Name: Lavender Water, French
Ingredients: 8 gallons lavender; 16 ounces alcohol (best quality); 8 ounces lemon oil; 4 ounces oil of bergamot; 1 ounce oil of amber; 2 ounces eau de vie de lavande double ambrée; 3.52 ounces French rose geranium oil; 0.88 ounces oil of lemon; 0.88 ounces peruvian balsam; 5.29 ounces orris root tincture; 0.25 ounces tincture of benzoin; 8.81 ounces balsam tincture

Why it works: Lavender and bergamot work together. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 82 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. 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.

Lavender + bergamottop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together82 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Rose + geraniumtop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together64 recipes

Shared aroma: cis-rose oxide (green, flower).
Bergamot + rosetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together61 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Bergamot + geraniumtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together14 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Lemon + bergamottop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together108 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lavender, bergamot, rose, geranium):

Orangefits about as well
Lemonthe original
Vanillafits less well
Raspberryfits less well

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

Lavender Water, French