Rating: 9/23 N: Nice and rich with a spicy, roasty note that suggests chocolate and coffee. A clear step up from some of the off-brand coffee liquors, but not a massive leap. It smells sweet but not too sweet and crucially smells entirely natural. There's some funk going on here with vegetal notes from the rum, but there are some sulfur notes in here as well. I smell a bit of mineral that I suspect is the confectioner's sugar. P: OK, it tastes quite sweet, then some milk chocolate comes in, then in morphs into semi-sweet chocolate, then into coffee. Then, it doesn't become all that complex, but some spiciness comes out and the balance is maintained. The only real problem here is that the confectioner's sugar comes out and the coffee is still kind of mild. Aside from that, it's a rich and balanced palate. It's sweet, but not as sweet as some of the off-brand ones. I do get decent complexity out of it. The confectioner's sugar and high presence of chocolate relative to coffee are both problems, with the former making it seem lighter and cooler than it could otherwise have been. F: The confectioner's sugar chalkiness is strong and it lingers along with a slight unpleasant cola flavor. The chocolate and coffee hang out for a while as well, but these flaws really jump out because they become more pronounced and even are joined by a hint of an artificial note. Still, this is better than the generic brands, so I am torn between 9 and 10. Ultimately, it is too sweet with too much confectioner's sugar, so I think a 9 is most appropriate.