Love at First Smoke?

[smokiespipesmoker123]

Plum Pudding

 

[ray47]

Lets see, let me think a minute.....tic tok, tic tok, tic tok, tic tok....on yeah "PEGASUS" .

 

[danish]

I made notes about my first many tobacco purchases, after having smoked a few bowls or a tin, when I was very young and can only wonder why my later preferred tobacco for decades, yellow Capstan scored so much lower than the blue, which I also still love. Recently (last ten years), I remember loving RM Scottish Cake, Dunhill's London Mixture, SG English Summer Flake and Dunhill's 221b Baker St. from the first bowls. I still love them all but I still mostly smoke yellow Capstan these days.

 

[Philosopiper]

Plum Pudding

I thought Plum Pudding was a gift from God on my first smokes. But it didn't become a daily, not for long anyway.

 

[pipestud]

A recent thread by @Etipton had people mentioning things like warming up to a tobacco, never finding a tobacco that they loved from the get-go, loving the first smoke but getting bored later on, etc.

What about tobaccos you loved at first smoke, and that immediately became a daily smoke?

Having tried ~25 tobaccos, only Luxury Navy Flake has been like this for me. The deep, wheat toasty flavor of this VaPer won me over immediately.

Howdy Philosopiper,

Back in 1986 I tried a Dunhill tobacco for the first time by the name of Royal Yacht. Here it is 2021, and I still smoke it every day. Sure hope my tastes don't change because I have a few tins of the Murray's era Royal Yacht... in fact, probably enough to last me the rest of my life three times over.

Pipestud

 

[Chasing Embers]

Howdy Philosopiper,

Back in 1986 I tried a Dunhill tobacco for the first time by the name of Royal Yacht. Here it is 2021, and I still smoke it every day. Sure hope my tastes don't change because I have a few tins of the Murray's era Royal Yacht... in fact, probably enough to last me the rest of my life three times over.

Pipestud

No match for Murray's Three Year Matured. Bruce taught me well.?

 

[kcghost]

There are any number I can name that I loved and still love today. Most recently it was Six Pence, Stonehenge, and Mad Fiddler.

 

[That Guy]

More like the delusional rambling of a tobacco crazed addict ?

Blessed by the pipe gods are those who can answer with many tobaccos.

 

[Chasing Embers]

More like the delusional rambling of a tobacco crazed addict

It gets worse.

 

[That Guy]

It gets worse.

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If I didn't have so many other hobbies unfortunately that's what my collection would look like LOL

 

[Chasing Embers]

If I didn't have so many other hobbies unfortunately that's what my collection would look like LOL

I've got them too, just been at it for thirty years.?

 

[FurCoat]

I've had a few but the one that stands out is St. Bruno.

 

[wyfbane]

SPC Plum Pudding
Devil's Holiday
Mac Barens Navy Flake (minimum 5 years aging)
Tinderbox Waffle House
Ennerdale Flake
PS LBF
HH ODF
Billy Budd
McClelland Royal Cajun Ebony
C&D Star of the East Flake
Dan Treasures of Ireland: Limerick


And yes my tastes are all over the place.

 

[tobefrank]

Mine are:
Escudo
Full Virginia Plug
St James Flake
Erinmore Flake
Solani 633

 

[sablebrush52]

Wessex Campaign dark flake
Astley’s 44
Astley’s 109
Esoterica Dunbar
Esoterica Dorchester
Esoterica Brighton
HU 5th Anniversary Blend
H&H Anni Cake
Rougaroux
Bald Headed Teacher
McClellend 40th Anniversary
McCrainie’s Red Ribbon
Sutliff Cringle Flake 2020
Rattray’s HOTW
RO Perique Series GP-11
Motzek Strang
Solani 660 - Silver Flake
GL Pease Telegraph Hill
GL Pease Union Square
A&C Petersen Escudo
McClelland Red & Black
McClellend 35 Stave Aged
HU Director’s Cut
HU Makhuwa
GL Pease Stratford
Gawith Cabbie’s Mixture
Gawith Full Virginia Flake
Gawith St James Flake
F&T Cut Virginia Plug
St Bruno
D&R Rimboche
McClelland Dark Star
Germain’s Brown Flake
Germain’s Rich Dark Flake
Capstan Blue
Full Virginia Plug
Doblone D’ Oro
GL Pease Renaissance
GL Pease Bohemian Scandal
John Aylesbury Luxury Flake
Watch City Slices
Watch City Deluxe Crumb Cut
Gawith Best Brown Flake
GL Pease Haddos Delight

Just to name a few, off the top of my head.

 

[LimestoneCowboy]

Red Odessa. She is magically complex, strong yet forgiving, love at first sipping.

 

[PipesRock]

Peterson De Luxe Navy Rolls
Solani Silver Flake
HU Janneman flake
Match Victorian/Elizabethan
F&T Cut Virginia Plug

 

[gentlemancob]

For me it was Mac Baren’s Navy Flake. The first real tobacco I purchased, I kept the tin for 16 years I loved it so much.

 

[hauntedmyst]

There are a number of them for me. Esoterica Pembroke was one, Penzance was another before it got so hard to get. Now its more of the GH&Co blends:

Rum Flake
Dark Birds Eye
Kendal Dark
Kendal Mixed
Exclusive Black Cherry mixed with Black Sliced
Dark Flake with a dash of Latakia

Caminetto Lombardo and Como were love at first smoke but since they are discontinued I dole them out slowly.

 

[leonardbill1]

Dunhill/Peterson Early Morning Pipe and Seattle Pipe Club Plum Pudding Special Reserve would be at the top of the list of ones that are still available. Long list of ones that are history.