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Based on 94 reviews
I have been taking Manuka every morning for three years. The taste was something I just accepted — dark, almost medicinal, like eating cough syrup with a spoon. A friend sent me a box of Rare Bloom and I genuinely could not believe this was honey. Butterscotch and warm caramel with a floral finish. I look forward to my morning spoon now. Have not touched the Manuka since.
The sachets are the smartest thing I have seen in the food space in years. No sticky lid, no crystallised mess, no guessing the portion. Tear, squeeze, done. I keep a handful in my laptop bag and people in every meeting ask what I am putting in my coffee.
Bought this for my mother who has incredibly high standards for everything she eats. She called me the next morning just to say thank you. That is all I needed to hear. The packaging alone communicates that something special is inside.
I want to describe this properly. The colour when you hold the sachet to light is deep amber, almost cognac. The consistency is thick but pours cleanly. The first note is floral, then a wave of butterscotch, then a long warm finish that lingers. This is what honey is supposed to taste like. Everything else is just sugar.
I subscribed after my first box without even thinking about it. The 10% off is nice but honestly I would pay full price every time. Knowing a box is coming without having to remember to reorder is the real value. My morning routine is just better now.
My digestion has been noticeably smoother since I started having a sachet each morning in warm water. I am not claiming anything dramatic but my gut just feels more settled. A few weeks in and I am already placing my second order.
I am not a honey person. I have never been a honey person. My partner ordered this and left a sachet on my desk with a note saying try it. I did. I ordered my own box the same evening. The caramel depth is extraordinary.
My family has been buying raw honey from a local farm for years and we were proud of it. Rare Bloom arrived and we did a side by side tasting. It was not even close. The complexity and the finish on Sidr is in a completely different category. We still support our local farm but Rare Bloom is now the daily honey.
Took a full box on a two week work trip across three cities. The sachets fit perfectly in my toiletry bag and I had my ritual every single morning regardless of what hotel I was in. That consistency meant everything when everything else about travel is unpredictable.
I squeezed a sachet over ricotta on toast for breakfast and briefly reconsidered all my previous breakfast decisions. The caramel depth against fresh ricotta is extraordinary. This honey elevates everything it touches.
I read about Sidr honey from the Himalayan region before ordering and the history behind it is remarkable. Beekeepers using methods passed down across generations, wild blooms at altitude, no industrial interference. You can taste all of that. This is real food with a real story.
Worst winter I can remember. Everyone in my office was knocked down for weeks. I kept going. I am not saying why but I know what changed in my routine a few months ago.
Really beautiful honey. The butterscotch flavour is genuinely unlike anything I have had before. Docking one star only because I wished the box had 15 sachets instead of 10 — I find myself rationing them toward the end of each box. Will keep subscribing regardless.
Manuka tastes like medicine. It has always tasted like medicine. I used it because I believed in what it was doing but I never enjoyed it. Sidr tastes like the best thing you have ever put in your mouth and I feel equally if not better looked after. This is the upgrade I did not know I needed.
A sachet stirred into warm oat milk before bed has become the ritual I did not know I was missing. The warmth, the sweetness, the quiet. Ten minutes of actual stillness before sleep. I ordered a second box before I finished the first.
Sent a few sachets to my dad who is 68 and very particular about what he eats. He texted me asking where to order more. That is the highest possible endorsement from a man who has strong opinions about everything.
The fact that this honey has not been heated or filtered is something you can genuinely taste. There is a vitality to it that processed honey simply does not have. Side by side with anything from a supermarket shelf it is almost a different food entirely.
I have been dissolving a sachet in warm water every morning for a few weeks. My energy through the day feels more consistent. No dramatic claim, just a noticeable steadiness that was not there before. Simple routine, real difference.
The packaging made me stop scrolling. The unboxing made me pause. The first taste made me sit down. Rare Bloom has thought about every single detail and it shows. This is what a premium product feels like end to end.
I drizzle half a sachet on my Greek yoghurt and use the other half in my tea. Ten sachets genuinely lasts me nearly two weeks that way. The subscription at $29.69 per box delivered to my door is one of the better decisions I make on autopilot each month.
Really impressive honey. The flavour complexity is there — that butterscotch warmth is distinct and memorable. My only note is I would love a larger box option for heavy users. Four stars now, five stars the moment a bigger size appears.
I bought this as a hostess gift and the recipient texted me a week later saying she had ordered three more boxes. I went from gift giver to person who introduced someone to their new favourite thing. That feels good.
My partner was deeply skeptical when I said I was paying $32.99 for honey. I handed her a sachet without any explanation. She asked me to order another box before I had finished telling her what it was. The price conversation has not come up since.
