Latakia smells like cheese?

[jollyroger]

It started with the faintest notes I picked up while sampling some Dunhill MM 965. I had no idea what it was, and simply put the Tabby away to settle.
Then, recently a shipment that I had received contained some Quiet Nights, and ad I popped the tin it smacked me square in the jaw.
QN is considered latakia forward, and so I must ask, am I the only one who notices a cheesiness to latakia or am I mixing up my tobaccos?
I haven't yet given up on it completely, and believe it might be an acquired taste, at least I hope so as I also happen to have a sealed tin of Black House!

 

[blackbeard]

My initial experience was a "Musty" smell, when dealing with Latakia I didn't know how to go about it. So, the first puff I dumped it out of the pipe, assumed something must be wrong. I pushed through it one day....now I really enjoy it. It's certainly different and was hard for me to get used to. Seems the smell being so pungent and unusual peoples explanations vary? I would imagine it is the Latakia you're smelling. While I don't know them all, nothing else really smells like it.

 

[papipeguy]

It must come from the Fromunda section of Cypress.

 

[tuold]

I've never detected a cheese flavor in any of the lat blends I've tried including Black House or MM 965. though I have gotten the vinegar or ketchup. notes on occasion from Black House and a few others. I could be more kind in describing it as a "savory" sort of taste, but it does sometimes seem sour.

 

[davet]

It's funny how tastes change, my first Lat blend, I swear I could taste a faint pine or spruce presence but after putting it away and going back to it later I don't detect anything like that. What do you mean by cheesiness, cheddar ?

 

[blackbeard]

You may have tasted pine davet. from wikipedia about Latakia "Small smoldering fires of oak and pine fill the barn with smoke, and covering the leaves with smoke particles."

 

[jollyroger]

I'd say more like a Swiss Gruyere cheese scent.

Most of my other Tabbys are of the sweeter note. My current go to being Anniversary Kake, 1-Q for work, Doblone d'Oro for zesty fruitiness.
It could be my difficulty adapting to none sweet, and more spicy Tabby flavors.
Could it be that I'm so used to desert that Latakia comes off slightly skewed?

 

[deathmetal]

I'm just hoping someone will produce Latakia-flavored cheese...

 

[elbert]

My first bowl of latakia flooded my senses with memories of my days as an incense-swinging altar boy in the Catholic Church. I've never gotten that overpowering flavor since.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Regardless of aroma, how does it taste when lit? Often enough, stuff that doesn't please in-the-bag aroma smokes nicely.
At the same time, I sniffed some Smyrna today, and it reminded me greatly of my old out-of-print favorite, Burlington Arcade. And it smokes as well as that oldie, too, just great.

 

[huntertrw]

"Latakia smells like cheese?"
For a minute there I thought that you might have been smoking Limbergia!

 

[andrew]

I've seen tasting notes of cheese in some cigar reviews, I don't understand it though. Thousands of different ways to describe flavors in every kind of tasting I've discovered.

 

[philobeddoe]

Where do you buy your cheese?

 

[cobguy]

It must come from the Fromunda section of Cypress.

:rofl:

 

[shanelktown]

Specialty smoked cheese..... Maybe

 

[jparker]

I always thought it smelled like old socks.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Well, it's certainly not toe cheese, nor Limburger, nor brie nor bleu. Camembert, maybe? Latakia smells more like smokey BBQ pit to me.

 

[elbert]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vJhq9eq_eJg

 

[shanelktown]

Classic

 

[shutterbugg]

The girls in my college classes likened the smell of latakia to cheese. Oh wait, it was to someone cutting the cheese.
If it smells like cheese, it would have to be smoked gouda or something. Basically latakia smells like a burned-out building on a damp day.