What does chocolate taste like?

Believe it or not, I actually dreamed this question last night and was trying to answer it in my sleep.

This might sound like an odd question, because most of us already know what chocolate tastes like. For the purposes of this question, though, try to answer this question as though you are describing it to a person who has never tasted chocolate before.

One of my cousins was allergic to chocolate when she was a baby, so she never remembers tasting it until she was an adult. She’s no longer allergic to it, but she doesn’t like it. She grew up eating carob instead.

Imagine describing the flavor of chocolate to a person who’s never eaten it, maybe they’re from a country where chocolate isn’t a “thing” or maybe they’re a space alien.

Be poetic and describe the taste of chocolate.