I Opened a Dozen Tins Today!

[Egg Shen]

I decided to open some things that have been on my shelf - only things that I have never tried and have 2 or more of. Nothing rare but for the most part I feel like these are not “genre overlap” for the myriad jars in my collection. I thought I’d share my thoughts on a few going off of aroma alone. These are them:

The front row is the most intriguing to me, with the best on the left.

Celephais- I’ve never sniffed any blend like this. I do not get it on every whiff but most of the time there is a grape soda note. There are other familiar scents here that I can’t quite pinpoint…butter pecan perhaps.

8 ST8 Burley- This, upon popping, was the most complex burley I’ve ever smelled. Re-sniffing a few hours later it reads more codgerish, so who knows.

Black Frigate smells flat out GOOD and satisfying

Chopped Cigar Leaf really smells like a cigar. I understand it to be a blender. What do y’all blend it with? I bought this to expand my cigar leaf portfolio as well as it is Pennsylvania broadleaf. PA is my home state so there’s that. I wonder where it was grown. Perhaps Amish Country.

I may follow up tomorrow with some thoughts on the others, but would like to hear your tips and judgements. A few of these smell a bit pedestrian or underwhelming to me, of course I have not smoked them yet. Encouraging words are welcome.

 

[didimauw]

I believe you are the first unsmoked tobacco reviewer! ?

 

[Egg Shen]

i’ll take that title

 

[AppalachianPipe92]

Try em now then don't smoke em again for 2 or 3 weeks. Night and day difference. I let just about any tin I open rest for at least 2 weeks before smoking it. It's proven to benefit the tobacco almost every time
Hope you enjoy them.

 

[solideogloria86]

I believe you are the first unsmoked tobacco reviewer! ?

Ahem.

 

[didimauw]

Ahem.

You do it too?

 

[solideogloria86]

You do it too?

I don't even buy the tobacco, I just Google tin art and write up some nonsense! ?

 

[sandollars]

Thanks for using myriad properly.

I see your logic as perfectly sound.

I, too have several tins opened. I have my daily rotation at about 15 tins, and the "changeup" blends which are around 50 blends. I use them for a change of pace.

@AppalachianPiper92 has offered some sage advice. Some of my "changeup" blend made it to my daily rotation simply by letting them rest for a while.

 

[sandollars]

BTW, IMHO, Chopped cigar leaf compliments just about any predominantly Burley blend. Sprinkle a little in your Haunted Bookshop. NICE!

Drop some in some Tabac du Manil Semois and pair it with a nice Weller Wheated Bourbon. You will swear you are drinking honey.... OMG.....

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

When I was young, I used a similar approach to deciding who to date. I'd ask the half dozen or so young ladies I favored to all fart while I was nearby so I could sniff their essence. After carefully evaluating the various aromas, I chose to date the one with the biggest tits. Well, actually, the one with the second biggest tits. The one with the biggest tits shat her pants when attempting to fart. I wanted no piece of that action.

 

[Egg Shen]

BTW, IMHO, Chopped cigar leaf compliments just about any predominantly Burley blend. Sprinkle a little in your Haunted Bookshop. NICE!

Drop some in some Tabac du Manil Semois and pair it with a nice Weller Wheated Bourbon. You will swear you are drinking honey.... OMG.....

You are one of the omni ones, my friend. Thank you.

Try em now then don't smoke em again for 2 or 3 weeks. Night and day difference. I let just about any tin I open rest for at least 2 weeks before smoking it. It's proven to benefit the tobacco almost every time
Hope you enjoy them.

agree on the “breather period” ?

 

[Egg Shen]

When I was young, I used a similar approach to deciding who to date. I'd ask the half dozen or so young ladies I favored to all fart while I was nearby so I could sniff their essence. After carefully evaluating the various aromas, I chose to date the one with the biggest tits. Well, actually, the one with the second biggest tits. The one with the biggest tits shat her pants when attempting to fart. I wanted no piece of that action.

And the moral of the story is…I don’t know. Lol.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Celephais- I’ve never sniffed any blend like this. I do not get it on every whiff but most of the time there is a grape soda note.

That one outgrapes Captain Black Grape. Even bought a pipe just for it.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Black Frigate smells flat out GOOD and satisfying

Horrid stuff.

 

[Egg Shen]

That one outgrapes Captain Black Grape. Even bought a pipe just for it.

Man, that’s akin to bullshitting a bullshitter.

I do not wish to buy a new pipe. Then I would need a new pipe rack as mine are full and they never hold fewer than 3 so then I’d be looking for two more pipes, all over this blend.

PS Watch PREY if you haven’t already. Since it’s a Predator movie the skulls of various organisms abound, and it takes place in the time of the First People (if I got that right I suck at PC). The protagonist is Comanche. Nobody smokes a pipe but this French fur trapper smokes cigars and overall it’s a fun flick.

Does anybody else NOT use a dedicated pipe for this blend?

 

[Chasing Embers]

Man, that’s akin to bullshitting a bullshitter.

Nah, just enjoyed it so much that it deserved its own pipe.

Then I would need a new pipe rack

I never use them.

PS Watch PREY if you haven’t already

It looks good but I've heard that it breaks too much of pre established canon.

 

[Egg Shen]

Nah, just enjoyed it so much that it deserved its own pipe.



I never use them.



It looks good but I've heard that it breaks too much of pre established canon.

Oh, I thought you were referring to ghosting.

(FWIW I thought they did some nifty CGI well-surpassing the previous flicks as well).

 

[Brendan]

@Egg Shen

How prominent is the Latakia in Black Frigate? (Based off of the tin aroma).
I'm pretty sure it's only condimental ( is that a word? ) - does it over power everything else like you'd imagine Latakia to do?

Go ahead and take another smell, I'll wait lol

 

[Chasing Embers]

How prominent is the Latakia in Black Frigate

It's been a favorite of mine since the late '90s. Unless it's changed since I bought many tins back in 2014, I only notice latakia if I'm looking for it.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Oh, I thought you were referring to ghosting.

Oh, it definitely does that. I got a morta from Andrey Kharitonov that seemed to match the Lovecraft theme and it's purple.