Magnolia v Jasmine scents

Sep 04, 2009 2 Replies

Damn if I can smell or taste the difference after comparing it to a TOH Jasmine Blossom. If anything Magnolia is even more overpowering. So that would lead me to believe the recent Magnolia green I got at my local tea shoppe was mislabeled but I doubt it. I took a quick look at the Internet and there is a lot of references to "jasmine and magnolia". So Im thinking the term Jasmine and Magnolia are interchangeable terms as a Chinese scent. I grew up in the Souh with Magnolia trees but that was another lifetime.



Jim


That's an interesting idea, but I doubt it. There are widely used words in Chinese for both jasmine and magnolia so why would an honest and competent vendor use one word to cover both flowers?

/Lew

At least, I wasnt imagining things.

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Jim

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