Name: Cherry Tooth Paste
Ingredients: ½ cup Otto of Roses; ½ cup oil of cloves; ¼ cup orris root, powdered; ¼ cup cuttlefish, powdered; ½ cup precipitated chalk; ½ cup glycerine; ¼ cup borax; 1 teaspoon liquid cochineal; ¼ cup clarified honey; ¼ cup simple syrup

Why it works: Rose and honey work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 94 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

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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.

Rose + honeytop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together94 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Clove + honeytop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together736 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Rose + clovetop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together410 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Honey + syruptop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together325 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Clove + syruptop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together481 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rose, honey, syrup):

Cinnamonfits better
Gingerfits better
Peppermintfits about as well
Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rose, honey, syrup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Cherry Tooth Paste