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
Boozy leads, because the spirit is the base and it is the only element described in its own right: 'Pisco Porton smells a little like wine, but with strong enough fumes to open your sinuses'. Sour is the drink's defining structure. It is a sour, built on fresh lime and sugar, and it is scored level with daiquiri 0.45 and cosmopolitan 0.55 for that reason. No source smells the lime and says so, so this number comes from the recipe, not from a description. Citrus has two legs: the same lime, and the 'orangy-cinnamon aroma' one source gets from orange bitters. Warm_spice is the cinnamon half of that phrase plus a second source saying the bitters 'perfume the foam with spice'. Two independent sources say spice, which makes this the best-supported claim after the spirit. Fruity is the grape, inferred from 'smells a little like wine'. Floral rests on one source only, Kitchen Geekery's 'a heady floral perfume', with nothing corroborating it, and the 0.22 spread on that facet is the widest in the vector for that reason. Sweet_vanillic is the sugar syrup. Below the line: aromatic_herbal for 'aromatic yet refreshing', lactonic as a low estimate for the egg-white foam that no fetched source describes, fresh_spice, and a thin aldehydic.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
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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