Hello, everybody....
I’m 57 and am a newbie to these forums
For me my fascination with pipes started when I was in the 4th grade, when a kid in my class (don’t know why) brought me for a couple of days his father’s well-smoked pipe.
The knock-out aroma from that pipe (that was never cleaned or rimmed and with heavy tar inside) instantly drove me absolutely nuts and from that moment I fell in love with everything pipe-related.
To this day I remember the incredible taste of that pipe, but could never achieve it with any tobacco or pipe I’ve tried. Yes, a life-long quest for impossible…
Being a light smoker, I loooove the pipe’s aftertaste and “finish” more than the smoking process itself --when I keep the pipe in my mouth afterwards, enjoying the aroma’s complexities – just like an aficionado of a good brandy.
Hope my pipe “fetish” can be understood here by more seasoned tobacco “pros”))
I guess my first 4th grade pipe experience formed my subsequent preferences.
Later in school I loved reading about Robinson Crusoe and his tobacco growing experiments, while clenching a piece of wood looking like a pipe....
Over the years I’ve assembled a small collection of brand name pipes, that I occasionally smoke and enjoy holding and admiring their lines and overall superb designs. It’s the “aesthetics” and “form” factor for me more than practicality of their use or other criteria.
Also I joined this forum in hopes someone could help me to locate one particular custom blend of Cherry Tobacco that I can’t find anyplace else anymore. It was called ‘Wild Cherry’ and at the time was sold in downtown’s “Barclay Rex” store in Manhattan near WTC.
After 9/11 they moved and subsequently, due to new regulations banning the “flavored” tobacco, stopped making this unique blend. Unlike typical 1-3 component cherry blends, it contained about 4 or 5 varieties and had the smoke smelling exactly like the aromatic blend in a bag – virtually no change.
So if anyone knows the person who blended that mixture or knows if it’s now distributed under a different name, I’d love to hear from you.
Thank you for reading and sorry for a long intro…
I’m 57 and am a newbie to these forums
For me my fascination with pipes started when I was in the 4th grade, when a kid in my class (don’t know why) brought me for a couple of days his father’s well-smoked pipe.
The knock-out aroma from that pipe (that was never cleaned or rimmed and with heavy tar inside) instantly drove me absolutely nuts and from that moment I fell in love with everything pipe-related.
To this day I remember the incredible taste of that pipe, but could never achieve it with any tobacco or pipe I’ve tried. Yes, a life-long quest for impossible…
Being a light smoker, I loooove the pipe’s aftertaste and “finish” more than the smoking process itself --when I keep the pipe in my mouth afterwards, enjoying the aroma’s complexities – just like an aficionado of a good brandy.
Hope my pipe “fetish” can be understood here by more seasoned tobacco “pros”
))I guess my first 4th grade pipe experience formed my subsequent preferences.
Later in school I loved reading about Robinson Crusoe and his tobacco growing experiments, while clenching a piece of wood looking like a pipe....
Over the years I’ve assembled a small collection of brand name pipes, that I occasionally smoke and enjoy holding and admiring their lines and overall superb designs. It’s the “aesthetics” and “form” factor for me more than practicality of their use or other criteria.
Also I joined this forum in hopes someone could help me to locate one particular custom blend of Cherry Tobacco that I can’t find anyplace else anymore. It was called ‘Wild Cherry’ and at the time was sold in downtown’s “Barclay Rex” store in Manhattan near WTC.
After 9/11 they moved and subsequently, due to new regulations banning the “flavored” tobacco, stopped making this unique blend. Unlike typical 1-3 component cherry blends, it contained about 4 or 5 varieties and had the smoke smelling exactly like the aromatic blend in a bag – virtually no change.
So if anyone knows the person who blended that mixture or knows if it’s now distributed under a different name, I’d love to hear from you.
Thank you for reading and sorry for a long intro…
