Sticky and crunchy

I bought this based on all the positive reviews, but I found it to be very sticky and left my hair super crunchy and straw-like. I have thick hair with large curls, ymmv with tighter curls/thinner hair?

Pros:
It smells very nice...

Cons:
- Sticky
- Crunchy
- Rather than define my curls, it weighed my hair down heavily.
- Throughout the day, any time I accidentally touched some of my hair I had to wash my hands to get the sticky off them

The directions had said to apply liberally so I thought maybe the problem was that I had used too much? However, trying smaller amounts (even just the tiniest amount I could get it to dispense), it was STILL sticky and crunchy, but with the added effect that most of my hair dried frizzy, since the smaller amount was not enough to apply to all my hair, so I just had frizzy sections and crunchy sections at random