To the hundred names of love, as Mariage Frères puts it, Fall in Love must be added. The house dedicates to them this black tea with a velvety texture, lifted with gentle spices and scattered with rose petals, for a cup in the tones of crème brûlée. It belongs to the In Love collection, whose thread is the rose, and it is its black tea version.

The composition combines black tea, rose petals and flavouring; the blend may contain traces of nuts. The rose petals, visible in the dry leaf, bring their floral note; the gentle spices warm without stinging; and the velvety black tea gives a round, low-tannin base that carries the indulgence without contradicting it.

It comes in a collector’s metal tin with a double lid, containing a minimum of 80 g of flavoured black tea. An object that can be kept on a shelf, given for Valentine’s Day or any other occasion, and that closes airtight between cups.

In the cup, the liquor is amber and round. Crème brûlée opens, vanilla and caramelised, then the gentle spices arrive, warm, and the rose signs off the finish with a tender note. It is an afternoon tea, for a snack, which can be drunk plain or with a cloud of milk, and which pairs very well with crème brûlée. It goes, naturally, with a crème brûlée, but also with shortbread, a pear tart, rose biscuits or a white chocolate dessert.

Allow 2.5 g per 200 ml of water at 95 °C and five minutes of infusion. Once the tin is opened, close it carefully after each use, and keep it away from light, heat and strong odours, so that the rose and gentle spice aromas stay intact.