It tastes like soap to me. I will remove large sprigs of it in dishes, but I can tolerate smaller amounts chopped up. Since I love Mexican and Thai food, I put up with it. When I cook Mexican dishes, I omit it. It's the only herb I can think of which I dislike. (I know several people who don't like tarragon, which I love.) I very much like, however, coriander seed ground up. It's used extensively in Indian cooking. It's flavor is nothing like the leaves. I had some chocolate which had ground coriander seed in it, and it was delicious, too.
I once stayed at an Airbnb in Bogota, Colombia. There was a vase of fresh flowers in my room which smelled powerfully like cilantro. I told my landlady that the flowers were very pretty but that I couldn't stand their smell. I explained that they smelled like cilantro, which I hated. She mentioned that her husband also hated cilantro. A couple of minutes later, her husband appeared. I held out the flowers to him and asked him what they smelled like. He made a face and screamed "cilantro!".
