About '05 when I first took up the pipe, some of the first tobaccos I grabbed on to were strong in Latakia, Lat Bombs as some call them. I was always on the lookout for English or Balkan blends folks who loved vitamin L recommended.
Over the last few months (after close to a year absence from anything tobacco related), I find my tastes morphing towards other types of blends. I've found a love for more subtle flavours like pure Virginias, or a very slight spiciness added by Perique. I'll put this to the fact that my sense of taste was significantly muted by a pack a day habit of cigs, basically I needed powerful flavours (like Latakia) to enjoy it at all. I now even enjoy some borderline aromatics like Erinmore Flake and PS Luxury Twist Flake and their slight fruit flavours, something I didn't sense previously.
Now, there are some blends I love that supposedly still contain Latakia, like BCF, but I just do not taste it "out front", I guess just a skillfully manufactured blend where it's there as part of the overall experience. If you look back at the pic I posted of my Vegas TAD, only one blend has Latakia, and that's Old Dublin, a blend that by reviews has a less than medium amount of that leaf. Maybe I'll like it, maybe it'll be just a blend for outdoors on a cool clear fall day, maybe it'll sit jarred for a few years.
So I ask, has anyone else found this progression of tastes?
Over the last few months (after close to a year absence from anything tobacco related), I find my tastes morphing towards other types of blends. I've found a love for more subtle flavours like pure Virginias, or a very slight spiciness added by Perique. I'll put this to the fact that my sense of taste was significantly muted by a pack a day habit of cigs, basically I needed powerful flavours (like Latakia) to enjoy it at all. I now even enjoy some borderline aromatics like Erinmore Flake and PS Luxury Twist Flake and their slight fruit flavours, something I didn't sense previously.
Now, there are some blends I love that supposedly still contain Latakia, like BCF, but I just do not taste it "out front", I guess just a skillfully manufactured blend where it's there as part of the overall experience. If you look back at the pic I posted of my Vegas TAD, only one blend has Latakia, and that's Old Dublin, a blend that by reviews has a less than medium amount of that leaf. Maybe I'll like it, maybe it'll be just a blend for outdoors on a cool clear fall day, maybe it'll sit jarred for a few years.
So I ask, has anyone else found this progression of tastes?
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