I remember reading a book about garlic, which included a section on how the Japanese had developed a way of folding the minced garlic into a tiny piece of edible paper - rice paper- so that it could just be swallowed down. The idea was that if you don’t chew it, you won’t release the odor-creating compounds.
Hmm...interesting. I couldn’t make myself chew it so I chopped it into chunks and swallowed them like pills. I suppose cutting into it is like chewing. We haven’t noticed any odor with the tincture, but you have to brace yourself for the taste: vodka infused with garlic. Yikes!