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Pine + Gin

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 7 recipes, and they share 49 flavor molecules: the top 19% of all ingredient pairs.

Smell alikemoderate
Cooked together7 recipes
Ranktop 19% of pairs
Try them in the pairing tool Pine Gin
235pine only 49shared 7gin only Pine · 284 Gin · 56
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do pine and gin go together?

Yes. 7 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 49 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 19% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

Almost everything gin carries, pine has too: 49 of gin's 56 flavor molecules also occur in pine. Among the shared key aromas are alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine) and myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

What each one brings

pine

The fresh, green side. Green notes make up 8% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 2% for gin. It carries 235 molecules gin doesn't have.

gin

The floral side. Floral notes make up 17% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 10% for pine. It carries 7 molecules pine doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Rosemary: the best fit for both, top 1% of pairs with pine, top 21% with gin.
  • Lime: top 5% of pairs with pine, top 16% with gin.
  • Nutmeg: top 1% of pairs with pine, top 26% with gin.
  • Basil: top 1% of pairs with pine, top 33% with gin.

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

Recipes with pine and gin

We have no browsable recipe that lists both pine and gin.

Can you swap one for the other?

Only partly. Almost all of gin's flavor molecules (49 of 56) are also found in pine, but pine has 235 that gin lacks. Gin gives you part of pine's character without most of its fresh, green side. This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

All 49 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 235 only in pine and the 7 only in gin.

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Pine and gin questions

Do pine and gin go together?

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 7 recipes, and they share 49 flavor molecules: the top 19% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do pine and gin taste good together?

Almost everything gin carries, pine has too: 49 of gin's 56 flavor molecules also occur in pine. Among the shared key aromas are alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine) and myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

What goes with pine and gin?

Rosemary is the best third ingredient: top 1% of pairs with pine and top 21% with gin. Lime and nutmeg also fit both.

Can I use gin instead of pine?

Only partly. Almost all of gin's flavor molecules (49 of 56) are also found in pine, but pine has 235 that gin lacks. Gin gives you part of pine's character without most of its fresh, green side. 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: Pine vs Gin. https://compkitchen.com/compare/pine-vs-gin. Accessed 2026-11-04.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_pine_vs_gin_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Pine vs Gin},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/pine-vs-gin},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-04}
}

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