The Happy Box is a wooden music box, tied with a fluorescent green ribbon. When it is opened, it plays the Barcarolle from The Tales of Hoffmann, the famous aria by Offenbach. Inside: 200 g of Beautiful Tea, a scented green tea, and a silver-coloured metal tea measure.

In this box, Beautiful Tea is a fruity green tea with notes of citrus. Its blend combines tea, flavouring, pomegranate blossom, fig, amaranth and cornflower: the fig brings roundness, the citrus brings liveliness, and the flowers colour the dry leaf. Note the namesake: the house’s Beautiful Tea in a bottle is a black tea with pomegranate, made to a different recipe.

For its scented green teas, Mariage Frères most often recommends 2.5 g per 200 ml of water at 95 °C and 3 minutes of infusion: this is the starting point we suggest. The measure is then used for all your loose leaf teas.

This fruity green tea goes well with a citrus salad, a lemon tart, an orange cake, or simply breakfast.

What sets it apart from other Christmas gifts is the object: the music box remains, the tea is finished. Its sister, the Zen Box, with its purple ribbon, contains a floral green tea; the Happy Box is the fruity version. For a set of several teas, see our gift sets section.