This is a real kick in the pants, for better or for worse. When you smell it, you get a powerful burst of raspberry followed immediately by a strong grassy aroma, as if someone smashed a raspberry against your nose and then pushed you face-first into a pile of lawn clippings. In the taste, the grassy element is again prominent. The raspberry dimension of the smell and taste is wonderful, but the grass dimension is a bit too prominent for my tastes. I can drink a little of it neat, but just as I'm enjoying the raspberry, the grass comes in and pushes it out. I have found, however, that it is a magical reagent for creating two-ingredient "cocktails". I've mixed it with whiskey, rum, liqueurs, etc. In such mixes, the raspberry aroma remains but the grassy part is more subdued (which is fine by me), and the result is often a new angle on the flavor of whatever I mixed with it, modifying but not overwhelming the other taste. All in all it's worth a try.