What in the world am I tasting???

[unkleyoda]

Irish Mist is a brown Whiskey Liqueur produced in Dublin, Ireland, by the Irish Mist Liqueur Company Ltd. In September 2010 it was announced that the brand was being bought by Gruppo Campari[1] from William Grant, only a few months after Grants had bought it from the C&C Group.[2] It is made from aged Irish whiskey, heather and clover honey, aromatic herbs, and other spirits, blended to an ancient recipe claimed to be 1,000 years old.[3] Though it was once 80 proof (40% alcohol per volume), Irish Mist is now 35% or 70 proof. The bottle shape has also been changed from a "decanter" style to a more traditional whiskey bottle shape.[4] It is currently available in more than 40 countries.[5]

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In "bold" are your culprits.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

soap tastes nothing like Floral Extract.

Ha ha, you must be eating the wrong soaps. The rose geranium smells just like those old pink pink soaps that you aren't supposed to actually use that grandmas kept in the bathroom to cover their fart smells. Jeez, we say this over and overt and over... It must be that English grandmothers never bought those soaps.
But, all soaps smell floral to me. Floral is not exactly what I would want in my tobacco. I mean, I tolerate it occasionally for the effects of strong tobaccos, but every time I have to wonder about the weirdness of a culture that would take such a strong manly tobacco and then spray floral grandma scents all over it.

 

[uperepik]

So I tried two more C&D aromatics, Green River vanilla and Jamaican Rum. I noticed a hint of whatever it is in Nutty Irishman. I'm guessing whatever it is it is in all of C&D's aromatics. Not knocking C&D, there's just something in there my tastebuts don't quite like.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

C&D are masters of Burley. I can say enough great things about their Burley. I've only ever had their Autumn Evening aromatic, but I really should try more of their other aro products.

 

[lordofthepiperings]

I concur, the Lakeland blends taste just like those nasty grandma floral soap bars. It's the only blend type I've had one bowl of and swore off the entire genre forever.