Season, Ilness, or Palate?

[tschiraldi]

For years now I have only been smoking 3 or 4 blends on any sort of a regular basis. The one constant, every single day blend for me has been PS Luxury Twist Flake. Seriously, I am nearing codger status here. It has been my absolute favorite blend for years! That has changed in the last month or so. I got really sick a number of weeks ago. Since then, I am not getting the flavors from my favorite blend. Deep Winter has set in, as well. There is another blend I have been smoking, and it has been great, to the point that I have purchased over 2lbs of it the last couple weeks. It has knocked LTF off its throne, at least for now. I don’t know if it’s lingering effects of my illness, the change of seasons, or simply a palate thing. I’m still smoking LTF at least once a day out of sheer stubbornness just to try and dial it back in, lol.

 

[Warlee]

I had an infected tooth about 3 weeks ago. Everything has tasted funny including my favorite blends. I just finished my antibiotic and things have improved very slowly. Illness, medication, allergies, all kinds of things seem to change my taste buds to some degree. I would give it some time and see if it improves.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Had a bout of really bad bronchitis before Thanksgiving - I don’t even bother with a pipe until all the effects are gone and that took some time in this case. If things don’t taste “right” I generally know why and not worth it to me to have a tasteless or “off” bowl so I grab a binky.

 

[Deano]

Yeah. Lately im not tasting some tobaccos very well and others not as strongly as I should. I think mine is sinus related.

 

[Mrs. Pickles]

You could try running in the opposite direction and not smoke your LTF for a while and see if that sensitizes you to it again.

I’m all for the fun of smoking something you don’t like to “figure it out,” but otherwise, when the pleasure drains out of something, it’s usually time to back off.