For some inexplicable reason, the word heady is not only the one that first
comes to mind, but also the one that stays there and tells me it's the right word.
Yet for some reason it seems wrong, it has a "nobody else knows this word"
ring to it. But ring or not, it's the right word. Dictionary.com
tells us that heady means:
1.and my reference here is most certainly to times that seem to exhilarate. And of course, it's not only me, running a Google search on "heady times" brings up 50,000 hits, which suggests that many other people, though referring to a very wide range of topics that merit that adjective, know and use it.
a. Intoxicating or stupefying: heady liqueur.
b. Tending to upset the mind or the balance of senses: standing on a heady outcrop of rock.
c. Serving to exhilirate: the heady news of triumph.