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Sulphury

Sulphur can be good, intriguing, as long as it is at one end of the spectrum. A low level can add a topping to the richness of a whisky. This line runs from spend matches to over boiled cabbage and everything from bad eggs, rubber bands and warming tyres; the scent of a spent match being the more generally acceptable end of the category.

Vegetative

Brackish, cabbage water, turnips, stagnant, marsh gas

Coal-gas

Carbide, cordite, spent fireworks, spent matches, matchbox

Rubbery

Pencil eraser, new rubber (tyres), bakelite, electric cables, burnt rubber

Sandy

Fresh laundry, starch, linen, sandy beach, hot sand, elemental sulphur