Do you ever have those moments when a smell brings you back to a happy place, a childhood moment, a memory you long to place but can’t quite put your finger on? I have those now and again although, one recently has been driving me crazy. I can’t physically smell it, it’s in my memory and I long to smell and taste this sweet fragrance I’ve recently recalled. This smell is a tea I had at one point and it brings me back to Fall and the coziness of snuggling up in my jammies on the couch and sipping a sweet cup of tea while watching a movie with my husband. I’ve asked my friend who is a tea fanatic if I could come over and smell her tea drawer to see if I could place it.

While hunting through her many teas I ran across one that seemed to be perfect, it was a winter solstice from Peets Coffee. Now this makes sense, it only comes around once a year, she brewed me a cup and I sipped the sweet black tea and enjoyed our conversations while our kids played together. The following day I ran to the store to fill up our selection of tea in our household as the weather is now permitting this to be a frequent “go to” drink. As I was thumbing through all the different types of tea while allowing my son to shake all the boxes to quietly entertain him, I grabbed quite a few teas all different flavors, some I had never tried before.

To my surprise that evening I brewed myself a cup of tea from Good Earth’s blend called Sweet and Spicy. Heaven rained down on me. This was the tea, the one I had been searching for all along. I was sitting in glorious bliss while utterly shocked I found it, the blessed tea I had been hunting for was sitting in my mug here in my very own home without even knowing it. All along I thought the Winter Solstice was the tea as something didn’t seem quite right it was pretty darn close, but as I said, heaven did rain down in this cup of Good Earth Sweet and Spicy tea.

I couldn’t bring myself to try any of the other teas considering I had longed for months to sip this sweet yet spicy tea. I finally tried another tea a few days later called Bengal Spice and I must say, the spice is what I love, this tea was very similar and now I know what satisfies my palette.

It’s great to place the smells and taste that bring a memory up as they often don’t get found. I can proudly say, this one did get found and brought me to a happy place..