Hello, I'm a pipe smoking guy who mostly enjoys virtually all type off pipe tobacco, but my favorite genres being English/Balkan, VAPer & DFK heavy flakes (MBHH Old Dark Fired is a big favorite for example)
I have a grand mission to revive the cultural value & respect off tobacco as a sophisticated connoiseurs delight and not a cheap, filthy drug.
We live in a world where actual real people beleive that the beatiful tobacco leaf somehow smells and tastes like ash, and something people only do to receive the drug effect from the nicotine. This criminal misconception must be stopped, and my plan to counter such myths is to simply offer people high quality tobacco products whenever I can.
On future social gatherings in my home I plan on having a jar off tobacco along with some clay pipes (cigars and snuff aswell) on the table for everyone to enjoy.
The question is what tobacco I should use. My target audience is occassional smokers and non-smokers. By my experience this group likes VAPers and Latakia blends far more than one would expect, but they generally dislike DFK blends & cigars. The smooth nature off Cyprian Latakia is well appreciated, and so are the wine-tasting notes & fermented fruit taste off perique, and the sweet citrus notes off Virginia. They are surprised, sometimes nearly shocked, that just tobacco can taste this good and that what they just tried taking a puff off wasn't heavily flavoured. This, my friends, is the reaction I wish to create with every man and woman on this earth. I wish to bless everyone with the privelige to enjoy tobacco. I sometimes even dream off converting hard-line anti-tobacco fascists, although I admit that this part off my plan is bordering on delusional. At least I can make it so that they feel that they are missing out on something great.
I wish the blend in question to fulfill these requirements:
Non-aromatic: Semi-aromatic is fine, but remember, I'm trying to sell tobacco as a flavour, not vanilla or cherry in the form off smoke.
Slow, easy burn: People tend to be good at following the "don't puff too hard or often" instruction, so I'm not worried about bite as much as I am about the pipe constantly going out. I can do the packing and charring lights for people, but once it's going it needs to be able to keep going without too much attention payed to it.
Good room-note: This is perhaps the most important factor and hard to achieve without going aromatic. I wish for it to be inoffensive, warm & pleasant, as far away as possible from the sharp, harsh smell off cigarette tobacco (it will inevitably have similarities, off course)
Low nicotine: I don't want to make occassional/non-smokers' heads spin.
I realize my demands are hard to fulfill in one sacred blend, but that makes for a good discussion.
I live in Sweden btw, so there are many american brands I can't easily acquire. They should still be mentioned in the interest off the discussion and lurkers.
I have a grand mission to revive the cultural value & respect off tobacco as a sophisticated connoiseurs delight and not a cheap, filthy drug.
We live in a world where actual real people beleive that the beatiful tobacco leaf somehow smells and tastes like ash, and something people only do to receive the drug effect from the nicotine. This criminal misconception must be stopped, and my plan to counter such myths is to simply offer people high quality tobacco products whenever I can.
On future social gatherings in my home I plan on having a jar off tobacco along with some clay pipes (cigars and snuff aswell) on the table for everyone to enjoy.
The question is what tobacco I should use. My target audience is occassional smokers and non-smokers. By my experience this group likes VAPers and Latakia blends far more than one would expect, but they generally dislike DFK blends & cigars. The smooth nature off Cyprian Latakia is well appreciated, and so are the wine-tasting notes & fermented fruit taste off perique, and the sweet citrus notes off Virginia. They are surprised, sometimes nearly shocked, that just tobacco can taste this good and that what they just tried taking a puff off wasn't heavily flavoured. This, my friends, is the reaction I wish to create with every man and woman on this earth. I wish to bless everyone with the privelige to enjoy tobacco. I sometimes even dream off converting hard-line anti-tobacco fascists, although I admit that this part off my plan is bordering on delusional. At least I can make it so that they feel that they are missing out on something great.
I wish the blend in question to fulfill these requirements:
Non-aromatic: Semi-aromatic is fine, but remember, I'm trying to sell tobacco as a flavour, not vanilla or cherry in the form off smoke.
Slow, easy burn: People tend to be good at following the "don't puff too hard or often" instruction, so I'm not worried about bite as much as I am about the pipe constantly going out. I can do the packing and charring lights for people, but once it's going it needs to be able to keep going without too much attention payed to it.
Good room-note: This is perhaps the most important factor and hard to achieve without going aromatic. I wish for it to be inoffensive, warm & pleasant, as far away as possible from the sharp, harsh smell off cigarette tobacco (it will inevitably have similarities, off course)
Low nicotine: I don't want to make occassional/non-smokers' heads spin.
I realize my demands are hard to fulfill in one sacred blend, but that makes for a good discussion.
I live in Sweden btw, so there are many american brands I can't easily acquire. They should still be mentioned in the interest off the discussion and lurkers.
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