Everything tastes and smells like licorice. My tongue also simultaneously burns and is numb.
This stuff's hard-core compared to absinthe in terms of packing flavor in an ouzo sledgehammer to the face vs an absinthe uppercut.
Edit: yes I drank it straight. And I'm also comparing it to absinthe straight.
Yep wormwood gives it a bitter twist to temper down the other herbs.
I also made a tincture of wormwood and destroyed my sense of bitterness.