Tea appreciation involves a critical step known as "smelling the fragrance." How can you discern the quality of a tea through its aroma? Typically, it's done in three stages: hot sniffing, warm sniffing, and cold sniffing.

After warming the cup, add dry tea leaves to release the tea fragrance and detect any peculiar or miscellaneous odors it emits.

After brewing 1-2 times, smell the teaware or the bottom of the leaves to gauge the intensity and duration of its aroma.

Smell the bottom of the leaves to assess their persistence.