I started out smoking mainly aros, but recently I've been on a straight burley kick. This morning I woke up and decided I want some EMP, the tin note has always been overwhelming to me but today it smells different. Guess I'm growing up guys!!!!!
LOL, I remember my first tin of EMP. I cracked it and recoiled in horror, but being out of tobacco I loaded up a bowl and proceeded to explain to my wife how it had an interesting flavour profile, reminiscent (to me) of chewing on a sweaty piece of saddle leather that's been charred to a crisp...but it wasn't my cup of tea.This morning I woke up and decided I want some EMP, the tin note has always been overwhelming to me but today it smells different.
I have to admit that experiences like this do cause a bit of concern when I look over my cellar. I do have quite a bit of variety -- lots of English/Balkan and also lots of Virginia and Virginia/cavendish -- but it would definitely be disappointing to discover that a one-time favorite, of which I have many tins, might begin to lose its charm for me.I can no longer enjoy anything with Latakia or Orientals and now I am a Va and Vaper flake lover.
I have to say, though, that I've just read two books by/about pipe smokers (Compton Mackenzie and Raymond Chandler) and both noted that they had once smoked primarily latakia mixtures and then, later in life, lost their taste for them and switched over to Virginias.I think drastic changes in likes/dislikes, such as Harris' here, are more the exception, not the norm.