This is a wonderful whisky. Neat: The PEAT, naturally, is off the charts: bonfire ashes, cigar tobacco, smoked meats. The BURN is heavy when drank neat. Like it was doused in BLACK PEPPER. Droplet added: The CARAMEL and toffee starts to poke out. Treated wood, some spices, and a METAL/mineral astringency. The peat goes from a smoke bomb to merely boggy. There is some plastic/Band-Aid stuff but it works. In the nose there is CINNAMON and Christmas spices to match the smoke, dried ORANGE PEEL. Powdery CHARCOAL ash. When aspirated and exhaled, there a spearmint coolness that is completely unexpected.