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Bergamote

Cultivée en Calabre pour le parfum et le thé, pas pour être mangée. Le jus est imbuvable, et c’est très bien ainsi.

on its own
5.0sour
0.0sweet
0.0savoury
4.0bitter
0.0umami
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2 of these 14 are wild — theory says yes, nobody has cooked them. why →

14 pairings for Bergamote.

Crème

classic

Fat catches the perfume and slows it; infuse cold, then set with the acid.

Earl Grey

classic

It is the definition, not a pairing. Linalyl acetate over malt, nothing else.

Cocoa bitterness meets peel bitterness; the floral note is what survives both.

Miel

common

Floral sugar to floral peel. It is the same register at two different volumes.

Lavande

common

Both are mostly linalyl acetate. Use one or the other, never a full measure of each.

Sucre

common

The peel is candied because nothing else makes that bitterness edible.

Amande

uncommon

Benzaldehyde is floral enough to keep up and blunt enough to give the perfume a floor.

Calabria dresses raw fish with the zest and good oil. Nothing else in the bowl.

Gin

uncommon

A botanical the distillers should use more; juniper and bergamot share resins.

Bitter perfume cuts liver fat where a sweet jelly would just add weight.

Perfume on iodine. It should not work and it does, provided you use only zest.

Agneau

wild

Peel oil against mutton fat; it reads like a herb rub rather than a citrus.