Spicy

What holds it together

Two facets, and the difference is entirely about where they sit. Fresh Spice is volatile, sparkling, and gone within the hour. Warm Spice is dense, eugenol-driven, and still there at the end of the day.

Notes strongest in Spicy

Strongest first. A note's family value is the highest of its member facets, not their average - averaging would let a note that is emphatically one thing and nothing else read as weak, which is the opposite of what the family is for.

• West Indian Bay Dry Wood Heart · ~8h Botanical
• Cassia Heart · ~8h Botanical 31
• Cinnamon Vanilla Heart · ~8h Botanical 2,508
• Ginger Citrus Dry Wood Heart · ~8h Botanical 2,296
• Clove Phenolic Heart · ~8h Botanical 1,051
• Cinnamon Leaf Dry Wood Base · ~36h Botanical 23
• Carnation Floral Powdery Heart · ~8h Botanical 678
• Star Anise Vanilla Aromatic Phenolic Heart · ~8h Botanical 276
• Pimento Leaf Heart · ~6h Botanical 11
• Grains of Paradise Heart · ~6h Botanical 4
• Clove Leaf Phenolic Heart · ~7h Botanical
• Eugenol Phenolic Heart · ~8h Molecule
• Ishpink, Ocotea Quixos Floral Heart · ~7h Botanical
• Mulled Wine Boozy Citrus Fruity Heart · ~6h Prepared
• Shamama Attar Amber Creamy Wood Aromatic Base · ~24h Prepared
• Pink Pepper Mineral Fruity Top · ~3h Botanical 3,656
• Mace Heart · ~5h Botanical 24
• Speculoos Vanilla Lactonic Heart · ~8h Prepared
• Allspice Heart · ~8h Botanical 71
• Cinnamon Sugar Vanilla Heart · ~8h Prepared

The facets in it

The facets are the coordinate system; the family is how it is read. Every one of these is measured separately, and a note carries a value on all of them at once.

The other families

Every other family gathers the same 34 facets a different way.

Keep going

• The 34 facets What each one covers, where it stops, and the substances that carry it
• The 10 families How the 34 are gathered, and why a family value is a max and not a mean
• How it is built The five layers, from CAS numbers up to the families a shopper browses