"Hm." He doesn't seem to have too much of an opinion there, but such talk is something he's only been exposed to by being around other people.

Tau smiles faintly as he starts going through the ingredients he has, selecting carefully preserved leaf from a cloth wallet of sorts. He drops it into the mortar. "Of course. True, some of them do smell pretty bad once you crush them, but if it actually tasted or smelled good wouldn't it be more suspect?"

He starts to apply the pestle to grind the leaf against stone, but at least this one doesn't give off such a sharp, gut-churning scent. "Eh, I know my way around plants is all."