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In the creation of a fine Rum, the high temperature steps of sugar extraction and the production of molasses generates a myriad of aroma molecules, including many with aroma profiles that are never found in the starting sugar cane. In addition, the influence of ageing in the cask comes to the fore with the revelation of animal aroma notes. The Leather Aroma example in the Aroma Academy Rum Aroma Kit has the heady, slightly animal nuance that you sniff as you enter a high-class leather shop. It integrates very well with the deep-bodied roasted notes and provides additional depth and...

Everyone loves spreading Maple Syrup on a pile of freshly cooked pancakes - the rich aroma makes our mouth water. This Aroma is always a favourite in the Bourbon Aroma Kit! Bourbons are famous for their delicious and rich after-taste effect and the rich sensory appeal of the maple syrup aroma is especially evident in the luscious lingering after-taste. Connoisseurs will know that vanilla type aromas also participate with the maple syrup aromas in creating the unique sensory appeal of the Bourbon after-taste. The particular aroma molecules that give this effect do not come from adding maple syrup or any...

If you are confident that you can unambiguously recognize the distinctive scent signature of a ripe green pepper - and you are confident that you are indeed getting such an aroma note in a wine – then you can be sure that you are “homing in” on the grape type. For the glorious smell of a green pepper is absolutely the signature scent of red wines made from the Cabernet Sauvignon grape, irrespective of which country in which the vines were grown. And by way of a reminder, in Cabernet Sauvignon wines, the green pepper aroma is always accompanied by...

Imagine in your (smell) mind, a scale of smokiness running from the gentle, mild, balsamic aroma of peat smoke from a croft chimney, sniffed some distance downwind, right across to the other end of the scale in which we have acrid, pungent smoke of the type that you would find in many fires. Now you have a feel for the huge range of smoky odours and all of them can be found in whiskies. (You might like to continue your imaginary exercise and imagine another scale running at right-angles to the smoky scale, and labelled from weak to strong. You...

Few people know the aroma of Cassia Bark but when you tell them that it smells a bit like cinnamon - known to most people - they begin to have an understanding of this strong hot spicy scent. There is a distinct overlap in the aroma profiles of the oils from cassia and cinnamon. When you smell it, the ravishing hot spicy and distinguishable “cinnamon-like but heavier” aroma is very evident. This is the archetypal hot spicy smell, arousing and conjuring-up feelings of being in markets in far-away towns in Asia or Africa. Bombay Sapphire pioneered this Aroma note in...