If bees in France buzz around the lavender fields, foraging for nectar, what does the honey they produce smell or taste like?
Yes, a bit like lavender.
But not all the floral, spicy or woody aromas detectable in the roughly 300 varieties of honeys being produced today are so easy to name.
That's where the new Honey Flavor and Aroma Wheel, developed by a sensory panel at the Honey and Pollination Center at the University of California, Davis, comes in.
We've got nothing against simple descriptors like "sweet." But the tastes of honey are