A speciality of china39s fujian province smoky lapsang souchong is dried over fires of resin sweet pinewood a technique discovered by accident back in the 16th century after a travelling army decided to spend the night in the tea warehouses there was only one thing to save the tea from the stench smoking it over local pinewood european traders soon developed a taste for the astonishingly aromatic tea christened lapsang souchong and the rest is history