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Osmanthus outside a Vancouver tea shop smells of apricot

Small white osmanthus flowers clustered where dark green leaves meet the stem

On my walk there's an osmanthus shrub flowering beside a little tea shop, tiny pale orange flowers you'd never notice, and the whole block smells of ripe apricot. My grandmother in Japan called it kinmokusei and for her it meant autumn. The osmanthus page says the flowers are infused with tea in China, which made me smile on the way in.

Osmanthus Tea

3 comments

joon.yuzu

TL;DR: hunting for one in Seattle this weekend. Apricot plus tea is my whole personality. That's my two cents.

carys.cardiff

The same page describes the absolute as apricot-like, honeyed and leathery. The leather surprised me.

hana.neroli

carys.cardiff wrote:

The leather surprised me.

It's there under the fruit, like the inside of an old tea chest.