Butterfly Pea Flower (Clitoria ternatea) is a vivid blue bloom from Southeast Asia, used for centuries as both a natural colourant and a calming botanical. It’s the plant behind Serene’s violet, and it changes colour the instant it meets water.
Centuries of colour and calm
Used for centuries across Southeast Asia, in Thai and Malaysian kitchens and in Ayurvedic tradition, Butterfly Pea earns its place twice over: a stunning natural colour and a gentle, calming quality. No dyes, no tricks. Just a plant doing two things beautifully.
The colour that changes
Butterfly Pea is rich in anthocyanins, the same family of pigments that colour blueberries. They turn deep blue-violet in water and shift with acidity, which is the little piece of magic behind a sachet that blooms into colour the moment it meets your glass.
What Butterfly Pea feels like
A gentle calm, wrapped in a small daily ritual, the pour, the bloom, the colour. It’s the finishing note, and the violet, of Ritual Serene.
The pour, the bloom, the colour. Calm as a small daily ritual.
Is Butterfly Pea safe?
In Southeast Asia the flower has been steeped as tea and used to colour rice and sweets for generations.
A note on wellbeing
If you are pregnant or breastfeeding, speak to your doctor before use. Butterfly Pea Flower is a botanical enjoyed for everyday wellbeing. It is not a medicine, and nothing here is intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any condition.
Ritual Serene
15ml sachetBlueberry & mint10 per cylinder
In Ritual Serene, Butterfly Pea is the colour and the calm, the violet that blooms the instant your 15ml sachet meets water, alongside Blue Lotus, Passionflower and Lemon Balm.
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What is Butterfly Pea Flower used for?
Butterfly Pea Flower is used both as a natural blue-violet colourant and as a gentle, calming botanical. It has been part of Southeast Asian food and tea for centuries.
Why does Butterfly Pea Flower change colour?
It’s rich in anthocyanins, natural pigments that appear deep blue-violet in water and shift with acidity, which is why the colour changes as it steeps and blooms.
Does Butterfly Pea have caffeine?
No. Butterfly Pea Flower is naturally caffeine-free, which suits it to a calming blend like Ritual Serene.
Is Butterfly Pea Flower safe?
Yes. It has been used as a food and tea for centuries and is very well tolerated. If you are pregnant or breastfeeding, speak to your doctor before use.
Where does Butterfly Pea come from?
Clitoria ternatea is native to Southeast Asia, where it has been used for centuries in cooking, tea and Ayurvedic tradition.
Butterfly Pea Flower is one of eleven botanicals behind Social, Serene and Sharp. Also in Ritual Serene: Blue Lotus, Passionflower, Lemon Balm, Magnesium Taurate. See all eleven botanicals →