Lilac wine doesn't smell like lilacs

[Stressbaby]

I have a batch of lilac wine going, roughly following the recipe for Lilac (2) from Jack Keller. Having read about the tea going bad, and not finding any mention of K meta in the recipe, I dropped 1 Campden tab/gallon in the tea to start.

I was a little surprised by the color with is brownish. But several of the flower wines have done this, only to clear to a golden/yellow color later. But the lilac smell when away almost immediately. Now having prepared the must, I am concerned that the lilac smell is gone entirely. I'm supposed to pitch the yeast on top when it cools some more.

Is this normal? Will the lilac smell return?

 

[saramc]

The lilac odor should return further down the road. At least it did in the batch I made, which turned out as a white wine.

 

[Stressbaby]

Thank you Sara, that is reassuring.