I'll preface by saying this is not my preferred style of gin. I'll also note that I prefer my gin be garnished with a small splash of vermouth and olive brine. That said, my wife loves all things gin, and especially Hendrick's. I think it's because I hate cucumbers and she knows that I won't touch her bottle, which cannot be said about the Monkey 47 or the Sipsmith, or the Tanqueray 10. Anyway - onward! Nose is a bouquet, dense with tropical flowers in front of a sweet background. There's a ton of fruit here, but it comes across as perfumy instead of flavorful, which makes it very difficult for me to parse. Repeated efforts give me strawberries, honeydew, white grapes, kiwi and guava. All soft, sweet fruits. Palate is a carbon copy of the nose - it's perfumy fruit. Strawberry and guava ride a thin blanket of juniper from open to close. Careful smacking and chewing and swishing and air through clenched teeth bring in some rose water. This is a gin that I would put over an ice cube and sip on the back porch during a summer evening. I would not use it in a martini of any sort, and I shudder to think of how it would interact with bitter quinine in a G&T. But, taken straight, out of a Glencairn at that, this is smooth, rich, creamy and tasty, and has nothing for which it should apologize. It's gin really in name only, but it is a tasty dram.