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98

C’est un thé équilibré que j’apprécie plus que le green of london où la bergamote est plus présente. Ici, la bergamote n’écrase pas les notes du thé noir du Yunnan.
Je le prépare à 2g/10cl, 85°C, et je l’infuse au moins 2 fois pendant 3min. C’est mon préféré parmi les earl grey

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 3 min, 0 sec

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76
drank Thé des Songes by Palais des Thés
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Another sample from Palais de Thes… this is an oolong and it smells very fruity in the tube. I decided to steep it according to their instructions which was 5-7 minutes at 205 F. At that amount of time my cup is much darker than the one which appears on their website. I may try to cut the steeping time down with the rest of this sample.

Overall, the flavor is okay but it’s complicated. I am definitely getting fruity, I sense some stone fruit flavors here that I quite like. I almost wonder if this tea is scented in some way though because it is kinda perfumey, maybe that’s the flowers. I could really do without the floral element in this tea. I do like some floral teas but not others yeah, I’m picky like that. :) Sometimes I think one flavor element in a tea is really enough.

This is not a great morning tea for me, I would probably prefer something like this in the afternoon. It’s ok but not something I would purchase right now. They have a couple of other oolong blends, one is a tropical and one is a straight up fruit blend, those look better to me.

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 6 min, 0 sec

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71

This is a tea I like against my own choice.

The tea gives off a strong perfume smell, but it doesn’t have a strong perfume, flowery taste. But the aftertaste on the other hand, has a high perfume taste.

I just can’t agree with myself, do I like the perfume taste or not? It’s a tea that wakes me up (and the taste buds). It’s ideal as a lunch/day tea.

It’s a tea I sometimes choose because it’s strong in taste and so unlike other earl grey tea.

I recommend this tea – or do I? It’s an interesting tea, and it will wake you up. But it’s really the first time I have ever labeled a tea interesting. And it is – I find this tea interesting.

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 4 min, 0 sec

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69
drank Fleur de Geisha by Palais des Thés
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Another flavored green from my Palias de Thes gift set…

I steeped this at 3 minutes at 170 F and found it to be quite unremarkable so it will be hard for me to review this one. :) The base of this green tea is fairly mild and slightly vegetal, a bit nutty. The cherry element here is fairly light and lends a bit of sweetness along with a slightly tart element. I have to add I’ve tried a few cherry green teas in the last year and it’s been difficult for me to find one I really think is good! They all end up reminding me of cough syrup. I want something dark and luscious like a bing cherry. Maybe there’s a cherry black tea out there for me?

I think I’ll have to try cold brewing the rest of this sample…

Preparation
170 °F / 76 °C 3 min, 0 sec
ScottTeaMan

I think that’s my problem with most flavored teas. The flavoring is usually overdone or artificial tasting to me. ://

TeaBrat

a lot of them are…

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93

Very sweet and balanced Japanese green tea.

Preparation
160 °F / 71 °C 2 min, 0 sec

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96
drank Thé des Fakirs by Palais des Thés
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hmm. I really wasn’t sure what I was going to think about a green tea flavored with these spices (cardamom and clove) and citrus but I actually loved this one! You should know I am a cardamom fiend, however so be warned! That is probably the strongest element in this tea followed by the orange and a hint of clove. I’m not sure what the base of this tea is, but mingled in this blend it is very rich, earthy and mellow. I would definitely be wanting to purchase this, but it’s too bad you can only get it in 100g bags…

I guess this is a green chai of sorts… impressive and my favorite of the flavored teas so far from Le Palais de Thes.

note: also re-steeps well

Preparation
175 °F / 79 °C 3 min, 0 sec
cteresa

One of these days I am going to have to order from them! i tried a few of their most popular teas when they were available on a local gourmet shop a while ago and a friend offered me a tin of Thé des Moines a while ago, but their online shop has just been luring me in. It is not between them and Mariage Fréres for stuff i can not buy locally

TeaBrat

I was suckered in by the cute sample set, I admit it has been a lot of fun!

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81
drank Ile Maurice by Palais des Thés
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Oh hello all! It’s been ages since I posted, hasn’t it? I’ve been distracted lately. Lego Harry Potter apparently deeply addictive and I’ve been playing it at almost ever chance I’ve had for the last two weeks or so. Apart from just telling the HP story, there are all these other little goals of special things to collect in the game and it’s knocking my OCD into overdrive. Collect ALL THE THINGS!!!!

