Well, I haven’t had this in years and I expected my opinion to be different as my tastes have changed so much, but I actually still like it. My youngest brother got it for my while in Toronto, – he got me a couple teas he wanted to try. Smart cookie. I forgot I had had this one and my initial impression was favourable. I love jasmine, the lemon scent was strong and the oolong seemed subtle. All good for me.
Steeped, those impressions held true. I didn’t notice the oolong underneath the lemon, but it was definitely there since it tasted a bit creamier and smoother than lemon myrtle on its own. The jasmine was present underneath the lemon, but very pleasant. Youngest brother tried it hot and said it just tasted like water. At this point, he decided he wanted it cold and stronger. I put the tea in a travel mug and told him to refrigerate overnight and try today. I don’t know if that helped him out but I do remember that people new to tea tend to like it much stronger than I do. I thought this was a great balance, where he found it plain. Just goes to show how subjective tastes are!
Flavors: Jasmine, Lemon
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Ah this is one of my all time favourites. I find everything about it pretty much perfectly balanced. It’s so interesting to me, when people love something I find really mediocre, or dislike something I really love, not just because we like different things, but because the experience of that tea is so different that if you didn’t know better you’d never think we were drinking the same thing.
My husband also drinks tea and I enjoy comparing notes with him because we rarely have the same impressions even when sharing a pot – or a cup. It’s really interesting and has me questioning how unique our sense experiences are. I often wondered if everyone else saw colours the same as I do, this is just an extension of that, I guess!
I used to kind of just assume that people experienced sensory stuff in the same way I do. I never really thought about it, but figured it was all pretty similar.
Which is particularly funny, because I experience synsthesia, so there’s some sensory stuff that I experience in a way that doesn’t even have shared context with other people – but I kind of obliviously didn’t realize this for years, until I clued into the fact that people looked at me weird when I described tasting colours.
As a child, my eyes went poorly very quickly. It never occurred to me that I couldn’t see, I just assumed that it was like that for everyone and was copying school notes off friends rather than the board, etc. After nearly a year of this, someone caught on and I was sent for an eye test. The results were so bad that I was sent for another one because the adults didn’t believe me. Luckily it didn’t end in anything more than a strong prescription for glasses and eyes that continually (but now gradually) deteriorate BUT I think it set me further on the path of realizing how unique our experiences are and how difficult it is to ever know that people see/hear/feel/smell/experience things the same way. It led to me especially wondering about sight but I eventually started questioning everything. I was also a huge reader and quite imaginative, but I think the dramatic sight change had an impact.
Synesthesia has long fascinated me and I am sometimes disappointed that I don’t have any synesthetic associations, that I know of. I used to associate colours with numbers but I am fairly convinced that was a result of paint-by-numbers always using the same code! After reading more about it, I am a little relieved that my brain isn’t firing that much that often, but it’s still fascinating.
Synesthesia is completely fascinating! It’d be so cool to know what that’s like.
It’s really different for every person who experiences it.
Mine is pretty random and I don’t experience it all the time or with all things. There are certain things that taste like colours (colours don’t have a taste, colours are a flavour), certain sounds or music produce colours, flashes of light or patterns, and certain smells have a temperature separate from their usual association. I also have other crossed wires which I tend to forget about till I’m experiencing them.
So some examples, parsnips and lime jello taste green, but spinach or green tea doesn’t. Dutch licorice rooibos tastes a very specific shade of grey-blue, kind of cornflowerish, but other licorice or blueberries don’t.
Part of ATB’s 9pm is a glowing deep blue. ATB’s Don’t Stop is a bright, sunny yellow. Foster the People’s Pumped up Kicks is pale blue on top and brown on the bottom with a kind of wavy dividing line, like an abstract landscape. Some of the Swans’ music is a pretty wild experience with a lot of visuals going on. Most music is just music.
Cucumbers smell cool, but some artificial cucumber fragrances that are otherwise dead on smell hot. Cinnamon, mint, pepper etc have no temperature.
It’s all pretty innocuous and generally pretty neat. I like experiencing it.
Some of my friends have a totally different synesthetic experience. One of them experiences colours as tastes in her mouth, which can be great or disgusting.
Ah this is one of my all time favourites. I find everything about it pretty much perfectly balanced. It’s so interesting to me, when people love something I find really mediocre, or dislike something I really love, not just because we like different things, but because the experience of that tea is so different that if you didn’t know better you’d never think we were drinking the same thing.
My husband also drinks tea and I enjoy comparing notes with him because we rarely have the same impressions even when sharing a pot – or a cup. It’s really interesting and has me questioning how unique our sense experiences are. I often wondered if everyone else saw colours the same as I do, this is just an extension of that, I guess!
I used to kind of just assume that people experienced sensory stuff in the same way I do. I never really thought about it, but figured it was all pretty similar.
Which is particularly funny, because I experience synsthesia, so there’s some sensory stuff that I experience in a way that doesn’t even have shared context with other people – but I kind of obliviously didn’t realize this for years, until I clued into the fact that people looked at me weird when I described tasting colours.
As a child, my eyes went poorly very quickly. It never occurred to me that I couldn’t see, I just assumed that it was like that for everyone and was copying school notes off friends rather than the board, etc. After nearly a year of this, someone caught on and I was sent for an eye test. The results were so bad that I was sent for another one because the adults didn’t believe me. Luckily it didn’t end in anything more than a strong prescription for glasses and eyes that continually (but now gradually) deteriorate BUT I think it set me further on the path of realizing how unique our experiences are and how difficult it is to ever know that people see/hear/feel/smell/experience things the same way. It led to me especially wondering about sight but I eventually started questioning everything. I was also a huge reader and quite imaginative, but I think the dramatic sight change had an impact.
Synesthesia has long fascinated me and I am sometimes disappointed that I don’t have any synesthetic associations, that I know of. I used to associate colours with numbers but I am fairly convinced that was a result of paint-by-numbers always using the same code! After reading more about it, I am a little relieved that my brain isn’t firing that much that often, but it’s still fascinating.
Synesthesia is completely fascinating! It’d be so cool to know what that’s like.
It’s really different for every person who experiences it.
Mine is pretty random and I don’t experience it all the time or with all things. There are certain things that taste like colours (colours don’t have a taste, colours are a flavour), certain sounds or music produce colours, flashes of light or patterns, and certain smells have a temperature separate from their usual association. I also have other crossed wires which I tend to forget about till I’m experiencing them.
So some examples, parsnips and lime jello taste green, but spinach or green tea doesn’t. Dutch licorice rooibos tastes a very specific shade of grey-blue, kind of cornflowerish, but other licorice or blueberries don’t.
Part of ATB’s 9pm is a glowing deep blue. ATB’s Don’t Stop is a bright, sunny yellow. Foster the People’s Pumped up Kicks is pale blue on top and brown on the bottom with a kind of wavy dividing line, like an abstract landscape. Some of the Swans’ music is a pretty wild experience with a lot of visuals going on. Most music is just music.
Cucumbers smell cool, but some artificial cucumber fragrances that are otherwise dead on smell hot. Cinnamon, mint, pepper etc have no temperature.
It’s all pretty innocuous and generally pretty neat. I like experiencing it.
Some of my friends have a totally different synesthetic experience. One of them experiences colours as tastes in her mouth, which can be great or disgusting.