The nose is honey, orange peel, pear, lightly smoked seashell (don’t ask me why you’d smoke a seashell). The palate is vanilla pear custard, honey, faint peat, pepper. I think this is very good, but it also doesn’t seem like a great deal. It tastes like Johnnie Walker Green with a little more peat. I almost think I could get a similar profile by adding a splash of Talisker 10 to JW Green. I also prefer the younger cask strength Diageo special releases, which is what I’ll stick to when buying Talisker. Update: 2nd half of the bottle I'm enjoying more than the first. Bumping up a quarter point.