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I’m confused. I haven’t drank much oolong but I thought they were supposed to be fruity and floral. I love the Butikiteas.com Peach Oolong. It couldn’t be any fruitier and flowery. But this one is very smoky and tastes mostly like a black tea. The scent reminded me slightly of unspiced raw pumpkin. The flavor reminds me oddly enough of the other Choice tea I’ve tried – Russian Caravan, a pine smoked black tea, which I don’t think should taste the same. I’m pretty disappointed in this one since I expected fruity and floral, but maybe I’ve already tried the best oolong (The Butiki)?

For some reason I thought this was a rooibos. But then realized it was a honeybush tea. That would explain why there isn’t as much flavor here. (I think honeybush teas have less flavor than rooibos teas.) I like the “honey” flavor of honeybush, but I like the woodier stronger flavor of rooibos better, most of the time. There isn’t much mango flavor here either. I bought a new infuser with a mesh/screenlike material to hold in my rooibos/honeybush teas. I can’t say it worked better.. the “leaves” are so tiny they fit through the screen! I’d like to try more Adagio teas, because this one is probably one of the weaker teas from them I could try. But I won’t give up on them yet. I wish I had the money to buy all the custom blends I created! (They are listed in my Steepster shopping list if you want to take a look.)

On a vanilla level, this fails. I don’t taste any here! It is non-existant. I basically love any teas with vanilla in them. I love the Good Earth original chai. It is the best bagged chai I’ve had (which isn’t much). And this vanilla chai is basically the same as their non-vanilla chai. I have no idea why they even say it is vanilla, when it is just going to be a disappointment. So as an actual chai, it’s good but don’t expect any vanilla here.

I’m the first to rate this? How is that possible? I splurged on some teas over on Lucky Vitamin and this was one of them. I knew it would work well! I haven’t drank matcha before, so I’m not sure how it compares. I wish there was more of a lime flavor and less of a peppermint (actually I think spearmint would have been a bit better than the peppermint as peppermint isn’t my favorite) but I can drink this the way it is. Good stuff!

This is very lavender! What a nice scent and flavor! Just fills up my nose and mouth.. There is something here that reminds me of Yogi’s Aztec Sweet Chili (which I also love) though I’m not sure what it could be, as only rooibos and lavender are listed in the ingredients and neither of those are listed in the Aztec Sweet Chili. Its almost the texture of it that seems similar but I don’t know what that means, so don’t try to figure it out. :D

In my opinion, honeybush seems to have the least amount of flavor for a tea. But that is a good thing. Sometimes you don’t want a ton of flavor. Honeybush has a sweet, honeylike scent and mild vanilly flavor, like a milder red tea. It doesn’t help that I’m drinking this with a piece of pumpkin pie, that obviously has a ton of flavor. So I’ll try it again with something less flavorful next time, but it does go well with pumpkin pie! But this tea isn’t disappointing in the least.

This smells great. The black tea isn’t a strong tea, so it showcases the banana and coconut flavors nicely.

A perfect tea for a sunny day! (The highway flooded yesterday, so this makes for a nice change.) The scent and flavor reminds me of fruit snacks I ate as a kid, not a bad thing! This would make for a nice light summery tea. The green brings out the fruity flowery flavors! And it gets peachier the closer you get to the bottom. The pieces of tea that came out of the infuser looks like confetti in the bottom of the cup. Yum.

I know this teabag isn’t the freshest. But it is still pretty good. I love that it tastes like more spearmint, as I like spearmint more than peppermint. Rosehips and lemon peel are a nice addition. Why aren’t Bigelow teas found on many online shopping sites? I wish I could find more of them.

I have just recently tried oolong and it became a new favorite. This here seems more like a black tea than an oolong (though I’m no expert.) There wasn’t a hint of that floral scent that an oolong should (?) have. It is a fine black tea though, if that is what you’re looking for. I’ll definitely be drinking more cups of this to pick out the flavor, but I think more of a description on the website (for all the tea on Tea Licious) would be helpful.