Your Own "Worst" Tobacco

[Bbailey324]

Rattray's Exotic Orange was one I found completely repulsive. I like orange but that perfumey orange note is repulsive. That and I smoked it in one of my favorite Va and Va/Per pipes at one point and it took forever to get that ghost to leave. Velvet is another one I can't stand. I generally like codger burlies but that one tastes like play doh to me.

 

[Pooh-Bah]

Half and Half did nothing for me, but it's been greatly improved by a few months in a humidor-jar-thing with some aromatic dottle and a splash of creme de violette.

I'll actually say Saint Bruno is the worst. Because it smells nice and I like it, but it hurt my tongue every time I smoked it.

 

[grimpeur]

Rattray's Exotic Orange was one I found completely repulsive. I like orange but that perfumey orange note is repulsive. That and I smoked it in one of my favorite Va and Va/Per pipes at one point and it took forever to get that ghost to leave. Velvet is another one I can't stand. I generally like codger burlies but that one tastes like play doh to me.

Ooof! Yeah, I forgot about Exotic Orange...or did I repress the trauma? Absolutely the most "ghosting" tobacco I've ever encountered.

This may be the blend that I would say, if this is all there was, give me some cigarettes.

 

[greeneyes]

Honorable mention goes to two:

Charles Fairmorn's Sundowner Mixture

Uptown's Smoke Shop Culloden's Harvest

They were so bad that they expanded my horizons in terms of a new bottom to which a tobacco can descend.

 

[bullet08]

If I could at least detested this blend, I could at least say I tried it. I got absolutely nothing out of it. Velvet.

 

[vosBghos]

C&D epiphany. It's rough, acrid, I think the only tobacco that I can say I absolutely disliked

reminds me of their Christmas blends YUCK and they all ghost something terrible

 

[BrightDarkEyes]

Golden Blend’s Black Cherry. It came out of a vending machine in Japan. My brother and sister in-laws bought it for me on their trip last year because they knew I smoke a pipe. I wish I could have liked it and I appreciated the though but it wasn’t for me. The ghost is still lingering in the meerschaum I smoked it in.

 

[BingBong]

How old was the Mahogany? I didn't like it either but found the old re-sealed tin and looked twice at it, looking back at me.

I'd just bought it online; the tin code is July 2022 though, so a couple of years old.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Wow, the usual suspects haven't arrived to cry foul over some of the posts. Civility seems to have arrived!

 

[anotherbob]

Capstan blue. Just might be the only tin I never finished. I know it's supposed to be amazing but frankly I didn't know I could feel bored while smoking a pipe.

 

[BrightDarkEyes]

Wow, the usual suspects haven't arrived to cry foul over some of the posts. Civility seems to have arrived!

All is calm on the western front…

 

[BingBong]

Captain Monochromatic, Royal Yuck, Condor Blue (Anyone remember that one?) Clan, Three Nonsense, all of them are horrible in their own special way and taste like you are smoking a dumpster!

Three Nuns was my long time OTC codger blend, but after it became Two Nuns, I drifted away from it.

Clan I had a poor experience with in the 1970s; I'm told it's "not what it was nowadays" and my mind can only boggle.

 

[JOHN72]

Any tobacco, with that aroma of chemical sauce to jelly beans, red fruits of the forest of chernobyl, expired. You smoke it, and you say, fuck it, I'm quitting for life.

 

[DedHed Piper]

I've had tobaccos that was bland, or boring, or flat or ashy or whatever. The only one I've felt tasted really bad was Haunted Bookshop.
I tried several bowls in different pipes, moist to dry af. Nop, it was supposed to taste like that. Like crap.

Not my thing apparently.

 

[RookieGuy80]

I could cheat and say any cherry blends I've had. I decidedly do not like cherry or cherries outside of the traditional garnish in a Manhattan. But Mrs. Rookie likes cherry, so I choked down a few tins/ounces trying to find a compromise.

I think my "worst" would be either 1Q or Sutliff Apple. 1Q at least mixes into other blends allowing me to empty the jar. It's not as much as it was bad tobacco, but the flavor was not for me. Sutliff Apple was just so disappointing to me. I had hoped for an apple flavored aromatic. Instead I got hot air in a pipe.

 

[woodsroad]

Most of the Gawith Lakelands are way out of bounds for me, but I do appreciate the tobacco blends in them. Not so with 1Q and Captain Black Grape. Neither of them have any redeeming value to me, and are best used as rat poison. I’m sure there could be other blends that I’d find revolting, but this forum has helped me avoid them (can you say Non Plus Ultra?).

 

[Briarcutter]

1-Q

 

[captpat]

5 o'clock shadow went straight to the garden, after a partial bowl. Haven't found a C&D blend I'd order a second time, I'm no longer giving them the benefit of the doubt.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Stonehaven

 

[ThermionicScott]

C&D epiphany. It's rough, acrid, I think the only tobacco that I can say I absolutely disliked

That's a weird one. The first part of the tin is always tasty for me, and I wonder why I don't make it my main blend, and by the end it's back to tasting like a rough jumble of tobaccos. I suspect it's very dependent on that topping to tie everything together.