MOUEEL
PT ⌄
frutaperfumada · floral · amarga · de lavanda · resinosa

Bergamota

Cultivada na Calábria para perfume e chá, não para comer. O suco é intragável, e tudo bem.

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 Bergamota.

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

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.

Mel

common

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

Lavanda

common

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

Açúcar

common

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

Amêndoa

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.

Vieira

rare

Sweet shellfish and perfume, no acid needed beyond a grating of the peel.

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

Ostra

wild

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

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