Teavana takes a blend of spearmint and peppermint, dashes in a dollop of lemon verbena, and offers it now in teabags. Given the apparently identical ingredients, I strongly suspect this is a renaming or reincarnation of the former "Mint Majesty Full Leaf Tea Sachets" rated here seven years ago by Bob Downs. It gave off a muted, somewhat citrusy mint aroma in the dry and wet bags, somewhat stronger in-cup, and was a smooth, friendly mint blend with lemon in taste.

I can see how a tea such as this would be a soothing drink when one has an achy stomach, or some clogged up breathing pipes from a respiratory virus. It gets very sweet with a normal dose of the saccharin/stevia sweetener mix I usually use, and takes honey quite nicely. Were it 1/3 the price, I'd more strongly recommend this well-balanced tea, even if the flavor isn't as potent as I prefer in mint.

Where I backhanded this tea's rating hard was on value. For what amounts to the tea version of cramming a stick each of Wrigley's Spearmint, Doublemint and Juicy Fruit gum in one's mouth—interestingly tasty but hardly transcendental—this is a costly blend. With 24-ct boxes of this tea going for anywhere from $11-$15 online, Harmonic Mint is strongly overpriced for its niche. One can obtain a lot of equal or better mint teas for less than this per bag. If Teavana's prices don't come down substantially, the latest iteration of its tea line may have a brief lifespan, indeed.

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