It sounds to me though that what you're looking for is more in line with the Danish style aromatics. They tend to do more tobacco forward and lighter on the top dressing/casing than American blenders do.
Interesting, lordofthepiperings. This could almost be a thread unto itself. But, taking into consideration that Lane LTD was a German tobacco company that moved to the US in 1938, billing itself as Germanic flavors. It was in the Germanic countries that prided itself on flavoring tobaccos in the manner of German pastries where we get this notion of "aromatics." There is references to 17th century tobacconists in Germanic countries gooping up their tobaccos to make them heavier (to turn a higher profit) and to appeal more to Germanic smokers that already enjoyed these flavors in their internationally aclaimed pastries. Sutliff aside... I think of American tobacco companies as McClelland and C&D, which used aromatics sparingly in "most" of their aromatic lines of tobaccos. And, recently Sutliff and Peter Stokkebye merged... Have you ever tried the PS lines of aromatics? Nouget, peaches and Cream, etc... They are as good as 1Q, but still not very tobacco-ey. MacBarens aromatics, Seven Seas, Ambrosia, Danish Mixtures... Halberg, Green, Red, etc... H.W. Sutliff, Altadis, Lane, etc... were Germanic in their origins and styles. It's just funny that America gets the label for goopy aromatics, when it was all from Germanic origins, and the Germanic countries that still produce aromatics are top of their class in (what I think of as) goopy.
Just posting for something to think about.