Sidr honey from this region has been valued for centuries across South Asia and the Middle East for very good reasons. Finding it in sachet form, responsibly sourced, delivered to my door in America feels like a small miracle. The taste confirms everything I grew up hearing about it.
I travel every other week for work. Hotel breakfast is always the same. One Rare Bloom sachet in whatever hot water I can find transforms the first ten minutes of every morning no matter where I am. Small luxury, enormous impact on how the day starts.
My digestion has genuinely improved. I hesitate to say more than that but a couple of months of a daily sachet in warm water on an empty stomach and my gut is quieter and happier than it has been in years. I will not stop.
This does not taste like health food. That is the point. Manuka tastes like you are doing something difficult and virtuous. Sidr tastes like the best version of breakfast. The fact that it is equally or more beneficial is almost unfair.
I am the person in my friend group who brings interesting food things to dinner parties now. I brought Rare Bloom sachets to a dinner last month and spent the rest of the evening answering questions about where to order. Four people in that room have subscribed since.
The colour is the first thing that gets you. Deep golden amber, completely clear, not the pale yellow of supermarket honey. Then the smell — floral and warm. Then the taste — butterscotch leading into something almost smoky and rich. I spent five minutes just experiencing it before I even thought about using it.
My mother has used raw honey her whole life and considers herself an expert. I sent her a box without any introduction. She called me to ask what it was and where she could get more. She is now on a subscription. I consider this my greatest achievement of the year.
The honey itself is genuinely good — the flavour is richer than anything I have bought before and I can taste the quality. My issue was with the delivery which took nearly two weeks and I had no tracking updates for most of that time. For a $32.99 product I expected better logistics. I will try again because the honey deserves it but the experience around the product needs work.
The sachet format changed how I think about honey entirely. I used to use it occasionally because getting the jar open and the lid clean was mildly annoying. Now I have it every single day without thinking. Format drives habit. Brilliant product decision.
I compared this directly to the Manuka I had been buying at $45 a jar. Rare Bloom at $32.99 tastes significantly better — warmer, more complex, more pleasant to eat. The results feel at least as good. I am honestly baffled that more people do not know about Sidr.
A warm sachet in milk before bed is now non-negotiable for me. The ritual of it — the warmth, the sweetness, the quiet ten minutes — has genuinely improved how I end each day. Sleep feels deeper. Mornings feel easier.
I was not expecting to care this much about honey. Then someone explained the difference between industrial honey and raw single-origin honey and I understood why I had never really enjoyed it before. Rare Bloom is the first honey I have actively looked forward to eating.
A few weeks on subscription and my gut feels noticeably better than before. I started the daily sachet for the taste. I kept it for how I feel. The butterscotch flavour makes it feel indulgent but the results make it feel essential.
Bought as a gift for the holidays. The recipient sent me a long message about the unboxing experience, the quality, the taste, and then asked me to tell them where to order more. Gift giving rarely lands this well. Rare Bloom is now my go-to for anyone I want to genuinely impress.
I am particular about provenance. I want to know where my food comes from and how it was produced. The Rare Bloom story — small beekeepers, wild Himalayan blooms, traditional methods — is exactly what I look for. The fact that the honey is this extraordinary is the confirmation that the care behind it is real.
I keep sachets in three places — desk drawer, laptop bag, kitchen cabinet. This is not accidental. When something becomes this embedded in your daily life you realise it has earned a permanent spot.
The whole flu season came and went and I just kept going. My colleagues were dropping one by one. I was at my desk every day. I changed one thing in my routine a few months ago and I have no intention of changing it back.
Really beautiful product. The caramel and butterscotch notes are exactly as described and the sachet format is genuinely clever. Four stars because I would love a gift box option — this is something I want to give to everyone I know and a curated gift presentation would make that effortless.
My husband thought I was being ridiculous spending $32.99 on honey. I made him try one sachet. He asked if we were on subscription yet. We are.
I do a slow morning. No phone for the first hour, warm water with a sachet of Rare Bloom, ten minutes of quiet. That combination has changed how I enter every day. The honey is a small thing that makes the whole ritual feel worth protecting.
The raw unheated quality is something I can actually taste. There is a freshness and a vitality to it that pasteurised honey simply does not have. Side by side comparison makes the difference obvious within seconds.
Manuka has been my reference point for premium honey for years. Rare Bloom made me realise my reference point was wrong. Sidr is richer, more pleasant, and I feel looked after in exactly the same ways I expected from Manuka. Switching permanently.
A few months in and I have introduced this to my parents, my sister, and two close friends. All of them are now regular customers. I did not plan to become a Rare Bloom ambassador but here we are.
I have been adding a sachet to warm water every morning on an empty stomach. My digestion has been noticeably smoother and more consistent than it was before. A couple of months of this and I cannot imagine stopping.
