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Generally underwhelming and I didn’t really pick up any outstanding notes, but I think I might just be beginning to understand that I’m not really an oolong person.

A nice, decent green tea, but no notes I could detect or anything that blew me away. Slightly sweet and becomes lightly astringent and vegetal with more steeps. If you’re looking for a nice standard green, this is good choice, but if you’re looking for a tea with interesting flavors and notes, I find this one lacking.

I was really excited for this puer but I am pretty disappointed, it is extremely mild, nearly tasteless to me. I get a hint of jasmine, but not much else.

Wow! I was unsure how this one would be because the normal flavor profile of a lapsang souchoung is not really my favorite but this is great, really something unique. It has a chocolate, caramel, dark honey flavor with no bitterness or astringency! Definitely worth a try!

I was worried the chamomile in this would be overwhelming but it’s not! A very pleasant flavored tea, white tea and chamomile at the beginning, a bit of rose at the end, and at the very end, a hint of fruity rosehip. Very good!

A strange, more astringent jasmine tea. I feel the amount of jasmine in this one does not necessarily make a more aromatic tea than other jasmines and instead adds a floral bitterness. There is a soft floral honey note there if you really search for it, but overall, certainly not my favorite jasmine, but also not horrible.

Certainly a darker tea, quite woody, with a bit of a honey flavor before you swallow, but a dark honey, like honeydew. Gives a pretty bold and astringent aftertaste.

The notes in this were extremely subtle, barely there, nothing that blew me away. A near standard black tea for me, save the hints of stone fruits you get if you swish it around in your mouth. It’s not a bad tea, in fact it’s pretty good, but nothing that impressed me too much.

Its aroma is incredible and really makes you understand why jasmine teas are considered scented teas and not flavored teas. It has a very light flavor, nearly tasteless, but the aftertaste is like sweet mountain spring water. The experience for me in this tea is more in the aroma and the aftertaste than the taste of drinking the tea itself. Still, both make it worth it.