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Advent Day 18

Smells slightly medicinal, which thankfully doesn’t translate to the flavor. Kind of a generic fruity, candy, spiced flavor.

Not getting any cookie or pastry notes, but this is such a cozy spiced blend. Mostly getting cinnamon at the forefront with some clove.

I too thought this blend was passionfruit, orange, guava, but pomegranate, orange, and ginger makes much more sense. This is super fruity- I get a ton of orange. I’m getting a slight bubblegum flavor from one of the fruits.

Advent Day 16

Love the aroma of this tea. It’s such a lovely, subtle creamy vanilla mint. The flavor is also quite subtle, and I wish I was getting more of that creamy mint flavor. The black base is quite mild.

Advent Day 20

It’s been a busy week, so I have a lot of tasting notes to catch up on!

This is a bit disappointing. Chestnut blends so often have a mapley flavor that just doesn’t read as chestnut to me. This does have a slightly starchy chestnut quality, but it’s drowned out by the maple.

Whoops- forgot I had the 52Teas advent as well (which I always really look forward to), so catching up on these!

Still love this tea, such a lovely coconut blend.

Advent Day 15

Another okay blend. Mostly getting cinnamon, not getting any apple. Slightly cakey.

Advent Day 14

Interesting to have this included in an advent, especially when S&V has so many festive blends. It’s fine. Not a huge fan of the fake chocolate flavor, but it’s not too egregious. I do like that it’s distinctly raspberry, rather than the usual chocolate/strawberry blend. The aftertaste is quite tart from the hibiscus. Slightly astringent.

Advent Day 13

I love white chocolate/peppermint flavored things at the holidays, so was really excited for this blend to come up. But, the dry leaf stinks like sour gym socks. Smells a bit better when it starts to steep, but still has this lingering sour stench. Yeahhhhh….this is a no. It’s just weirdly sour and footy.

Advent Day 10

This reminds me quite a lot of Forever Nuts from DT. It has a similar pink hue, but the flavor is also vaguely similar. Cinnamon, cakey, candy fruit I guess.