White Tea / Thé Blanc
by Ava Luxe

[b][size=4][COLOR="YellowGreen"]White Tea[/COLOR][/size][/b]

I am an avid tea drinker. I drink black tea with (skimmed milk) – gallons of the stuff. At work, I drink green tea in the mornings and white tea (usually a cinnamon flavoured variety) in the afternoons.
This does [i]not[/i] smell like tea to me.
I’ve tried L’Artisan Tea for Two and it was exactly like drinking a cup of Earl Grey. Not so this. White Tea, to me, smells like soap. From that perspective, it fulfils the clean/fresh category admirably. It just doesn’t fulfill the tea category very well.
I was hoping that the soapiness would wear off after initial application and let the other notes shine through, but it merely becomes a softer soap.
In its favour, it is long lasting, though it stays close to the skin. The scent, however, just does not work for me.

24th April, 2007.