Floragold

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I was doing my random tea generation to help pick a tea and this was the one I ended up pulling out. It’s another Floragold so like all others, it’s from Roswell Strange! Thank you!!

First off, I walked past my BIL with this tea and he commented how good it smelled. Because it does smell good. It tastes nice as well though the coconut is a little past it’s prime as this is a touch lotiony. Also, ginger was like a subtle warmth in the mug but I found myself wanting more. So this one was good but not great, partially due to age though.

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This is another Roswell Strange share that I finished the other day. I had a much better experience with this tea than I did with Dandelion Detox though. This is a rooibos cream blend and while the rooibos flavor came through, it wasn’t as offensive as so many others I have had lately. It was a nice vanilla cream flavor that worked well with the rooibos – which was neither woodsy or medicinal. I was surprised but quite pleased with this one. Thank you for sharing Roswell Strange!

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Nope. I wanted to like it and it’s sorta strawberry and pineapple but it’s also a lot of base tea that is bitter and metallic. Thank you Roswell Strange for sharing but this was a no for me.

nope. i don’t like jasmine teas on a good day.

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Thank you Roswell Strange for sharing this and all other Floragold teas. This one is not one I’d have ever gotten for myself because jasmine green teas are common and just not my thing. This is fine. Smooth enough and I can also get that sort of grape/muscatel vibe from the jasmine that RS got. If you are into jasmine greens and this is available, it’s fine but if you’re not, this is like all others.

cup of sweeet lemon. Nothing too exciting but nothing offensive either.

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This is a poor man’s Mango Fruit Punch. Thanks Roswell Strange for sharing but I wasn’t overly impressed here.

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After lunch, I took this as a hot tea and Monkey Chop as an iced latte back to the office with me…and by that I mean to the desk upstairs. It was nice and even as it cooled I enjoyed it. It was peachy and fruity and just a nice afternoon tea as I listened to did video training.

so we often joke around here that my child is feral. She managed to use her teeth and popped a can of soda when she was like 8 months, she always wants to chew on dog toys and such. So it should come as no surprise that she got ahold of this tea, managed to suck/chew through the package to then stuff the teabag in her mouth. I’m not sure if she was hoping for eternal life or just like the taste but as a result id din’t actually get to try this tea. Which isn’t a huge deal for me as the smell of the jasmine was enough to make me think i wouldn’t like it much. But thanks for entertaining my kid VariaTEA lol

tea from a few days ago. I didn’t mind this one. I found it to be pretty close to a strawberry kiwi without being super intense on flavour.

sample from VariaTEA. Figured this one would be a toss up if i liked it or not. I like ginger, orange…but tulsi can be hit or miss. turns out this lands pretty smack dab in the middle of the road for me. I could have more ginger in this as usual haha

i enjoyed this cup but honestly i wouldn’t call it mango or tangerine. i think the papaya came through more than anything but it just kind of blended in to a weird fruity mess

I thought i’d really like this one given the ingredients but it’s so very “meh” to me. Theres some vanilla and cardamom but the chai isn’t the best. decent enough cup i guess :)

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Thank you Roswell Strange for the share but this tastes like DAVIDsTEA’s Sleigh Ride and given I didn’t love that, I’m not a huge fan of this. There’s a quality that Forever Nuts and other blends like it have that I enjoyed once and then for some reason just turned against it and even the smell was off putting. Sleigh Ride and similarly, this tea, fall into that category so while it’s fun to try new things, this was more like revisiting a tea I didn’t enjoy.

haha i was ok with this tea because i don’t mind hibiscus. That said, for a tea advertised as vanilla cinnamon, it’s mostly just sorta vanilla hibiscus. I really like these tea bags because i can make tea without focusing too much on it. While i didn’t mind the tea – i don’t feel like it’s very true to what it’s trying to be.

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This came to me via Roswell Strange as all these Floragold teas do. Thank you for sharing!

This is meant to be raspberry apricot and like Roswell, I got absolutely no apricot. I did get raspberry though, sorta, but mostly it was hibiscus/berry. No chalky taste like Roswell got at least. It was okay but nothing special.

vanilla cream rooibos. Nothing spectacular but also not that woodsy rooibos that overpowers the flavour going on. Enjoyed this a bunch for what it was.

this one fell somewhere in the middle of malty with a little bit of astringency. basically neither roswell strange nor variaTEA’s experience – just midpoint. I enjoyed it as a result. I am never a huge fab of tea bags…hate the environmental impact even when they’re biodegradable . But this was a nice change from the 3 teas i’ve had to drink haha