Perhaps it sings with that specific blend because you primarily smoke that blend in the pipe. Which means the cake built up is from that blend and no ghosting from other blends. And perhaps not.I've had a few new briar pipes that were green and tasted horrible, but most all my briars smoke about the same. They do impart a certain warm briar taste/aroma that Cosmic mentioned. I also love smoking from cobs. I love the sweet taste they impart, and they are in my price range.
I have got lucky and I have one unicorn singer. Fortunately for me it sings with my morning coffee smoke, so I get to smoke it every morning
So I'm a true believer in the unicorn briar, but from my experience you have to be very lucky to find one. Furthermore, it doesn't necessarily sing with any blend. I've not encountered one of those. But it does most definitely sing with a certain particular blend that I happen to smoke every morning. I don't know what you call that... a selective unicorn? Idk, but I'm very happy that I have this one, and that I get the pleasure of smoking from it every morning.
If pipe material is the only thing that makes a person enjoy tobacco it's a matter of personal bias.
I'm only responding because this is posted as if it were definitive and factual. But, I have cedar that goes back over 100 years that is still fragrant. I am not sure why the aromas would go away, unless one smokes their pipes till they are red hot over and over. Even then, I am not sure that the aromas would be driven out. But, smoked cool to the touch, as a pipe should be, there's no reason to assume that the aroma would be vanquished. Even the ashes of oak consumed in a fireplace still retains the aroma of oak. Sandalwood, when burned as incense still retains the aromas of sandalwood in the ashes. It doesn't take anything above "warm" to start to get that aroma of briar if one knows what scent to look for.
Fair enough. I can say after x number of smokes I can no longer detect the flavor I was getting when new. Additionally, based on my personal experience, the variable x seems to be determined by the pipes as individuals and not necessarily the material, i.e. I've had briars where the initial flavor became unnoticeable with fewer smokes than a cob or meer and vice versa. It also seems to be a flavor I only associate with new pipes as I don't notice it in estates (although estates can certainly have their own ghosts but that's another story).
Perhaps. But I did smoke several blends from it when I first purchased it, and didn't notice any real difference. And it was an estate pipe, so no telling what was smoked out of it before. And I tend to keep cake to a bare minimum if any at all. But more importantly, when I first purchased it and smoked several blends from it, I didn't notice that it sang much, until I smoked my morning blend from it. It was a noticeable improvement. Prior to that I would grab whatever pipe I felt like for my morning smoke. So all in all, I'm gonna stick with the unicorn thing, I guess.
Nothing needs to be defined or written in stone. The only thing that matters is it works great for you.
Exactly. It could be just as simple as my tastebuds like this pipe with this blend. I may hand you the pipe with the same blend and your like.. what's the big deal? lol. Who knows. Like you said.. it works for me, and I ain't selling that pipe .. ever!
