Spring has begun at Starbucks.
The coffee giant introduced two new drinks in honor of the warmer weather. Both contain lavender — an ingredient Starbucks has never used before.
Iced Lavender Cream Oatmilk Matcha and Iced Lavender Oatmilk Latte hit stores Thursday, and PEOPLE got their first taste.
Matcha drink layers popular green tea with oat milk and cold lavender cream foam. The foam is so creamy and delicious that we can only compare it to a milkshake. The earthy matcha complements the sweet cold foam so nicely — but still, the drink isn’t overly sweet. It’s important to note: although the new drink contains oat milk, it’s not completely dairy-free, as the foam contains real milk (which explains its creaminess).
The new Iced Lavender Oatmilk Latte from Starbucks.
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The foam is a pale, beautiful shade of lavender, so in combination with green matcha it makes a beautiful photo.
The Iced Lavender Oatmilk Latte isn’t as pretty—lavender powder is mixed into the blue espresso so the drink isn’t purple—but it’s just as delicious. If you’re more of an almond milk person, this would be a good substitute.
There’s just a hint of floral in the background in both drinks, so don’t expect lavender to hit you right in the face.
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The new Iced Lavender Cream Oatmilk Matcha from Starbucks.
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Starbucks beverage developer Patrick Penny got the idea for the drink while visiting a lavender farm near the company’s headquarters in Seattle.
“We have an abundance of lavender farms in Washington state,” he said in a press release. “They are really beautiful flowers and they smell amazing. We were in the fields cutting different lavender stems, smelling the different varieties, looking at the flowers…trying not to get stung by the bees.”
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While March is all about the color purple at Starbucks, February is full of pink drinks for Valentine’s Day. Two drinks have joined the menu — Crème Frappuccino with Chocolate Covered Strawberries and Cold Brew with Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies.
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The Frappuccino contained a mixture of ice, milk, strawberry puree and java chips, layered on top of strawberry puree and topped with whipped cream. The sweet cold drink combined hazelnut syrup with cold chocolate cream foam and chocolate chip cookie topping.
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