Name: Hurricane
Ingredients: 2 oz Dark Rum; 2 oz Light Rum; 1 tbsp Passion Fruit Syrup; 2 oz apricot nectar; 2 oz strawberry nectar; 2 tsp grenadine; 2 tsp Lime Juice; Ice

Why it works: Rum and passion fruit work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 21 recipes mention both. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, fruity. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Directions

Shake well with ice and strain into a hurricane glass filled with ice.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

Rum + passion fruittop 4% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together21 recipes

Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).
Apricot + strawberrytop 2% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together183 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Rum + strawberrytop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together105 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).
Rum + apricottop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together149 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).
Passion fruit + limetop 4% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together55 recipes

Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Dark rum: Adds deep molasses and oak flavour as the main spirit base.
Light rum: Adds a clean, lighter spirit body that balances the darker rum.
Passion fruit syrup: Adds sweetness and tropical fruit aroma.
Lime juice: Adds acidity that balances the sweet fruit syrups and nectars.

Flavor stand-ins for the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rum, passion fruit, syrup, apricot, strawberry):

Pineapplebetter flavor fit
Vanillabetter flavor fit
Mangobetter flavor fit
Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rum, passion fruit, syrup, apricot, strawberry. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

“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.