Real Tobacco Blends vs Aromatics

[Professor Moriarty]

Not to offend anyone or start fights--to each his own.
I formerly enjoyed the occasional aromatic, but now find them all offensive, vile, and contrary to the spirit of smoking.
To me, they are kid stuff--like cherry flavored cigars.
I have re-discovered my love of English blends. Even a lightly flavored tobacco is now repugnant to me.
Candies, puddings, chocolates, coffee, bourbon, florals...all have their place, but not in my pipe.

 

[BCF]

I enjoy a good Aromatic now and again.

 

[anotherbob]

I generally like tobacco forward blends. But there are some great aromatics. Founding Fathers by C&D is great, EGR is great, and a few others.

 

[shanez]

Some of the best blends are in fact aromatic.

 

[condorlover1]

Well I guess you won't be smoking any of Holmes 'Rose Geranium' favorites before getting tossed of the Reichenbach Falls!

 

[Professor Moriarty]

Well I guess you won't be smoking any of Holmes 'Rose Geranium' favorites before getting tossed of the Reichenbach Falls!

"He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was a new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen him show any keen interest in natural objects."

"There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance."

But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers."

 

[kcghost]

I generally follow the rule it is best to not speak ill of what other people like, but like the author I do enjoy a good English blend.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I have re-discovered my love of English blends. Even a lightly flavored tobacco is now repugnant to me.

Anyone else see the irony here?

 

[Professor Moriarty]

I generally follow the rule it is best to not speak ill of what other people like, but like the author I do enjoy a good English blend.

Some folks like Satan but it will not keep me from speaking ill of him.

 

[Professor Moriarty]

Anyone else see the irony here?

*artificially flavored -- easily deduced from the context

 

[Chasing Embers]

*artificially flavored

So tobacco is smoked naturally in the wild? Unless you're growing it yourself, most commercial tobacco is flavored to make it more palatable. Not to mention that without flavored tobacco sales, pipe tobacco companies wouldn't make enough profit to remain in business.

 

[jpberg]

It’s been fun to watch the internet groupthink through the years.

Until a couple years ago, discussion of “aromatics” was practically unheard of.
More and more discussions lately, and I think that’s great - like there’s a bunch of new forum members around the internet who haven’t been conditioned by the shit talking “pros” to believe that they can’t enjoy a blend because internet says what the OP said.
Smoke whatever tastes good, regardless of what you read.

 

[Professor Moriarty]

So tobacco is smoked naturally in the wild? Unless you're growing it yourself, most commercial tobacco is flavored to make it more palatable. Not to mention that without flavored tobacco sales, pipe tobacco companies wouldn't make enough profit to remain in business.

1. English blends, by definition, adhere to former English law which forbade artificial additives to tobacco
2. The economics of tobacco companies does not in the least modify my preferences

 

[jpberg]

1. English blends, by definition, adhere to former English law which forbade artificial additives to tobacco
2. The economics of tobacco companies does not in the least modify my preferences

What English blends do you smoke?

 

[Professor Moriarty]

It’s been fun to watch the internet groupthink through the years.

Until a couple years ago, discussion of “aromatics” was practically unheard of.
More and more discussions lately, and I think that’s great - like there’s a bunch of new forum members around the internet who haven’t been conditioned by the shit talking “pros” to believe that they can’t enjoy a blend because internet says what the OP said.
Smoke whatever tastes good, regardless of what you read.

Nothing has more harmed our hobby than newbies being turned off by goopy aromatics.

 

[jpberg]

Nothing has more harmed to our hobby than newbies being turned off by goopy aromatics.

Really? What do you suggest someone starts on?

 

[Professor Moriarty]

What English blends do you smoke?

All the good ones

 

[tobakenist]

I'm with you, over 50yrs of smoking I have stuck to English blends, occasionally I use Lakeland blends but English (well I live in England ) are my favourite.

 

[Professor Moriarty]

Really? What do you suggest someone starts on?

Anything except goopy aromatics.

 

[jpberg]

Is 1792 a goopy aromatic?