Bains de Rose

Thank you Roswell Strange for sharing this one with me! I’d been starting to think I was a fan of rose teas again but this was not very good. It was bitter and tasted like potpourri. I have a little of the sample left and my hope is that it was my steeping (the recommended parameters) that messed it up. We shall see.

Received this tea from someone at work who knows how much I love rose in tea (if that wasn’t apparent from the MANY rose flavoured teas I had this week…) and I’m really appreciative of their generosity and thoughtfulness to share a tea with me that they knew I’d like. They were of course correct, this has an amazing rose flavour! Sweet, delicate and fresh – a bit more perfumey that some of the rose I experienced this week, but not in a bad way!

I actually made three mugs of this tea day I tried it out; I have a new roommate (one of the other two moved out last week) and for her first weekend in the apartment we all kind of sat down and got to know each other over a mug of tea – and that cleaned the apartment together as a group. It was actually a really nice activity and she seems really nice! I’m excited to have a new roommate who is maybe more sociable than the last, who also seems to have an appreciation for a cup of tea!