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The name… LOL! Who can resist a good pun?

Unfortunately, not loving this one. The lime is somewhere between Jello and a cleaning product. Something is tasting slightly minty to me, and it’s making the lime taste even a bit stranger I think. I don’t notice any passion fruit at all. And the base… meh. I’m not sure I’ll enjoy any of the green teas I got from Savoy, since they’ll all use the same base tea.

Anyway, at least the name gave me a giggle! :P

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From my June subscription. The other tea was one I’ve already tried and don’t like, so it went into the rehoming box he he.

This tea definitely wins for most adorable packaging. It’s (of course) Little Mermaid themed and the label has the scene from the end of the Under the Sea song, where all the fish turn and point at Ariel, but they’re pointing at the name of the tea! So cute, ha ha.

Tried it both hot and now cold brewed. It’s okay, a bit generic in my opinion. I really enjoyed the Sea Witch fruit tisane, but this one has more of a hibiscus flavor to it, with the fruits in the background. A bit of a tropical thing going on, but I also taste a bit of peach.

So not one I would order for myself, but just adore the packaging, and happy to have tried it. :)

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So this one smelled amazing in the bag. I happen to love lemon cake, so was excited to try it!

However, I don’t get much lemon here. It certainly does taste buttery and cakey, like a pound cake. The flavoring isn’t super duper strong, but it’s noticeable. I can taste a hint of lemon, sort of a sweet lemon drop note. But I find myself wanting much more of that lemony goodness, especially since lemon pound cake often has a delicious lemony glaze on top.

So it’s a pleasant enough tea, but doesn’t quite fulfill the promise of the name to me. I will say, the earthy base doesn’t bother me nearly as much with this tea as it did with Caramel Buttercup for some reason.

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This tea sounds so good in theory – a white tea with almond, vanilla, and cardamom.

But it tastes… I don’t even know. I guess I get a bit of cardamom, but otherwise maybe wax? Nothing even approaching vanilla or almond, and the white tea has an unpleasant musty flavor to it. None of those pleasant haylike white tea notes.

I’m a bit baffled by this one. Is it because I had the sachets? I’m just not used to such a miss from Harney & Sons, and some of the other notes are very positive. O.o

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Chose this one because the name appealed to me, as for some reason Savoy neglects to mention anything about the flavor profile in the tea’s description…

As I suspected, it’s a berry-flavored black tea. Forest fruits make sense for a tea called “enchanted forest”. It has a vague dark berry flavor to it, maybe blueberry with black currant? The flavoring is very mild, a bit too mild IMO. It has a syrupy quality to it, but doesn’t become cloying like the pomegranate black tea I had earlier today.

Would be a tasty tea, if only there were a bit more of the berry going on. As-is, it’s a generic and somewhat earthy/woody black base with a subtle note of dark berry. Serviceable, but nothing I would purchase again. I am thankful it doesn’t taste like chalk to me though.

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This one just seemed bland to me, no matter how I prepared it. Very thin and weak-tasting with a bit of apple and clove and a bit of tartness.

Tried the last of it cold-brewed, and I think it’s maybe a bit better, but still quite bland. It’s like a watered-down version of those hibiscusy mulled cider herbal tisanes that you often see around the holidays (from B&B, for example).

Meh!

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I haven’t historically been the biggest fan of fruit tisanes, but I had one that I really liked from Trader Nicks recently, and that’s sort of made me consider them again. Plus this has such a cute name that I couldn’t help myself LOL.

It’s quite delicious. Sort of tastes like Pixy Stix, but in a good way. Great balance of sweet and tart, without a lot of hibiscus going on. Mostly I taste pineapple and apple, with a bit of creamy coconut poking its head out every once in a while. Very nice tarter pineapple aftertaste that reminds me of the real thing.

Not sure I would go out of my way to reorder this, but I could see picking some up if I was planning to make a Savoy order. Really pleasant pineapply fruit tisane that I’m sure would be delicious iced as well.

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More Savoy sample fun!

I’m a bit conflicted on this one. I think the caramel flavoring here is excellent. I don’t often enjoy caramel-flavored things, because so often they taste incredibly artificial and cloying to me. But this tea has a nice balance of buttery-caramel-sauce sort of notes mixed with caramelized-sugar-crème-brûlée-topping sort of notes.

However, the base tea is very woody/earthy, and to me it’s a bit of a mismatch with the more desserty flavoring. I think this flavor profile would’ve perhaps made a bit more sense on an Assam base, with those nice malty notes. As-is, it seems a bit… cacophonous? To me?

Anyway, happy to have tried it! And really, an excellent caramel flavoring.

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This is the 2022 harvest of this tea. I should really drink the current year’s as well, preferably before 2024 LOL.

This is actually very interesting, it has a strong mineral note to it that I wasn’t expecting. It’s an unshaded sencha, so quite light overall compared to the shaded teas I’ve had lately. Grassy, fresh, with some gentle vegetal notes to it. That minerality is unusual though, and very interesting. Seems like a unique note to this year’s harvest.

Free sample from my June subscription.

Not a huge fan of this, it has a very syrupy red fruits flavor to it, and then to add vanilla on top of it is just too cloying for me. It definitely reminds me of some French-style “red fruits” teas. I feel like it’s reminding me of a specific tea, but I can’t place which one at the moment…

Anyway, not a fan but always appreciate free samples. :)