As an old school puffer I still enjoy aromatics but I will not smoke them in any of my briars. My cobs offer a special experience that my briars do not. What can I say that's just me.
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Its more that I'm curious as to the abundance of aromatics, which implies that many must enjoy them, which implies some must surely be enjoyable to me. Or not and I'm just a English /Balkan blend kinda guy.
what I find funny with aro bashing is that tobacco is very processed whether it's got a top note or not. Except a few really rare examples you're not tasting straight tobacco but tobacco with this and that added to it anyways. Hope that helps with the motivation and all that.
Well I'll put it this way. My least favorite style of tobacco yet a few of my favs are aros.
Smoking a wet mess of an aromatic and complaining about them being the worst creation in the tobacco world is like filling your pipe with a solid chunk of a plug and calling it the second worst tobacco creation in the world just behind an aromatic.
Hint: you are doing it wrong.
Hint: you are doing it wrong.
It is a funny old world. Bosuns C.P and any of the Lakeland blends I would not call aromatics. There are just very traditional Brit tobacco that smell just about 'OK enough' that the wife will not ask for a divorce if you smoke them non stop in the house.
One isn’t tasting straight alcohol when sipping a 12 year old single malt either, but that’s a sorry excuse to drown it in cola.
and gin and tonic or martini is as much of a mixed drink or cocktail as rum and coke. And at the end of the day you're drinking yeast waste product
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I’ve never understood those who don’t understand aromatics. I enjoy my English blends no less than I enjoy BCA with a bit of nougat.
IMO with aromatics the tobacco doesn't really matter you are tasting vanilla or maple sugar which is fine it's like vaping in that sense. The reality is I like tobacco taste - now there are some blends that are supposedly flavoured that I like - like Bengal Slices and while I smell the anise I don't taste it and that's the way I like it lol.
Like I said I don't find them unpleasant, just haven't found one to do what it purports to do yet.
I've let them dry and I've smoked them slow and the advertised 'taste' is seemingly incredibly subtle for my palate. Too subtle to get excited about. But, again perhaps I'm just expecting too much or I haven't tried the right one. I'd love to find one that resonates with me so I can put it in rotation.
It depends on what you are looking to get out of them. There’s a huge spectrum from light to soaking wet regardless of how some simply claim all aromatics to be wet.
Consider different flavors you’d like to actually get out of an aromatic or any flavored tobacco. There is a lot of flavored tobacco that many anti-aromatic smokers smoke regularly smoke because for some reason they don’t personally classify them as flavored tobacco even though they are.
Maybe a Lakeland blend would be good for you? A blend category that has ghosted pipes for generations from the sauce but regularly enjoyed by the anti-aromatic or flavored crowd.
Ignore the noise and think about what it is you want, then go from there. I cellar a number of aromatics right up there with my straight Virginias once I found the ones that fit what I was looking for.
I have also tried quite a few aros, but did not enjoy the flavour. The one I do like is Half & Half.
I smoke quite a few aromatics and don't always discern the flavors advertised. I can always taste the tobaccos used in the blend though. Every now and again I may be able to pick out something strong such as maple, walnut or chocolate. My wife can't stand the room note of English blends so the aros allow me to smoke around her while we have happy hour she loves the smell.
This ^^ This is why so many Aros exist....
What's becoming more obvious now to me talking to you all is there's a reason why they are called aromatic tobaccos and not flavoured tobaccos.This ^^ This is why so many Aros exist....
Exactly! I'm glad somebody finally said is and I was about to do so myself. Aromatic tobacco is just that: aromatic. Taste is really only sweet, salty, bitter, sour, savory/umami. Smell is what really contributes to the overall perception of "flavors" and this is overly evident when it comes to tobacco blends.
I don't smoke very many aromatics, but I do like 1-Q and BCA, both Lane Limited products. I've recently been mixing them 50-50 and like that mixture.