3 Year Old Deluxe

It’s Clynelish – Fragrant, floral, and strongly waxy. Green fruit, but not in a “young” sense, just fresh – green banana, coconut water, unripe pineapple, peach, and a little green apple in the background. All kinds of fragrant notes – woody nutmeg and sandalwood, sweet basil and mint, floral white tea. Blasting sea spray and a hint of black pepper foreshadow upcoming Taliskertude. I’ve never been to Hawai’i, but this is what I imagine an unspoiled Hawai’ian rainforest smells like.

Medium-thick texture. Arrives with massive candlewax and sweet lemon, giving way to more fruit - green apples, pineapple, pear and grilled banana. Very structured development, with a transition from wax and fruit to firmer spicy notes of black pepper and old oak. There’s a hint of coastal peat now, seaweed and smoked kippers. The brine intensifies.

Medium-long, cleaning right back up as the smoke diminishes and the paraffin wax returns. Very soft vanilla. Black pepper and charred driftwood. More basil and mint. Sea buckthorn and honeydew.