Jardin du Luxembourg

What a garden of flowers. So floral and delicious. I think what I like best about this blend is that there are so many unusual flowers in it. Not just rose and jasmine, but acacia, water lily, aloe, and plum blossoms? Quite unique, and somehow it doesn’t come across as a perfume shop.

I was absolutely taken out for the week by an unplanned tooth extraction and bridge prep and all the fun recovery that went along with it, so there’s a lot of catching up to do.

Day 4 was a lot of fun because of the variety across teas.
I can’t figure out how I feel about this one! It absolutely feels like drinking in a garden, with a wide variety of blooms and a hint of fruit. Rose, which is a favorite of mine, is one of the few florals I can distinguish; I don’t recognize many of the other flavors. I love that it’s bold and unique, and I keep coming back to smell it (including the packet that held the sachet!) But there’s one particular flavor that lingers just a little too long in the scent and taste, and while I don’t know what it is, I can say I’m not a fan. I think I’m going to skip a numerical rating on this one completely. Definitely glad I’ve tried it though – a fascinating tea!

Dammann Freres advent day 4

Adventageddon Day 4

This was my favourite tea today, but quite a lot. Also the first Dammann Freres blend so far that I would 100% without question purchase again for myself. It was just so incredibly lush with the perfect mix of fresh garden florals and supple, dewy fruits. I LOVED the notes of rose and water lillies, as well as the lightly sweet acacia which is such a specific and poignant note to capture in a tea. I know it’s inspired by an Italian garden in Paris, but I have to say it very much felt like drinking the liquid version of a Claude Monet painting.

Today’s Advent Photos: https://www.instagram.com/p/DDLC-EZyVkq/?img_index=1

Song Pairing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQfLw8-Nfx8&ab_channel=JelaniAryehVEVO

Edit: Just wanted to add that there’s less teas today because the Tea Thoughts advent selection was actually teaware! I ended up using it alongside this tea.

DF Advent — Day 4
Enveloped with perfume, I was in some kind of aquatic-floral, fruity-oolong dreamy wonderland.

Airy, sweet, floral, fruity, soft viscous, dewy cool. Blue water lillies, aloe, melon, plum, hawthorn, jasmine. The acacia note was something I’d never experienced before and it was beautiful.

This tea moves like the sound of a harp played among a collection of fountains in a lush garden.

Would love to have a tin of this!

I enjoy floral teas. Very much.

A couple of years ago, Superanna gave me a jelly called Jardin du Luxembourg from Dammann Freres. It was soooo floral. I really enjoyed with cheese and crackers, or cheese and toast.

I had never heard of tea flavored jellies at that time and it took me a minute (okay, a lot more than a minute) to realize that if they had a jelly by that name then they must also have a tea by that name. I looked it up and immediately added it to my wishlist.

When I opened my gift and sniffed this, it was absolutely identical to the scent of the jelly. This is rich, decadent, heady perfume. I am delighted to have this on shelf.

Thank you, Superanna! <3

Bought this through the 2016 Dammann Freres group buy. All of my DF teas were pretty perfumey but the smell of this alone was enough to trigger a migraine. It tasted like Herbal Essences shampoo or a bath bomb. I couldn’t taste the underlying oolong nor any of the flavorings because one cloying note – aloe, I think – overwhelmed everything. I ended up giving it away as the potpourri smell was too much for me. A shame it didn’t work out because the melange of flowers in this blend – plum blossoms, acacia, jasmine, hawthorn, etc – sounded so interesting and unique.

I am drinking a cup of this right now, and today it tastes to me like champagne. Huh?

This is a very perfumey tea- smells like potpourri, but does not taste as much like it as you would expect. I enjoy the florals I can taste (and smell!), but the base seemed to contribute very little to the tea, besides maybe a slight astringency on the second steep. There is something cloyingly sweet, which reminds me of crushed tobacco flowers and too-sweet generic airport handsoap that I am just not enjoying in this cup. Strange to hear me say that… an unsweetened tea that I do not like the sweetness of! It’s a brand of sweetness that is not really off putting, but not engendering either. Maybe it’s the lotus? The whole affair feels a little grandmother-y… I know! It tastes how I imagine those floral print couches would, if they were a tea! Haha!
Thanks to Dinosara for the sample!