What Are Your Favorite Aromatic Blends

[Pirate444]

EDIT: Fixed Capitalization in Title (See Rule 9)

Best tasting aromatics?

 

[Chasing Embers]

Best tasting aromatics?

That's a bit subjective, but here we go.

D&R London Dock
Exotic Orange
Belmont Station
Devil's Holiday
Blackberry Brandy
Rich Dark Honeydew
Ennerdale Flake
Glengary Flake
Grasmere Flake
Kendall Gold BaNana
English Chocolate
Deep Hollow
Bagpiper's Dream
Sleepy Hollow
Blood Red Moon

 

[wordheavy]

My favorites are Old Toby and Rivendell from Country Squire. Just about the only aros I smoke.

 

[Pirate444]

That's a bit subjective, but here we go.

D&R London Dock
Exotic Orange
Belmont Station
Devil's Holiday
Blackberry Brandy
Rich Dark Honeydew
Ennerdale Flake
Glengary Flake
Grasmere Flake
Kendall Gold BaNana
English Chocolate
Deep Hollow
Bagpiper's Dream
Sleepy Hollow
Blood Red Moon

Damn that's a list. Gonna have to research some of these to see if I wanna try.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Damn that's a list. Gonna have to research some of these to see if I wanna try.

I was restraining myself.?

 

[Jwebb90]

I am not big on aromatics but a lot of folks talk about the Country Squire's house blends. I would say that would be a great place to start.

 

[ray47]

MacBaren's Vanilla Flake or Loose Cut.

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

Gawith's:
RB Plug
Jamaican Flake
Black Cherry Twist
Sweet Rum Twist
Bourbon Flake
Ennerdale Flake
Grousemoor Plug

Solani 131 Red Label
Germain's Medium Flake

 

[olkofri]

Sillem's Black.

 

[boston]

Ennerdale and 1792.

 

[alaskanpiper]

Country Squire Old Toby and Hunting Creek
Boswell’s Raspberry Cream and Piper’s Pleasure
Sutliff Molto Dolce and Black Cordial
Scotty’s Trout Stream
Gawith Hoggarth New Prince
Gawith Hoggarth Ennerdale Flake
Nording Hunter’s Labrador
Rattray’s Bagpiper’s Dream
Ken Byron Burley Morning Pipe

 

[rushx9]

St Ives
Pembroke
Condor
Mick McQuaid
Firedance Flake
RB Plug
1792
Grousemoor
Sissinghurst
Elwood Flake #2
Amphora Full
Kentucky Nougat
Kendal Black Cherry
Bob's Chocolate Flake
Rum Flake
#7 Broken Flake
Grasmere
Ennerdale

Until typing those out I didn't really consider myself an "aro guy" ?

 

[alaskanpiper]

St Ives
Pembroke
Condor
Mick McQuaid
Firedance Flake
RB Plug
1792
Grousemoor
Sissinghurst
Elwood Flake #2
Amphora Full
Kentucky Nougat
Kendal Black Cherry
Bob's Chocolate Flake
Rum Flake
#7 Broken Flake
Grasmere
Ennerdale

Until typing those out I didn't really consider myself an "aro guy" ?

Haha, I’d say “lakeland guy” is probably more accurate.

 

[rushx9]

Haha, I’d say “lakeland guy” is probably more accurate.

I like the sound of that much better!

 

[tradition]

Sir Walter Raleigh Aromatic and around the holidays if it's available, Rattray's Exotic Passion

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

The Peterson seasonal editions and Special Reserve are often worth a look. I've tried 6 so far and enjoyed them all to varying degrees, the 2019 Special Reserve (still available) is a very nice chocolate & coffee aromatic.

 

[briarbuck]

Cut Virginia Plug or Sir Johns Flake is about as Aero as I get. I do enjoy those 2 blends very much.

I have a couple of tins of Exotic Orange squirreled away.

I have some 10 year old cru #4 and #2 that I have tried to like, to no avail.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Mcclelland Honeydew

 

[mso489]

SWR Aromatic, burley base, Virginia as condiment, flavored with three liqueurs

Granger, sometimes identified as a non-aro, molasses

Mixture No. 79, licorice

Planta Tobacco of the Year 2012, marula fruit that ferments and makes elephants drunk

Erin Go Bragh, Irish whiskey

C'est La Vie, vanilla

I tend to be mostly a nonzero smoker, but enjoy an aromatic as a change of pace, as long as it is tobacco forward; I want the flavoring to bring up the tobacco taste, not crowd it out.

 

[shanez]

IMO Gawith, Hoggarth, & Co. are the masters of aromatics. There are a ton of other excellent makers out there which says a lot about GH&C.

My personal favorite:

GH&C American Delight

Their Kentucky Nougat is good also but stronger.

My second favorite:

Sutliff Spiced Rum

I find I like Sutliff more than Lane. While Sutliff can be goopy sometimes I don't get the chemical taste I get from Lane sometimes.