The first time I tried Manuka I assumed the medicinal taste was just what good honey tasted like. It is not. Good honey tastes like Rare Bloom — warm, rich, complex, genuinely pleasurable. I had accepted something inferior for years without knowing it.
Took a handful of sachets to a weekend trip. Used them every morning and evening. The consistency of having my ritual regardless of where I was made the whole trip feel more grounded. Small things matter when you travel a lot.
Exceptional honey. The butterscotch note is immediately distinctive and the finish is long and warm. I gave four stars only because I want a 20-sachet box option for committed daily users. Five stars the moment that exists.
I am not someone who usually leaves reviews but I felt compelled. The combination of the origin story, the sachet format, the taste, and the price point is just right in a way that is genuinely rare. Rare Bloom has earned a permanent place in my kitchen.
I buy a lot of artisan food products. Most of them are good. A few are very good. Rare Bloom is in a category of its own. The care in sourcing, the intelligence of the sachet format, the taste — all of it is operating at a level above what I usually find.
My father is impossible to buy gifts for. He has everything and wants nothing. I sent him Rare Bloom on a whim. He called me unprompted — which he never does — to ask where I ordered it. I am buying him a subscription for his birthday.
I have been taking a sachet every morning since November. The worst cold and flu season in recent memory went through everyone around me. I stayed completely healthy. I am not drawing conclusions but I am also not changing anything.
The honey is thick in the best way. It pours slowly, coats the spoon, settles with a warmth and weight that supermarket honey never has. This is what honey is when it has not been processed into something pale and thin and pointless.
I ordered one box to try. I subscribed before I finished it. The 10% subscription saving is a nice bonus but the real reason is I genuinely cannot imagine my morning without it now. Some habits are worth protecting.
A sachet dissolved in warm water with a slice of ginger last thing at night has become my favourite part of the day. The butterscotch warmth is deeply comforting. Sleep comes easier and feels more complete. I protect this ritual.
I grow my own vegetables and buy everything I can from local producers. I take food provenance seriously. Rare Bloom is the first imported product I have added to my regular rotation without reservation. My only wish is that the sourcing story was told more prominently on the packaging itself — it deserves to be front and centre.
My local raw honey is good. Rare Bloom is extraordinary. The difference is the varietal — Sidr from wild Himalayan blooms has a complexity that clover or wildflower honey simply cannot match. Once you understand what single-origin means in honey you cannot go back.
Taste is incredible — that butterscotch caramel depth is instantly recognisable and completely addictive. I gave four stars because I would love a bundle option or a sampler with other varieties from the region. Five stars the moment that exists.
I switched from Manuka a few months ago and have not looked back. The taste comparison is not even close — Rare Bloom is so much more pleasant that I actually enjoy the ritual now rather than tolerating it. And I feel just as well looked after, possibly better.
I travel internationally every month. Rare Bloom sachets come with me everywhere. Airport security, hotel rooms, conference centres — I have my morning ritual wherever I land. The portability is not a convenience feature, it is a lifestyle feature.
My gut was unpredictable for years. I changed several things at once so I cannot isolate the cause but a few weeks of daily Rare Bloom has coincided with the most settled my digestion has ever been. I am keeping every part of this routine.
I brought Rare Bloom to a Christmas dinner as a host gift alongside a cheese board. Three people at that dinner have since ordered their own boxes. Good food finds its own audience.
The sweetness is different from regular honey. It is rounder, warmer, more dimensional. Less sharp sugar, more slow caramel. I find myself eating it straight from the sachet before I even add it to anything. It is that good on its own.
I read extensively about Sidr honey before ordering and the traditional regard for it across the Middle East and South Asia spans centuries. That heritage combined with wild Himalayan sourcing and responsible harvesting is exactly the kind of story I want behind my food. The taste is the confirmation.
I have tried every premium honey available in the US market. Nothing comes close to what Rare Bloom delivers. The Sidr varietal from this region is in a class entirely its own and the sachet format makes it accessible in a way a jar never could be.
My wife introduced me to this. I was indifferent about honey in general. A few weeks later I am the one checking the subscription delivery date. The caramel depth genuinely surprised me and the morning ritual has become something I look forward to.
I had the worst flu season of my adult life last year. This year I changed one thing in my daily routine. I have not been sick once. I will leave you to draw your own conclusions.
The unboxing is a genuinely premium experience. The box, the sachets, the presentation — all of it says this is something worth your attention before you have even tasted it. Then the taste confirms everything the packaging promised.
I have been on subscription since December. The ritual of my morning sachet in warm water is one of the things I would be most reluctant to give up. Some things earn their place in your life and stay there.
