Provided is a beverage to which a colorless, transparent, fruit flavor has been imparted and that, even when drunk directly from a vessel having a narrow opening such as a polyethylene terephthalate bottle, is such that it is possible to perceive a fruit aftertaste and a natural fruit-like flavor. In this colorless, transparent beverage, when the concentration of valencene is X (mg/L) and the concentration of linalool is Y (mg/L), X ≥ 0.01 and Y ≥ 3.1X+0.85 are satisfied.