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Wet smell very roasted almost coffee-esque. 2min 195 3tsp almost burnt smelling, super dark brew. Smooth not much taste. Might try this for a longer steep time or hotter water, leaves never unfurled in my steeper.

8Feb16- 2.5tsp 7 min
Very dark smell chocolate mint, taste chocolate mint. No woody rooibos! Yay!
2nd steep more rooibos flavor. Still have mint but I lost most of the chocolate flavoring.

Dry leaf smells bready, kind of sweet.
2 tsp 30 sec – slightly sweet, I don’t actually get any other flavors this steep.
1 min – bread-like, sweet
I didn’t continue with this tea.

2Feb: Dry leaf smells awesome. Tea – I’m getting chocolate and pumpkin and creaminess. I’m also getting a strange taste/astringency that I don’t like. I have some more left might try it again.

31Jan: I waffled on adding this to my order for a while. I love cherries, but I hate coffee. Unless it’s the only hot thing to drink somewhere and then I add so much stuff that it isn’t coffee anymore. It was getting high praise on Steepster and I’d thought I’d try it.
Dry- smell reminds me of chocolate covered cherries (Good)
Adding water – smell coffee, cherry coffee – this might not be good.
1st steep smooth, cherry finish, not a lot of coffee flavor.
2nd steep 5 min 8oz – more cherry and coffee in this steep. Still very smooth no harsh coffee flavor.
I really like the cherry flavor and the smoothness. I just wish I could divorce the coffee. I don’t think I’ll get this again because of the coffee.

29Jan: Sample sipdown. milky, very milky. I like this tea beter sans extra flavoring. If you want your milk oolong to be extra milky…I didn’t care for it.

Dry leaf nice mix of tea and fruit – pear and apple. smells of sweet pear. Tastes malty, slightly spicy pear. Not that good. I didn’t much care for this tea apparently….

25jan: smells citrus. Tastes: citrus, earthy. Tastes complement each other well.

25Jan: small leaves, smells spicy, cinnamon. Tea is yummy, slightly cinnamony. I like this one.

Jan 25th: You know those teas you buy because the tasting notes sounded good online. This is one of those teas. I think I’ve found out that I don’t care for chai all that much. And caramel doesn’t belong in tea. Dry leaf smells: carmely, sugary, chai. This tea is okay when hot though the flavors don’t come through well. However, once the tea cools, the chai part is fine. It’s the caramel artificial flavoring that is not good. It pretty much ruins the tea for me. I might try it with sugar to see if it can fix the fake flavor.