Coca-Cola Orange Cream

A new flavor is out from Coca-Cola. I've previously tasted some of the cola and orange combination sodas from Germany that don't seem to be marketed elsewhere. Now they seem to be bringing this to the U.S., though it is listed as orange cream so I'm expecting some vanilla in there and something more akin to stirring your Coke with an orange dreamsicle. This latest flavor replaces the Coca-Cola Orange Vanilla flavor that was discontinued in 2022.

I didn't even have to put my nose close to the bottle to pick up a strong cream scent when I cracked the cap off. I'm not getting too much citrus from the scent, but the creaminess comes across strongly. The taste is interesting because unlike some of Coca-Cola's other flavor combos I can still taste the cola well. Then I taste a vanilla cream flavor but it's a much better level than the vanilla flavoring in Coca-Cola Vanilla. Somewhere in there I get a faint orange taste, but it gets quickly overcome by a cream flavor again. Washing it over the side of my tongue gives me a touch more of the orange flavor. I think it might be one of their more complex flavor combinations but I still find it to be a bit of a novelty and I wonder what sort of food this would pair well with, if anything.