Taste skin of succulent date (5)
I believe the answer is:
tryst
'date' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'taste skin of succulent' is the wordplay.
'taste' becomes 'try' ('try' can be a synonym of 'taste').
'skin of' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters).
'succulent' with its middle removed is 'st'.
'try'+'st'='TRYST'
(Other definitions for tryst that I've seen before include "Romantic meeting" , "Lovers' assignation" , "Rendezvous - assignation" , "Romantic rendezvous (literary)" , "Romantic assignation" .)