It’s going to matter how the tea was stored. More volatile compounds will evaporate from the tea if it is stored carelessly. I assume that some of the artificial scents will evaporate more readily than the scent compounds intrinsic to the tea, but I can’t say for certain. Also, a benign doping of powdered allspice will probably stay with the tea and age appropriately.gld wrote: ↑Fri Mar 06, 2020 4:27 pmI have a question. Does the fragrance of doped tea remain when the tea itself fades?
I bought Huang Jin Gui from Jing Tea Shop last year. it was too floral for cheap tea (in my opinion) so I just drank it at work and forgot about it. Now a year later it's faded and mellow with a little added depth; no fragrance (as would be the case for non-doped tea) but with a nicer body. It may just have died nicely, but the extra-floral taste is gone.
We can speculate but I have know way to be certain as I suspect they use a variety of doping agents, from artificial floral scents to powdered allspice.