I feel your pain. I gave away a whole can of crooner minus the one bowl I tried. Can't do it.
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MM Cob with a personal burley base mixture I call Big R. A mug of 50/50 kombucha and ice tea.
I have a tin of C&D, not sure which one but it has deertongue. Smoked one bowl. Still have it. The tin with the lid on ghosted my shop for weeks. It reminds me of walking through the fields as a kid, maybe I'll open the tin once in a while and let it sit, like room freshener, not something I enjoy smoking. My pipe didn't like it either, Casper would cringe!
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A third of the way through the last of my open stash of year 2001 Wessex Campaign Dark Flake in a 2002 black sandblast full bend D.R. Ardor Urano dublin with a slightly tapered far side of the bowl and a black acrylic saddle stem. Had too much left for the Dunhill I had been smoking it in, and not quite enough to fill this bowl. I haven't smoked this pipe in a while, so it got the nod. I'll revisit the rest of this vintage tobacco at some point.
It is a deeply personal and nostalgic smell tied to many memories of both being in the woods and being around pipes. I have to wonder if using an extract of the plant would help with the acrid smoke it produces. The plant matter itself has this really intense dry, sort of herbal, woody flavor when smoked. Almost like smoking hops. The vanilla and minty flavors are there, but don’t do enough to offset the flavor.
It’s just way too intense and harsh imo. I keep a bag of Crooner in my work bag just for the smell but I can’t smoke it to save my life.
Really classy looking pipe. I like the spur.
Many people like it. I wanted to, but just couldn't find it in me.
2020 Burley Flake #1 in a Nording Grouse
Peretti Coffee Blend in the same cob.
G.L. Pease Cairo in a S.Bang billiard.
I wanted to like it as well. I'm not against those perfume type flavors. I happen to really like Peretti no name and original but cannot yet take the deer tongue in tobacco. Maybe I should try it as a mixer.
A little bit breezy, but out for a bowl of mystery tinbits in my Pete Short Army Pot. Also on display is my score from a visit to the Briarworks shop a couple days ago. 
Lizzie Blood Red Virginia in the Rossi apple
Gawith Cabbies Mixture in the new Musico Club army mount.
Having a bowl of Redburn watching and listening to the rain
A cool, dreary evening on the deck smoking Gawith Hoggarth Dark Flake unscented in a Savinelli Estella 316EX. A little Sagamore Rye in the glass and Van Morrison on the Bluetooth speaker for added accompaniment
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