Name: Soul Kiss Cocktail
Ingredients: 1 1/2 tsp. Orange Juice; 1 1/2 tsp. Dubonnet®; 3/4 oz. Dry Vermouth; 3/4 oz. Bourbon

Why it works: Orange and vermouth work together. They rank in the top 25% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 83 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Soul Kiss Cocktail

Ingredients

1 1/2 tsp. Orange Juice
1 1/2 tsp. Dubonnet®
3/4 oz. Dry Vermouth
3/4 oz. Bourbon

Directions

Shake with ice and strain into cocktail glass.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Orange + vermouthtop 25% of all pairs

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Cooked together83 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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What each ingredient does

Bourbon: Provides the main spirit base and whiskey flavor of the drink.
Dry vermouth: Adds dryness and herbal depth that balances the sweeter liqueur.
Dubonnet: Adds sweetness, wine body and bittersweet herbal notes.
Orange juice: Adds fresh citrus acidity and brightness to the blend.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.