Have you ever made a whisky, blend some important malts with grain, and then you mixed it with a type of french apple liquor called Calvados? Well, Compass Box did. Spoiler alert: it didn't work. Affinity gets its name from a mixture of a blended scotch whisky with Calvados, an apple liquor that comes from a city with the same name. The actual combination is 62% whisky, 38% Calvados. You can't called this whisky legally, that is why this is labeled as a Spirit Drink. Bottled at 46%abv. On the nose, it is terrible. Sider, mr. Clean cleaning chemicals. Yellow apples, cleaning thinner, vinegar. It smells like wet paint. On the palate it is bad. Its like a red apple "flambe". Not good. Aftertaste is like bubblegum. Actually bubblegum ice cream, the blue one. Overall, you should avoid this. Compass Box, let me tell you this, i love you, but don't ever do this to me again. I am dissapointed, cloyed and even sad of having to rate this. My score for it is 41 over 100.