Hi all from Lake Stevens Washington here. Just started smoking the pipe flast weekend. I have held an intrest in it for some time and always enjoyed the smell. I have never gotten into smoking cigs or cigars. Dont care for the taste. I bought an MM country gentleman and found some sutliff great outdoors and tabac noir at the local tobacco shop and decided to go with them cause thats all I regognized from the web. Needless to say so far im a bit dissapointed. I don't care for the taste or smell of either one of them. They both remind me too much of cigaretts. Is this just a normal thing for tobacco or am I just not smoking the right blend? I would like to find that tobacco that I have smelled in the past when being around a pipe and taste what all of you are tasting when you talk about it on these forums. I have been watching videos on filling ligjting amd sipping and I dont feel like tjat is the issue. No problems keeping it lit. I am barely sipping on it but it just tastes like cigaretts to me. Please advise me. Also I realize I am in washington and my choices are limited.