What Is Your Favourite Room Note ?
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The room odour of "unwashed socks"? "lingering farts"? "stale and clammy"?
Just what exactly, may I ask, are you guys smoking?
The only times I can smell anything is first thing in the morning or upon my return home.
When I smoked ciggies my home smelt like a public bar where some idiot thought that carpet would be a beaut idea.
Since I switched to a pipe, now I rarely smell much of anything.
When I do detect an odour from my tobacco [I smoke most genres through the day, a few small pipes of nice bud . . err my green medicine and a bowl of whatever blend before bed] it is not an unpleasant smell.
Maybe some guys hang around trendy boutiques and those new-age shops with the purty smelling soaps and incense too often and have become sensitive to manly scents like leather, wood and yes, good ol' unadulterated baccy?
I dunno but for fear of offending anyone, if ya home stinks "stale and clammy" or like "lingering farts" and "unwashed socks", may I suggest that the problem is not the tobacco?
A few tips that might help;
Change socks more regularly [Daily would be good]
Bathe more often than once a week. [don't be shy with the soap]
And for goodness sake, stop eating Mexican food from street carts and Taco Bell.
Hope this helps.
Just what exactly, may I ask, are you guys smoking?
The only times I can smell anything is first thing in the morning or upon my return home.
When I smoked ciggies my home smelt like a public bar where some idiot thought that carpet would be a beaut idea.
Since I switched to a pipe, now I rarely smell much of anything.
When I do detect an odour from my tobacco [I smoke most genres through the day, a few small pipes of nice bud . . err my green medicine and a bowl of whatever blend before bed] it is not an unpleasant smell.
Maybe some guys hang around trendy boutiques and those new-age shops with the purty smelling soaps and incense too often and have become sensitive to manly scents like leather, wood and yes, good ol' unadulterated baccy?
I dunno but for fear of offending anyone, if ya home stinks "stale and clammy" or like "lingering farts" and "unwashed socks", may I suggest that the problem is not the tobacco?
A few tips that might help;
Change socks more regularly [Daily would be good]
Bathe more often than once a week. [don't be shy with the soap]
And for goodness sake, stop eating Mexican food from street carts and Taco Bell.
Hope this helps.
I'm not exactly sure what a "pretentious professor odour" smells like but I'm betting it's a heap better than the lingering odour of unwashed socks, lingering farts and unwashed bodies.
MB Plumcake has one of my favourite tin notes [which often translates to a pleasant room note]
Shame that it's one of the few MacBaren blends that bites me like a bulldog [though I don't have that issue when I smoke it in a small meerschaum lined Dublin]
I only smoke outdoors at home.
Whenever I've frequented a cigar lounge or bar which allows smoking, the air-conditioning/ventilation is usually so efficient that there is no appreciable lingering room note.
I asked for a smoking room at a hotel once and enjoyed a cigar in the room. I almost asked to be moved to another room the next day - the stale cigar odour was overpowering in a not pleasant way. I was in the room for almost a week - lesson learnt
Whenever I've frequented a cigar lounge or bar which allows smoking, the air-conditioning/ventilation is usually so efficient that there is no appreciable lingering room note.
I asked for a smoking room at a hotel once and enjoyed a cigar in the room. I almost asked to be moved to another room the next day - the stale cigar odour was overpowering in a not pleasant way. I was in the room for almost a week - lesson learnt
I can’t smell the room note when I’m smoking, like many posters. I smoke inside, but always next to a window fan. It works so well that there is no lingering scent, so I don’t even get the 10 minutes after smell. I have but one buddy who smokes a pipe, so I often give him a 5 or 10 minute head start so I can sniff the side stream. He smokes aromatics or crossover Englishes (think Frog Morton or Boswell’s Titus), and those all smell great. But he doesn’t smoke what I usually do, Virginias, so I actually have no clue what my favorites smell like. I’ve even tried balling up a wad of Marlin Flake and trying to burn it like incense so I could get a sense of its room note. That didn’t work.
Every now and again I’ll be around someone smoking a vanilla aromatic, and that smells fantastic. Once a year I go to the Renaissance festival for the unparalleled people watching, and that seems to attract pipesmokers in proportions well in excess of the general population. Oh well, next time I’m hanging out with my buddy I’ll make him smoke a bowl out of the tin of Xmas Cheer I gave him a while back.
Every now and again I’ll be around someone smoking a vanilla aromatic, and that smells fantastic. Once a year I go to the Renaissance festival for the unparalleled people watching, and that seems to attract pipesmokers in proportions well in excess of the general population. Oh well, next time I’m hanging out with my buddy I’ll make him smoke a bowl out of the tin of Xmas Cheer I gave him a while back.
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Not a big fan of the room note of ten people smoking roll ups. My memory of it, is of what I would call a 'van note'. So when I left school at 16 I went out labouring with Murphy and Son. My abiding memory, is getting in that back of a van at six in the morning, and being met with ten or so Irish men all smoking roll ups. I would describe the van note as 'mustard gas'. Give me the pipe smoking professor any day lol
My favorite room note is Molte Dolci mixed with a fart. Kind of what comes out the exhaust when I eat baked beans and German chocolate cake.
Even when I was smoking a cigar or two a day, my house never had that odor.
I'm so glad I returned to the pipe because cigars were taking me to the poor house.
I'm so glad I returned to the pipe because cigars were taking me to the poor house.
Room note must be something the internet invented. I wonder if C.S. and J.R.R. discussed it back in the day at the Eagle and Child...LOL!! This is sad if you were not aware...
Historic Pub Frequented by JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis to Close (theonering.com)
I prefer outisde, but have no issues against those who partake inside. I'll never forget the Mercedes my former spouse was considering once where the previous owner was a cigar smoker. Nice car, but no deal. Once a car has been smoked in, its there for life. That said, my uncle was a smoker and drove a '54 Chevorlet. I loved the smell of that car.
I keep asking my daugther if my new home smells okay. Smell and taste are interesting because we get used to it and it takes someone else to notice.
I didn't smoke for a week and then had a bowl. It was wondeful for that first smoke and then then flavor disappeared.
Historic Pub Frequented by JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis to Close (theonering.com)
I prefer outisde, but have no issues against those who partake inside. I'll never forget the Mercedes my former spouse was considering once where the previous owner was a cigar smoker. Nice car, but no deal. Once a car has been smoked in, its there for life. That said, my uncle was a smoker and drove a '54 Chevorlet. I loved the smell of that car.
I keep asking my daugther if my new home smells okay. Smell and taste are interesting because we get used to it and it takes someone else to notice.
I didn't smoke for a week and then had a bowl. It was wondeful for that first smoke and then then flavor disappeared.
St. Bruno. Leaves a heady old fashioned funk in the house, car, clothes, everywhere really.
My favourite room note is freshly washed linen, cooking (not frying though), baking bread or cakes, old houses. Never tobacco, although I love smoking and smoke a lot.
I developed an immunity to Condor by smoking it in my van with the windows closed over the course of a whole winter.
Somehow I've survived !
Full Virginia Flake. Not that I can really smell what others are smelling while I’m smoking but this one gets the most compliments.