Lilac & Euphoria Elixir with Butterfly Pea Flower

A Blooming-Season Mocktail

When the lilacs bloom, they bloom all at once, and this is on way to keep them a little longer. A homemade lilac syrup, deepened to indigo with Butterfly Pea Flower, turns orchid-pink the moment lemon touches it. A few droppers of Euphoria, our mood, joy & bliss elixr, finish the glass. Serve it in your prettiest coupes with the florets floating like fallen petals.

What's In the Glass

Butterfly Pea Flower Powder is the alchemist of this recipe — it turns the syrup a deep indigo and then shifts to orchid-pink at the touch of lemon. Beyond the color show, it's rich in anthocyanins and has been used in Ayurvedic and Southeast Asian traditions for centuries as a calming, clarity-supporting botanical.*

Euphoria Elixir is exactly what it sounds like. A heart-opening liquid tonic of Catuaba, Muira Puama, Damiana, Schisandra, Hibiscus, and Rose, traditionally used to support energy, circulation, and joyful embodiment.* It's the kind of thing that earns a place in a mocktail — warming, slightly fruity, and vivid in a glass without a drop of alcohol.

RECIPE

Part One: The Lilac Syrup (makes about 350ml)
Part Two: The Elixir (makes one coupe)
Infusion time: 12–24 hours
Recipe by: Silvia Bifaro, culinary artist

Ingredients

The Lilac Syrup:

• 2 cups fresh lilac florets (about 40g), green stems removed
• 250g unrefined cane sugar
• 250ml water
• 1 tsp Anima Mundi Butterfly Pea Flower Powder
• 1 Tbsp fresh lemon juice

No lilacs? Substitute with the same quantity of fresh elderflower or dried rose petals — the method, the steep, and the Butterfly Pea color shift all work exactly the same.

Method

The Lilac Syrup:

1. Warm the water and sugar gently until dissolved. Do not boil. Take off hear.
2. Whisk in the Butterfly Pea Flower powder. The syrup turns a deep, inky indigo.
3. Once just warm, add the lilac florets. Cover and steep in the refrigerator for 12-24 hours.
4. Strain through muslin, pressing gently. Stir in the lemon juice and watch the indigo shift to orchid pink. Butterfly Pea is pH-reactive, and the acid is what paints the colour. Bottle and keep refrigerated for up to two weeks.

The Elixir:

1. Pour the syrup and Euphoria into a chilled coupe and stir once; the syrup already carries the lemon, and Euphoria’s bright amber-orange warms the pink toward a soft coral-rose.
2. Top gently with sparkling water down the side of the glass, so the pink stays undisturbed and clear.
3. Float a loose drift of lilac florets across the surface — uneven, the way flowers actually fell — and serve at once.

Shop These Botanicals

• Butterfly Pea Flower Powder: pH-reactive botanical traditionally used for calm and clarity — and the reason the glass turns pink*
• Euphoria Elixir: heart-opening tonic of Catuaba, Damiana, Rose, and Hibiscus for energy, circulation, and joyful embodiment*
  

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