Graytail, whats your carnivals' smell, taste and effect?
Ah, since I am currently firmly in its embrace, I can answer that.
Back when I took my first samples, I described the aroma as raspberry diesel and that still holds pretty true. It's a fairly typical scent of fuelly lemon, but it has a soft edge to it with a vanilla sort of exhale, and the citrus has some woodsy taste that softens it to something like raspberry. When I open the moist jar now, in my very dry climate, I get a full pungent blast of ... hm ... buttery caramel hay ... ? Maybe I'm too loaded ...
The buzz is simply amazing to an adrenaline junkie like myself.
It's super buzzy. I mean, really really buzzy.
It smokes like it's been lightly dusted with speed.
It's not what I would call sensual - not a strain I'd smoke listening to music, or for a long walk in the woods. I get fidgety when I'm smoking Carnival, and I go look for something to putter around with. And the stuff will kick your ass - very potent - one hit is impossible to dismiss. I loaded a bat, took the first hit, passed it to a fellow lifelong smoker. He finished it, I reloaded, he took the first hit and passed it back, and that was all he was good for - had to smoke by myself after that.
It's silly strong.