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Examining Lychee as a Smell
By: Elena Vosnaki
SCENT PROFILE
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Examining Lychee as a Smell
By: Elena Vosnaki
SCENT PROFILE
The scent profile of litchi is close to that of a very juicy grape, with a mild flavor that
is aqueous, delicately rosy and temperately sweet.
The likening with some
Gewürztraminer variety wines comes as no surprise: the lychee-rosy aroma is
common thanks to the magic of the cis-rose oxide, a common thread in all three
subjects—flower, fruit and wine.
It s interesting to note that this rose-lychee nuance
is not a product of the fermentation process, as with many wines, but inherent in
the grape variety (also Muscat).
The fermentation however augments this effect
thanks to the contribution of yeast hydrolyzing some of the terpenes in the grape
juice.
Although litchi is exotic in origin (as
evidenced by its very botanical name
and being a sub-tropi
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