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hauntedmyst

Lifer
Feb 1, 2010
4,015
20,691
Chicago
We've all had them, those perfect bowl fulls where for some ethereal reason, everything comes together in just the right way for that perfect smoke you wish would never end. Post yours here when you have them.
The Pipe: A beat up old Upshall Billiard

The Tobacco: Esoterica Pembroke

The Time and Place: Yesterday afternoon on my back porch

Notes: Gorgeous early fall afternoon, I was working on the porch enjoying a pipe and realized I had been puffing for an hour and a half and it was perfect.

 

chuckw

Part of the Furniture Now
Oct 7, 2009
679
16
It's happened twice in the last week or so. A Peterson Supreme bulldog and a Peterson Supreme 221 with a bowl of 9 year old Dunhill Flake.

 

ohin3

Lifer
Jun 2, 2010
2,461
164
Well, I haven't been smoking much because I sliced my arm open pretty good at work severing a couple nerves and tendons. One handed smoking is not as easy as you would think. But I did have a glorious smoke yesterday. 6 year old Escudo in a Stanwell bulldog. I love Escudo, but I find it hard to make behave. Well the stars lined up yesterday and my bowl of Escudo's only fault was that it ended.

 

ohin3

Lifer
Jun 2, 2010
2,461
164
Chuck I am SSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOO jealous of your 9 year old Dunhill Flake. It used to be a staple in my stash and I cant recall ever having anything but a perfect or near perfect smoke every bowl full. Oh how I miss that tobacco.

 

frostyforge

Lurker
Mar 30, 2010
45
0
For me it was mid spring, and I was driving to school one morning. I don't know what I did differently, but it was the same homemade corn cob and a 4 month old Bright Burly Virgina mix. I think it was a mixture of the cold air, beautiful day, and finally figuring out how to get the stupid pipe to stay lit.

 

pstlpkr

Lifer
Dec 14, 2009
9,694
33
Birmingham, AL
I have been wracking my brain for one of those perfect smokes that have left an impact.
There were several when I was in the Marine Corps and stationed at Kaneohe MCAS on Oahu. I worked the evening crew in H&MS-24 Avionics Repair.
Well, as many who have worked evening shifts know, once acclimated to that shift you may feel like Midnight is like Noon.

I would ride my little Yamaha DT-250 down to Pyramid Rock (a beach on the base) and hike about a mile away from the parking area, down below the golf course on the cliff above.

In seclusion I would smoke my pipe and watch the moon rise or set over the Pacific Ocean, and just listen to the surf and star-gaze in my combat boots and camis.

The only pipe I had with me there, was my Ben Wade Calabash and in it I smoked Captain Black White in perfect contentment.

Those were the days.

 

guillaume

Lurker
Jun 24, 2010
3
0
Here I thought I was doing something wrong most of the time.. Been there a few times, and tried to recreate it, the same palette cleanser, same temperature, same puffing rate, every pack variation and tobacco moisture I could think of. Best smoke I ever had was the day I learned my first way to blow smoke rings, after a few bowls of something else.

 

hobie1dog

Penzaholic
Jun 5, 2010
7,122
1,063
69
Cornelius, NC
Haven't had any of those moments yet...I think you have to already picked out your "go to " tobacco with a favorite, clean pipe. Can't be too hot or cold outside, as the ambiance has to be optimal, as to only add to the experience...producing an attitude of gratitude before you even light up.

 

buck67

Can't Leave
Aug 4, 2010
448
1
Little Rock
Last night, I smoked a bowl of Wilshire from my local tobacco shop. My Savinelli bare did it's job well while my wife and I had a nice conversation on the back deck after the sun went down. Relit once and after cleaning out the bowl, my wife suggested we go inside. That's as far as I will go with this one........ :)

 

hauntedmyst

Lifer
Feb 1, 2010
4,015
20,691
Chicago
Tonight on the porch with 2 bowls of Trout Brook in a dunnie bulldog. If I didn't have to go to bed, I'd have another 2 bowls.

 

spacecowboy57

Starting to Get Obsessed
Sep 14, 2010
167
2
Ive been enjoying my LOTR blends this week on a hilltop every evening in honor of tolkien week.

 

drsam

Starting to Get Obsessed
Sep 25, 2011
219
0
I had my first bowl of Escudo Navy De Luxe today in a little no name briar (cresent moon on stem)

I put one coin in and pushed it down to the bottom and crumbled another into the center.

Lit it off and sipped it down to the bottom in about one and a half hours while reading a book.

IT VAS VONDERFUL GUT!

Tasty, fragrant, absolutely delicious. First time and HOOKED!

 

markw4mms

Lifer
Jun 16, 2011
2,176
2
Bremen,GA
That last bowl I had that I would describe as a "perfect smoke", was the first time I smoked a bowl of Revor Plug, sitting on my front porch enjoying a nice, cool fall afternoon.

 

baronsamedi

Lifer
May 4, 2011
5,688
6
Dallas
Today while walking the dog and smoking my cob. It started out as a bowl full of Altadis Creme Brulee and ended with me blowing a few smoke rings and there was nothing left but ash at the end.

 

kennerth

Can't Leave
Jul 30, 2011
358
1
Driving to San Antonio, a bowl of CAO Eileen's Dream in my go-to KayWoodie Bulldog. I stopped at Dairy Cone in Columbus for my obligatory jalapeno burger. I was leaning on the hood. waiting for my food and I remember thinking that something smelled great. Then I realized that it was my car from the pipe smoke! The smoke was as pleasant in me as on me!

 

yuri66

Starting to Get Obsessed
Nov 17, 2010
287
0
For me it was in all but one of the places you'd ever expect, it was after a mission in Somalia, it was an intense night and when we got back to the rear everyone was exhausted, all you could smell is the cordite in the air from my guys, everyone pretty much went their own way, trying to sort out the night. I had no where to go so I jumped on the hood of my Hummer and stripped of my blouse off and to my surpirse my pipe was still in there with a full bowl. I lit the pipe and enjoyed the quiet and peace it gave me, I forgot where I was at for the moment and reality was only my pipe and me. I will never forget that night, for me something actually made sense where nothing did.

 
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