What Is The Most Repellent Blend?

[condorlover1]

Royal Yacht. It's just unpleasant. Balkan Rum Wiff or whatever its called by its Danish creators. Clan, Gold Schlock, the new iteration as opposed to the real stuff manufactured in the U.K circa 1970/1980s. Mellow Virginia by Benson & Hedges which now tastes like its found under Benches and Hedges since someone screwed with the formula. It seems S&G have avoided the temptation to mess with their many traditional blends although the introduction of certain flavored twists is cause for concern. Given time I am sure I could come up with a few more!

 

[logs]

Royal Yacht. It's just unpleasant. Balkan Rum Wiff or whatever its called by its Danish creators. Clan, Gold Schlock, the new iteration as opposed to the real stuff manufactured in the U.K circa 1970/1980s. Mellow Virginia by Benson & Hedges which now tastes like its found under Benches and Hedges since someone screwed with the formula. It seems S&G have avoided the temptation to mess with their many traditional blends although the introduction of certain flavored twists is cause for concern. Given time I am sure I could come up with a few more!

I've been waiting for someone to mention Royal Yak. That was the blend everyone used to bitch about years ago. Perhaps now that Dunhill is no more, the yacht has gotten a nostalgia upgrade. Never tried any Benson & Hedges blends... didn't even know they still made them. Not surprised to hear an oldie like that isn't what it used to be though.

 

[Saintwilliam]

I’m also in the autumn evening train here. Just was too sugar free candy for me...

 

[philobeddoe]

Holly’s Non Plus Ultra was indeed awful, just awful.

 

[snagstangl]

Granger- like i have said many times, its like sucking on a T-shirt collar when i was a kid. Great Outdoors tastes like the fake anise topping on Mixture 79 and nothing else. I can't handle either.

 

[rushx9]

It's a topic people fight over. Pease argues vinegar doesn't prevent tobacco mold, otherwise everyone would use it. Some argue the smell is a result of fermentation itself (which I say is preposterous because if that were true all aged VA blends would smell like that).

I've never read an proper explanation from the McNeils about the origin of their infamous ketchup, have you?

Not from the McNeils or Pease, but a believable origin story for the use of vinegar.

I once watched a clip on youtube of Mike McNeil ranting about how adding alcohol to tobacco ruins the leaf structure and ageability, that he had tried it several times and it never works, and that's why he came up with the idea of adding a stave cube to FMC. I find that interesting since rum, whiskey, cognac/brandy, and liquers are the most common toppings besides chocolate and vanilla, and because I've always heard that English purity laws limited flavorings to only things that could be dissolved in alcohol. That's the general explanation for the existence of perfumy Lakelands, anyway. So maybe vinegar was a flavor carrier/preservative alternative to alcohol that was allowed under English purity law.

 

[anotherbob]

Every drug store pouch blend except for Five Brothers which is wonderful and great. Every single cherry blend too. God cherry pipe tobacco is just terrible to me.

 

[mortonbriar]

After reading the updates I am reminded that Autumn Evening was indeed repellant. That's my one.

 

[londonbriar]

Without a shadow of a doubt, it's Condor. That old-lady-perfume taste is truly repellant, and it ghosts a briar like nothing else. The worst part about buying estate pipes is the exorcism that is sometimes necessary following the previous owner's mistreatment if they were a condor smoker.

Saying all of this...I do actually have a jar of Condor Long Cut in my collection. It is a decent quality flake that comes in a brown packet - doused in perfume (of course). For some reason I still like to have some on hand. I seem to crave a bowl of it perhaps once a year. It still tastes terrible. I'd better stop writing about it, or I'll be in danger of talking myself into a bowl...

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Every drug store pouch blend except for Five Brothers which is wonderful and great. Every single cherry blend too. God cherry pipe tobacco is just terrible to me.

Yes Sir, maybe only G&H Cherry being an exception, the Borkum Riff&Prince Albert cherries were quite repulsive

 

[mingc]

I've been working on my second ever bowl of GH Black Irish X. In general, don't think there's very good vocabulary to describe the taste and smell of pipe tobacco smoke. The best I can come up with here is used engine oil. It's not harsh or sweet. But there's something industrial about its taste and smell. I don't think I like it.

