The Scented Leaf is a community-focused tea house and lounge with multiple locations in Tucson, AZ. The company was founded by Shane and Adrienne "Nin" Barela, whose love for loose-leaf tea began serendipitously in a charming Granada, Spain gift shop during their honeymoon in 2010.
What started as a simple adventure in bringing loose-leaf tea to Tucson blossomed into a deep passion for tea's rich flavors and traditions, and making tea and its health benefits more accessible to their local community and beyond. Scented Leaf shops are more than cafes — they are positive, vibrant spaces that offer community connection and customized, delicious tea drinks to order.
Since opening, Scented Leaf has become a Tucson favorite, voted Best of Tucson for seven consecutive years. As of 2026, the company has expanded from its flagship store on University Blvd. outside the University of Arizona to four locations throughout Tucson and three additional stores to be completed by December 2026.
Our goal is to provide you with a complete range of face care based exclusively on natural products.
The essential oils and vegetable oils used in our cosmetics are of high quality. They are 100% pure and derive primarily from organic farming. Together with their delightful scents and the sense of physical and emotional well-being they provide to body and mind, essential oils have been known for centuries for their high efficiency in cosmetic applications. By developing the product line Divine and Gold, aroma garden mastered the challenge it had set itself: to use the healing power of plants for the well-being of your skin and of your body.
In an age of more and more allergies, where the body has to fight increasingly against harmful components, we have chosen to renounce the use of synthetic cosmetic ingredients: NO sulfates, parabens, synthetic fragrances, synthetic colours, silicones, PEGs, ethoxylate or formaldehyde.