A Rumination on Super Sweet, Candy-flavored Aro Bombs

[Briar Lee]

I was in my dorm room when Farah Fawcett was on every pin up and smelled the god awfullest aroma of burning, putrid cow dung and so I sashayed down the hall to find the source.

It was a mathematics major smoking a lat bomb in his huge orange Lorenzo. I ran back to my room and got an E A Carey and went back and borrowed some, and learned latikia blends smell horrible and taste divine.

He showed me where the Tinderbox was in Kansas City, and there was another real pipe shop on the Plaza. Both carried all kinds of latikia blends in the seventies, plus an extensive selection of aromatics,,,,

But if there was a real, genuine, super sweet aro bomb back then I don’t remember it. The most aromatic blends they carried were somewhat vanilla and kind of like peaches and cream.

When did super aro bombs like Cult Red Moon come out, I wonder?

I love candy flavored super sweet aromatics.

I realize they aren’t the sophisticated choice, but I never was to sophisticated nohow, being from Humansville and all.

 

[lawdawg]

I like the occasional aromatic, too.

A year or so ago, I tried Wilke 191 from Pipeworks and Wilke, a small shop blend. It’s so good it basically ruined goopy artificial-tasting aromatics for me. 191 is a burley blend with a honey vanilla topping. Still tastes like tobacco, but with some additional tasty sweetness added. It’s everything I always wanted an aromatic to be.

It would go great in that new meer you’re thinking of

 

[Briar Lee]

Somewhere I read where the English centuries ago alternated between suppression and encouragement of tobacco, and that until the 1980s aromatics were essentially banned there because of tobacco purity laws that forbade additives. That’s why the English blends are spiced with Latakia, Orientals, and Perique, because they couldn’t use sugar and molasses and honey and lots of candy flavorings, mostly cooked up in laboratories, I suppose.

I think the first really intense super aromatic I ever encountered was a client with a pipe smoking Amphora Full Aromatic about 25 years ago. Since then they’ve become more common or else I’ve found them.

With the occasional exception of match Revelation I only smoke aromatics in the office, and Revelation is hardly a Latakia rich blend.

Most of the intensely aromatic blends are cherry flavored, and the more cherries the better I like them.

I think avoiding tongue bite and leather mouth is almost all technique and not the tobacco, plus it helps to only smoke good smokers with good briar, too.

Outside where I can smell curmudgeonly I love being a curmudgeon and smoking a Latakia blend.

But they do ghost pipes, but I’ve got a bunch of pipes, to ghost.

 

[OzPiper]

I do like an aromatic from time to time. I liken them to a dessert which I don't indulge in often because of my diet. Just so long as they ( the desserts) are not over-laden with sugar.

But "super sweet, candy-flavoured aro-bombs" ?

NOT my type, so I wouldn't ever spend time "ruminating" on them

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

It's always interesting to see how regional differences can affect perceptions.
Blends like Ennerdale are around 200 years old and among the most overwhelming Aromatic blend on the market, but it seems to have not been introduced across the pond until recently.

 

[Morrison Jeremiah]

Strong latakia blends do taste good, but leave me mentally bemused.
A small amount in an English blend is the opposite for me and has a perky effect.
But either way, if I have any latakia at all, I can't taste any other tobacco properly for 2 days so I completely avoid it now.

Revor is the only aromatic I smoke these days.
Candy it certainly isn't. Not sure how long it's been around, quite a while I think.

 

[Briar Lee]

From what I understand, back when all tobacco was sold at tobacco auctions, the top price was for shade grown Connecticut and the lowest for Kentucky Burley.

My mother’s father was born in 1880 and he died of an infection in 1972 at age 92, and he said he bought his first Cotton Boll Twist when he started school when he was six. Before that he sneaked “long green” tobacco his father raised and cured on the farm.

He would smoke commercial and hand rolled cigarettes, cigars, and pipes, plus he’d chew twist, leaf, and plug, and he’d dip most snuff and even occasionally snort dry snuff. He had “hardening of the arteries” for the last three years of his life but his lungs were good, until the end.

I used to sneak different tobaccos from his stash. I was afraid of the dry Scotch snuff, but all the rest I sampled.

By far the best tasting were his Camel filters. The worst was Cotton Boll Twist, either chewed or smoked.

Of his drug store pipe tobaccos, I still love Half and Half the most, but there were no bad ones.

When the sailors on Columbus’ ships first tasted tobacco, as I understand it was a different leaf than today.

For five centuries now, we’ve been trying to make that tobacco taste more like candy and less like tobacco.

But if all we had was Cotton Boll Twist or Our Advertiser or Five Brothers, we’d still smoke tobacco.

Our wives would make sure we smoked it outside, but we’d still smoke it.

 

[--dante--]

I rarely smoke aromatics myself, but I can recommend without reservation trying some from Boswell Pipes. They have an extensive well crafted line of aromatics, both the 'super sweets' and the more subtle.

 

[chopper]

and learned latikia blends smell horrible and taste divine.

My introduction to Latakia was a generous sample of Becks ol' Limey Bastard from 4noggins.
I described the bag note as 'asphalt, burnt rubber and butt'.

Latakia was an acquired taste for me but fortunately it did taste much better than it smelt.

 

[chopper]

Strong latakia blends do taste good, but leave me mentally bemused.
A small amount in an English blend is the opposite for me and has a perky effect.
But either way, if I have any latakia at all, I can't taste any other tobacco properly for 2 days so I completely avoid it now.

