Interesting. I don't eat garlic if I can help it because I can't stand the smell, so I don't know what it depends on but 2 Saturday nights ago we ate at a friends house and another friend brought a roasted garlic, which I took a tiny taste of, and it tasted sort of sweet. It smelled like garlic but tasted pretty good. If it had smelled like it tasted I would have eaten a bigger bite.