Jasmine Pearls Green Tea

Precious first-flush green tea scented with jasmine blossoms and carefully hand-rolled into pearls—a beautifully crafted tea with an elegant floral aroma, smooth green-tea character, and a graceful unfolding experience in every cup.

The Experience

Jasmine Pearls Green Tea brings together two classic elements of tea craftsmanship: tender first-flush green tea and the traditional art of jasmine scenting.

The young tea leaves are layered with jasmine blossoms during drying, allowing the leaves to absorb their captivating floral fragrance. The scented leaves are then carefully hand-rolled into compact pearls.

Add water and the pearls slowly loosen and unfurl, releasing both the green tea and the jasmine fragrance they have captured. This tea has an elegant balance: fragrant jasmine leads the aroma while the green tea provides freshness, structure, and a smooth medium body.

Tasting Notes

Aroma: Fragrant jasmine • Fresh florals
Cup: Fresh green tea • Soft floral character
Finish: Smooth • Fragrant • Lingering
Body: Medium

Why You’ll Love It

• Made with precious first-flush green tea
• Traditionally scented with jasmine blossoms
• Carefully hand-rolled into pearls
• Floral without losing the character of the underlying tea
• Medium-bodied and elegant
• Pearls gradually unfurl as they steep
• An excellent introduction to traditional jasmine-scented tea
• Beautiful brewed in a glass teapot or cup

Tea & Ingredients

Tea Type: Jasmine Green Tea
Style: Hand-Rolled Jasmine Pearls
Harvest: First Flush
Ingredients: First Flush green tea, jasmine flower scent
Body: Medium
Classification: Flavored

How to Brew

Use 1 heaping teaspoon with The Perfect Measure Spoon per 8 oz / 237 ml of water at 185°F / 85°C.

Mild: 1–2 minutes
Medium: 2–3 minutes
Strong: 3–5 minutes

For your first infusion, we recommend approximately 2 minutes. Gentler water helps preserve the tea's floral sweetness and smooth texture without drawing excessive bitterness from the leaf.

Don't discard the leaves after your first cup. The pearls continue to open as they steep and can be particularly rewarding over multiple infusions. For the full experience, brew Dragon Pearls in a glass teapot or clear cup so you can watch the leaves unfold.

Perfect For

Jasmine Pearls are particularly suited to jasmine lovers, floral-tea drinkers, Chinese tea enthusiasts, afternoon tea, quiet tea rituals, and anyone who appreciates seeing craftsmanship expressed directly in the leaf. Enjoy it on its own to appreciate the jasmine fragrance, or pair it with light pastries, almond cookies, fresh fruit, steamed dumplings, rice dishes, or delicately flavored desserts.

Scented With Jasmine, Not Simply Mixed With Flowers

Jasmine tea is sometimes misunderstood as green tea with jasmine flowers simply mixed into the finished blend. Traditional jasmine scenting is more interesting.

In this tea, the first-flush leaves are layered with jasmine blossoms during the drying process. The tea naturally absorbs the blossoms' fragrance before the leaves are rolled into pearls. This distinction matters because the goal isn't simply to put flowers in your cup. It is to transfer their aroma into the tea leaf itself.

That is why a well-made jasmine tea can remain intensely floral even when you don't see jasmine petals floating among the finished leaves.

Why Roll Jasmine Tea Into Pearls?

The pearl shape isn't just beautiful. Rolling transforms the appearance of the finished tea and creates a distinctive brewing experience. The compact pearls gradually loosen in hot water, revealing the leaves from which they were formed. This makes Jasmine Pearls particularly useful for learning an important lesson about whole-leaf tea:

Why First Flush Matters

First Flush refers to the first new growth harvested as the tea plant enters its spring growing season. These young leaves are valued for their tenderness and fresh character. In Jasmine Pearls, that delicate first-flush foundation is especially important because it needs to complement rather than compete with the jasmine fragrance.

The result is a tea built on balance: tender green tea + jasmine scenting + hand-rolling craftsmanship. Each step contributes something different to the finished cup.

Jasmine Pearls vs. Jasmine Green Tea

Both teas can offer the beautiful fragrance of jasmine, but Jasmine Pearls add another dimension: leaf craftsmanship.

Jasmine Pearls Green Tea (This Tea)
Jasmine • Fresh Green Tea • Smooth
→ Best for: experiencing jasmine fragrance together with first-flush tea and hand-rolled pearls

Jasmine Green Tea
Jasmine • Green Tea • Floral
→ Best for: enjoying a more straightforward expression of jasmine-scented green tea

For an educational tasting, brew them side by side and compare not only flavor and aroma, but also the dry leaf, how the leaves open, and how the fragrance develops through the infusion.

Packaging: Our loose teas are sold by the ounce and packaged in food-grade resealable bags.

Explore the Art of Jasmine Tea

Jasmine Pearls are an excellent starting point for understanding how tea can capture the fragrance of a flower through craftsmanship rather than simply through visible ingredients.

Compare them with another Jasmine Green Tea to focus on scenting, or explore Dragon Pearls Green Tea to compare two hand-rolled pearl teas—one celebrated for jasmine fragrance and the other for the natural character of its spring green tea.

The comparison reveals how harvest, scenting, and hand-rolling each contribute differently to the final tea experience.