Things I Will Do When Dunhill Tobaccos End
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We've been on a long journey here, since I said I don't wear pants. I think we can all declare ourselves Shaolin
#7 - done. #5 - perilously close if I over-indulge in news programming.
You could also move to Denver or Seattle and research a custom blend called My Mixture 420...
It smells nothing like tobacco, and they make way more money selling this whore bath and leather wallets than they do pipe tobacco.
Before I started smoking pipes, I only knew Dunhill to sell this sort of stuff, high end leather fashion accessories. I wouldn't have had any clue that Dunhill was involved with pipes, if it weren't for this forum.
Regardless, losing Dunhill blends is a non issue except for those hanging on the the faded sheen of their marque.
We have numerous blends as good or better than any Dunhill labelled blend, Elizabethan Blend perhaps excepted. Many made right here in the USA.
I'd urge folks to make the switch now.
If you don't you'll be lamenting something that died long ago.
We have numerous blends as good or better than any Dunhill labelled blend, Elizabethan Blend perhaps excepted. Many made right here in the USA.
I'd urge folks to make the switch now.
If you don't you'll be lamenting something that died long ago.
Desperate times call for desperate measures, and drinking Mad Dog 20/20 is pretty desperate.
If Dunhill tobacco's do disappear I will be sad, but not sad enough to drink that crap. LOL
If Dunhill tobacco's do disappear I will be sad, but not sad enough to drink that crap. LOL
I hope that, as woodsroad and sablebrush have reminded us, that someone is going to snatch up and license the blends. Because Mr. Othman is right... there is no substitute for the 'Yacht.
weeps profoundly
weeps profoundly
Me too.
I threw out my one and only tin last summer, only to find it sitting at the curb after the trash truck left.
Then I took it to the monthly Hazardous Waste Pickup Day at the township building, but they refused to take it and promptly called the EPA. I left as the guys in Tyvek jumpsuits were pulling up. So I put the tin in the basement, and although I'm happy to say that house has been mouse-free ever since, and the weeds around the house have died, I've had to replace the hot water heater twice now and the cable is always on the fritz.
I'm thinking that the DOD could weaponize this stuff and drop a few hundred dozen tins on North Korea.
My concern is not with the name "Dunhill". I don't intend to own one of their belts, or their cologne, or their overpriced cigarettes or their pipes for that matter. Obviously somebody is blending these tobaccos today and it ain't Old Alfred. I don't care what "name" the blender sticks on it, I don't want to lose Nightcap, EMP, Royal Yacht, etc... Call it Nightcrap, ESP, Royal Twat, I really don't care. Just keep the blends available for the smokers who enjoy them. I think that is what most fans of these blends are looking for - an assurance that the blender is still going to make them or they will pass the recipes on to another blender who will. Dunhill as a brand can jump in a lake of their own perfume for all I care. :
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Twenty years down the road...
future person 1... "look I found this vintage ad for that cologne company. It says they used to make pipe stuff."
future person 2... "Yeh, I think they made pipes, but they were more famous for their cigarettes."
And, they would be 100% true. Next time you see someone with a pack of Dunhill cigarettes ask them if they know anything about Dunhill pipes. Pipes will merely be an asterisk in the story of Dunhill.
future person 1... "look I found this vintage ad for that cologne company. It says they used to make pipe stuff."
future person 2... "Yeh, I think they made pipes, but they were more famous for their cigarettes."
And, they would be 100% true. Next time you see someone with a pack of Dunhill cigarettes ask them if they know anything about Dunhill pipes. Pipes will merely be an asterisk in the story of Dunhill.
loborx, the Dunhill blends are manufactured by STG. Depending on the verbiage of their contract with BAT, I would find it very likely that if Dunhill pulls the plug on pipe tobacco, that STG will continue to manufacture these blends, or something very, very similar. The FDA Deeming regulations, as they now stand, allow for packaging changes (i.e. rebranding) as long as the product remains the same. So the pre-2007 Dunhill blends should remain in production, provided STG thinks that they will be profitable.
Lets encourage the owner of the recipes of the tobaccos formerly known as Dunhill to rename them after CS Lewis books.
Nightcap could become The White Witch, Morning Early Morning could become Aslan's Dream, Royal Yacht could become The Dawn Treader. Tolkien always gets all the pipe smoking street creds. But, Lewis was just as much a pipe smoker, plus he made better stories, IMO.
Edit: drats, Woods already dumped the cold water on that idea.
Nightcap could become The White Witch, Morning Early Morning could become Aslan's Dream, Royal Yacht could become The Dawn Treader. Tolkien always gets all the pipe smoking street creds. But, Lewis was just as much a pipe smoker, plus he made better stories, IMO.
Edit: drats, Woods already dumped the cold water on that idea.
warren and sable, those are clarifying posts and make things at least slightly clearer. I still think, in the way of corporate quarterly greed, the pipe tobacco portion of the cigarette business could still be sold off, perhaps with some modification of the name. I'm dubious a dormant line is going to eventually be more profitable than cash for an active one now. Even with a name change, once it was established that they had the former Dunhill blends, it would be valuable enough, and the Dunhill cigarette people would get a pleasing infusion of cash. Depends on ownership. If it is closely held in partnership or within a family, this might make some arbitrary sense to some one of the players. If it is publicly traded, I'd think the shareholders would want the money, now, yesterday.
woodsroad -- Royal Yacht = Camden ... I like it.
woodsroad -- Royal Yacht = Camden ... I like it.
Never having been to Jersey, I always thought of it as a place where Mafioso do their gardening.
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