and calming.

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Since 1983 Harney & Sons has been the source for fine teas. We travel the globe to find the best teas and accept only the exceptional. We put our years of experience to work to bring you the best Single-Estate teas, and blends beyond compare.

52 Tasting Notes

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379 tasting notes

Hmm… Got this as a sample when I ordered Paris and a stump teapot. I never had Chamomile tea before. I don’t know what a good or bad one tastes like… It’s not bad at all but it’s very odd. Kind of like a spicy flower while sipping, then a strange & curious aftertaste. Really strange. I am reluctant to rate it since I have literally zero experience but for the purposes of possibly needing something to help me sleep in the future… It’s known to help with sleeping and supposed to be super calming, I’m going to rate it “70” so I’ll know that it wasn’t disgusting and I could buy it lol.

In other news, Civilization 6 came out with an expansion so I’m spending some time playing it, and I’m still working on getting my cupboard down some without buying too many new teas, hehe. I should be getting my YS package soon (after a 2.5+ month wait, it finally made it to USA. I was unlucky this time around, usually never takes that long.) so I’m looking forward to that. I log my tea in the cupboard when I order it (vs when I receive it). I also put in all my tea-swaps in there. How do you all do it? :)

Flavors: Floral, Spices, Sweet

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 8 min or more 20 OZ / 591 ML
ashmanra

I put mine in the first time I drink them usually, and I don’t add the small amounts like swaps and samples.

Kawaii433

Thanks for your response, Ashmanra :)

Evol Ving Ness

I label the tea package with the date that I receive it. I don’t do this with swaps.

Kawaii433

Thanks, Evol Ving Ness for your response :).

mrmopar

I add the tea to my wishlist and then add it to my cupboard when it arrives. I label all the cakes with what they are, when purchased/received and amount paid for each. Seeing the pricing raise over time is about like watching a bond mature.

Kawaii433

Thanks for your response mrmopar :).

btw, I’d put it in the discussions but I keep timing out when I try to post there hehe. It’s nice to see how others log their tea.

Kawaii433

mrmopar – lol @watching a bond mature.

mrmopar

Some of it rises better than gold. Buy early and plan….

Mastress Alita

I don’t use the Steepster cupboard for inventory at all. If I log a tea with a review, I add it to the Steepster cupboard; it has no reflection at all on what I currently own or don’t own. I do all that externally on a spreadsheet, since I can filter that spreadsheet by various variables (date, size, company, ingredients, flavor notes, etc.). I have that spreadsheet linked for public viewing at all times from my Steepster Profile.

Kawaii433

Thanks for your response, Mastress Alita. :) I have a detailed file in Evernote but that’s about it (other than steepster cupboard.) I will look at your spreadsheet. That’s awesome.

Evol Ving Ness

How sweet of you to thank each of us individually! <3

Kawaii433

hehe I really appreciate all of your input and comments! :D <3

hawkband1

I was adding teas to my cupboard as I drank them but it wasn’t working well. I’ve been trying to add teas as I receive them. I also have a spreadsheet on google docs that I update.

Kawaii433

Thanks hawkband1 :) I really like the spreadsheet on google docs idea that both you and Mastress Alita brought up. I have a detailed inventory in Evernote but I think google docs would be a much better place to share… Etc. Thanks :D

tea-sipper

I’ve got a e-mail draft that I keep updated with my teas, organized by type of tea and then by alphabetical (it’s mostly handy for keeping track of multiple packages of tea, like if I have a sample amount separate from another.)

Kawaii433

Thanks, tea-sipper :) Oh wow, never ever thought of using the email draft for uses like that. Pretty neat and convenient too.

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14 tasting notes

Basic chamomile. I prefer some of the organic brands that are more floral.

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735 tasting notes

A free sample from my last Harney & Sons order.

I honestly haven’t had many pure chamomile teas. My past experience with chamomile has always been some dusty, faint flavor that was not interesting in the slightest. I should have known that there were varying degrees of quality, like any other tea.

Compared to what I’ve had, this tastes so fresh. I taste notes of apple and flowers. There’s also something that reminds me of clean dried grass or fresh hay. It leaves me wondering what I’ve been missing all the years I’ve skipped chamomile because I’d had bad ones…

It’s annoying that chamomile isn’t listed under Flavors when filling this out… there have been a couple teas where I’ve wanted to list it recently.

Flavors: Apple, Floral, Flowers, Grass, Straw

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 0 sec
Cameron B.

I suggest flavors all the time – I’m not sure they ever get added. :(

gmathis

Chamomile and apple are perfect together. I absolutely loved Celestial Seasonings Sweet Apple Chamomile, but clearly I was in the minority. I believe it’s long gone.

Tabby

@Cameron B – I don’t think they’ve updated the Flavors list in years…

Lexie Aleah

Stash has a cinnamon Apple chamomile though I’ve never tried it.

Tabby

@Lexie Aleah Ooh, I wonder if they have that at my grocery store…

Mastress Alita

Stash’s Cinnamon Apple Chamomile is not a tea for hibi-haters, which I’ve found is pretty much 99% of all Steepster users. Since I’m in that rare 1% that likes it, I actually like that tea — in fact, it’s one of the few bagged grocery store teas I find I still enjoy. I sipped down what I had left it shortly after our fall weather hit. It’s a very “spiced cider” sort of tea. I don’t really like the taste of chamomile, but you don’t taste it at all in that particular tea.

Mastress Alita

Same about the flavor suggestions, Cameron… I just gave up adding suggestions when I realized that no one was ever adding them. The merge suggestions I posts have sat since July without being touched, too. The Steepster Gods just truly seem to not care about actually updating/doing much of anything…

So Keta

Where I live we have wild chamomile growing everywhere, there’s nothing comparable to a good cup tea from freshly dried chamomile. Usually we also add fresh lavender and wild flower honey, makes for a delicious blend!

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2965 tasting notes

This tea is a nice cup of chamomile. Not overwhelming, but perfectly nice! A nice sample to get.

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4169 tasting notes

So either Harney sent this teabag to me as a sample OR it’s really really old. (I’m also loving that Harney has been having free samples AND free shipping with even the smallest of orders. There is NO EXCUSE not to order from Harney! Grab a few samples of teas you’ve been meaning to try!) But this is just an “I Drank This” tasting note. I don’t like having a one-er of something and not write a note. I am certainly not the one to judge chamomile (don’t like it) and this might have been overbrewed. But this was chamomile. And I drank it.

ashmanra

I agree about Harney. I am definitely ordering more often with the free shipping! I love the samples. I send them in my letters to youngest at college for her to enjoy while she studies.

tea-sipper

Sending the samples in letters – awesome idea. :D

ashmanra

Thanks, tea-sipper! I try to send tea with many letters I write. Lots of the Harney samples are teas I already own or have tried before, so this way I get to spread the love around. :)

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2036 tasting notes

Sipdown no. 6 of 2019 (no. 494 total). Two teabags, gifted to me as part of a Harney order.

I feel rather liberated now that I’ve decided I don’t need to do a sipdown a day during 2019. I can just do 10-15 a month and it doesn’t matter when I do them. Otherwise I would have felt compelled to cheat and save this sipdown for tomorrow since I already logged one today. And that would be weird because I actually drank these last night.

In any case, I like the idea of chamomile more than I actually like chamomile with the exception of the really excellent Samovar chamomile I had once upon a time. Even though it has been a year since I sipped down my last sample of this I can’t really improve upon the note I wrote last year.

Kittenna

Haha, I decided that there was no need to stress myself to actually sip down a tea every day, as long as the final amount hits my goal. Some days just don’t have time for drinking the last bit of a tea!

Nattie

Totally agree with you there! Some days I’ll sip down 5 or 6 teas, others I won’t even have time to drink anything.

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292 tasting notes

I never liked chamomile tea from memory, but drank this sample tonight when I was trying to wind down, avoid caffeine, and read in the bath. I was surprised to find I enjoyed the taste – it was joyful and so different than what I’m used to. Looks like I’ll have to start giving chamomile another shot.

Preparation
5 min, 0 sec

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672 tasting notes

H&S sent me a sample of this in my last order. I don’t know what there is to say about it really. To me every manufacturer’s chamomile tastes the same, and this is no exception. But I’ve always thought chamomile was pretty lame, so maybe I’m not the best judge of it.

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1048 tasting notes

This is another of the samples that I have been working my way through for the past week. I got what was supposed to be 1 sachet of this as a free sample with a Harney & Sons order a couple months ago, but upon opening the packet, I realized that 2 sachets of chamomile had been mistakenly packed inside. Rather than having one glass of chamomile tea before going to bed last night, I ended up having two.

I prepared this tisane using a one step Western infusion. I steeped each of the silken sachets (I’m guessing there was around 1-1.5 teaspoons in each) in 8 ounces of 212 F water for 5 minutes. No subsequent infusions were attempted.

After infusion, I noted that the aroma of chamomile flowers was very strong. I also picked up on scents of dust, cotton, straw, and green apple. In the mouth, I noted a wash of straw, chamomile, dust, cotton, and green apple with a lingering floral, fruity aftertaste.

Chamomile teas are always hit or miss for me. Sometimes I really enjoy them, other times I really cannot stand them. This one did not thrill me in the least. I found the aroma and flavor too dusty and drying for my tastes. I can see why some people may enjoy it, though I highly doubt I will ever willingly revisit it.

Flavors: Dust, Floral, Green Apple, Straw

Preparation
Boiling 5 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML
Mookit

DT’s Organic Egyptian Chamomile tastes just like honey, it’s really nice! Maybe you would like that one; it’s lighter on the dustiness/straw-like notes so less abrasive than other chamomile tea’s I’ve had. It’s more sweet and floral, and primarily tastes like honey.

eastkyteaguy

Mookit, I have read good things about the DT Chamomile. I’ll probably look into trying it at some point.

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10 tasting notes

I received this as a free teabag sample from Harney & Sons. I was unimpressed with the bland flavor of the chamomile. The smell was much stronger than the taste.

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