Only about half of my favorites over time were love at first puff. And sometimes, even when I like a blend right away, over time I continue to to like it for different reasons.
How do you Spend Time with a Blend?
- Thread starter Andrew Womble
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"When I spend time with a blend, I like to make it feel special. Like it's the only blend in the world. I take it out to dinner, order it some wine, perhaps take it dancing, be a little vulnerable with it. If it's a really complex blend, I may even do my Barry White impression. Then I take it home and smoke it all night. Little does it know, I'll be changing blends in the morning, leaving even the most expensive, exclusive blend feeling like a cheap OTC." - Confessions of a Tobacco Player
My pipe smoking history is so radically different from the OP's that I have a hard time relating and saying anything useful, but I will try anyway.
If you smoke one bowl a day, and have so many tobaccos open that you only smoke a specific blend once a month, you will never get to know any of them.
My humble advice is to jar all of those up, and take all save, say, three blends, put them away somewhere, and get to know the blends you have left. (One or two blends at a time would be even better.) Apply a little self-discipline, in other words.
The only way you get to know a tobacco is to smoke it fairly regularly. Since I started as a college student with a limited income long before the internet, I had one tobacco at a time. One pouch or tin. I smoked it all, and then I got another, of something different. I got to learn what I liked, and had my tastes evolve.
Enjoy.
If you smoke one bowl a day, and have so many tobaccos open that you only smoke a specific blend once a month, you will never get to know any of them.
My humble advice is to jar all of those up, and take all save, say, three blends, put them away somewhere, and get to know the blends you have left. (One or two blends at a time would be even better.) Apply a little self-discipline, in other words.
The only way you get to know a tobacco is to smoke it fairly regularly. Since I started as a college student with a limited income long before the internet, I had one tobacco at a time. One pouch or tin. I smoked it all, and then I got another, of something different. I got to learn what I liked, and had my tastes evolve.
Enjoy.
