Sala syrup is an artificial syrup made to taste like the Thai salak fruit also known as snake fruit because of its scaly skin, inside is a segmented creamy whitish fruit. When you smell the syrup straight from the bottle it is quite strong but mellows out when made into a drink. The sala flavor is unique and can be hard to describe, I think the syrup has a flavor more like a roll of pink bubble gum, my husband says the taste reminds him a little of jackfruit and others say it tastes like strawberry milk.