very peaty and smoky on the smell. taste is immediately spicy, gets even hard to tell the other tastes besides the bitter note. on the bitter, very complex, i'd say medicinal, something like a fennel syrup. my gf got earthy on the taste. drank it at a nice fancy bar and the bartender was surprised i ordered it, apparently it's not very popular. he accidentally spilt some of it on me so he gave me two doses as an apology, which was great.