The Bouquet & Palate section is where a tasting note gets its vocabulary: what you smelled and what you tasted, chosen from a library of more than 800 aroma and flavor descriptors. Nothing is typed from scratch — you find the descriptor that matches what's in the glass, and it joins the note as a chip.
Three Ways In
The section offers three tabs, in the order you'll likely use them over a note's life:
My Aromas — everything you've added to this note so far, as chips. This is where you review, adjust, and remove.
Browse by Theme — the library arranged as themed rows you scroll through horizontally, ordered the way a tasting tends to unfold: fresh and primary fruit first, then transformed and sweet notes, botanicals, mineral and earth, savory tones, winemaking characters, and the technical edge cases last. Labels pair related ideas — "Citrus + Zest," "Confections + Candied" — so a whole neighborhood of scents scans at a glance.
Browse Style-Related — suggestions drawn from the wine itself. When the note's wine has a defined style, this tab surfaces the descriptors that style is known for; when the style has none, the tab says so rather than guessing.
Above the tabs, a search field ("Search Aromas/Flavors…") jumps straight to a descriptor by name — often the fastest route once you know what you're looking for.
The Aroma Wheel
The Aroma Wheel opens from Bouquet & Palate as a focused overlay: the full descriptor library arranged as a wheel you can turn through — categories at the center, specific descriptors toward the rim. It's the scenic route through the library, and the best way to put a name to a scent you recognize but can't yet place. Tap a descriptor on the wheel and it joins the note like any other selection.
Intensity
A selected descriptor is marked where it showed — detected on the nose, on the palate, or both — and can carry an intensity for each: how strongly that character shows, from a trace to a dominant presence. A note that says cherry, faint on the nose and leather, pronounced on the palate reads very differently from one that lists the same two words unweighted; the placement and intensity are what make the difference searchable later.
When the Library Doesn't Have the Word
The library is deliberately broad, but the tabs at your level show only part of it. If a scent escapes the offered set, the Search for Aroma / Flavor entry reaches Curate's full database — more exhaustive than the tabs and the Aroma Wheel — and an optional Adjective field shades the term your way: Luscious Blueberry, Toasted Pine Nut. The result joins the note alongside every other descriptor.
How Detail Level Changes the Library
Every level uses the same tabs and the same wheel; what changes is depth. A Quick note draws on roughly 150 of the most common descriptors, Standard on about 400, and Advanced on about 525 — the full working library. If you keep reaching for a scent your level doesn't carry, that's the signal to start your next note one level up. See Choosing a Detail Level.
Where This Fits
Aromas and flavors describe what you sensed; the sliders and character terms on Structure & Character describe how the wine is built. The two halves meet in your tasting library, where notes can be searched by any descriptor you've ever selected — see Your Tasting Library. And when something in the glass is wrong rather than merely unexpected, record it in Flaws & Defects.