No score or recommendation for this one because I got it as a free sample and I don’t like jasmine. Jasmine is up there with patchouli for “can’t be in the same room with it.” After a rather weak sheng session I found myself back in the kitchen looking for tea. Might as well get this over with. Rinsed the leaves in cold water hoping to get some of jasmine scent off.
Like many people, I had a Polish aunt with a large bouffant hairdo and reeking of perfume. She wore as much nylon and lace as humanly possible in a single outfit. Her bathroom was wallpapered with faux long hot pink fur and she had many vases of plastic purple flowers to go with it. She and her husband had a tavern, of course. When you saw the lipstick, you knew what will happen next and run for the hills. Grew up terrified I might turn out like that, got rid of my Polack accent and adopted minimalism in all my affairs. Then I auditioned for a Polish polka musical and at the audition she came right out of my mouth and got me cast in the show. Got offered the same part at Steppenwolf later that year, my “authenticity.” I bowed to the inevitable, so I thought, and now I try to embrace it when I see a cute nephew, but I have to draw a line in the heritage sand. I dread to add water to the jasmine tea, and my stomach heaves over with the steamy smell.
Oh god, it is probably good for my digestion but I drank it quick. One small cup, no more.
Somebody add Polish Aunt to Flavor choices please.
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Such a picturesque description. I can just visualise you now as a Polish aunt. :-) I don’t have any Polish aunts but my friend did and the impression she gave me of them has never left me. They were as wide as they were tall, which is to say not much of either, and they continued to lift loads that an olympic weightlifter would balk at until their dying days. Formidable is the right word for them. As for the jasmine tea, I happen to like it at the end of a meal, but it’s not for everyone.
what is up with them and horrible samples? first baimudan, then I got this. I’m not even going to open it.
You got this too? Honestly it might be very good, for a person who drinks this type of tea, so I felt it wasn’t fair to actually rate it. Plus it has like 163 reviews already so they must send it out a lot. With the pre-order debacle I don’t plan to order from them anyway.
I’m not ordering from them again either. There are too many great vendors run by awesome people to be wasting money on Verdant.
I would give this away, but none of my tea drinking friends like jasmine. Me? I don’t like jasmine OR silver needles :)
Such a picturesque description. I can just visualise you now as a Polish aunt. :-) I don’t have any Polish aunts but my friend did and the impression she gave me of them has never left me. They were as wide as they were tall, which is to say not much of either, and they continued to lift loads that an olympic weightlifter would balk at until their dying days. Formidable is the right word for them. As for the jasmine tea, I happen to like it at the end of a meal, but it’s not for everyone.
what is up with them and horrible samples? first baimudan, then I got this. I’m not even going to open it.
You got this too? Honestly it might be very good, for a person who drinks this type of tea, so I felt it wasn’t fair to actually rate it. Plus it has like 163 reviews already so they must send it out a lot. With the pre-order debacle I don’t plan to order from them anyway.
I’m not ordering from them again either. There are too many great vendors run by awesome people to be wasting money on Verdant.
I would give this away, but none of my tea drinking friends like jasmine. Me? I don’t like jasmine OR silver needles :)