- Green tea and jasmine - perfect companions! - This jasmine tea is an extremely popular and economical alternative to "whole herb" jasmine tea that contains very expensive jasmine flowers only. It is essentially a high quality green tea base that has been scented with premium jasmine flowers, and the spent jasmine blooms are added as a decorative element to the tea. Years ago, layering of the two different types of leaves was the common infusion process; today a more sophisticated hot air process