The Paisley Hippo

Iced!

This was a company that was very interesting to me at the Toronto Tea Festival this year because I’ve had agarwood scented oolongs before, but never the agarwood leaf itself either straight (which is one of the tisanes I bought) or in a blend like this one.

I found it quite interesting sipping on this because it’s obviously quite sweet and tropical tasting from the fruits in the blend. Sort of a bit of a more generic or safe/commercial kind of way with sweet candied mango notes over taking the slight twang of the passionfruit. However, it was also quite herbal and earthy with a bit of a smokiness to it as well. I had to make the comparison because I feel like it will come off negatively, but the taste did remind me a lot of the SMELL of cannabis. Like when you walk past someone on the streets and immediately know they’re high/have been smoking. I kind of liked it though! It was like a little bit of good funk that sort of offset the sweeter and more syrupy notes of the fruit.

Definitely very, very curious to try the straight agarwood leaf now though!