Also, an aro depends most often on the chemical flavoring that has been added and the tobacco just mainly holds that flavor.
I was thinking about this in parallel to:
1. Soft drinks versus old style ginger beer (for example)
2. Flavored coffee
3. Barbecue-flavored mayonnaise and products of that ilk
4. That fake butter stuff on popcorn
5. The production of pop music
Our society is manic for authenticity,
although perhaps not the real kind, because we sense that there is a disconnect between what we are told is the truth and what seems to be.
In particular, there is a lingering sense that the consensual hallucination in which we participate through socializing acts more to conceal than reveal.
That being said, I started with aromatics and can still see the appeal. My experiences with aromatics
after that point however were not really inspiring, mainly Lane
1Q which seemed like the equivalent of diet orange-flavored caffeine free sugar free soda, to me. But, that was mostly because of how goopy it was. These soda pop aromatics are not the whole of the genre.
For example, there is that tasty looking orange stuff that ChasingEmbers keeps posting about.
Technically, it is said that
Royal Yacht is an aromatic, and it is the most supreme of tobaccos. Lakelands might be aromatics, and many of those are quite good, if one can avoid the worst of the soapiness. And of course,
Prince Albert is lightly aromatic, with the chocolate/fruit/whisky/uranium flavor bringing out the underlying nuttiness in the the backyard Burley they make it with.
I suppose it is important to me to keep an open mind. The real difficulty there is that I like low-sugar tobaccos because they are less acidic and I get more flavor. Might be just how I'm wired.
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