I'm 3 months along this journey (and enjoying every damn bowl full), and something's changed. I've been chasing this aroma from my memory. Captain Black blends have come the closest so far. Since there's an aroma I'm after, I've been focusing on aromatics. Thing is, thus far, I don't taste any of the things I've read in the descriptions, and I smoke outside, so room note is irrelevant. At least my hoodie and fingers smell amazing.
While back I tried some Dunhill 965 in one of my (then) 3 pipes, and all I tasted was like "phew, that's a damn cigarette."
A month or so passed, and I've got a couple more pipes...enough to devote a cob and a Dr G to aromatics, and an older one to (future) non-aromatics.
Went back to the 965 in a pipe I haven't used in a few weeks, and damn. I got flavor, not just smoke. Not just char. It was smoky, but not yuck.
Any ideas why it's so palatable now, as opposed to then? I was thinking maybe it was the pipe not being used w/ aromatics (left alone for a couple weeks)?
For what its worth, I'm disillusioned by the aromatics now, and interested in broadening out into other tobaccos. Frog Morton is on deck..
Thanks.
While back I tried some Dunhill 965 in one of my (then) 3 pipes, and all I tasted was like "phew, that's a damn cigarette."
A month or so passed, and I've got a couple more pipes...enough to devote a cob and a Dr G to aromatics, and an older one to (future) non-aromatics.
Went back to the 965 in a pipe I haven't used in a few weeks, and damn. I got flavor, not just smoke. Not just char. It was smoky, but not yuck.
Any ideas why it's so palatable now, as opposed to then? I was thinking maybe it was the pipe not being used w/ aromatics (left alone for a couple weeks)?
For what its worth, I'm disillusioned by the aromatics now, and interested in broadening out into other tobaccos. Frog Morton is on deck..
Thanks.