As my cough finally begins to trail off, I've been able to get in more and more inhales that don't result in instant coughing fits. So now I'm getting a fuller inhale "experience" and finally getting to have a sense of things on the exhale.
The inhale is intense espresso with just a touch of mint. Throat hit isn't exactly overpowering, nothing hardcore, but definitely tangible. Since I'm still taking it easy on my throat, I'm taking nice, gentle inhalations, but even being gentle with it, I'm still seeing vapor and throat hit that show a lot of promise to be very solid, very nice.
The exhale is where I'm getting a lot more mint, and it's a very different mint flavor from either Shamrock or Cool Mist (which I've also been giving very gentle play to today). Where Shamrock incorporates a very definite York peppermint patty flavor, and Cool Mist is more of a spearmint hard candy, Twisted Java incorporates just a hint, I'd say no more than 5% of the total flavor, of strong peppermint. If I had to lay money on a guess here, I'd say that Twisted Java borrows a wee infusion of Kringle's Kurse.