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Sage + Winter savory

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 221 recipes, and they share 231 flavor molecules: the top 1% of all ingredient pairs.

Smell alikestrong
Cooked together221 recipes
Ranktop 1% of pairs
Try them in the pairing tool Sage Winter savory
80sage only 231shared 13winter savory only Sage · 311 Winter savory · 244
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do sage and winter savory go together?

Yes. 221 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 231 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 1% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

Almost everything winter savory carries, sage has too: 231 of winter savory's 244 flavor molecules also occur in sage. Among the shared key aromas are eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal) and alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

What each one brings

sage

The tartness. Sour notes make up 15% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 12% for winter savory. It carries 80 molecules winter savory doesn't have.

winter savory

Much the same character. It carries 13 molecules sage doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Marjoram: the best fit for both, top 1% of pairs with sage, top 1% with winter savory.
  • Thyme: top 1% of pairs with sage, top 1% with winter savory.
  • Summer savory: top 1% of pairs with sage, top 1% with winter savory.
  • Rosemary: top 1% of pairs with sage, top 1% with winter savory.

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

Recipes with sage and winter savory

We have no browsable recipe that lists both sage and winter savory.

Can you swap one for the other?

Fairly well, for flavor. Each carries most of the other's flavor molecules (74% of sage's and 95% of winter savory's are shared). This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

All 231 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 80 only in sage and the 13 only in winter savory.

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Sage and winter savory questions

Do sage and winter savory go together?

A proven pairing. Cooks put them together in 221 recipes, and they share 231 flavor molecules: the top 1% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do sage and winter savory taste good together?

Almost everything winter savory carries, sage has too: 231 of winter savory's 244 flavor molecules also occur in sage. Among the shared key aromas are eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal) and alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

What goes with sage and winter savory?

Marjoram is the best third ingredient: top 1% of pairs with sage and top 1% with winter savory. Thyme and summer savory also fit both.

Can I use winter savory instead of sage?

Fairly well, for flavor. Each carries most of the other's flavor molecules (74% of sage's and 95% of winter savory's are shared). 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: Sage vs Winter Savory. https://compkitchen.com/compare/sage-vs-winter-savory. Accessed 2026-11-05.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_sage_vs_winter_savory_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Sage vs Winter Savory},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/sage-vs-winter-savory},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-05}
}

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