I hated Bob's Chocolate Flake for many years, I think it's because when I first started smoking a pipe I was in love with English blends but I also was very concerned about the aroma my pipe was putting off, so I was determined to find a crossover blend and BCF kept being referred. When I tried it for the first time it tasted like someone sprayed it down with perfume and it just didn't seem to go well with the cocoa flavoring, that and I couldn't taste the Latakia at all. Now that I'm more experienced I decided to revisit it and now I absolutely love it! I definitely wouldn't recommend it to a newer smoker cause of the subtleties but I have recently fell in love with all of Gawith, Hoggarth & Co's blends, the tobacco's they use is unparalleled in today's market.