You either have delicious deodorant, or you've been eating very bad Turkish Delight.

In the same way that blueberries taste like chicken and flan tastes like gasoline.

Actually, some nice wines, particularly Rieslings, do have a whiff of petrol/gasoline about them.

Bad ones, yes. Unfortunately most of us like to cheat tourists. (Actually, each other too) Buy from specialized shops who sells their own products. There are so many types and flavors, you would find the one you like.

I loved them, so I bought my family boxes of them last Christmas. They complained that the turkish delight tasted like flowers/perfume -- now that's all I can taste, and I don't get it often anymore.

I tried it as a child and it tasted like how I imagine pot pourri would taste. Really not my thing.

If you want a sweet Middle Eastern food, I'd definitely suggest baklava. The worst that'll happen there is a bit of coconut. (Or... a swift and painful death, if you're allergic to nuts.)

One common flavoring is rose-water, which yes, comes from roses, and smells like them.

Then again, it's delicious, and nothing much stranger than smelling like strawberry etc.

It's just a matter of taste. If Americans can adapt to all the asian/l.american etc food they eat, they can adapt to turkish delights in a week or so of eating.

I find them pretty tasteless, it is the powdered sugar that gives them taste.

This will sound strange, but try taking a Turkish Delight and dipping it in some water. It will remove the powered sugar, and you'll get to taste what the Turkish Delight itself tastes like (very little).

>I find them pretty tasteless, it is the powdered sugar that gives them taste.

Actually there are tons of flavorings, like rose-water, mastic, dates, cinnamon, anise and co. Often combined.

And you can get them without powered sugar -- they're still as sweet.

(Unless one buys bad mass market imitations, where it would be some chemicals to make it stable + sugar + some cheap artificial flavor).