Re: what is the taste of cyanide?

Hello dear anonymous,

As I have been working a lot with something called mitochondria and that 
one thing one often does with these organelles (parts within a cell) is 
to treat them mith cyanide to block certain processes, I can alas tell 
you the answer. Obviously I never got a strong dose, or I would not be 
here typing this answer to you. But please: don’t EVER “do this at home”. 
That I have tasted it was really an accident.

Taste is actually a combination of actual taste on your tongue and smell. 
Just think of how much taste you have left when you have a serious cold. 
The taste in the mouth was slightly bitter. Whether the slightness was 
due to the solution being very dilute and/or that I only got the tiniest 
drop in my mouth, I can’t tell. However the strongest “flavour” to 
cyanide is the smell: already at way below leathal amounts it smells 
strongly of almonds. Which is treacherously nice!

Kind regards,

Erik