This is a pleasant little herb tea that is probably worth grabbing on sale, but not as tasty as a few of Teekanne's many other offerings. Calm and Relax has a long ingredients roster that reminds me a lot of Traditional Medicinals or Yogi teas: cinnamon, orange leaves, rooibos, licorice, honeybush, chamomile, lemon balm, apple mint, peppermint, lemongrass, hops, and blackberry leaves. That seems like an intriguing blend, especially the hops, which I've never had in a tea before. However, hops is only 5% of the total package, per Teekanne's website, so it was about as undetectable as I would expect with such a minor fraction.

For a tea with cinnamon as the listed main ingredient, and rooibos a couple spots behind, the flavor is rather good, but rather modest and unassuming. It's definitely a cinnamon-dominant herbal mix with the rooibos/honeybush combo readily identifiable, and all else seemingly there for either ballast, or a flavor element too subtle for my buds to sense. Neither smell nor flavor are as robust as I would expect or prefer. It's tasty, just not particularly strong, and I've been steeping Warm & Cozy's teabags for 8-10 minutes, as well as swishing it around in the hot water from time to time.

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