how tastes may change

[Gabes]

When I first started smoking, it was all about English blends with Dunhill Nightcap and GLP Odyssey being my top 2 favorites. Then the original Nightcap went out of production and GLP has changed its blends (personal opinion, can't prove if it actually did). Around that time some fellow suggested CD Montford Point Marine as a replacement for Nightcap's nic-hit, and that is where my love for burley-based blends started. Unfortunately, a course of painkillers I had to take has impacted my stomach which from then on refused to take high amounts of nicotine, so I had to abandon burley all together and go back to less nic-heavy English or even "Scottish" blends. Stanislaw's Luxury car turned out to be quite reminiscing of long gone Shortcut to mushrooms for me. Now, I must frankly admit that latakia starts to seem dull yet overwhelming... So today I am embarking on a quest to discover the taste of oriental-forward mixtures!

Share a story how your taste changed over time, suggest your favorite oriental-forward blend, or both!

 

[warren]

No story really, my palate, like everyone else's changes over time. Sometimes daily depending on one's health, age, recent food, and so forth. So, nothing special here. I will state that the appeal of a couple of blends I smoke hasn't changed over the decades.

 

[rakovsky]

When I first started smoking, I tried Ultralight by Supervalu. It has Cavendish and I thought it was OK, but more boring than Captain Black. Two years ago I started trying a lot more blends. I still have my 12 oz bag of Supervalu from 20 years ago, and it is similar, but since I kept it so long, it's like a sweater that's been in a bureau 20 years. Nowadays it reminds me a lot of cigarette tobacco now, kind of plain in that way. It smokes like a big fat cigarette. I mixed it with minty legal herbs like sage, rose powder, basil, bay leaves, lobelia, mullein, wild lettuce, and that gives it a nice minty smell.

I don't know what would the least nicotine blend be, but Supervalu Ultralight is low in nicotine, so it could work. There is also N. Quadrivalvis from the US West Coast that is pretty low in nicotine and is a tobacco species you could think about.

So to answer your question, now that I've tried 50+ blends, Supervalue Ultralight, my 3rd blend in my life, reminds me more of cigarette tobacco and maybe even like hot cigarette air, more plain. Whereas when I first started out, I didn't realize how similar to a cigarette it was compared to other things I tried later like stronger Aromatics and blends with Latakia.

Wishing you the best.

 

[Mrs. Pickles]

Members here often remark on how they've burnt out on Latakia.

I've also read (a quote of one of Peretti's old owners, I think) that "eventually everyone just smokes burley." Although more often I see smokers reporting their chemical intolerance to it.

Then there's the people who consider aromatics to be "candy for babies" that real sophisticates grow out of.

Where does this winding road lead?

 

[BingBong]

I liked Squadron Leader (latakia forward) for a while, then I moved to Skiff Mixture (same tobaccos but oriental forward). Now I smoke VaPers and Va, for the most part. Aromatics, burley, latakia, orientals are all occasional smokes. So it goes.