Backwoods Buttered Rum Fragrance

[JPh]

For some time I've been experimenting with heating up pipe tobacco (not smoking it) to scent a room. On this forum I've been given very good candidates for this purpose, such as Molto Dolce and Crème Brûlée.

One tobacco I found to work well is Backwoods Buttered Rum. I was wondering if there are tobaccos that have similar fragrance when drying out.

 

[Wuce Brayne]

I'm not sure about using tobacco as a source of passive room fragrance, but I can say that Boswell's Christmas Cookie is a great Aromatic by way of it's room note. It isn't the most flavorful but it smells really nice.

 

[JPh]

Thanks, @Wuce Brayne. It's a bit pricey, but I might try it.

 

[JPh]

The other thing is that room note doesn't correlate with the smell released when tobacco is warmed up (on a cup or candle warmer) and dries out . I tried a good number of aromatics with great room note and most proved disappointing in that regard.

 

[Wuce Brayne]

The other thing is that room note doesn't correlate with the smell released when tobacco is warmed up (on a cup or candle warmer) and dries out . I tried a good number of aromatics with great room note and most proved disappointing in that regard.

Yeah,with a lot of those, you'll just be toasting PG and you'll wind up with more of a chemical smell than a nice aroma. For this reason I'd stay way from OTC and Bulk Lane Blends for something like this.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

Years ago an old store used to sprinkle tobacco on top of the metal surface of their wood stove. Made a nice fragrance.

 

[JPh]

sprinkle tobacco on top of the metal surface of their wood stove. Made a nice fragrance

That's the whole idea, @Sweet Home Alabama.

I tried a variety of Aromatics (e.g. Lane BCA, Amphora, Captain Black, McBarren Virginia flakes, P&C Virginia Gold, Lane Limited Dark Red, MATCH Carter Hall, Lane Limited 1-Q, Backwoods Black N Gold, etc.) and none of them worked (I made the mistake of sending for free all the tobacco I hadn't used to someone on this forum who didn't respond; I was hoping to exchange bits of tobacco for testing purpose).

Tobaccos that work well are moist, "goopy", first and foremost Crème Brûlée, which is also cheap. But some other moist Sutliff Aromatics, such as Valilla Custard or Sutliff Stoved Black Virginia, don't work. And the thing about Backwoods Buttered Rum is that it's not goopy, and yet it exudes a very nice fragrance when heated up.

Someone suggested I spray tobacco with PG and Glyceryn but that didn't work.

So I'm still exploring. It takes very little tobacco on a hot surface to get it to release a scent, or not. If you try it, please let me know.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

That's the whole idea, @Sweet Home Alabama.

I tried a variety of Aromatics (e.g. Lane BCA, Amphora, Captain Black, McBarren Virginia flakes, P&C Virginia Gold, Lane Limited Dark Red, MATCH Carter Hall, Lane Limited 1-Q, Backwoods Black N Gold, etc.) and none of them worked (I made the mistake of sending for free all the tobacco I hadn't used to someone on this forum who didn't respond; I was hoping to exchange bits of tobacco for testing purpose).

Tobaccos that work well are moist, "goopy", first and foremost Crème Brûlée, which is also cheap. But some other moist Sutliff Aromatics, such as Valilla Custard or Sutliff Stoved Black Virginia, don't work. And the thing about Backwoods Buttered Rum is that it's not goopy, and yet it exudes a very nice fragrance when heated up.

Someone suggested I spray tobacco with PG and Glyceryn but that didn't work.

So I'm still exploring. It takes very little tobacco on a hot surface to get it to release a scent, or not. If you try it, please let me know.

You could try a cast iron skilled at low heat . Takes them about 5 minutes to reach desired temperature

 

[JPh]

I was talking about tobaccos. For heating I use a candle heater.

 

[BROBS]

I was talking about tobaccos. For heating I use a candle heater.

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Why not just use an actual lampe berger or some other type of diffuser? Heating tobacco has to be one of the least effective ways to release a scent.

 

[JPh]

Interesting suggestions, @BROBS. I wonder how that would work with oil though. Have you tried it yourself?

Another option people talk about is potpourri but I haven't tried it.

 

[Pipewizard420]

We used to do this back when we were teenagers. Take all the Blunt "guts" and put them in a dish with a little water and microwave to make the appt smell like Grape, Peach, Strawberry, etc. It doesn't work real well but we were trying to figure out a way to recycle all that tobacco rather than waste it.... oh to be a kid again lol.