Putrid Odor

[dctune]

I ordered a few match blends from a particular online retailer a couple months ago. Tobacco smelled fine when it arrived. But has now developed a kind of putrid odor. Almost like the presence of a Colby cheese or something mixed in with the leaf.

Anybody experienced this before? Any ideas?

 

[canucklehead]

Are they perique blends?

 

[mso489]

You may not have noticed it at first, but a lot of blends are stinkers in the tin or package, and taste fine when smoked. Bayou Night has a real barnyard twang in the jar, and Semois burley variant has a definite stable fragrance. Both of these are favorites of mine, bold and yet subtle.

 

[pantsBoots]

I ordered a few match blends from a particular online retailer a couple months ago. Tobacco smelled fine when it arrived. But has now developed a kind of putrid odor. Almost like the presence of a Colby cheese or something mixed in with the leaf.

Anybody experienced this before? Any ideas?

Are they abnormally wet and growing mold?

 

[kcghost]

It would help us if you would list the type or types of tobaccos you purchased. Otherwise we are just guessing.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

I can’t smell it over my phone! More info! ?

 

[warren]

Anybody experienced this before? Any ideas?

I've got a couple of "putrid", to my sense of smell, smelling blends on the shelf. But, I purchased them to smoke not smell. Very little connection of "tin note" to taste.

 

[dctune]

I can’t believe y’all can’t smell it over the phone/web. I’m surrounded by a bunch of olfactory-challenged ogres here. ?

here are the blends…

P&C Match Nightcap
-worst offender here. Smelled and smoked fine when jarred. Now, not so much.

P&C Match My Mixture
-I actually prefer this match to the original. Smelled and smoked wonderfully at first. Smoked through it rather quickly, so left it in the 2-ounce ziplock. As I got toward the end of the bag, it had the same odor.

Sutliff Majestic English
Smelled and smokes great at first. Now has same odor.

Hope this helps. Sorry for not including blends earlier.

 

[jpmcwjr]

So, after jarring for two months the odor started- do I have that right?

And what are they stored in?

Is the tobacco wet or dry?

 

[dctune]

So, after jarring for two months the odor started- do I have that right?

And what are they stored in?

Is the tobacco wet or dry?

Yes, you have that correct. Except the Sutliff is double bagged in Ziplock.

The tobacco is dry. Not overly. Appears to be just right to the touch. And it doesn’t appear to have any white moldy white spots.

Mildew perhaps?

 

[dctune]

You may not have noticed it at first, but a lot of blends are stinkers in the tin or package, and taste fine when smoked. Bayou Night has a real barnyard twang in the jar, and Semois burley variant has a definite stable fragrance. Both of these are favorites of mine, bold and yet subtle.

Indeed. But this is a different smell. And it was previously absent.

I listed the blends in a follow-up a few posts above.

Magnum Opus has a pretty rife, tangy odor, but tastes wonderful. But that smell isn’t “off” like this stuff is.

 

[dctune]

It would help us if you would list the type or types of tobaccos you purchased. Otherwise we are just guessing.

Listed blends in a follow-up a few posts above.

 

[Sonorisis]

I have always taken the "barnyard" smell of cigars and pipe tobacco as a sign the tobacco was grown in very rich soil, which allowed the plant to fix a lot of nitrogen while growing. Ammonia off-gasses from tobacco as it ages -- which is also a good sign that the tobacco is settling down and (usually) improving. I don't buy cigars that aren't rich in ammonia. If they're not, they are almost always of a lower quality leaf in my experience.

 

[mso489]

Okay. It doesn't sound like the blend's natural tin note. How do they smoke? If you are picking up any of that in the flavor when you smoke, I think I'd put the tobacco on the garden, where its smell will go unnoticed.

 

[dctune]

I have always taken the "barnyard" smell of cigars and pipe tobacco as a sign the tobacco was grown in very rich soil, which allowed the plant to fix a lot of nitrogen while growing. Ammonia off-gasses from tobacco as it ages -- which is also a good sign that the tobacco is settling down and (usually) improving. I don't buy cigars that aren't rich in ammonia. If they're not, they are almost always of a lower quality leaf in my experience.

Interesting. Maybe I’ll air it out a bit, let it sit another couple months, then see what it’s like.

 

[dctune]

Okay. It doesn't sound like the blend's natural tin note. How do they smoke? If you are picking up any of that in the flavor when you smoke, I think I'd put the tobacco on the garden, where its smell will go unnoticed.

I didn’t smoke any of it bc of the odor. It was smoking fine before the odor, however.

 

[pantsBoots]

Okay. It doesn't sound like the blend's natural tin note. How do they smoke? If you are picking up any of that in the flavor when you smoke, I think I'd put the tobacco on the garden, where its smell will go unnoticed.

Be careful adding tobacco products to your garden if you grow nightshades (tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, tobacco, nightshade, etc, etc). Tobacco Mosaic Virus is no joke - I've met a few tomato farmers who won't even allow smoking on their property.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

I ordered a few match blends from a particular online retailer a couple months ago. Tobacco smelled fine when it arrived. But has now developed a kind of putrid odor. Almost like the presence of a Colby cheese or something mixed in with the leaf.

Anybody experienced this before? Any ideas?

Who cut the cheese???????

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Could be your upper lip.

 

[dctune]

UPDATE: after reading these replies, thinking it over, and having my wife put her nose to the jar as well, we’ve decided the odor is definitely (as has been mentioned in some replies) a “barnyard smell.”

Not sure if that helps at all.

Thx for all the info.