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Meh. It’s not great peach-wise, it’s not great tea-wise. Certainly drinkable, but nothing I care to reorder. It really doesn’t taste very oolong-y to me, but I don’t profess to have actual tea knowledge, I just know what I like or don’t.

I don’t find this to be tremendously grapefruity, but the flavor is definitely present. It’s more the actual fruit than peel or oil or anything, and it’s balanced nicely with the tea. I have yet to find a grapefruit tea that I love, but this is a nice one. (I do find this needs a bit more tea than average, although probably not as much as I used here for most people – I tend to go heavy on the tea.)

This is uncomplicated but nice. It has what I think of as true black tea taste (not sure how else to describe it, it’s almost more a feeling in the back of my throat?) but I don’t find it overly astringent. It is somewhat tannic, but just enough to make it interesting – nothing overwhelming to me. I get some nice roasted notes from it, but nothing I’d consider fruity. It’s a nice solid anytime tea to me.

I liked this. Nice balance of tea and jasmine. I tend to prefer rather heavy flavors/fragrances, so if you just want a hint of jasmine, this isn’t the right one for you. And I just always like pearl teas a bit more because they are just so pretty, lol.

Bitter green with medicinal cherry. Bleh.

In fairness, the scent is absolutely delicious and nails carrot cake. But the taste…ugh. I get an overwhelming taste (and feel, if you know what I mean) of artificial sweetener, with a slight underpinning of spices. I do taste the licorice but it’s very faint – I generally hate licorice, but it’s not overwhelming in this tea. It’s a bit better as it cools, but I really dislike this one and can’t even finish the cup.

Yuck. Just rooibos, rooibos, and more rooibos with a hint of a watery chocolate flavor. I steeped it forever, and it was still just barely drinkable. I gave up after just a few swallows.

Um, this one is nice enough. It doesn’t wow me one way or the other. It definitely has that lime dryness to it, but not overpowering. Probably is great with sugar added, maybe even a tiny bit of milk for creaminess.

This truly tastes like someone made tea out of potpourri to me – one of those ones with some flowers but also dried fruit slices and some cinnamon or something. It’s pretty gross, and nothing like how it’s described flavor-wise. Like potpourri, it does smell nice.

ETA: This definitely tastes better as it’s cooling down. I still don’t care for it, but I’m bumping the rating from 15 to 25.

I bought this one before I realized that hibiscus just makes me basically ill. And I don’t know if it’s the recipe for this tea or just that I got a hibiscus heavy batch, but that was truly almost all I could taste. I couldn’t taste any tea at all, and I only occasionally got a little bit of that jasmine tickle where it enters your nose from the back of your throat. I could also taste some berryish flavor, but the hibiscus overwhelmed any ability to discern specifics. I tried to finish it just because I hate wasting money, lol, but this one went down the drain and in the trash.