I’ve had this one a few times already, and I initially ordered it because it’s a blend with vanilla in it. Vanilla and orange peels and apparently possibly a bit of red fruits. From the description I honestly can’t work out if there is red fruits flavouring added as well, or if that’s naturally occurring note in the blend.

Whatever it is, though, it doesn’t matter because I haven’t really been able to identify it anyway.

But yes, vanilla blend. It’s my vanilla obsession, still going strong. The boyfriend realised the other day exactly how many vanilla teas I’ve got currently, and the mocking would take no end. It didn’t help when I pointed out the three or for that he had missed or were blends with vanilla in them. I had a swap arrive from NinaVampi the other day and while he has seen it, he luckily for me haven’t made the connection yet. Three more vanilla teas! :D

I can’t help it, I’m searching for the perfect vanilla, aren’t I?!

It’s fun, actually, obsessing about a specific flavour like that.

Anyway, this one. Vanilla. Yes. Check. I wasn’t too interested in the orange peel aspect to be honest. Citrus flavouring is one of those flavours that have to be done just so in order to be really good, otherwise they’re just meh. Not bad, mind. Just… not interesting. I also couldn’t quite imagine what orange peels and vanilla would be like in combination.

But vanilla. So I bought it.

I can now report that orange peel and vanilla work rather nicely together in this one. The base black seems to be fairly strong, probably a Kenya, I expect. LPdT has this label coding for their teas which tells of region of origin and this pouch has the African label on it, which is what I’m basing my Kenya assumption on. It’s a good choice, I think. I find that a tea has to be at least medium strong, preferably stronger, in order to successfully carry citrus flavouring, especially if it’s citrus peels.

So the base and the citrus peels are prominent here. The vanilla is not obvious at first. But when you’ve had a few sips, you suddenly discover it and wonder how you didn’t see it before. Like camouflage. You see a picture of some mottled trees or something, and somewhere in there you know there is a moth, but you have to search for it. And once you found it, it’s totally easy to see it’s there. That’s the vanilla here. Like a fog creeping in on the flavour, slowly but surely, adding more and more to the vanilla experience. It’s everywhere, but near the bottom of the flavour in a sort of attempt at discretion, happy to let the citrus run the show.

I quite like vanilla in blends like this. Near the bottom and just adding a thick and creamy substance to an otherwise fruity flavour. I find that the vanilla in the Late Summer blend from ACP work much the same way, only that blend is a lot brighter than this one. This one seems heavier and darker. If tea had age groups this one would probably be late middle aged and starting to get somewhat curmudgeonly. (In comparison, the aforementioned Late Summer blend is somewhere in the late twenties or thirties)

And it’s funny really, that I find the vanilla is best in blends this way, because that’s not at all how I want it in a straight vanilla flavoured tea. Then I want much more power, brightness and sparkle on the vanilla.

This was a pretty good choice. I might buy it again sometime, but I’m not sure I really super-urgently need to once I’m through the pouch.

Kittenna

Collect ALL THE THINGS? Oh my. Sounds like me. It’s not enough to finish a game, it must be finished perfectly!

And loved the post, again. Wish I could be so descriptive!

Angrboda

I had some inital problems with it because something it really needs is a help file! There were a few learning by doing issues that I had with it. Also I had to change the controls around because the default was very unintuitive to me. I cannot move the character with WASD! It’s so weird for me to have that in the left hand when I’m right handed and there are perfectly good arrow keys right there. But now that I’ve got into it, I’m completely hooked on Lego games. :) I have my eye on a Lego Indiana Jones as well when I’m done with Harry Potter. :p The boyfriend has Lego Star Wars on his play station, which I briefly considered asking if I could try again, but decided against it because I don’t like the controller. It doesn’t agree with me. But this one is fun, I would recommend trying it.

Kittenna

Oh goodness. I’m the game-addict sort, so until I’m out of school again I must avoid all games! Facebook games keep sucking me in briefly until I get bored/frustrated though. Sounds like fun though. I love Lego (but does the game even have anything to do with Lego, really?)

