I think it's very pleasant, but I always associate effects very much with appearance and smell - even the terrible cat pee aroma of mephedrone gets me giddy. Actually that is a very persistent smell and it can hang around in a piece of cloth/textile for quite a while. Whenever I fondle and smell that cloth I feel very peaceful safe and enamored. I treasure a bit of stuff laying around giving off a hint of flephedrone smell, think same category as safety blanket?
To me the smell of DMT gives off a very sacramental awe-inspiring vibe from association.
I wonder how DMT can have a smell comparable to that of AMT since everyone seems to think AMT smells like faeces?
What's also weird, when there are still petrol derivates in your product that need to dry out they can smell very similar to DMT. I find it hard to imagine the actual pure DMT smell when it's polluted with the smell of certain solvents.
The aroma is very elusive in a way and I wonder if it is not really open to suggestion (comes close to association..). It's mysterious is what it is.
Often the characteristic smell of a compound is in some weird way related to other properties (general smoothness etc). Smelling is also business of the nerves, is that the reason perhaps?