Blech!
I've used toothpaste with activated charcoal.  I know what clove tastes like and have even used pure clove oil to help with a toothache, so the taste isn't unfamiliar to me.  But for whatever reason, the combination of the two in this toothpaste was the most awful thing I've ever tasted!  The only reason I can give it two stars rather than one is because the charcoal did what it was supposed to and scrubbed up my teeth.  Even if the foam did look like I'd been bobbing for apples in the local sewage treatment plant.  However, I can get the same kind of tooth cleaning from charcoal toothpastes which taste much, MUCH better. (Actually, I'll get a better tooth and mouth cleaning with a toothpaste I want to use for more than five seconds, especially when I don't want to gag when I brush my tongue.)  I'll donate the other two tubes I've got - maybe somebody else will enjoy them - but the rest of the first tube will be going in the trash, as much as it pains me to waste stuff.  Because thanks, but no thanks - yuck!
Rating: 2 stars