Butcher forests extend naturally into aromatic and clumped forests and play a fundamental role in the numerical analysis of volume-preserving methods. The design of general volume-preserving methods is a challenging open problem, and recent attempts showed progress on specific dynamics. We introduce aromatic and clumped multi-indices, that are algebraic objects that simplify the study of volume-preservation to the one-dimensional setting, while retaining much of the structure (in stark opposition to standard multi-indices). We provide their algebraic structure of pre-Lie-Rinehart algebra, Hopf algebroid, and Hopf algebra, apply them in numerical analysis, and generalise to the aromatic context the Hopf embedding from multi-indices to the BCK Hopf algebra.