Angrboda

Well the characters are lego men and the blocks are all over the place, but it’s not building stuff as such, really. There’s a trailer for the first year here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F57e6Ay-b04

Daisy Chubb

Oh man Lego games – sooo much stuff to collect!

Cheryl

I feel compelled to look at your highest rated vanilla teas now :)

Angrboda

Cheryl, I think they’re all fairly up there. I’m not sure their ratings can really be compared though, because I tend to rate them according to how I experienced them in the moment of drinking and then adjust upwards or downwards later if I feel it necessary. My ratings tend to be a snapshot of the moment, really.

DaisyChubb, yes, and it bothers me that there are some things that you can’t get until you go back and do it again whne Free Play is unlocked because you need to unlock abilities later in teh game first. But I suppose it makes for extended game play really, and makes the game ‘longer’. Some games you just do once, and then you know all the puzzles and can’t be bothered to do it again…

Daniel Scott

LEGO GAMES! Yes, I have LEGO Star Wars for PS2 and LEGO Indiana Jones for my aunt’s Wii. OMG PURPLE STUD!!!1

I did not like the Wii instructions for the game at all, though – most of the instructions focused around the broken motion controls and didn’t actually explain the game much. If you have played a LEGO game before, OR if you are very well-versed in video game conventions, no big deal, you would probably figure it all out quite quickly. If you are a relative newbie to video games, you would be very lost. Considering that LEGO games aren’t exactly marketed for most hardcore gamers, not providing more instructions seemed ridiculous to me. I bought the game thinking my aunt might also play it and spent the entire play time thinking, “She won’t understand how to do ___!”

Daniel Scott

Okay, watched the video. Oooh, I might get this! (The game, I mean, not the tea, although the tea sounds nice.) Do you actually play Quidditch, or is that just in a cut scene?

Also, forgot to mention, I think WASD controls became a convention because 1) some earlier keyboards had no arrow keys, and 2) it’s considered more ergonomic since you can hit the space bar with your thumb and it’s supposedly awkward with a right-hand mouse. I think that’s silly since I always just physically shift the keyboard to the side to use arrow keys, and space is usually the “use” key (open doors, etc.) and I never had a problem taking my hands off the arrow keys to briefly hammer space.

What don’t you like about the PS controller?

Angrboda

Daniel Scott, I would definitely have liked to have a small introduction. I was only a level or two in when I stopped playing the first day, and then the next time I came back, I accidentally went into Diagon Alley, wehre you can buy things you unlock with the points you collect instead of continuing the story. I thought the saved game had gone wonky and ended up starting the game over from the beginning. At the very least I would have liked to be told about the indicator for when it’s actually saving the game. I hate the checkpoint system!

So far Quidditch has been cut scenes, but there has been some broom flying. There have also been a few other, rather hilarious, alternative modes of transport.

When I tried it, I had never used a Playstation before, so I was completely unfamiliar with the controller. I’m sure it’s a question of just getting used to it, but I didn’t find it very intuitive to use.

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81

I might like earl grey more if it tasted like this. Refreshing citrus flavor with a creamy vanilla element.

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 0 sec

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74
drank Blue of London by Palais des Thés
2816 tasting notes

Tea of the morning here, I am not such a fan of Earl Grey or Bergamot in things but I had some of this sample left and decided to finish it off this morning. See previous notes for more info. ;)

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 30 sec

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74
drank Blue of London by Palais des Thés
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Here’s yet another sample from my Le Palais de Thes gift set.

I decided to try this with my boyfriend this morning since he likes Earl Grey much more than I do. I think we both agree that this doesn’t smell and taste very bergamot-y so I actually liked it for this reason. It’s fairly subtle and allows the flavor of the yunnan black to come through. This is one smooth and delicious tea that I can just sit and drink plain which is unusual for me and a black tea. Pretty good, but I think I would just skip the bergamot altogether and go for the grand yunnan. :)

I think if you were expecting something like a typical strong Earl Grey you’d be a bit disappointed in this one. If you like lighter bergamot type teas (like Paris from Harney and Sons) you might enjoy it.

