I'd been smoking a pipe for about 6 months or so, and had been reading these forum threads with great interest when I decided to take my first foray into latakia.
I ordered about 4 oz. of Newminster's #52 along with a few other tobacco blends and waited.
When the package arrived I could smell the smoky latakia just a little bit through the packaging.
When I opened the package I was BLOWN AWAY by the overpowering smell of smokey tobacco. I was amazed!
Other blends with powerful 'nose' are Ennerdale and Mixture 79. I'm sure there are more. Of the codger burley blends I find that Half and Half is the most pungent in the tub. It smells aromatic, rather than burley/tobacco.
I actually received a tin of pure blending perique and made my wife smell it, thinking she'd say, "Ew, gross!"
Her reaction was, "Yum! Smells like chocolate!"
I got some blending perique also/too. It smells to me like Copenhagen snuff.