 

[BROBS]

Without a shadow of a doubt, it's Condor. That old-lady-perfume taste is truly repellant, and it ghosts a briar like nothing else. The worst part about buying estate pipes is the exorcism that is sometimes necessary following the previous owner's mistreatment if they were a condor smoker.

Saying all of this...I do actually have a jar of Condor Long Cut in my collection. It is a decent quality flake that comes in a brown packet - doused in perfume (of course). For some reason I still like to have some on hand. I seem to crave a bowl of it perhaps once a year. It still tastes terrible. I'd better stop writing about it, or I'll be in danger of talking myself into a bowl...

it's not perfumey at all compared to G&H stuff IMO.

 

[hauntedmyst]

Every drug store pouch blend except for Five Brothers which is wonderful and great. Every single cherry blend too. God cherry pipe tobacco is just terrible to me.

I used to think so. To me, lighting up a cherry blend was like playing Russian roulette with 5 bullets in the cylinder instead of 1. They all seem like someone said "You think we can make a blend that simulates napalm with a delightful cherry scent??" But GH&CO Exclusive Black Cherry proved a good cherry can be made that is awesome tasting and smoking .

 

[Bowie]

I've been working on my second ever bowl of GH Black Irish X. In general, don't think there's very good vocabulary to describe the taste and smell of pipe tobacco smoke. The best I can come up with here is used engine oil. It's not harsh or sweet. But there's something industrial about its taste and smell. I don't think I like it.

That one has been on my list to try for awhile, for that very reason. Reading that a blend is like "old lady perfume" is a big turn off to me, but motor oil? gasoline? Yeah I'm in and I'm odd.

 

[logs]

That one has been on my list to try for awhile, for that very reason. Reading that a blend is like "old lady perfume" is a big turn off to me, but motor oil? gasoline? Yeah I'm in and I'm odd.

The rope is coated and baked in oil during processing (olive oil, not motor oil). That's the source of the strange burning oil flavor when it's smoked.

 

[Elric]

Mixture 79. Thank the powers I had the foresight to try it in a cob.

 

[hawky454]

I’m not picky, I know what I like but I’m not repulsed by much of anything. I thought C&D’s Captain Bob’s blend was pretty gross but nothing that bothered me I’d probably smoke it from time to time to see if it grew on me if I still had some but I’ve never met a blend that made me gag or anything.

I do enjoy these kinds of threads though cause I’m the guy that usually loves the stuff that most people hate. When I first started smoking I would search for the polarizing blends to find my holy grail, it worked out well for me.

One blend that I never understood why it was so polarizing (still don’t) is Royal Yacht. Seems very middle of the road to me but a lot of people have strong feelings about it, a lot of people love to hate this one.

 

[PipesRock]

Without a shadow of a doubt, it's Condor. That old-lady-perfume taste is truly repellant, and it ghosts a briar like nothing else. The worst part about buying estate pipes is the exorcism that is sometimes necessary following the previous owner's mistreatment if they were a condor smoker.

Saying all of this...I do actually have a jar of Condor Long Cut in my collection. It is a decent quality flake that comes in a brown packet - doused in perfume (of course). For some reason I still like to have some on hand. I seem to crave a bowl of it perhaps once a year. It still tastes terrible. I'd better stop writing about it, or I'll be in danger of talking myself into a bowl...

So true, with a few blends. As I read your post this replayed in my head...

 

[hawky454]

And I actually quite like it. Go figure.

Wait... is there a garlic blend??

If there is I bet HU could make it taste phenomenal! Haha! They’ve already nailed it with their Balsamic Vinegar.

 

[hawky454]

Without a shadow of a doubt, it's Condor. That old-lady-perfume taste is truly repellant, and it ghosts a briar like nothing else. The worst part about buying estate pipes is the exorcism that is sometimes necessary following the previous owner's mistreatment if they were a condor smoker.

Saying all of this...I do actually have a jar of Condor Long Cut in my collection. It is a decent quality flake that comes in a brown packet - doused in perfume (of course). For some reason I still like to have some on hand. I seem to crave a bowl of it perhaps once a year. It still tastes terrible. I'd better stop writing about it, or I'll be in danger of talking myself into a bowl...

Where’s the thumbs down button on this thing!