The Forest Floor Aroma is Taking Over Cocktails
This is worth savoring: The modern cocktail scene is obsessed with the scent of damp earth, pine resin, and moss. Once a niche curiosity in amaro, the “forest floor” flavor profile has become the season’s defining obsession—so much so that it feels less like a trend and more like a necessary evolution. From whiskey cocktails steeped in porcini to rye spirits infused with caraway, the trend isn’t just about earthiness; it’s about evoking the layered, almost sacred complexity of a woodland after a storm. The shift began with amaro’s rise in the 2010s, but today’s cocktails are doing more than…