Chamomile Blush will make one blush all right—not for the usual reasons, but from the shame or embarrassment of paying so much for such a weak, weird tea.

The stated ingredients are simple enough: chamomile, spearmint, rose, and lemongrass. The result is a disjointed, odd combination of flavors that, in my experience, best resembles a very watered-down version of some rather unpleasant decongestant syrup I had to choke down as a child, when clogged with nasty gunk that messed up my senses of taste and smell. The awful medicine, diluted, would have been more tolerable, and so is this tea; yet, the flavor still reminds of it.

I don't know whose idea it was to make rose and spearmint play together in a field of chamomile (a random-ingredient generator set to quit at four?), but I beseech them, stop right here. It doesn't work well.

Perhaps it would without the rose petals, since I've had blends with the other three ingredients and not had such an offputting experience. The chamomile is good but seems weak, and easily overpowered by the spearmint and rose. Mainly I detect it in the dry-bag aroma, but still dominated by spearmint, and weakly in the wet bag, with the rose and mint mostly gone. I got this at a convention, but after seeing the Amazon price as of this writing (62¢/bag), I can't, in good conscience, recommend purchasing this.

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