It's served with fava beans, fennel and brussels sprouts in a light, beguiling, very fragrant sauce using lemon must.

Braised rabbit ($14) in a fragrant, herbal sauce was tender and juicy on one occasion and unpleasantly tough on another.

The sauce - rich and fragrant - was so good I made sure to save some for another day.

The sauce, fragrant with garlic, lime and fresh herbs, was strewn with bits of cashew.

In a fragrant sauce for asparagus there is evidence of an early form of hollandaise sauce:

It is made by frying a rice noodle that has been dipped in boiling water with a thick, sweet, fragrant sauce.

Later came a quail egg pie in a fragrant brown sauce, followed by a hollowed-out pomegranate filled with rosewater ice cream.

His pigeon comes in a sauce fragrant with star anise.

The only bright note among desserts was a fragrant sauce based on Bailey's Irish Cream, which dressed cheesecake of little distinction.