Unflavored Blends with Pleasing Room Note

[lordnantwich]

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Hi everyone, curious what options people like for non flavored blends with pleasing or even aromatic room notes? I like Peterson 965 but was wondering what other blends others would recommend?

 

[sandollars]

Orientals put off a pleasant aroma. I really like the aroma from Tabac Manil too.

 

[workman]

Hi everyone, curious what options people like for non flavored blends with pleasing or even aromatic room notes? I like Peterson 965 but was wondering what other blends others would recommend?

965 does not have a very pleasant room note to most people. Tastes vary of course.
Straight virginias smell nice. Va/pers less so, but they're not terrible.
Try Peterson Flake for a nice, sweet smell of tobacco.

 

[fireground_piper]

I like straight Virginia.

 

[MacMarty89]

I like straight Virginia.

I echo that sentiment.

 

[karam]

The Fribourg & Treyer Virginias seem to be reasonably tolerable to non-smokers, Latakia and DFK bombs seem to be the most offensive, yet my wife absolutely forbade smoking Warhorse Bar anywhere near her.

 

[ofafeather]

Maybe consider some lightly flavored blends, too. There are so many great smokes that add a bit of joy to the room note without compromising the tobacco experience.

Orlik Golden Sliced, Peterson University Flake, etc.

 

[TheWhale13]

Yeah, why not smoke some flavored blends if you are looking for a good room note? Just because they are more flavored than other blends doesn't mean that they are worse tasting.

 

[lordnantwich]

965 does not have a very pleasant room note to most people. Tastes vary of course.
Straight virginias smell nice. Va/pers less so, but they're not terrible.
Try Peterson Flake for a nice, sweet smell of tobacco.

Thank you. I will try Peterson flake

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Straight Virginias smells like home to me.

 

[jpmcwjr]

I pay no attention to room note. Don't see the relevance in the absence of significant others, or smoking outside.

 

[anotherbob]

tobacco smells great. Though surprisingly one of the ones that people often compliment the smell of is Key Largo by Gregory Pease (not including the L until he tells me what it stands for, could be Limba for all I know). Then Yorktown less surprisingly gets compliments too. But asking about best room note is like asking about best tasting pipe tobacco, depends on who you ask.

 

[lordnantwich]

I pay no attention to room note. Don't see the relevance in the absence of significant others, or smoking outside.

I would tend to agree. But you're reply contained the key words significant others, which in my case is why I was asking.

 

[mso489]

If you are looking for blends that won't offend onlookers (or on-sniffers more likely) but don't want some cloying flavoring that obscures the tobacco flavor, I would include in consideration some of the rum, bourbon, or brandy aromatics that are altogether tobacco forward but still have a room sweetener. GLP Barbary Coast with brandy behaves nicely this way, or Sir Walter Raleigh with its burley base, Virginia condiment, and flavoring with three liqueurs.

 

[kcghost]

Either of Six Pence or Stonehenge works for me.

 

[Servant King]

Pretty much any VA will give you that. These days I'm hitting Sutliff 507C VA Slices pretty hard, so that certainly comes to mind. I'll second @ofafeather and say that OGS and Peterson Univ. Flake are both winners in that department as well. I find C&D Eight State Burley to be a pretty pleasant offering, ditto Mac Baren Golden Extra.

Those are just a few. I'd wear my fingers down to the bone trying to type every blend that qualified. How the hell would I smoke my pipe then?

 

[hawky454]

I’ve gotten very nice compliments from Old Joe Krantz (which surprises me every time). Another one that I get enthusiastic compliments on is, SG Full VA Flake.

 

[makhorkasmoker]

Because I do not smoke indoors, i do not know a lot about room note, but I do think that the smell of burning tobacco depends a lot on how it is burning. Even an unscented and unflavored burley can smell really good when it is barely smouldering, with almost no visible smoke rising from the bowl. And even an aromatic can smell harsh when it's pushed to making big clouds of smoke. And when I smell someone else's pipe--almost always outdoors, nowadays--when it smells really good, it's not the aro smell, but the smell of a barely smouldering tobacco that's pleasing to me.

 

[f4phantomdriver]

I'm not really a virginia guy but C&D Elegant Series After Hours Flake gets good responses from my youngest son. When I was smoking Gawith Hoggarth Brown Flake A he said that it reminded him of Christmas time. When I smoke Prince Albert and Pegasus both my sons say it reminds them of "Dad".

 

[Briar Lee]

Every codger blend on the shelf was intentionally and deliberately formulated to smell good to pretty young women.

1962