Soap Taste?

I've never had Hyde Park but Rum Flake is a "Lakeland" blend. Hyde Park may be as well I just have never tried it.
The safe way to go about this would be to stay away from any of the Gawith brothers blends. That being said Chocolate Flake has very little of it, and is great. The Brown Flake and Full Virginia Flake are also non Lakeland blends that Gawith makes.
I would try and look up the blend or find it on a tobacco reviews type of site and see if it's listed as a Lakeland. The reviewers most defiantly will let you know.

Many Lakeland blends are topped with tonquin essence.This is what gives that flavor. I can't speak as to Hyde Park, since I've not tried it. G&H seems to use it more in their blends than SG does.

I wouldn't bother with looking at review sites; SG tells you what blends have tonquin flavoring. Sam Gawith

I was not one of the kids who ate ons, paste, and soap, so sorry, I don't have a taste reference to eating (or smoking) soap.

I've steered clear of Gawith and Lakeland blends. I'm not an aromatic smoker mostly anyway, and though I smoke

a few aros as a change-up, I like the ones that still have a dominant tobacco flavor. The Lakeland blends are also

the epicenter for all the worry about ghosting pipes and designating pipes to avoid experiencing ghosting. This is

such a great time, a golden age, for the variety of blends, it is a shame to have pipes pigeon-holed for only one blend.

I suspect if folks smoke Lakeland blends early in their pipe smoking, they might retain good associations (in some

cases), and have nostalgia for that soapy flavor. For others with long experience with tobacco flavor itself, I do not

think this works well.

Lakeland is most definitely an acquired taste. I have a small amount of GH brown scented and Bosun. A change of pace smoke every great once and a while. I do have a cob that is set aside for them though because they are a complete ecto containment center for the gheist.

"Many Lakeland blends are topped with tonquin essence.This is what gives that flavor."
They use many, many more flavorings than just Tonka beans.

"I was not one of the kids who ate ons, paste, and soap, so sorry, I don't have a taste reference to eating (or smoking) soap. "
Then I guess that you have also never tried Mixture 79, eh?

I was not one of the kids who ate ons, paste, and soap, so sorry, I don't have a taste reference to eating (or smoking) soap.

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As memory serves me I don’t believe I ever ate soap as a child either, but that’s not to say I wouldn’t have a pretty good grasp on what soap might possibly taste like. After all, the olfactory and taste senses are tightly intertwined as to how one can taste various things. I once tried Ennerdale Flake out of mere curiosity and thought I was going to vomit from the sickening soapy/cheap flowery perfume taste.
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The safe way to go about this would be to stay away from any of the Gawith brothers blends.
... That being said Chocolate Flake has very little of it, and is great

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Yikes, that would be somewhat poor advice in my opinion! Gawith might very well be associated with Lakeland blends, but to avoid them all is foolish in my opinion. Not all Gawith blends contain tonquin essence, or whatever that disgusting soapy crap is. Chocolate Flake contains no tonquin essence to my knowledge (which I smoke and enjoy), nor does Squadron Leader, etc., and quite a few of their other blends. As the old adage goes: Don’t throw away the baby with the bath water.

I just ordered after advice here Samuel Gawith`s Full Virginia Flake, does it contain tonquin aswell? It says :
pure pressed Virginias. Created in the heart of Lakeland,

Samuel Gawith`s Full Virginia Flake, does it contain tonquin as well?

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No ... you're safe with that one.
SG Chocolate Flake is a good one as well ... Va/Bur with a pinch of Latakia and Cocoa