Kānuka

Kunzea ericoides
December 28, 2020

Victoria

Kanuka

Overall – energetic, strong sense of self.

 

 

Visual

 

 

Touch

 

Smell

 

Taste

Energetic, soft, flexible. Abundant leaves off each stem, teeny flowers with profuse and delicate stamens and pollen drops/pinheads. Dry and brittle looking branches.

  

Leaves look spikier than they feel, pliable yet strong. welcome the weather.

 

Branches also more pliable than they look. 

Leaf – grassy, collards/broccoli

 

Oil 

Bright, mint/menthol, lemon, astringent, sweet note

Tea – honeysuckle, honey, mint aftertaste, orange blossom, butterscotch, (after someone else mentioned)

 

Tea - tongue fizzles

 

 

Emotion

 

1st impression After tea

Opening, comforting, soothing, healing.

Merry-go-round, opens us to ‘dreambody’, holds both masculine and feminine energies.

 

2nd impression After kombucha

Cleansing, mother/teacher plant, rounding. 

 

 

 Ana

 

KANUKA
It makes me think of a young woman, hip and urban, connected, plugged with the present, independent and cheerful though somewhat introvert. The taste is very herbal, like thyme or specially basil. Smell is very faint, nothing remarkable.
Tea is one hundred percent medicinal, herbal. Smells like a natural health store from my city where I used to go with my mother. Taste is more earthy, rooty. Liquorice. There´s also a freshness about it. 
Essential oil is like a fresh ocean breeze. It´s a promise of something good, in a healing sense.
The kombucha is also pretty herbal, delicious taste. I keep thinking of the young woman. 

 

 

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