The Compass Box Spice Tree Extravaganza

Tasting notes:
The Compass Box Spice Tree Extravaganza opens with a biscuity, grainy, bright and candy, clementine and sunshine citronella breakfast smoothie served at the vegan farm-to-repurposed-upcycled-cable-spool Corner Shoppe. The “pe” in “shoppe” is meant ironically. Of course. There’s also a fatty grassy note that’s approachable, like the drivaciousness of a Bentley Flying Spur equipped with an automatic. (Yes, dear reader, I just portmanteaued “drivaciousness” into existence, as well creating the verb “portmanteaued.” Please don’t judge me.) We also got kumquat notes, and a rare perfect imprint of a lamentably lost Roald Dahl masterwork: The Fantastic Mr. Fruit Basket.

The brightness turns down a small tick on the mouth, but brings in lieu of the light a collection of little hand soaps in a cute reed and wire basket that was permanently “borrowed” from the bathroom when last you visited Lord Figglesworth-Fotheringay’s country manor. It’s akin to eating one of Giuseppe Acrimboldo’s oils in a fever dram. Er, fever dream. (Guys, can I make dad jokes like that? Guys? Guys?)

The finish is smooth and self-effacing. It would like to announce anise, starfruit, and a smouldering desire to listen to opera with Hilary Hahn, but just. Can’t. Bring. Itself. To. Do. So. It’s tamped, not tamper-proof. It’s light, but not elfin. It’s always this, but never that.
 
 
Rating:
–On the scale of songs by Stan Getz–
The Compass Box Spice Tree Extravaganza is The Girl From Ipanema–Smooth and sultry, swinging and spicy, sleek and extravagantly tree-ish. Yup!
 
 
 
                                                                      –Bill
 
 
 
   
   –Our thanks to Compass Box for the sample!