Nose has a very sweet aroma and smells like fruit pie with butter crust. Vanilla and baking spices and cinnamon. It has a huge nose. Palet is flowery and herbal and sweet with oak and more baking spices. It's finsh is reported to be short by some and long by others, but I can confirm it's long. Tons of rye spice and oak and sweet that goes on forever. Love this stuff.