Kyoto Cherry Rose Green Tea

A graceful Sencha-style green tea inspired by springtime in Kyoto, combining sweet cherry flavor with delicate rose petals for a fresh, floral, and beautifully aromatic cup.

The Experience

Kyoto Cherry Rose Green Tea captures the romance of spring through a blend of fresh green tea, sweet cherry character, and subtle rose.

The Sencha-style green tea provides a lively, fresh foundation with medium body, while cherry flavor brings a soft fruit sweetness. Rose petals add a delicate floral dimension that complements rather than overwhelms the tea.

The inspiration is unmistakably Japanese: Kyoto in spring, when cherry blossoms transform the historic city and its gardens. But this is an inspired blend rather than a traditional Japanese cherry-blossom tea—a creative interpretation of the season through flavor, aroma, and color.

Tasting Notes

Top: Sweet cherry • Fresh green tea
Mid: Delicate rose • Soft florals
Finish: Fresh • Gently sweet • Fragrant
Body: Medium

Why You’ll Love It

• Sweet cherry character balanced by fresh green tea
• Real rose petals add a delicate floral dimension
• Medium-bodied and aromatic without becoming overly floral
• Inspired by Kyoto's celebrated spring season
• A beautiful introduction to floral green teas
• Delicious both hot and iced

Tea, Origin & Ingredients

Tea Type: Flavored Green Tea
Style/Grade: Sencha – Japan Spec
Tea Origins: India & China
Elevation: Approximately 1,000–1,500 m (~3,300–5,000 ft)
Processing: Small-batch blended, non-fermented, traditionally steamed, pan-dried and polished
Ingredients: Green tea, rose petals, natural flavor
Flavor Profile: Cherry • Rose • Fresh Green Tea
Caffeine: Caffeinated
Body: Medium

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 cup, begin around 2 minutes and adjust to taste. Cooler-than-boiling water helps preserve the fresh character of the green tea while allowing the cherry and rose aromas to emerge.

Perfect For

Kyoto Cherry Rose is especially suited to floral-tea lovers, spring celebrations, afternoon tea, cherry-blossom season, garden gatherings, or anyone looking for a softer and more elegant flavored green tea. Pair it with shortbread, almond cookies, vanilla cake, macarons, fresh berries, light fruit pastries, or delicate Japanese-inspired sweets. It is also lovely iced, when the cherry becomes especially refreshing and the rose remains a subtle aromatic accent.

Inspired by Kyoto in Spring

Kyoto has long been one of Japan's great cultural centers, celebrated for its historic temples, shrines, gardens, traditional architecture, and deeply rooted artistic traditions.

Spring gives the city another identity as cherry blossoms appear across its landscape. Kyoto Cherry Rose was created as an homage to that fleeting season. Rather than attempting to reproduce a traditional Japanese tea, the blend uses a Sencha-style green-tea foundation, cherry flavor, and rose petals to evoke the freshness, fragrance, and visual romance associated with spring blossoms. It is best understood as a tea inspired by Kyoto, rather than a tea from Kyoto.

Kyoto Cherry Rose vs. Jasmine Green Tea

Both are floral green teas, but they express flowers very differently.

Kyoto Cherry Rose Green Tea (This Tea)
Cherry • Rose • Fresh • Gently Sweet
→ Best for: a fruit-and-floral interpretation of green tea

Jasmine Green Tea
Jasmine • Fragrant • Floral • Classic
→ Best for: experiencing green tea traditionally scented with jasmine

For another step deeper into jasmine craftsmanship, try Jasmine Pearls, where first-flush green tea is jasmine-scented and hand-rolled into pearls.

Together, these teas demonstrate the many ways floral character can enter a cup—from physical petals and flavoring to traditional flower scenting.

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

Explore Floral Green Tea

Start with Kyoto Cherry Rose for sweet cherry and delicate rose, then compare it with Jasmine Green Tea or Jasmine Pearls for a more traditional jasmine-scented experience.

Pay attention to more than simply whether a tea tastes “floral.” Look for the difference between rose and jasmine, fruit and flower, aroma and flavor, and physical petals versus absorbed floral scent.

Those distinctions are where floral tea becomes much more interesting.