I've had great days and serious this is a terrible pain in the ... days since I started this. My taste buds are all over the place, what tastes like nirvana today will quite likely taste like dust or nothing tomorrow at this point. I had issues with taste related to a medical condition before I stopped smoking anyhow, and having quit before without vaping I did expect the things-taste-weird effect. I've got some bottles of liquid that I ordered at the very start that could steep until the cows come home and still not taste very good to me, I'm pretty sure. But I can't really name one flavor that tastes any worse than my best Newport ever did. When I quit with lozenges I missed throat hit, the "it's break" brain signal and the hand-mouth thing, but I never missed the taste or the smell. Now I have the nic, the things I did like about smoking and the taste of swedish fish or vanilla beans or whatever. Yay!