Aura Bora creates craft sparkling water with herbs, fruits, and flowers made without artificial and uninspired fruit flavors.

Aura Bora makes craft sparkling water from herbs, fruits, and flowers for earthy tastes and heavenly feelings.

Paul Voge

Maddie Voge

Drink

Aura Bora is a brand of sparkling water that offers unique, herbal-leaning flavors and has attractive, artistic packaging. Customers appreciate the brand's commitment to natural ingredients and the lack of artificial sweeteners or preservatives. However, some of the flavor combinations can be hit or miss, with several reviews mentioning that certain flavors tasted too medicinal, overly herb-forward, or lacked sweetness. Furthermore, the product is considered expensive, which makes it less suitable for daily consumption.

Aura Bora

Raspberry Vanilla 

Cactus Rose

Strawberry Basil

Grapefruit Elderflower

Cucumber lavender

Ginger Meyer lemon

olive oil martini

peppermint watermelon

Soda & Water

I enjoyed the unique flavor profile of Aura Bora's zero sugar Peppermint Watermelon sparkling water.  I didn't know what to exact with this flavor combination but it was actually very subtle and refreshing. I would definitely purchase this again. 

These beverages are a nice change from plain-jane water. Refreshing and light. I enjoy them often! My two faves are Peppermint watermelon and Cucumber lavender. Unique tastes, which I love. I'm not a big fan of sweets...but the only improvement I can think of is that it could use a little bit more natural sweetener, IMO.  

Originally I didn't like these because the first flavor I tried was Strawberry Basil, and that one was gross to me. After that I tried the Cactus Rose, and that's my favorite one so far. Raspberry Vanilla is pretty good as well. The Cucumber Lavender one is alright, but I'm also not too big on the flavor of cucumber personally. I do like that the brand only puts good ingredients in their drinks and has some of the coolest artwork on their cans.

I love this stuff! My personal favorite is the strawberry basil. These are very herbal leaning and stronger in flavor than most flavored waters so if that isn't your thing you probably won't like these. My issue with these is the price. They are so expensive I get them for a treat here and there not for an everyday drink.

SO YUMMY - I’m realizing as I’m writing this that I previously stated I didn’t enjoy flavored sparkling waters but I may have lied. I don’t enjoy the “typical” brands but Aura Bora out does themselves every dang time! 

First off, the cans are beautiful and that's what attracted me to trying this sparkling water. I actually didn't realize it was a sparkling water before I got it; I thought it was a tea or something. The flavors are very unique--I got lavender cucumber and ginger lemon. However, since it is just water, the flavors are very subtle. For sparkling water by itself, I would say this product is too expensive, but the flavors make fun mixers for non-alcoholic drinks.

Would personally love sweeter, fruitier flavors

I love how innovative Aura Bora is with its flavors, and the branding is awesome. I can definitely see there being great fit with a certain type of consumer who has more refined taste than me :) I personally gravitate more towards sweeter, fruitier tastes so these aren't the best fit. That said, I find the lavender cucumber to be very refreshing!

I've gotten the individual cans before the lavender one takes the best the different varieties and flavor combos are a little weird I really wanted to like them I do really love the packaging I think it's really cool artwork. I recently got a coupon to try six pack and the GINGER MEYER LEMON 🍋 is super tasty! It's my new flavor water favorite. This is a product that I would definitely buy all the time if I had unlimited funds but alas I do not, poor I have a very extremely limited grocery budget. 

I find sparkling water to be hit or miss and I found this to be true for Aura Bora drinks as well.   The product is super attractive and even the can feels more high end, but for $4 a can it’s definitely only for an occasional splurge.   I’ve tried the raspberry vanilla and cactus rose and didn’t enjoy them as much as I expected. The raspberry vanilla had a really strong vanilla taste so if that’s your thing, you might enjoy it.  They aren’t bad, but considering the price, I wouldn’t buy them again.   I really like that there is zero sugar and are flavored with herbs/fruit/flowers so I’ll still try some of the flavors that others have really enjoyed like Ginger Lemon.  It might be worth getting the variety pack to cut down on costs and to find the flavor that suits you.  

