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Both run on geraniol and phenylethanol. Ispahan is a chemistry lesson with cream.

Berry acid is the only thing sharp enough to keep the perfume from going soapy.

Doubling the rose oxide. Two drops confirms the flavour, five drops ruins it.

Sharp gingerol under heavy perfume; it gives a very soft fruit an actual edge.

The fruit has almost no acid. Lime turns syrup into something you can drink twice.

Menthol keeps the floral note cold. Warm lychee smells like hand cream.

Lactone fat carries volatile terpenes further than water or syrup ever will.

Tannin dries the mouth between mouthfuls, which perfume-heavy fruit badly needs.

Both run on linalool. The tea reads as though the fruit was steeped in it.

Linalool in both, but the fruit brings juice and stops the flower going airless.

Shared cis-rose oxide, the same molecule that makes Alsace smell like a perfume counter.

Both are watery and faintly melon; the cucumber makes the perfume read cleaner.

Juniper and rose are both terpenes, and the alcohol carries them further than syrup.

Same terpene family, but this one brings the acid the lychee has never had.

Two perfumes from the same latitude. Neither has to be dialled down.

Both loaded with linalool and rose oxide. Impossible to tell apart when chilled.

Perfume plus snap. Both are slippery, so the texture contrast is small but real.

The same linalool from two continents. Side by side the resemblance is uncomfortable.

Sweet shellfish and sweet perfume, held apart by salt and a lot of white pepper.

Both run on rose oxide. Perfume doubled, sweetness untouched.

Floral on floral, and the seed adds the woody spine lychee entirely lacks.

Cis-rose oxide in both. Two things that smell like a perfume counter agreeing.

Brine under rose. It sounds absurd until the second one, then it makes sense.

Rose-sweet fruit against smoked salt fat; the perfume survives the paprika.

Both gelatinous-crisp. The fruit supplies perfume the fungus never had.

Floral rose-note against blank protein. Nothing competes, everything shows.