Outstanding honey, genuinely different from anything else I have tried. Rich, warm, complex. Four stars because I would love a subscription option that lets me choose delivery frequency more granularly. The product itself is unambiguously five stars.
I ordered this to replace my Manuka habit and have not regretted it for a single day. Sidr tastes the way I always wished Manuka tasted — rich and pleasant and something I choose to eat rather than something I make myself take.
I put a sachet on a charcuterie board at a dinner party without labelling it. Three separate guests sought me out to ask what the honey was. It is that distinct. Nobody ignored it and nobody forgot it.
The butterscotch note is real and it is remarkable. I have described it to everyone who asks and nobody believes me until they try it. Then they ask where to order. I have become a one-person marketing department for Rare Bloom entirely voluntarily.
A few months of daily sachets and my digestion has been the most consistent it has ever been. I changed nothing else in my diet. The only variable is Rare Bloom every morning on an empty stomach in warm water. The results speak for themselves.
I am particular about sweeteners. I read labels, I care about processing, I want to know what I am actually eating. Rare Bloom is raw, unfiltered, unheated, single-origin, and it tastes like the most extraordinary version of what honey can be. Every box.
I sent a box to my parents who are in their seventies and very set in their food habits. My mother texted me — my mother who does not text — to say the honey was the best she had ever tasted and could I send more. Subscribed them immediately.
I wanted to love this. The honey itself is good — the flavour is there and I understand what people see in it. But my first order arrived with one sachet that had leaked inside the box and when I reached out about it the response took a few days longer than I expected. For nearly $33 I expected a faster resolution. I may give it another try but the experience left me disappointed.
I compare everything to the best version of that thing I have encountered. For honey, Rare Bloom is now that reference point. Rich, distinctive, beautifully sourced. Everything else gets measured against this.
I take this every morning before breakfast in warm water. My energy is more consistent through the day than it has been in years. No spike, no crash, just a steady baseline that makes everything easier.
Genuinely impressive honey. The flavour profile is complex and rewarding and the sachet format is the smartest packaging I have seen in this category. Four stars because I would love free shipping at a lower order threshold. The product is unquestionably five stars.
I was a committed Manuka buyer for years. I tried Rare Bloom on a recommendation and had an immediate reckoning with everything I thought I knew about premium honey. Sidr is warmer, richer, more pleasurable to eat, and I feel equally well supported. The switch took one sachet.
A warm sachet in chamomile tea before bed is the best version of an evening ritual I have found. The butterscotch warmth settles something and the night that follows is reliably more restful. I order two boxes at a time now to make sure I never run out.
I introduced my sister to Rare Bloom a few weeks ago. She has since introduced it to people in her office. The product sells itself — all it needs is one sachet and one honest conversation.
The origin story matters to me. Knowing that this honey comes from wild blooms at altitude, harvested by beekeepers using traditional methods, not industrially processed — that changes how I experience it. The taste confirms the care. Every single box.
I went through the entire winter without a single sick day. My colleagues were impressed and asked what I was doing differently. I keep sachets in my desk drawer and have been putting one in my morning tea since November. Make of that what you will.
I am a food writer and I tasted this blind alongside six other premium honeys including two Manuka varieties. Rare Bloom was the unanimous favourite in every category — colour, aroma, flavour, finish. It is simply operating at a higher level.
The subscription made so much sense the moment I tried the first sachet. $29.69 delivered every few weeks for something I use every single day without exception is genuinely one of the best value decisions in my routine. The 10% saving is a nice acknowledgment that loyalty goes both ways.
My local farmers market has excellent raw honey. I have been buying it for years and recommending it to everyone. Then I tried Rare Bloom and had to have an honest conversation with myself. Sidr is a different ingredient entirely. Still support my local producer but this is my daily honey now.
I drizzle a sachet on overnight oats and the caramel depth transforms the entire bowl. I have made this for guests and the first question is always what is in this. The answer is always Rare Bloom. The second question is always where to order it.
I genuinely enjoy the honey — the taste is distinctive and I understand the quality. My frustration is purely with value. Ten sachets at $32.99 means each sachet is $3.30. I go through one a day so I am spending over $90 a month. The product is good enough to justify it but I wish a larger box existed at a better per-sachet price. Bumping to five stars the day a bulk option launches.
I am not easy to impress with food products. I have tried most things. Rare Bloom genuinely surprised me — the butterscotch flavour note is real and distinctive, the sachet format is intelligent, and the sourcing story is one I am proud to support. All three things together is rare.
Decent honey and I can see why people like it. The butterscotch flavour is real and it is better than what I usually buy. My issue is I expected more sachets for the price — ten feels light for $32.99. I know this is premium but at this price point I expected 15 at minimum. Will keep an eye out for a larger size option.
