Nose: black tea, bubble gum, perfume but not floral more of a cologne, tobacco. It’s weird but everything about this has me picturing a kid back in the 80s opening up a wax pack of baseball cards and popping the gum from the pack in his mouth as his grandpa looks on wearing too much cologne, sipping tea, and puffing on a pipe. Taste: the bubble gum sweetness is there to start but then it morphs into a hot cinnamon like Big Red (I don’t know why I’m stuck on gum references), it’s not very sweet but makes me think grain or corn, some oakiness, there’s a tinge of the cologne/tobacco thing that I feel like I should be able to identify better but just can’t quite put my finger on Finish: dry, leaves a fresh feeling that isn’t minty but more lemony, the Big Red note hangs around After reading reviews: I had a distinctly different experience than the reviews that focus on a lot of fruit with no mention of the bubble gum - I maybe can pick up some apple peel on the taste if I really look for it but I’m just not finding fruit beyond the lemony finish (maybe the late orange note from Flaviar is along that line), the surprising secondary arrival of cinnamon on the taste from reviews matches up though as do the grain and oak. A couple references to mint also may be alluding to what I got on the finish. Overall, there was a lot going on in the nose and judging from reviews there could be a lot more to find as the bottle opens up. With some more flavors coming through on the taste, this could be a very interesting bourbon. Excited to come back to it.