Flavor wheels to help describing flavors

submitted over 8 years ago by ChemicalBurnVictimresident tobacco specialist

I was looking up why honey flavors sometimes have a cat piss smell/taste, and long story short, I found that flavor description wheels are a thing.

Here's a couple but if you just Google image search "flavor wheel" you will find a bunch.

Thought it could be useful for people like me that have trouble describing flavors. Sometimes there's just something about a flavor that I can't quite put my finger on, and I'm hoping these will help.

Comments

3 points

by PerennialPhilosopherover 8 years ago

This is really cool! Was this the best one you found?

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by ChemicalBurnVictimover 8 years agoresident tobacco specialist

The honey one was the first one I found, the other one was the best picture quality I saw that I could zoom in on. It seemed to be the same as another one I looked at. Here's a couple that I will probably be using the most.

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by Kreeprover 8 years ago

Could somebody help me out with flavors that initially feel like it fills my sinus cavities up, like in my forehead. I don't know if it gives me a headache or what. I taste the flavoring I just can't shake that feeling. It's only from a certain ejuice manufacturer.

1 points

by T_Maceover 8 years agoresident tobacco specialist

Did you glean any insight on the infamous cat pics conundrum?

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by ChemicalBurnVictimover 8 years agoresident tobacco specialist

Best I came up with was that honey cultivated from buckwheat can have the cat piss taste. Not really sure if that explains anything for the flavors we use. I kind of switched my search interest from the cat piss to the flavor wheel once I found that. I looked at the molecules in TFA Honey, but none of them were described as cat piss.

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by T_Maceover 8 years agoresident tobacco specialist

>I looked at the molecules in TFA Honey, but none of them were described as cat piss.

Haha, it's strange that they overlooked the whole catpiss angle when they came up with it. Someone over at TFA has a penchant for golden showers me thinks.

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by SDVAPEover 8 years agoProud Sidebar Reader!

Want to check out the soy sauce, should go well with my YT Tuna flavor juice

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by Kraftykiwiover 8 years agoProud Sidebar Reader!

This is the one I have [The flavour thesaurus] (https://imgur.com/a/9gmT9). Lots of flavour combination suggestions.

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by Sleepychefguyover 8 years ago

Wow that looks useful for a lot of things. I'm definitely going to buy this book.

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by Kraftykiwiover 8 years agoProud Sidebar Reader!

It's a really good reference for pairing flavours.

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by ChemicalBurnVictimover 8 years agoresident tobacco specialist

Damn, this thing is fast. I think it popped up before I even hit submit.

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by LoganIsCheesyover 8 years ago

don't delete this post! i saved it :)