Thé du Hammam

The scent is lovely

I do not like tasting flowers. As I have said in past reviews, I wish I liked tasting flowers; it seems like the kind of fairy-tale loveliness that appeals to my soul. However floral flavors always make me feel like I got some shampoo in my mouth. This blend, despite the addition of rose and orange blossom, does not taste like flowers to me. The first two brews definitely tasted like fruit. On the third steep, more of a sweetening of the grassiness of the green tea. I love sweet things and I love fruit – particularly berries, so this tea is definitely one of my favorite flavored green teas from Palais des Thés.

Palais Des Thes Advent Calendar Day 12:
I was super excited for this one once I read the description.
The dry sachet smells lovely very fruity and floral. This would be a nice perfume scent hehe. I can’t smell the green tea at all.
I did end up overstepping it slightly as I forgot to set the timer so there was some astringency but it wasn’t too bad.
I really enjoyed this cup the red fruit taste works really nicely with the rose. It has an almost strawberry candy flavor to it. The floral notes and the green tea base work nicely together as well. I had really wanted to try the European red fruit teas and at least based off of this tea I really enjoyed it! I would definitely consider purchasing some of this. I think that this would also be really good on a black tea base and it appears that they do have a black tea version of this as well. This has been the Advent tea that I have most enjoyed thus far.

Most of friends love it. It’s very flavourful et sweet, yet refreshing. Can be also drunk cool / iced. Good afternoon tea.

Sipdown (606)!

Oh wow – this is very much that SUPER generic European “red fruit” flavour that just tastes like generic red fruit, maybe with something peach-y in addition and some vague floral undertones? It’s not bad but it just tastes like SO MANY other teas that come out of European tea companies like Palais des Thes, Dammann Freres, etc. It’s such a generic flavour(ing). Plus, this is a little bit bitter from the green tea base – so it doesn’t even have a leg up on that whole ‘genre’ of tea flavours. It’s fine for now; not something that will stick out in my mind months, or likely even days, from now…

Palais des Thés Advent Calendar – Day 12 (from November backlog)

This seems quite bland to me…

The base tea is generic and grassy with no real personality. I guess there’s flavoring? Is it strawberry, or maybe orange? Seems a little bubblegum or candylike. There’s a floral note as well.

Overall, I’m finding this to be very blah…

This is probably my favorite Palais des Thes yet. It is light as their teas seem to be, with floral and fruity notes that complement but don’t overwhelm. I can’t say exactly what all those were, though – it is one difficulty I tend to have with their teas, where a lot of flavors are not identifiable. Regardless, I enjoyed it!

I cold steeped this to see if it made it any more interesting. The verdict: not so much. It’s green, it’s fruity and it doesn’t really stand out to me. I’m sure I’ve mentioned this before, but I wish LPDT didn’t have such a large minimum for their teas, which I have found to be mostly a miss for my palate.

I see here I had this tea already a few years ago, at that time steeping a sample tea bag they had given me in the Angers Palais des Thés shop. This time it´s a tea bag I picked up during a stay at one of the hotels of the Accor group. As I recently spent quite some time away from home, away from my loose tea cupboard, away from my water boiler which can be put to heat up to 60-100ºC, I used quite a few of the tea bags I still had laying about.
Not too fond of most green teas, not too fond of red fruit infusions, so not too fond of this tea, but at least it´s well blended, and is far better quality than what most (even high class) hotels offer.

A beautifully stunning, complex tea. Smells softly of vanilla and something floral (like cornflowers, not jasmine) and sweet. I love this tea. Love like a delicate flower that isn’t too cloying and sweet, yet still magically dances in the breeze joyfully.

Yes, it’s that good.