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Pumpkin Spice Latte back early at Starbucks

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Pumpkin Spice Lattes will return earlier than ever before this year on Aug. 28. | Starbucks

It might not feel like fall in Chicago on Tuesday, with temperatures expected to reach the mid-90s, but it will start smelling like fall at Starbucks.

Pumpkin Spice Lattes will return earlier than ever this year on Aug. 28. Starbucks made the announcement on their Twitter page. “Fall, is it really you?” the company tweeted.

Last year, PSLs debuted to select customers on Sept. 1 and all customers on Sept. 5, according to a report by Business Insider.

Some people couldn’t wait for their favorite drink to return.

Others, not so much.

Starbucks has seen a stormy year after the arrests of two black men at a store in Philadelphia. In response, Starbucks closed all of its locations for anti-bias training. The company’s chairman and former CEO, Howard Schultz, announced his resignation soon after.

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