What’s in Jasmine Green Tea?

BOH, a tea company with a 100-year history, is the biggest Malaysian tea producer. If you visit Malaysia, there’s a high chance you’ll run into BOH’s teas. You can get them from supermarkets, and you’ll find them in hotels too. This Jasmine green tea comes from Cameron Highlands, where most of Malaysian tea is growing. It’s flavoured with a natural jasmine flavour, and it smells absolutely delicious.

What’s also interesting is that Malaysia is not only producing small quantities of tea, but most of its tea is black.

Ever heard of Teh Tarik? It’s a type of Malaysian milk tea, and it’s easy to make at home too!

Boh Jasmine green tea is very far from a typical from a regular supermarket jasmine teas. It’s playful, vibrant, fresh, with a beautiful and intense jasmine scent. It almost feels as if you are smelling fresh flowers, rather than tea. The whole blend feels light and airy.

This tea is available only in classic tea bags.

How to brew this tea?   

To make the best cup of green tea, always bring fresh water to a boil and let it cool down to 80 degrees Celsius. Steep one tea bag for 2-3 minutes in a cup of water. Temperature is quite important for this tea, as it has a slight astringency if over brewed. However, this is quite common with traditional tea bags, especially with green tea.

Once brewed, both scent and flavour are exactly the same as the scent of dry leaves. This tea feels quite rich, with a light natural sweetness. Although this tea can easily be described as a full-bodied green tea, it feels light. While the jasmine scent and flavour are very pronounced, they are not overpowering. Jasmine is present as an aftertaste too.

Because of a beautiful jasmine scent, this tea is a wonderful choice for a relaxing me-time. Who would like this tea? If you love the scent of jasmine flowers and love full-bodied green teas, you’ll love this tea too. Since it’s quite deep and flavourful, this would be a great tea for making a proper sweetened iced tea too. However, if you are prefer classic jasmine teas, you may find the scent too intense.

Tea Recap

Water or milk? Water

Day or night? Day

Hot or iced? Hot or cold

Sweetened or pure? Pure or sweetened.

Caffeine? Yes

What’s the price? $4.40

Where to buy? Get it from BOH website.

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What’s in Basilur Jasmine Green Tea

Classic jasmine green tea is made with Chinese green tea leaves, scented with fresh jasmine flowers. This process is repeated until the tea is fragrant enough, and all flowers are removed. Today, there are different ways of making jasmine green tea. Some blends may contain dried jasmin blossoms, other are flavoured with natural flavourings. Scenting and flavouring are different processes that result in different flavours as well.

So what’s in Basilur Jasmine green tea? First, it’s made with Ceylon (Sri Lankan) green tea, rather than Chinese tea. Next, this tea is flavoured with a natural jasmine flavour, rather than scented. And you’ll see both things immediately upon opening the pouch.

The first thing you’ll notice is an intense sweet jasmine scent. There’s no deep smokiness like with many other jasmine green teas. Instead, it’s very sweet and floral, on the verge of being perfumy. As it is extremely strong, this scent may not be for everyone. However, it’s also extremely pleasant and inviting.

How does it taste?

To make a cup of jasmine green tea, bring fresh water to a boil and let it cool down to 80-85 degrees Celsius. Use 1 heaped teaspoon or 1 tea bag per cup of water and steep for 2-3 minutes.

This tea has a very perfumy flavour that feels sweet. There’s absolutely no bitterness at all in this tea. It feels very delicate, which is quite uncommon for jasmine green tea, especially tea bags. Classic tea bags contain dust and small leaf particles and often result in a bitter and strong infusion.

Green tea in this blend is light, and the jasmine flavour is lighter than the scent might suggest. However, it’s strong enough to serve it iced. It would be a perfect treat for spring and summer afternoon tea parties.

If you love the scent of jasmine, especially jasmine essential oils, rather than classic jasmine teas, you will love this tea, too. In fact, even if you don’t like classic jasmine teas, you may find this tea inviting. This tea would appeal to those that like strong flavours, but don’t like the bitterness common in jasmine green teas. It’s quite surprising for a jasmine green tea in a traditional tea bag not to have any bitterness at all. However, if you don’t like perfumy blends, you won’t like Basilur’s jasmine green tea, either.

Tea Recap

Water or milk? Water

Day or night? Day

Hot or iced? Hot or iced

Sweetened or pure? Pure or with honey

Caffeine? Yes

Where to buy? Get it from Amazon.

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What’s in Nearly Nirvana?

Neary Nirvana is blended with green tea, jasmine scented silver needle tea, jasmine blossoms, spearmint and orange blossoms. Mint and jasmine are not a common combination, and it may even sound quite unusual. But spearmint, which is less often used in tea blends than peppermint, has a much lower content of menthol. Menthol is a compound that gives a strong and pungent minty flavour. That’s why spearmint is fresh but milder, so it won’t overpower other flavours.

