Star anise
Osmanthus absolute
Tobacco absolute
Black tea absolute
Cistus absolute
Patchouli
Amber
Sichuan pepper
05/23/2025
ClaireV
969 Reviews
ClaireV
1
Interesting dry spiced tea mix
You’re hiking through the Peruvian Amazon, and when dusk arrives, you stop to make camp and brew yourself some tea. Your soft leather satchel contains only a few dried osmanthus petals and some brown dust that could be anything from black tea leaves to aniseed or the remnants of your last tobacco pouch. You’re so tired at this point that you sweep everything into the rickety little tin pot. And your tea tastes correspondingly gruff and careless – a tart, tongue-stripping intake of earth and undergrowth full of matted grasses, tobacco, dirt, twigs, with a pop of what tastes like mint or licorice.
The cleansing rinse of camphor or eucalyptus up top, coupled with the brown, earth-toned notes, is what makes Osmanthe Kõdoshãn such an interesting take on osmanthus. It carries the same sort of attractively mossy dankness as Moena 12 | 69 (Carta) or Bohea Bohème (Mona di Orio), where the matted base materials offer a rich undergrowth from which the brighter notes are eventually sprung free. And this is what eventually happens with Osmanthe Kõdoshãn too. In time, a tangy, almost sour tea note, like black tea brewed twice over with dried orange peel and strained through a damp linen cloth, breaks free of the sturdier base materials. The result is a brackish fruit tea, quite weak and watery, but with enough starch in it to stand your shirt collar up straight. Really wonderful.
The cleansing rinse of camphor or eucalyptus up top, coupled with the brown, earth-toned notes, is what makes Osmanthe Kõdoshãn such an interesting take on osmanthus. It carries the same sort of attractively mossy dankness as Moena 12 | 69 (Carta) or Bohea Bohème (Mona di Orio), where the matted base materials offer a rich undergrowth from which the brighter notes are eventually sprung free. And this is what eventually happens with Osmanthe Kõdoshãn too. In time, a tangy, almost sour tea note, like black tea brewed twice over with dried orange peel and strained through a damp linen cloth, breaks free of the sturdier base materials. The result is a brackish fruit tea, quite weak and watery, but with enough starch in it to stand your shirt collar up straight. Really wonderful.
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