I also find it to somehow have a sort of "phenethylamine-like" character. In my last trip with it I had a wonderful time riding my bike with headphones on. It isn't as stimulating, in my opinion, as the other lysergamides, but the headspace isn't as manic as, for example, LSD, so I find it perfect for physical activity. I was more functional that I would have been on a similar dose of LSD-25/ALD-52. But I think you already went hiking on your trial with it ? So you probably know that already
I find it reminiscent of the PEA psychedelics in that it has a strong emotional component, I feel like the headspace revolves much more around earthly feelings than the cosmic/spiritual edge other lysergamides have - for me anyway. In that sense it is incredible for deep conversations, but also writing I found. I guess it would also be awesome for playing music, as the mental trip is more centered than other psychedelics but the sensory distortion is quite pronounced, so I could see that working pretty well but I haven't tried that with it yet.
The only aspects of it that has not left me completely satisfied are CEV, which I never get much with it, and the music enhancement. I mean I still get it, but it sort of like an exaggerated cannabis-like music appreciation, in the sense that it is more of an amplification of details in music. With LSD and AL-LAD, sometimes I "Become" the music, or get pretty euphoric from the music, transported to different places with it and so on. With ETH-LAD I haven't got that, but maybe it has something to do with the less far-out headspace? Maybe at higher doses it would be present. And since the sensual psychedelia with this one is so present, I guess it would be otherworldly. But I haven't pushed the dose yet, I've only taken it at 50 ug and 100 ug.
All in all I find it pretty similar to LSD in almost all aspects, but with quite different visuals (In fact, pretty unique visuals. I have gotten a consistent "Style" of visuals with ETH-LAD which I find kind of interesting. Pretty glittery and patterned), a much more "earthy" and less "cosmic" headspace, and a little bit more tilted towards sensual psychedelia in contrast to mental psychedelia.
I think in this particular period of my life I appreciate much more the trips that confront me with my inner emotional world than the trips that have me questioning the fundamental nature of the universe, so in that sense ETH-LAD has been an incredible finding.