Freya’s strength & beauty could only be depicted through one of the rarest and most unique teas on planet earth:
Oriental Beauty Oolong (Bai Hao / Dong Fang Mei Ren)
There is a tea that owes its magic to a tiny insect and we think that’s one of the most extraordinary stories in all of the tea world.
Oriental Beauty, known in Taiwan as Dong Fang Mei Ren, is born in the mist-draped hills of Hsinchu County, where small leafhoppers (Jacobiasca formosana) nibble the tender leaves, triggering the plant to produce a naturally occurring sweetness unlike anything else in nature. No pesticides. No interference. Just the wisdom of an ecosystem doing exactly what it was designed to do.
What Does Oriental Beauty Oolong Taste Like
What you’ll taste: Ripe summer peach kissed with wildflower honey, a breath of warm spice, and a finish that lingers like the last note of a song you don’t want to end. The liquor pours a luminous reddish-amber, deep, jewel-toned, and gorgeous in the cup.
What Makes Oriental Beauty Unlike Any Other Oolong
What makes it unlike any other oolong: This tea is highly oxidized, closer to a black tea in character, which gives it a richness and body that feels almost like sipping liquid velvet. The leaves themselves are a work of art, multi-colored, silver-tipped, and twisted, each one a tiny masterpiece.
It has long been called the Champagne of teas and we agree. This is a tea for celebrating ordinary moments as sacred ones.
How to Brew Oriental Beauty Oolong
Brewing Your Cup
Water temperature: 185°–195°F
Steep time: 2–3 minutes
Re-steeps beautifully 3+ times, each cup a different chapter of the same story. Especially exquisite brewed Gongfu style.
About This Blend
This is not simply a tea. This is Freya’s cup and we crafted it to hold her essence entirely.
To the wild, honey-drenched soul of Oriental Beauty, we’ve woven in three sacred additions:
Jasmine flower blossoms, opened slowly, the way Freya opens the heart. Their fragrance is an ancient love language, soft and intoxicating, rising from the cup like an offering.
Ripe strawberry essence, sun-warmed, lush, and deeply feminine. A nod to the sweetness of desire and the fullness of a life lived without apology.
Oil of Bergamot from Sicily, cold-pressed from sun-soaked Calabrian rinds, this bright, luminous citrus lifts the entire blend into something radiant. Like light catching the surface of something precious.
Together, they create a cup that is honeyed, floral, fruity, and alive, layered the way Freya herself is layered, fierce and tender, ancient and electric.
As Rare as Freya’s Amber
In Norse mythology, Freya wore Brísingamen, a necklace of amber so extraordinary that no price could be placed upon it. She wept tears of red gold that fell into the sea and became treasure for those willing to dive deep enough to find them.
This tea carries that same quality of precious rarity. Oriental Beauty is one of the most coveted oolongs in the world, harvested only in small quantities when conditions align perfectly between insect, plant, and season. No two harvests are ever identical. Like Freya’s tears, each jar holds something that cannot be replicated, only cherished.
She Rises: A Collection for Women Becoming
She Rises is a collection for women becoming.
Ritualize Freya
A Ceremony of Receiving, Steeped in Freya’s Honor
She Rises blends are not just teas. They are invitations.
Before you steep, pause. Place both hands on the jar and take one long breath. You are about to receive something rare, let yourself feel the honor of this tea and this Goddess archetype energy as it starts to infuse you.
Heat your water to 185°–195°F. As it rises to temperature, set your intention: What am I allowing myself to receive today?
Pour slowly. Watch the liquor bloom into that deep amber gold, Freya’s tears made visible. Let the jasmine and bergamot rise to meet you first. Inhale before you sip.
When you drink, drink without distraction. Feel the honey, the peach, the strawberry warmth, the bright Sicilian light of the bergamot on the finish.
This is not a tea you drink while doing something else. This is the something else.
Re-steep three times, once for love, once for sovereignty, once for the parts of yourself still becoming.