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 30 sec

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88

I really enjoyed this one, sometimes flavored green teas can be iffy because the flavoring has a tendency to overpower the tea. I’m pretty sure this is a Chinese green tea of some type, lovely sweet flowery aroma. The flavor is very delicate and reminds me a little bit of pears and honeydew melon, although the description on the website says watermelon, kiwi and peach. A bit of sweetness in the finish but not nauseatingly so. Uplifting in a gentle sort of way. I don’t tend to keep a lot of flavored green teas around and I would certainly consider this one, but it would take me forever to go through a 100g bag of this.

Now that I’m feeling a bit energized I need to get of the house for a while before I go stir crazy!

Preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 3 min, 0 sec

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85
drank Thé des Moines by Palais des Thés
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This tea came in my Le Palais de Thes sample pack so I’m trying it this morning. Steeped in regular teapot method.

It is nice – a slightly sweet tea with calendula and a bit of bergamot. Sometimes bergamot can overwhelm me but it isn’t too much in this blend. I’m guessing the base for this is a ceylon? It definitely seems like a light bodied tea. It’s nice plain but it also takes a bit of soymilk well. Overall, fairly good but I can’t picture myself buying a full tin of it.

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 0 sec

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drank Thé des Amants by Palais des Thés
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As soon as I opened the little sample tube to smell this I thought “Oh, the holidays!”

So I steeped this for 4 minutes at around 205 F. When I inspected the wet leaf I could see bits of cloves and orange rind in it. I think there might be some cinnamon in this blend too. One of the other tasters remarked on not liking Le Palais des Thes black tea base, but this tea is so highly spiced that I’m having a hard time finding it!

Overall, I thought it was okay, if you don’t mind the taste of a spicy Christmas tea but I doubt I would go out of my way to find this. Then again, I am not usually craving orange spice tea either. I’m having mine with soymilk this morning and am finding it a wee bit strong, might cut back on the steeping time by one minute the next time I have this.

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 0 sec

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89

Recently I got myself a gift set from Le Palais des Thes and I was very excited when it arrived. It comes in a box with a full color book and aluminum tins of their different flavored teas. I was initially a little bit miffed after realizing I was only going to get two mugs of tea out of each sample, but that’s ok. I will definitely recycle or reuse these tins for something else, spices perhaps…

I don’t always like vanilla tea because the vanilla can get very artificial tasting but this is very nice and subtle. The green tea is a flavored sencha which I’m really enjoying. I might have steeped this a little long but it seems to be fine. It’s a very smooth taste with a bit of vegetal and also some lingering nuttiness. A bit of astringency in the finish as I was expecting. I don’t know if I will purchase a large size but it definitely is one of the nicer flavored greens I’ve tried. I like the fact that the flavoring is very mild & it blends well with the tea.

20 minutes later: this sencha is not sitting too well with my stomach, perhaps oversteeping was a bad idea. :(

Preparation
180 °F / 82 °C 2 min, 0 sec

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95

This is one of my favorite Ceylon teas of all times, so rich and chocolat-ey! I am enjoying it on this cool, foggy morning.

Yesterday I went to a writing/meditation workshop and some interesting things came out of that, overall a very positive experience!

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 45 sec
Scott B

Tea is kinda reassuring on cool, gloomy days. Not that I’ll know a cool, gloomy day til October or November.

Good to hear your workshop went well :)

TeaBrat

It was a little daunting because I had to write about what I would do if I had 30 days left on this Earth. Kind of difficult to face given what I’ve been dealing with lately.

ScottTeaMan

So glad it’s helping you Amy! :))

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95

I’ve already posted about it before but this stuff is amazing and will be my raison d’être for a new Le Palais de Thes order, focusing on straight teas I think…

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95

The morning cuppa. I hope it brings me out of my sleepyhead state of mind this morning, but no tea really motivates me to go to work. :) Very tasty ceylon – see previous notes.

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95

My afternoon pick me up. Already tastes like caramel and chocolate without any flavor in it. I really wish I had bought more plain teas from them instead of that silly sampler of flavored teas. :)

see my previous notes. love it.

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95

This is a black tea from Sri Lanka and the description on the website is thus:

A gorgeous, tippy tea that produces a mellow, amber-colored and very flowery liquor. One of the best teas from the Nuwara Eliya district.

