Two Nuns and a Seminarian

[OzPiper]

I was lucky to attend a Christmas mass in an Eastern Orthodox church in Prague in the early 1990s, the incense smell was quite similar, and to the incense used for special occasions in Roman Catholic services. Recently I repaired a 100+ year old German church violin and when I removed the top, the smells from inside were again reminiscent of the incense notes I get from this blend.

Holy smokes! What a beautiful thing to imagine.

Holy Smokes indeed !

I’m a lapsed Catholic. Back when I attended regularly, I was particularly fond of high masses when they would bring out the censer.

 

[Joe H]

Thanks for the comments, encouragement, and sticking around while I played with tobacco.

@Roach1, I suspect my future blending will be restricted to adding cherry to my various blends as they lose their zing with age. I don’t have tons of tobacco, but I have several years’ worth more than I can smoke and it seems like less time to do it as I get older.

@Mrs. Pickles and @OzPiper, as my dad was in training to be a Catholic Priest, I’m grateful he never took his final vows of chastity. I like to say I’m a practicing Catholic, but the truth is I need the practice because I’m no good at it. Still, many of the trappings of the program are near and dear to me so having a tobacco blend that triggers those memories might just make smoking Two Nuns a religious experience.

Edit: Just because I can find it, here's the violin with the top removed so I could repair some separated corners. Besides the incense smell, there was an impressive spider nest. That went first before anything else could be done. It wasn't a valuable instrument, but worth saving. It sounds great now.