Name: Lady Killer
Ingredients: 3/10 Pineapple juice; 3/10 Passion fruit juice; 1/10 Apricot brandy; 1/10 Cointreau; 2/10 Gin Burnett

Why it works: Passion fruit and brandy work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 6 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Directions

Mix ingredients together.
Garnish with green mirabelle, sprig of mint, and orange peel.

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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.

Passion fruit + brandytop 10% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together6 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Pineapple + apricottop 2% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together377 recipes

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

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together512 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Pineapple + passion fruittop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together36 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).
Pineapple + brandytop 5% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together298 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

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

What each ingredient does

Pineapple juice: Adds sweetness and tropical fruit flavour that forms the base of the drink.
Passion fruit juice: Adds tartness and a strong fruity aroma that balances the sweetness.
Apricot brandy: Adds sweetness, stone-fruit flavour and some alcohol warmth.
Cointreau: Adds orange sweetness and aroma, along with additional alcohol.
Gin burnett: Provides the main alcoholic strength and botanical aroma of the drink.

Flavor stand-ins for the passion fruit

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pineapple, apricot, brandy, gin):

Peachbetter flavor fit
Strawberrybetter flavor fit
Plumbetter flavor fit
Passion fruitthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, apricot, brandy, gin. 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.