Taste type
The Spice Router
warm spice
You follow the spice road — cumin, cardamom, warm aromatics layered deep.
Your hexagon
The shape your signature makes on the six flavor families — solid is you, dashed is the corpus average.
Who you are
Curries, tagines, a toasted-spice bloom that fills the whole house: you love a dish built in fragrant layers, where no single note stands alone. You collect flavors like passport stamps and reach, always, for the more aromatic version. Complexity isn't a risk to you — it's the destination.
What you love
Warm Spice
The spice-drawer warmth — cumin, cinnamon, cardamom, coriander, clove. Toasted whole spices that fill a house and layer a dish with fragrance you can't quite name but always recognize.
Allium
The savory foundation nearly every cuisine builds on — garlic, onion, shallot, leek, chive. Raw, it bites; slow-cooked, it turns sweet and deep. The first thing to hit the pan.
Earthy
The taste of the ground — mushrooms, beets, lentils, root vegetables, a dusting of cumin. Earthiness gives a dish weight and a sense of place, the flavor of things grown in soil.
Heat
The chile's fire — fresh, dried, fermented, or flaked. Capsaicin's slow burn that makes you exhale and reach for the next bite. Heat isn't a flavor so much as a pace: it decides how fast you eat.
How you like to cook
Beyond flavor — the disposition that shapes what lands on your table.
You reach for the unfamiliar — the dish you can't quite picture yet.
You like the volume turned up — bold, loud, unmistakable flavor.
Dishes you'd love
A few we'd set in front of you — and the closest matches in the corpus.
Rogan Josh→
cardamom, clove, deep Kashmiri warmth
Butter Chicken→
tomato, cream, a bloom of spice
Vindaloo→
layered heat and vinegar-bright spice
More from the corpus, ranked to your palate
Where you'd wander next
The type that shares your territory but opens one new door. A good place to stretch.
The Ember Chaser
You cook toward the fire — heat, char, and smoke are the point, not the risk.
Share this type
A card worth posting — the hexagon, the notes, the dishes that fit.