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deithial

Starting to Get Obsessed
Feb 9, 2012
183
0
When I first started pipe smoking I pretty much puffed away aro's like so many others. Capt black was always hanging out of my shirt pocket. Later, I wanted to try something different, more refined, I went to a small tobacconist told him what i smoked and asked for his suggestion. What he sold me still haunts me to this day, and every once in a while I think about revisiting it after all these years. A tin of SG's Perfection.
At the time, I hated it, everything about it, thought I was smoking ground up cat turds. I have many English blends that I love but this one still gives me pause. It's been well over 10 years, and still, that dog on the tin scares me.
Someday, any one else have a tin fear?

 

msandoval858

Part of the Furniture Now
Jun 11, 2012
954
3
Austin, TX
There's a name for my tin fear. It's called Molto Dolche.
I know alot of guys on here love the stuff. Just not for me at all.

 

petes03

Lifer
Jun 23, 2013
6,212
10,654
The Hills of Tennessee
@rsuninv. Lol! This is one reason I love this site, it allows you to see just how different tastes are from one guy to the next! I personally love the tin note of HH Highland! To each his own!

 

erichbaumer

Part of the Furniture Now
Dec 4, 2012
738
5
Illinois
Or, there's the other problem. I liked my first English (a bulk B&M blend) plenty, but then I tried Nightcap and ruined it for myself.

Fortunately, I have found plenty of other blends suited to my tastes, but that first bulk is just too heavy and oily.

 

phred

Lifer
Dec 11, 2012
1,754
4
I dont' know that I'd go so far as to call it fear and loathing, but my first try at a codger burley was Sir Walter Raleigh - tasted and smelled like cigarettes, which I loathe, and the "mustache note" was definitely not wife-approved. Took me a while to get up the nerve to try Sugar Barrel (which was much, much better) and then Prince Albert (which was, startlingly, met with great approval by the spouse). Poor Sir Walter sits abandoned on the shelf, waiting for that day when I have nothing else left in the house to smoke... :lol:

 

layinpipe

Lifer
Feb 28, 2014
1,025
8
When i first started smoking a pipe, i was at my local b&m and smelled their bulk english blend which was heavy on the latakia. I thought it smelled like your clothes would after walking through a smoldering forest fire for days. I am the type of person though, that will try most anything once, so i did and as it goes with so many other blends the tin aroma has little to do with the flavors you get when smoking it. I now include black house, fmc, and a wonderful latakia based flake medallion blend by my local b&m in my rotation.
I will probably always remember that first campfire smell and how i thought i would NEVER enjoy such an atrocity, to now enjoying latakia quite a bit, although it is not my favorite/go to type of tobacco.
Moral of the story, don't knock it 'til you try it!!!

 

rmbittner

Lifer
Dec 12, 2012
2,759
1,995
There are two for me:
* Samuel Gawith's Firedance Flake. Dank, sweaty feet.
* GL Pease Haddo's Delight. A fine blend, but it's the only thing I've smoked that made me seriously ill from the nicotine. (My own fault: Smoked too much of it on an empty stomach.) I even ended up selling the pipe that I had used, because I couldn't bear to pick it up again.
That said, I actually enjoyed SG's Perfection. To my palate, it bears some similarity to Frog Morton on the Town, although it's a bit rougher around the edges.
Bob

 

aristokles

Can't Leave
Jan 18, 2011
399
0
SG Perfection got a review from me on tr.com as a rare One Star (rare for me). Flavored cross-overs do not do justice to either camp of preference in blends. They are terrible as an aromatic and horrible for Latakia. In other words, in my opinion, a waste of good tobacco in both cases. Sorry for rant.
That said, I do wish to one day try C&D Epiphany but I am very hesitant over flavoring concerns.

 

krizzose

Lifer
Feb 13, 2013
3,133
18,289
Michigan
Like Natibo, 1792 Flake terrifies me.
This is a bowl of 1792 Flake under a microscope:
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ghost

Lifer
May 17, 2012
2,001
4
The only blend that actually terrified me was when I first cracked a tin of Black House. The smell was so aggressive, I couldn't figure out if it would grow chest hair on me or cause it all to fall out. 8O
Having said that, it's actually one of my favourite blends of all time. (When lit, of course...)

 

robusthermit

Starting to Get Obsessed
Nov 9, 2012
135
1
The one that got me was mixture no. 79. It smells like an elderly woman's permed blue hair, and it tastes like soap.

 

jah76

Lifer
Jun 27, 2012
1,611
35
After tasting Hyde Park (which is topped with Dawn dish soap and Snuggles fabric softener) I am scared of all Lakelands.

 

unadoptedlamp

Part of the Furniture Now
Mar 19, 2014
742
1,368
Grousemoor? Man that stuff is good. It's the only aeromatic I'll touch. It doesn't even seem to be an aeromatic to me because it is so unique. I guess that's the love or hate it coming through with this blend. Every time I smoke a bowl, I'm astounded that it can taste so... different. I tried a couple over the years, usually something with cherry or vanilla, and have just given up. I like the natural flavours too much to explore aeromatics any further. The taste is always bland and the smell is quite typical. But grousemoor? I have a very soft spot for that one.
Any pouch with a sail on it usually sets my senses tingling in a bad way. It's a foreshadowing of sailing into a wretched storm of nauseous smells and steamy flavour that seems to go on longer than any gale ought to. Except skiff mixture. There's always an exception.

 

sean81

Starting to Get Obsessed
Jun 26, 2013
126
0
For me it was Peterson's Irish Whiskey. I was extremly excited when I got the tin. The smell, the feel, it was excellent. But after the first light, it smelled like rubbing alcohol and failed dreams.

 
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