Scents of Fermentation

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Tovis

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Over the past year, I've noticed the scent of fermentation differs between fruit, grapes, yeast, and such. Sometimes it has a banana scent, sometimes peaches, sometimes it is very yeasty. Sometimes it is slightly sour.

Do these different scents mean something?
 
I think I have read somewhere that a scent of banana might signal it is fermenting at too high of a heat. With my last batch when this happened I cooled it and remembered it transitioned to peachy.
 
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