10

This was an EU Travelling Teabox Try.

There’s no two ways of saying this. It smells like soap. Not even perfumed soap, just soap soap. No hints of vanilla or of rooibos. Only soap. It smells exactly like the way accidentally getting a little shampoo in your mouth in the shower tastes.

It tastes like rooibos and not too much like soap. There’s a little bit of that sensation hanging in the nostrils after sipping, but I expect that’s because of how closely related to taste the sense of smell is. The vanilla flavouring is not very strong and mainly shows up as an aftertaste. Unfortunately that’s where it gets mixed in with that shampoo in the mouth feeling, so all in all, this is actually not very pleasant.

I can’t seem to get rid of that feeling of shampoo in my sinuses.

Originally I had intended this to be a Take and take all of it, but having tasted it, I thought better of it and put it back in the box. Demoted.

A vanilla flavoured blend that I’m scoring low. Of all things! O.o I’m very disappointed.

Fjellrev

I can’t imagine a rooibos smelling like plain soap since, to me, rooibos in itself is to strongly woodsy in scent. That just be one ridiculous blend. :/

Angrboda

It was highly peculiar! I’ve never had it happen before.

Anna

I avoided this one, too. Very, very soapy.

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Fjellrev

I can’t imagine a rooibos smelling like plain soap since, to me, rooibos in itself is to strongly woodsy in scent. That just be one ridiculous blend. :/

Angrboda

It was highly peculiar! I’ve never had it happen before.

Anna

I avoided this one, too. Very, very soapy.

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