I like that there are multiple interesting flavors. I didn’t like the raspberry vanilla one though 

I don’t like giving such bad reviews, but I have to be honest here. There is nothing good about this drink except the cute can. According to Aura Bora, their “sparkling waters are made with herbs, fruits and flowers for earthly tastes and heavenly feeling.” That’s not at all how I’d describe the flavor. It tastes medicinal and makes me burp even though I only drank half. Definitely not something I’ll be buying again. 

I tried two flavors of this sparkling water the basil & strawberry and the ginger Meyer lemon. The basil one I found to be so off putting that I couldn’t finish the can. The ginger one was okay. Not bad but not great. 

And first when I saw herbal drink, I had planted memories of bitter aftertastes and disappointing flavors.  Aura Bora is neither of these.  I've tried three varieties so far, and it's hard to pick which is my favorite but I'm going to go with the Cactus Rose.  They have been intensely refreshing at the end of a very hot day, and now that the temperatures are cooling a bit I find myself enjoying them just as much with dinner as something a little more exciting than water. Full flavored and lightly bubbly, I don't feel heavy after drinking these.  Also the packaging and can designs are also beautiful.

Tried the strawberry basil and I’m not sure how much I believe there was any strawberry and not just basil in there. Maybe a slight hint of sweetness but felt like primarily a basil drink. Became increasingly unpleasant to drink as I went on. 

I had pretty high hopes for this, factoring in the price and the ingredient list, but found that it wasn't as likable as I thought... The lack of any sweetness is great, but I personally only enjoyed that feature in the Ginger Lemon flavor. Everything else tasted medicinal/herbal, but not even like an herbal tea. I have seen some flavors online that may be better, but the ones I tested weren't something I would go out of my way to purchase again. 

Nothing that growth won’t fix—-pricing and availability 

I’ve been buying these drinks for over a year and I do not tire of the refreshing and unique blends. I like the skinnier can shape and of course, the can itself is eye catching. 

Separating experience into two, i) brand and ii) product. I think the branding is absolutely fabulous. I'm addicted to the Aura Bora universe, and I love the slogan 'drink weird water'! I'm constantly introducing the brand to friends, family and strangers. The sparkling water itself tastes great, and I'm not usually a sparkling water drinker. The Cactus Rose is my favorite, with Lemongrass Coconut at a close second. Would recommend to any human who drinks water.

Explain benefits of the herbal extracts, if any. 

I tried the Lemongrass and Coconut. Tasty, pretty strong flavor. Cute and colorful branding. 

Tried the lavender cucumber - Super drinkeable (dare I say the cliche, ‘crushable’?) Sparkling cucumber with a slight nose of lavender - not overpowering at all. It was great to have one of these after a quick toy pick up and dance party in the living room with my 5yo.

There's definitely potential for good flavor combos of herbs, fruits, and/or flowers, but I'm not sure it's quite there yet (either in terms of combos or in terms of the flavor strength), especially for basil berry.

Aura Bora had been on my list of brands I want to try for a while. Finally came across them at my local supermarket (on sale too!) and decided to pick a couple of cans up, one basil berry and one lavender cucumber.

Thought the packaging was fun with the pastel colors and cartoons, but at the same time, it's a bit busy and takes some effort to take in what's written on it.

I tried the basil berry first. Despite the name and other signs in their marketing about being an herbal drink, I somehow thought it'd be more berry-like, kind of like those hotel fruit-infused waters that sometimes have mint or something. I was unpleasantly wrong. The drink was heavy on the basil and light on the berry. If that was my only point of reference, I would've probably rated a 1 out of 5.

Waited a couple of weeks before I gave the lavender cucumber a go as I expected a similar experience and was not looking forward to that. However, in this case, I was pleasantly surprised! Lavender was the primary flavor, but it was lighter, and the cucumber undertone was refreshing.

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