I’m actually logging my teas out of order a bit, but that’s only because I just finished this one and so it’s on my mind and it’s making me grumpy. But I needed something without caffeine and sort of reached for this with equal parts hoping and begrudging.
Long story short: I used to like this tea, but there was always an element to it that tasted like very fake vanilla, or maybe it isn’t even that. Of course, DT’s concept of a birthday cake doesn’t even necessarily have to be a vanilla one, so maybe it’s just a matter of interpretation, but I think if this tea did anything for me, it was to introduce me to the world of loose leaf, and also told me that I am still 100% still on the hunt for a great vanilla tea. This simply isn’t it. There’s something very…jarring about how it tastes—something that doesn’t quite fit nicely with the birthday cake-ness part of it. I will likely finish the tin somehow, although I’d be happy to have an excuse to part with it sooner.
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wasn’t someone looking for this one in the swap threads? maybe? i could be remembering wrong..
Oh was there? I should go and find them. Get rid of this stuff. One man’s trash is another’s treasure and all that sort of thing.
it was ice cream cake…went back to try and find it. doh. sorry!
Oh that’s right—I did read about the ice cream cake hunt. I never actually got to try that one, myself.
DTs vanilla orchid i liked, and silk road’s vanilla plantation…. the latter has an essence of buttercream =0)
I need to dig out silk roads version…I bought some while I was in Vancouver but haven’t opened it yet so that I will focus on teas that are older and have smaller amounts
wasn’t someone looking for this one in the swap threads? maybe? i could be remembering wrong..
Oh was there? I should go and find them. Get rid of this stuff. One man’s trash is another’s treasure and all that sort of thing.
it was ice cream cake…went back to try and find it. doh. sorry!
Oh that’s right—I did read about the ice cream cake hunt. I never actually got to try that one, myself.
DTs vanilla orchid i liked, and silk road’s vanilla plantation…. the latter has an essence of buttercream =0)
I need to dig out silk roads version…I bought some while I was in Vancouver but haven’t opened it yet so that I will focus on teas that are older and have smaller amounts