No Tobacco Tastes as Good as it Smells!! Discuss
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Peterson old Dublin taste fore sure better then it smell even if it smell nice!
I've been smoking on and off for about 42 years, but I don't think that gives me more or less authority on this subject. I can easily understand the enjoyment of sniffing tobacco blends, down the row of apothecary jars in the pipe shop, or just-opened tins at home. Both aromatics and non-aromatics have stimulating bouquets. I can understand how some would prefer it to the smoking itself, but personally, I find the smoking more complex and interesting. They are two different experiences.
I also like the tin note more than the smoke. Even straight Virginias. There’s something to be said for both, though.
With many high quality blends, the tin note tends to have some kind of funky manure type aromas, and the tobacco tastes and smells better smoked. For example, I find this to be the case with GLP's latakia blends, which are some of my very favorite latakia blends.
Straight VA does smell excellent in the tin. Like raisins, and dried figs and dates and plums.
Straight VA does smell excellent in the tin. Like raisins, and dried figs and dates and plums.
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Well, if he has been smoking for fifty years he sure hasn't learned much. Doofus talk is what I say. Of course, I've only been smoking pipes 48 years.
It's true, Hobbit's Weed doesn't taste anything like it smells... and furthermore, the name is very misleading. Right Cosmic?
So, NO tobacco tastes as good as it smells is what he says. (removing double negatives)- then I'd say his experience is way different from mine. Some tobaccos smell like rotting food but taste great. Some smell wonderful, and are meh. And every combo in between.
His sniffer and/or taster is off, or maybe his experience is limited to a very few similar tobaccos. Or he could be just contentious.
About 25 years with the pipe, the last seven heavily involved.
I’ve said this before, Latakia reminds me of that smoked tea I can never seem to spell. Okay, lapsang suchong or similar
It wouldn't bother me in the slightest if the tobacco in the tin had no smell at all.
The only thing that matters is the taste and aroma when smoking.
The only thing that matters is the taste and aroma when smoking.
how good something is falls under the category of personal preference.
In my opinion I have generally preferred English and Balkan blends smoke nicer than their tin note.
I have found vapers to smoke far less interestingly than the tin aroma.
Aromatics have always disappointed upon smoking.
I have a Cornell an Dhiel blend that stinks like a manure and damp hay filled barn, but smokes beautifully.
I have found vapers to smoke far less interestingly than the tin aroma.
Aromatics have always disappointed upon smoking.
I have a Cornell an Dhiel blend that stinks like a manure and damp hay filled barn, but smokes beautifully.
Doesn't make him wrong either. You are asking about something which is strictly subjective. For me, many blends taste much better than they smell. But, others? No. I find the smell of a blend only tells me that it may smoke similarly to something I already indulge in. But, even that isn't true all of the time.
I’d say this matches my experience fairly accurately.
I’m curious which C&D blend you are talking about. I have found this to be true of Habana Daydream and Three Friars, both of which I love. Is it the burley or the perique that chiefly contributes that barnyard funk aroma?
+1 Capstan smells absolutely divine, pity i couldn’t taste anything in it
Pipe tobacco's tin note, room note, and flavor are all different to me, no matter the type of blend. I wouldn't though say it smells "better" than it tastes, just different. Most of the ones I smoke (non-aro) taste much BETTER than they smell.
I definitely agree that blends smell differently than they taste. I have been wondering - if 2 blends smell the same, will they taste the same? Can't decide on it myself.
I smoke a tobacco on cold nights. In can it smells like mule dung. But when I smoke it it smells like wet dirty socks and I throw up. The fact is that I love this tobacco..................I don't wanna say the name, you can have a sales record tonight...........