For months I've been meaning to get myself some Dunhill My Mixture 965, but
funds were low and stocks of other tobaccos were high. Finally a couple of days
ago, I managed to get my hands on a tin. The title says it all. I mean, I had
heard it was good, but this is ridiculously good.
It is very different to what I thought it would taste like. I had heard latakia
was quite harsh, but when I smoked it it smooth and very sweet, but mildly so.
Like a light Indian incense.
At first I thought it might be the pipe I was smoking it from, it was a new
pipe, and the pipe had kind of a sweet pipe-shop smell to it before I lit it.
But I just had it in one of my other pipes, and oh my the taste was still
there.
I have mostly had VaPers and tried a couple of aromatics, so I haven't had
anything with latakia or orientals before (or brown cavendish for that matter),
so honestly I have no idea where the wonderful taste comes from.
The tin I bought was very tightly packed, almost a cake, and I had a bit of
trouble with both bowls getting them properly lit, so they ended up burning a
little hot in the beginning (no toungue bite, just not a whole lot of taste),
but once I had a good ember and the ember cooled a bit, what a taste! Getting
better with every puff all the way to the bottom, saving the best for last.
I feel like I'm having a bit of an inverted experience.. mildly sweet incense
instead of harsh, the bottom "goop" delicious and remarkably better than the
top, etc.
I am curious, what are your impressions of My Mixture 965? Is this an experience
you can recognize? Does it also resemble incense to you? Where does that taste
come from? Is it the latakia, or the orientals, or is that a unique flavour of
the Dunhill My Mixture 965, or is it just my palate that is acting weird?
funds were low and stocks of other tobaccos were high. Finally a couple of days
ago, I managed to get my hands on a tin. The title says it all. I mean, I had
heard it was good, but this is ridiculously good.
It is very different to what I thought it would taste like. I had heard latakia
was quite harsh, but when I smoked it it smooth and very sweet, but mildly so.
Like a light Indian incense.
At first I thought it might be the pipe I was smoking it from, it was a new
pipe, and the pipe had kind of a sweet pipe-shop smell to it before I lit it.
But I just had it in one of my other pipes, and oh my the taste was still
there.
I have mostly had VaPers and tried a couple of aromatics, so I haven't had
anything with latakia or orientals before (or brown cavendish for that matter),
so honestly I have no idea where the wonderful taste comes from.
The tin I bought was very tightly packed, almost a cake, and I had a bit of
trouble with both bowls getting them properly lit, so they ended up burning a
little hot in the beginning (no toungue bite, just not a whole lot of taste),
but once I had a good ember and the ember cooled a bit, what a taste! Getting
better with every puff all the way to the bottom, saving the best for last.
I feel like I'm having a bit of an inverted experience.. mildly sweet incense
instead of harsh, the bottom "goop" delicious and remarkably better than the
top, etc.
I am curious, what are your impressions of My Mixture 965? Is this an experience
you can recognize? Does it also resemble incense to you? Where does that taste
come from? Is it the latakia, or the orientals, or is that a unique flavour of
the Dunhill My Mixture 965, or is it just my palate that is acting weird?
It'll take me a while to get through the list, though.. baccy here is $30+ per tin, and I just splurged out on a new pipe and of course the wonderful MM 965 