Revor is the only aromatic I smoke these days.
Candy it certainly isn't. Not sure how long it's been around, quite a while I think.

Latakia is so potent that many Lat-fiends burnout their tastebuds with Lat-bombs.
Although I like the taste of Latakia, I also like to taste the other leaf in a blend.

Lancer Slices is described by many as 'balanced'. All I can taste is Latakia.
But, when LS is mixed 50/50 with a straight Virginia [MB Virginia #1 for instance] it's a real tasty smoke.

Have you tried Latakia blends where it's used lightly?
A few that come to mind are Holiday Match, Epiphany or [one of my favourite non-aro's] Jesses Own.
A touch of Latakia in an aromatic is also nice.

 

[Drew72]

I was in my dorm room when Farah Fawcett was on every pin up and smelled the god awfullest aroma of burning, putrid cow dung and so I sashayed down the hall to find the source.

It was a mathematics major smoking a lat bomb in his huge orange Lorenzo. I ran back to my room and got an E A Carey and went back and borrowed some, and learned latikia blends smell horrible and taste divine.

He showed me where the Tinderbox was in Kansas City, and there was another real pipe shop on the Plaza. Both carried all kinds of latikia blends in the seventies, plus an extensive selection of aromatics,,,,

But if there was a real, genuine, super sweet aro bomb back then I don’t remember it. The most aromatic blends they carried were somewhat vanilla and kind of like peaches and cream.

When did super aro bombs like Cult Red Moon come out, I wonder?

I love candy flavored super sweet aromatics.

I realize they aren’t the sophisticated choice, but I never was to sophisticated nohow, being from Humansville and all.

I am an unapologetic aro lover! I enjoy English blends on occasion (Stokkebye English oriental is awesome!) , but primarily aros for me. Smoke them proudly!

cheers
Drew

 

[kcghost]

I believe CRM has been out less than ten years. If you really want to try something really sweet (I mean really sweet) try Molto Dolce by Sutliff.

 

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[mso489]

I don't smoke many sweet aromatics. I can't even imagine myself smoking a chocolate blend. I want the actual edible product. I like whiskey, bourbon, rum, and liqueurs as flavorings, though I enjoy the occasional drinks in person. It was fun smoking a baggie of Molte Dolce a member sent me, but not as a regular blend.

 

[anotherbob]

I was in my dorm room when Farah Fawcett was on every pin up and smelled the god awfullest aroma of burning, putrid cow dung and so I sashayed down the hall to find the source.

It was a mathematics major smoking a lat bomb in his huge orange Lorenzo. I ran back to my room and got an E A Carey and went back and borrowed some, and learned latikia blends smell horrible and taste divine.

He showed me where the Tinderbox was in Kansas City, and there was another real pipe shop on the Plaza. Both carried all kinds of latikia blends in the seventies, plus an extensive selection of aromatics,,,,

But if there was a real, genuine, super sweet aro bomb back then I don’t remember it. The most aromatic blends they carried were somewhat vanilla and kind of like peaches and cream.

When did super aro bombs like Cult Red Moon come out, I wonder?

I love candy flavored super sweet aromatics.

I realize they aren’t the sophisticated choice, but I never was to sophisticated nohow, being from Humansville and all.

I can see why people do not prefer these types of blends, but to out right hate them confuses me. To my mind it is like someone saying I don't like cake, where as saying I'd rather have a very good steak or gourmet savory meal then some cake. I am not a huge fan of those blends in as much as I do enjoy them as much a more tobacco forward blends but they wear down quickly. I wouldn't want one for a whole week. For instance CornCob pipe and a Button Nose by C&D is an awesome tastes like cocoa blend. Really good but a tin still lasted me almost a year. Oh it's cube cut burly so it has divine burning characteristics.
Another way to put it. If my favorite candy themed aros disappeared I'd certainly live with it but I'd feel like I was missing out on a treat. And my absolute peak favorite thing about such blends is the room note. I like the compliments (even that weirdly worded one a few weeks ago, ok I was smoking one of those blends and a random person told me I smelled nice and I know they meant the pipe) and I also like how if I am smoking in a group setting I am providing pleasure to other people as well (some tobacco forwards get compliments too just not as often).

 

[Chasing Embers]

When did super aro bombs like Cult Red Moon come out, I wonder?

Captain Black was introduced in 1931 and aromatics currently carry the pipe tobacco market. Ninety percent of pipe blends sold are aromatics and if they fall, the rest of pipe tobacco sales go with them.

 

[cigrmaster]

I have two aromatics in my cellar. One is Cult Blood Red Moon and the other is Sutliff Molto Dolce. I smoke them only when my mom comes over as she enjoys the smell of both. Her father was a pipe smoker so it reminds her of him.

I really like the snap crackle and pop of the Molto Dolce. That is some weird stuff.

 

[telescopes]

Aromatics are a part of the joy of the tobacco world. Why else would the bureaucrats seek to eliminate them.

 

[JOHN72]

I think I remember that the first tobacco pipe, I smoked contained latakia. I still like them. But I was too ignorant rookie to know that there were the sweet virginias waiting for me. But the truth for now, I still appreciate the changes of rhythm, between virginias, and latakias on cold nights.........at the moment.......I hate caramel sauces and anything that tastes like vanilla or donuts, etc, and turn off the authentic taste of tobacco

 

[Chasing Embers]

Aromatics are a part of the joy of the tobacco world. Why else would the bureaucrats seek to eliminate them.

But it's for the children!?