If it is pure, the taste isn’t fantastic but doesn’t taste horrible. The pure stuff is white to off-white crystals but may be more granular depending on how it was handled. The pure stuff tastes like used corn oil, tortillas, and a bit of plasticey chemical bitterness like a tiny bit of brake fluid.

Your method of intake may be your issue. The vape pens are convenient but it is harder to dose properly and it is suspended in a carrier fluid that doesn’t taste great, you can get a proper hit by just using a slow and steady lung inhale until you can’t. Smoking it with weed is inefficient and not worth doing. The best way is to use a hash pipe with steel wool in it and vaporise it, you just keep inhaling until you can’t or the vapor stops. It smokes like crack or meth, not nicotine or weed.

Remember, you can’t really have too big of a hit, so just fucking send it man.

All the same, the trick to DMT is letting it take you. If you fight it, you won’t have as good a time. It is unsettling how it takes you, but once you learn how to let go, things are brilliant.