Weon
Extrait · 2024
Spiritica
Acquired
Pisco Sour Cocktail
Note Profile
About
The nose of a served pisco sour. Two things sit on top of each other. Bitters dropped on the egg-white foam give a spiced, orange-and-cinnamon top. Under it is the pisco itself, which one taster says smells like wine with fumes strong enough to open your sinuses. The lime and sugar make it read as a sour.
Scent Profile
Pisco Sour Cocktail smells boozy first, like wine with fumes sharp enough to open the sinuses. It reads as a sour, built on fresh lime and sugar syrup. Bitters dropped on the foam add an orangy, cinnamon-spiced top. A grapey, wine-like fruitiness runs underneath, with a heady floral perfume showing through here and there.
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Origin
A Peruvian and Chilean cocktail. Pisco is a grape brandy, and the drink adds lime juice, sugar syrup and egg white, shaken to a foam, with two or three drops of aromatic bitters on the surface. The bitters are a garnish, but every source treats them as the first thing you smell, because the foam holds them right under the nose.
Usage in Perfumery
A beverage note. It is used to give a fresh-citrus opening a boozy grape body and a spiced-bitters twist, and it is the bitters that separate it from the other sour-style drink notes in this vocabulary.
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Perfumes featuring Pisco Sour Cocktail
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