Orange Blossoms

So on a few of my previous notes on Tea Desire teas, I made a comment that once I got home, the dry tea had no smell. This one is the exception, it has a strong smell. This one smells quite like artificial orange, much like chewable vitamin c, but not so tart. I like this taste, so I bought this tea to try.

There are cute little curly shaped, light orange yellow things mixed in with the oolong. From the ingredient list, I would think they are supposed to be orange blossoms, however they are quite thick and make me think they are more orange peel shavings.

The brewed tea has quite an oil slick on top, not surprised considering the smell is artificial orange flavour. The taste of the tea is not bad, considering I like that chewable vitamin C flavour. The oolong is very light in the background and to me tastes like a lightly oxidized oolong.

I like this one, but it is quite artificial. I have had better, ie. more natural tasting, orange blossom oolongs.

I agree with other people’s reviews in that the orange flavour tastes artificial, like those chewable vitamin C tablets. The oolong itself is also rather grassy tasting and lacks the sweetness I’m used to in a green oolong like this. Not thrilled with this one.

Ok, so this tea isn’t awful, but it’s not good! It kind of tastes like orange flavoured kids tylenol. I keep trying to get into different tea establishments other than Davids Tea, but Tea Desire definitely hasn’t been a good experience. I also tried blueberry cream and oreo cookie, not impressed.