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I have an old box of this in teabags, which I have decided to drink down over the next few nights. One Royal Albert 1990 – Bouquet mug of approximately 400ml, two teabags at a time, just a way to keep my mouth busy so I don’t snack or drink Sprite all through the evening now that my caffeine sensitivity’s gotten a tad too high to allow for anything caffeinated after four.

The bags, I must say, smell lovely. Vanilla and winter spices are balanced and all this needs is a hint of pine to smell very much like an ideal Christmas, at least to me, a very overenthusiastic-about-Christmas sort of person. Another of my interests is perfumery, and although I don’t usually go in too heavily for gourmands, I could see myself wearing this a lot in winter, if it was a perfume. Since it’s a tea, though….

I’m going to blame the effects of the decaffeination process on the leaves for why I struggle a bit with it as a tea. If I drink it straight, it tastes a bit harsh. If I put some milk in it, it tastes too thin, as though I were just drinking 1% milk with the ghosts of some spices in it. Neither experience is what I hope for when I smell the teabags. It does serve its function of keeping me out of the Sprite and the food, though, and there’s only a couple of more days worth left in the box, so it’s all right.