Her grandmother's idea of coffee consisted of exotic blends with names like cinnamon orange twist, or hazelnut vanilla.

At Lady Mendl's, visitors are first offered a tea menu complete with exotic blends and more commonplace selections like Earl Grey.

Shops all over town will sell you gift tins of exotic blends.

A tea enthusiast has the excuse for numerous visits, to sample the range of Indian estate teas, Chinese teas and nine other exotic blends.

Geiger was dead and Carmen would have to find some other shady character to drink exotic blends of hootch with.

But even that job can get a little crazy, she acknowledged, because the executives and engineers keep seeking newer and more exotic blends.

And, it adds, "As well as this, you're unlikely to track down a more inspiring source of exotic new blends from Camel than right here."

The most prized and exotic blends can include 30 or more spices, plant roots and other unusual aromatics.

The coffee tasted the same as always to me, but Diane had a predilection for trying exotic blends and was scornful of me when I didn't notice her efforts.

She and her daughter, Anouk (Victoire Thivisol), blow into town on a north wind with their exotic blends of sweets.