I steeped this at around 4 minutes at 205 F and am loving it! It has beautiful small and dark leaves. The aroma of the tea is flowery but the flavors are luscious… I am getting molasses, honey and fruit. This has a slight bit of pungency in the finish which is a bit harsh but that might be tempered by steeping with a bit less time. I took off a few points in my rating for that but otherwise it’s so close to perfection.

This is definitely one of the best ceylons I’ve ever had – very, very good!

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 0 sec

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95

This one was had for the first time under circumstances that didn’t really lend themselves very well to analysing the flavour profile.

It did, however, go extraordinarily well with home-made crumpets on a sunday afternoon.

(Also, am not making crumpets again any time soon. Took all damn day!)

Dear those with whom I have shared AC Perchs’ raspberry oolong

You may wish to have a closer look at this one. Due to the horrible shipping costs caused by Danish post non-service, many of you have been saddened that the ACP was unavailable to you. I suspect this one would be a good alternative, although I haven’t yet done any proper sort of comparison between the two. Still, many, if not most, of you loved the ACP and based on that, I think you would really like this one too.

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85
drank Lychee by Palais des Thés
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Finally, the lychee. I can see why some people think lychee has a chemical sort of smell, and maybe it’s one of those things where, in order to fully enjoy lychee flavoured things, one needs to be familiar with the flavour of actual lychees.

I happen to think they’re very tasty, but they’re a rare guest around these parts and often expensive.

This tea, I think, captures the lychee flavour very accurately, and it does so without overpowering the tea base which is even better. It’s lychee-y and sweet, and cteresa if you haven’t already tried this one, I think it would be right up your alley.

cteresa

I have been considering an order from them for ages. If they win ( right now it´s between them and Harney, I do want Queen Catherine, the woman was practically a neighbour of mine) I will definetely get this one. Lychee tea, very often, the chinese traditions are just right.

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77

Suddenly we now have a large chunk of this here wedding malarky sorted satisfactoraly. We had a meeting with the restaurant this morning and the battle plan for the day has taken shape. Now all we actually need is just invitations and our own outfits.

This totally calls for celebratory tea. I’m also celebrating with some chocolate cake so I chose a fruity one that might go well with it.

What I have actually ended up with, though is a rather curious blend, because it wasn’t until after I had almost poured a full cup and the contents of the pot suddenly didn’t fit, which it usually does, that I realised that I had about a third cup left from this morning. That was The du Tigres (or whatever. In this house goes by the name of Tigger Tea), also from LPdT. That one is smoky.

I think I’m about to discover what a flavoured Lapsang Souchong might be like. (Seriously, have either of you ever seen that? And I mean flavoured, not just blended into something flavoured. I would seriously like to know what that could result in)

My accidental blend of strawberry black and some cold half-day old Tigger Tea is actually surprisingly good. It doesn’t hurt that I’ve really managed to nail the strawberry on this pot. So it’s very strawberry-like and then I get some of the smoke coming in on top and near the end of the sip.

It sounds bizarre, I know, but it actually strikes me as a really interesting flavour. It makes me actually want to try and experiment a bit with smoky tea and fruit flavoured tea. Just the regular LS, though. The Jin Jun Mei that Spoonvonstrup sent me is obviously way too valuable for that sort of fooling about, and the Tigger Tea is getting a little low and the boyfriend has become very fond of it.

Spoonvonstup

Congrats on the malarky sorting!

Angrboda

Thank you. Weight off my mind! I hate this organising stuff.

Bonnie

I have one mixed with dry jasmine’s that is more mellow and good. I mixed Oh Canada. by DavidsTea (use any Maple) some Lapsang Souchong and a pinch of Applewood Smoked Salt (really good) . I was going to toy with how to get natural flavor like applewood on the Lapsang to blend with maple. I can imagine chili and chocolate too.

Angrboda

I lean more towards fruit flavours myself. And vanilla and sweets obviously. I’ve never really had much luck with chocolate, though. It never seems to want to come out properly for me. I have tried adding a little maple syrup to a cup of LS before which turned out relatively okay. I’m not used to sweetening my tea at all, so it got a little too much in the end.

Bonnie

I often put a pinch in my floral tea’s like Czar Nikolas Renaissance and my local shop has Lapsang Souchong Earl Grey.

cteresa

flavoured LS? what a good idea, this sounds very interesting indeed.

