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Apricot + Whisky

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 16 recipes, and they share 90 flavor molecules: the top 17% of all ingredient pairs.

Smell alikemoderate
Cooked together16 recipes
Ranktop 17% of pairs
Try them in the pairing tool Apricot Whisky
292apricot only 90shared 62whisky only Apricot · 382 Whisky · 152
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do apricot and whisky go together?

Yes. 16 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 90 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 17% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

More than half of whisky's flavor molecules (90 of 152) also occur in apricot. Among the shared key aromas are ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal) and ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

What each one brings

apricot

The herbal side. Herbal notes make up 10% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 1% for whisky. It carries 292 molecules whisky doesn't have.

whisky

The tartness. Sour notes make up 20% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 14% for apricot. It carries 62 molecules apricot doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Apple: the best fit for both, top 2% of pairs with apricot, top 8% with whisky.
  • Peach: top 1% of pairs with apricot, top 16% with whisky.
  • Fig: top 1% of pairs with apricot, top 13% with whisky.
  • Pineapple: top 2% of pairs with apricot, top 13% with whisky.

Ranked by the average of its two pairing scores. Only foods used in at least 100 recipes are suggested.

Recipes with apricot and whisky

We have no browsable recipe that lists both apricot and whisky.

Can you swap one for the other?

Not really. Each has a lot the other lacks: apricot has 292 molecules whisky doesn't, and whisky has 62 that apricot doesn't. Treat them as partners, not stand-ins. This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

All 90 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 292 only in apricot and the 62 only in whisky.

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Apricot and whisky questions

Do apricot and whisky go together?

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 16 recipes, and they share 90 flavor molecules: the top 17% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do apricot and whisky taste good together?

More than half of whisky's flavor molecules (90 of 152) also occur in apricot. Among the shared key aromas are ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal) and ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

What goes with apricot and whisky?

Apple is the best third ingredient: top 2% of pairs with apricot and top 8% with whisky. Peach and fig also fit both.

Can I use whisky instead of apricot?

Not really. Each has a lot the other lacks: apricot has 292 molecules whisky doesn't, and whisky has 62 that apricot doesn't. Treat them as partners, not stand-ins. This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

Compare other ingredients

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Two ingredients gives the full side-by-side breakdown; add a third to see a similarity matrix across all of them (up to 6).

Ranks compare this pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. Molecule counts are what the studies and databases we aggregate have reported for each ingredient: a measure of coverage, not a full census. How we score pairs

Cite this analysis
Plain text
Compound Kitchen (2026). Compound similarity analysis: Apricot vs Whisky. https://compkitchen.com/compare/apricot-vs-whisky. Accessed 2026-11-05.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_apricot_vs_whisky_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Apricot vs Whisky},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/apricot-vs-whisky},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-05}
}

Methodology DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19719459 · CC BY 4.0 · Citations are a request, not a requirement.