Aromatic ?

[dd57chevy]

I need someone to wise me up . How does a pipe tobacco fall into the "aromatic" category ?
I mean , they all simply by ignition produce smoke which has a aroma . Prince Albert , Carter Hall produce an "aroma " .
If you smoked dried oak leaves there would be an aroma ...........

 

[crashthegrey]

An aromatic has a topping added, often not of the tobacco scented variety.

 

[dd57chevy]

An aromatic has a topping added, often not of the tobacco scented variety.

Are "non-aromatics" pure tobacco ? I guess I thought that even the codger blends had some flavor additives.......

 

[Chasing Embers]

Latakia and orientals were once called aromatics and blends with added flavorings were called flavored blends. Sometime in the past thirty years though the flavored blends started being called aromatics.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Are "non-aromatics" pure tobacco ?

Unless you've grown them yourself, very rarely.

 

[crashthegrey]

Are "non-aromatics" pure tobacco ? I guess I thought that even the codger blends had some flavor additives.......

That's more about casing, which is different from topping. Of course, these are all marketing terms and subject to personal feelings and changes over time, as Embers points out. Common parlance. Today, an aromatic is typically a strong topping that is usually scented very differently, but people argue every day over what an aromatic tobacco is to them. I find most of the codger blends to be more of an aromatic, but I tend to enjoy Red Virginia, which is closer to the extreme of straight tobacco, until you get one that is not.

 

[dd57chevy]

Ok , at the risk of taking this to an inane point , there really isn't a hard and fast definition . It's just kind of a vague label ?

 

[crashthegrey]

Ok , at the risk of taking this to an inane point , there really isn't a hard and fast definition . It's just kind of a vague label ?

More like a moving target.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Ok , at the risk of taking this to an inane point , there really isn't a hard and fast definition . It's just kind of a vague label ?

If flavor is in the blend's name you can fairly bet it's an aromatic.

 

[crashthegrey]

If flavor is in the blend's name you can fairly bet it's an aromatic.

Or any food.

 

[Pooh-Bah]

The definition I go by is that an aromatic blend is one in which there is a notable taste/smell of a non-tobacco nature.

 

[ziv]

If flavor is in the blend's name you can fairly bet it's an aromatic.

Is "horse" a flavor?

 

[Pooh-Bah]

Is "horse" a flavor?

"Eat horse steak" is already on my bucket list, if that shit tastes like War Horse...
Well, it'll taste like shit and I'll buy some.

 

[crashthegrey]

Is "horse" a flavor?

One of my favorite flavors. On tobacco. Not the meat. But also the meat.

 

[wyfbane]

When I first started smoking a pipe, the number of 'aros' with latakia and other non-dessert type tobaccos was rather surprising. I had equated aromatics with the sweet, syrupy dessert-type smokes. Not so.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Aromatic is a pretty vague term.