The nagoonberry is the small, deep wine-red aggregate fruit of Rubus arcticus, a low creeping Arctic bramble of northern bogs, meadows and open woodland across Scandinavia, Russia and Alaska. Built like a tiny raspberry from a handful of glossy drupelets, it is among the most intensely aromatic of all wild berries — sweet, tart and richly perfumed with a pineapple-and-rose fragrance prized for liqueur and preserves. Slow to fruit and hard to cultivate, it is a treasured northern delicacy known variously as the Arctic bramble, Arctic raspberry or, in Alaska, the nagoonberry.