Why the big love with English blends? Smell is terrible

[thomasmartin]

Last summer, sitting outside a restaurant, a woman complemented me for the smell of my pipe. I was not smoking some vanilla bomb but London Mixture. Not that I'm a sucker for compliments from the fair sex but it was nice hearing this in these times where mostly you get bashed for your habit and it proofs my point that not all people find the smell of English blends offensive . And she was nice looking to!

 

[jpmcwjr]

I smoke mostly English blends, and in the last two weeks I've had several compliments on the scent, now living in a N. California coastal town. I've never had a complaint, except from my wife when I smoke inside.

 

[mso489]

Smell, hell. English blends are one of the anchors of the pipe culture. Don't like 'em? Don't smoke 'em. Easy.

 

[deathmetal]

Well, aromatics smell terrible to me,and taste like burnt candy.

Generally my issue as well, but then again, I have similar bad reactions to soft drinks, IPAs, whatever that crap is they make with goose livers, television and hip hop music.
The advantage of liking normal stuff is that it is always easy to find a favorite.
My compromise is Prince Albert. Available everywhere, tasty, and less burnt candy than 1Q or other soda pop tobaccos.
Smoke it if you like it... if you are ¡triggered! by criticism, maybe you do not really like it, or like it enough.
Heck, I go through a tin of Royal Yacht a week if I can and that makes me a social pariah in most circles. Just last month I was thrown out of an exclusive golf club for this preference.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Just last month I was thrown out of an exclusive golf club for this preference.

Maybe you shouldn't exhale a huge cloud of smoke under someone's nose on his backswing!

 

[ophiuchus]

My nose must be broken. I like the smell.
Due to the winter extension we received from the Arctic recently, the Lat-forward jars are still at the front of the rotation, and the windows are closed (most of them, anyway). If visitors have felt like they were entering the next circle of hell, no one's said anything yet. :lol:

 

[ophiuchus]

Waitaminute ... !
A buddy and I were out walking earlier in the winter; I had some Dunhill My Mixture 965 going. My friend, a cigarette smoker, commented on the strength of the smell of what I was smoking; he added apologetically, "Once in a while, it smells like ... shit!"
:lol: -I guess not everyone likes it.

 

[jpmcwjr]

And what did you say about his smoke??

 

[ophiuchus]

At the time, not much. :lol:
This particular friend gets some grief from me about the cigs on a somewhat regular basis. He didn't start smoking until he was 30. 30?!? Who decides he wants to smoke cigarettes at 30? :rofl: