Okay, I think this is my favourite tea from Magic Hour so far!
The dry leaf aroma is really fresh, juicy and ripe smelling. It took me a moment to figure out what it reminded me of, but eventually I landed on feeling it it was a bit of Camellia Sinensis’ oolong blend Madame la Marquise (which is apricot flavoured) and DT’s White Nectarine. Maybe a smidge more tropical from the mango…
Steeped, the tea does have a lighter body than I thought it would but the flavour certainly wasn’t lacking. It’s hard to detach the notes of peach and mango from one another because they just create such an impactful sweet, lush flavour. One one hand there are certainly floral undertones that are boosted in presence by the oolong tea base itself, but the tropical stonefruit notes are also kind of effervescent and candy like. Aside from the fact the body is so light and this isn’t a super syrupy and sweet blend, I felt like this tasted like what I’d picture a mango or peach flavoured Crush soda would be like…
It was really good, and I couldn’t help but feel like the name Peridot was super out of place as I drank it. I mean, the whole tea just embodies the flavour of a soft, warm and kind of glowy orange. Sunset orange, if you will. If it should be named after any gemstone I would think it would be a carnelian. I’ve kind of avoided all the bullshit astrological stuff associated with a lot of these teas, but maybe in this case I’ll have to look up what the thought process was because the green gemstone is really throwing me off with how this blend tasted.
(…and with that, I am CAUGHT UP on tasting notes from the database crash!)