• A cold journey for the most part? It's bitter! (5)
• Acerbic
• Astringent
• Bad-smelling
• Biting
• Bitter
• Bitter in taste
• Bitter to the taste
• Bitter-smelling
• Bitter-tasting
• Bitter; biting
• Bitterly angry
• Bitterly pungent
• Caustic
• Deeply irritating
• Director's cry
• Exceedingly caustic
• Eye-stinging
• Foul-smelling
• Hard on the eyes and nose
• Hard on the nose
• Harsh to the taste
• Having a sharp taste
• Irritating
• Irritating to the nose
• Like a skunk's defense
• Like ammonia's scent
• Like burning plastic
• Like burning rubber
• Like D.C. air
• Like dogbane
• Like dogbane juice
• Like the smell of burning rubber
• Like thick smoke
• Metallic-tasting
• Nasty-smelling
• Nasty-tasting
• Nose-burning
• Not at all pleasant-tasting
• Offensive, in a way
• Pungent
• Pungent-smelling
• Pungent-tasting
• Sarcastic in speech
• Sharp
• Sharp on the tongue
• Sharp or bitter
• Sharp smelling
• Sharp to the taste
• Sharp-tasting
• Sharply stinging
• Sour
• Stinging
• Stinging to the taste
• Strong and pungent, as an odor
• Strong and sharp
• Tart
• Too pungent
• Too sharp on the buds
• Unpleasantly bitter
• Unpleasantly pungent
• Unpleasantly sharp
• Very bitter
• Very caustic