Dylan Oxford

Oooh… wedding malarky. Part of the reason Missy and I are still just engaged ;)

Angrboda

Bonnie, I’ve never considered doing that before, but I’ll definitely experiment with it now. What I would like though is a fruit flavoured tea where the entire base is LS. If it’s a fairly mildmannered LS, I can’t see why it shouldn’t work.

Cteresa, I know! I’ve been sceptic about flavouring green, oolong and pu-erh when first I encountered those, wondering how it was at all possible. But it was and it’s good, so why shouldn’t this work?

Dylan, my advice is that when you decide to marry, make sure you’re well on the way with preparations before you tell anybody. I think that would really keep a lot of the stress down. There have been times where I’ve wished we could have done that.

Bonnie

I’d love a LS and melon or pear if the fruit would stand up to the LS. No heavy hand!

CHAroma

Oooh, so exciting!! I wish I was as far along as you in wedding plans. I’m at the very beginning, taking a trip at the end of the month to check out possible venues. I’m surprised you haven’t gotten the dress yet. That’s one of the best parts!

Angrboda

Oh there’s no rush with that, but it will be the next thing on the agenda. I need to consult with my mother about it first though, because I want to take her along to help me. (and drive me) We’ve been looking at some windows and some websites though, so I do have a few candidates that I’d like to have a closer look at. Since ours will be a civil ceremony, which in Denmark is literally just the two questions and takes all of five minutes (no seriously. Our time is 11:05 and the couple before us is at 11) I don’t need the whole shebang of veils and a dress that looks more like a dessert than anything, and if it should happen that I can’t find a white dress that suits my demands, I could happily go with a different colour. I’ve been thinking actually if it might not be fun to have coloured shoes instead of white shoes. I saw some bright blue ones yesterday, same blue as in my icon.

cteresa

Colored shoes are a great idea, seen lots of those lately, specially with knee length dresses and colorful flowers, it is so cute – go for something you love and reflects your style!

CHAroma

And then you’ll have your something blue!! :)

Angrboda

I’m not paying super-much attention to that particular tradition, but the thought did cross my mind, yes. :)

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77

It seems like strawberry is a difficult flavour to get in a black tea. Often I find it’s more a flavour of strawberry leaf rather than the flavour of the actual fruit. Strawberry flavoured things, like sweets and such, also often have a really synthetic flavour to them, so I’m not really surprised that it’s difficult. Strawberry just seems to be a very flighty and finicky flavour in itself, and as I’m sitting here typing it’s actually difficult for me to drudge up a memory of what an actual real strawberry actually tastes like.

This is odd, really, because strawberry is such a popular flavour to add to things.

This tea is really no different. It has dried strawberry leaf in, and that is really the primary flavouring note that I get. I can’t say that surprises me because I was sort of expecting it, but I do wish I could find one that actually tastes like berries and not so much like the leaf.

That said, strawberry leaf is also a rather pleasant flavour in tea, so I wouldn’t say it was a loss or a disappointment.

cteresa

I read somewhere that strawberry is one of the most difficult flavours/scents to artificially synthetize which might explain why it is so hard to find things with natural strawberry flavours. I often mentally divide the synthetic “official” flavour ( for honey, or cherries, or grapes) which often has nothing to do with how things (real honey, cherries, grapes) taste or smell, but the synthetic ones get acceptance has being real flavours because we have been consuming since we were babies stuff artificially scented with that and that we are told is that.
Not making any sense, am I? But strawberry, real strawberry is impossible to get on anything. Maybe on strawberry jam ( but even them, it can be sort of “jammy” or frozen strawberries).

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84
drank Forêt Noire by Palais des Thés
1353 tasting notes

The boyfriend enjoys black fruits, like blackberry and the like, so I bought this one specifically with him in mind. I thought it was have a more forest fruit-y sort of quality but I find it’s primarily blackberry, and that it tastes very similar to the blackberry flavoured one from AC Perch’s that we’ve already got some 200g of.

So while this one is very tasty indeed, it’s not one I feel the need to keep in stock. I have an easier way to get something very similar.

TheTeaFairy

gotta keep the boys happy! love the name Forest Noire, very manly and mysterious…

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