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Literature Note — Knowledge Transfer from Fragrance to Whisky
Literature Note — Knowledge Transfer from Fragrance to Whisky

Literature Note — Knowledge Transfer from Fragrance to Whisky

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Status: Complete literature note based on a full page-by-page review of No access.

Analytical note

Core summary

An exploratory conference paper proposes that codified and tacit fragrance knowledge can be recombined into premium-whisky innovation.

Author argument

Exaptation across craft industries requires deliberate search, translation, and a balance between codification and embodied know-how.

Evidence assessment

Knowledge-management literature plus a French case and conceptual framework; no controlled performance or sensory validation.

Researcher synthesis

For consumer blending and sensory training, borrow methods from perfumery only where mechanisms and learning goals are explicit; preserve tacit practice through repeated calibrated trials rather than assuming vocabulary alone transfers skill.

Limitations

Exploratory case; French context; conceptual claims; uncertain generalizability to American whiskey.

Open questions

Which perfumery methods improve whiskey aroma training in blinded tests? Which expertise resists codification and requires apprenticeship?

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  • Citation: Perfume to Whisky — ChicagoPerfume to Whisky — Chicago
Date
September 4, 2026
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Rani Jeanne DangRani Jeanne Dang
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Fragrance knowledge is proposed as an input to whisky innovation — p. 2Fragrance knowledge is proposed as an input to whisky innovation — p. 2Transfer requires decontextualization and recontextualization — p. 7Transfer requires decontextualization and recontextualization — p. 7The most valuable know-how may resist complete codification — p. 9The most valuable know-how may resist complete codification — p. 9
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Tacit sensory competence requires recontextualized practiceTacit sensory competence requires recontextualized practice
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Perfume to Whisky — ChicagoPerfume to Whisky — Chicago
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