What is a coffee sniffer? 36 Flavor Coffee Nose and 100 Flavor Coffee Flavor Map T100 Difference

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The smell bottle is literally a bottle that emits fragrance, and it is not far from the truth to understand it in this way. So why is it necessary for such a bottle to exist? What does it have to do with coffee?

In the process of learning about the flavor of coffee, in fact, most of us will come across this part of the cup test, among the tools used in the cup test, in addition to the nose and mouth (that is, you have to have the sensitivity of smell and mouth) smell bottle also occupies a very important position. The concept of smell bottle is changed from wine tasting. Generally speaking, the coffee smell bottle we can buy on the market is very limited, mainly from the United States and Europe, and there are many differences in flavor, some of which are flavors that we usually rarely come into contact with. In fact, most of the cup testing process is the communication between people, using the so-called common language to explore the flavor of coffee, smell bottle is actually such a tool.

Fragrance bottle is a systematic classification of aroma to reconcile chemical oils to show different odors, so as to train the sense of smell and help the memory of specific odors. The ancestor of the incense bottle is said to collect all kinds of different materials, directly take certain plants and food and put them in glass bottles respectively, and then open the bottles to smell incense when it is time for training. Fresh materials that have not been specially preserved will also rot and stink quite fast, so there are chemical oil smell bottles that can now be preserved for more than five years.

At present, there are two scent bottles on the market, one is the 36-flavor Le Nez du Cafe (coffee nose) made by French EditionJean Lenoir, and the other is the 100flavor Coffee Flavor Map produced by Scentone in South Korea the year before last (coffee flavor map T100). However, 36 flavors are used in the current SCA certification course. In addition to allowing you to remember specific flavors, its four categories also tell you what different flavors coffee will have during roasting, which can provide complete training in coffee knowledge. The rarer 100-flavor fragrance bottle is also classified. It is obvious that 100 bottles have a more detailed flavor than 36 bottles, but it is not like 36 flavor bottles that can give you a clear understanding of the smell produced during coffee roasting, but this is also a SCA-certified scent bottle. This group of novel smell bottles also correspond to the new flavor wheel to a certain extent, no matter in the detailed description of flavor or classification, we can see that the two works correspond to each other to a certain extent, but they have not yet been formally used in related courses. it may also become a formal textbook for other certification courses in the future. However, no matter which kind of incense bottle, frequent practice is bound to improve the ability of olfactory discrimination.

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If you have the opportunity to actually use it, you can find that the smell of the bottle is different from the actual smell you remember. This difference may be due to the fact that the bottle is simulated by chemical oils and cannot replicate the fragrance 100%. It may also be due to the different latitudes of the country where the bottle is prepared, and the sense of smell and life is different. After all, different life experiences make us have different memories of flavor.

At the moment of using the smell bottle, there will always be "Gee …" This is so familiar! But I can't remember what it smelled like... "the idea of" is sometimes a bit frustrating, but it is also due to our lack of attention to odors in our lives, so many familiar smells cannot be distinguished for a while, and scented bottles are systematically selected flavors. It helps us to be more sensitive when distinguishing these specific smells. Of course, smelling incense bottles can only be trained for certain odors, and we can also train our sense of smell from our lives. When we go out for a walk and eat three meals, we can pay more attention to the smell around us, and we may also improve our sense of smell.

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