Another interesting ingredient in this tea are orange blossoms. They are also not too common in tea blends and are mostly present in calming sleepy time teas. Interestingly, both orange blossoms and jasmine may help reduce anxiety.

Lightness, relaxation and delightful scent make Nearly Nirvana worthy of its name for sure. The scent of jasmine is beautiful and dominates over the scent of dry white and green tea leaves. Mint feels like a background base note only, giving freshness without turning this blend into a strong mint tea.

Since this is a blend of white and green tea, it contains caffeine. Both green and white tea may be higher in caffeine than black tea, so keep that in mind if caffeine content is important to you.

Nearly Nirvana is available as loose tea and in pyramid tea bags.

What does Nearly Nirvana taste like?

Nearly Nirvana is a blend of green and white tea, so lower water temperature is recommended. Steep it for 2-3 minutes at 80 degrees Celsius.

This mint and jasmine tea is light and delicate, with no bitterness. Mint and jasmine are perfectly balanced, with mint giving a refreshing lightness and jasmine adding a floral touch. Green tea serves as a wonderful base, giving depth to this blend. There are zero traces of bitterness. It really is light and heavenly and feels more like a white tea blend than green tea.

This is a very, very easy to drink tea. Mint and jasmine are not a common combination, but after trying this blend, you’ll think they definitely should be. They really go well together. You can re-steep the same tea bag at least once, depending on how long you steep it for.

Who would like this tea? This blend is great for tea drinkers that love jasmine teas but don’t like the bitterness that comes with some jasmine blends. It’s great for daily sipping and afternoon tea times.

Tea Recap

Water or milk? Water.

Day or night? Day.

Hot or iced? Hot or cold.

Sweetened or Pure? Pure.

Caffeine? Yes.

What’s the price? Starting from 3.50 GBP.

Where to buy? Get it from the Bird and Blend website.

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There are many types of jasmine tea out there, some with a more intense scent and stronger flavour, and others are incredibly delicate but still flavourful.

What’s The Jet-Setter like?

What’s in The Jetsetter?

No one does classic tea blends as The Tea and the Gang. This tea brand has the amazing ability to take a well-known tea classic, elevate it and offer a blend that’s a pure joy to drink. Tea and the Gang say their teas have a personality, and it’s definitely not just about the names and pretty packaging. It’s the flavour and ingredients as well.

The Jet-Setter is no different.

The Jet-Setter is a classic Chinese jasmine green tea sprinkled with jasmine blossoms. Just like many jasmine green teas, it has a delightful scent. But it also has something more. A beautiful balance of floral notes and green tea where neither is overpowering.

This tea is available as loose tea and in pyramid tea bags that allow the same flavour as loose tea with no need for brewing equipment. Except, of course, your favourite mug.

It’s smells truly delightful, not overpowering, but just right.

What’s interesting about jasmine green teas is that they are typically scented, rather than flavoured. Green tea leaves are scented by mixing them with fresh jasmine blossoms multiple times. These blossoms are later discarded and what’s left are pure green tea leaves with a beautiful jasmine scent and flavour.

What does this jasmine green tea taste like?

To make a cup of The Jet-Setter, use 1 tea bag per cup of tea (preferably a smaller cup), and steep for 3 minutes at 80 degrees Celsius.

The Jet-Setter is a truly beautiful jasmine green tea. Jasmine green teas will usually brew into a darker yellow tea, that is often associated with bitterness. The Jet-Setter has a vibrantly dark-yellow colour and zero traces of bitterness. It’s fragrant and light, mellow, with a perfect depth to serve it iced as well. There’s just enough astringency in this tea to induce a very sweet and floral aftertaste.

If you tried jasmine green tea before and didn’t quite enjoy it because of the bitterness, with its gentle character, The Jet-Setter is a tea that could make you change your mind. Another great thing about this tea is that you can re-steep it.

The Jet-Setter is a gentle and sophisticated tea. Some jasmine green teas are very overpowering, but this tea would be a perfect choice for an afternoon tea. It would be a great introduction to the world of scented and pure teas as well.

So, who would like it? If you love jasmine green teas, you will love this one too. This tea is great for tea drinkers that enjoy floral teas, lighter green teas that are not sweet, and pure unflavoured blends.

Tea Recap

Water or milk? Water.

Day or night? Day.

Hot or iced? Hot or iced.

Sweetened or Pure? Pure.

Caffeine? Yes

What’s the price? Starting from 3.19 GBP.

Where to buy? Get The Jet-Setter from the Tea and the Gang website or Amazon.

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