Noël Majesté is the rooibos of the Royal Fairy Teas, the four Christmas creations that Mariage Frères tells like fairy tales, each one in a collector's flacon with a double lid, 80 g. Its three companions are teas: Noël Royal, Noël Impérial on blue tea and Noël Princier on green tea. It alone rests on rooibos, a plant from South Africa that is naturally caffeine-free.

Its composition comes down to four words: rooibos, cinnamon, almond, flavouring. The rooibos gives a round, naturally sweet, astringent-free liquor of rich orange-red; the cinnamon warms it, the almond rounds it off, and the flavouring brings the fruits of a festive table. The cup is indulgent and needs no sugar.

Allow 2.5 g per 200 ml of water at 95 °C, and steep for 5 minutes. Like all rooibos, it does not turn bitter if you forget it a little in the teapot, and a splash of milk suits it well. Our rooibos guide explains this plant in detail.

It goes with gingerbread, clementines, marrons glacés and a chocolate Yule log. Because it is caffeine-free, it is the cup served late on Christmas Eve, when coffee and tea no longer have their place.

Unlike the other three Royal Fairy Teas, Noël Majesté contains no caffeine: it is the evening version of the collection. Alongside Rouge Bourbon, a vanilla rooibos the house offers all year round, it adds cinnamon, almond and the fruits of the season. Once empty, the flacon keeps from one Christmas to the next.