Fumus
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As previously mentioned in the "what are you smoking" thread, my most recent blend to try is Sutliff's R blend. Maybe its just me, but the tin note sort of reminded me of wintergreen skoal. Not being a fan of either wintergreen, or Skoal for that matter, this was a dubious first impression at best. However having already learned that tin note and taste are rarely the same, (at least in my limited experience so far), I went ahead and loaded my trusty MM and gave it a go. SO GLAD THAT I DID! Lacking the refined pallet necessary for detecting the finer nuances, and the experience to identify the various tobacco varieties involved, I can only say that my overall impression was the smell of seasoned pine (I'm thinking Pinion) in a campfire. For me, this is a vary good thing indeed, and I'm guessing its the Latakia in the blend that brings this smoky goodness. There also seemed to be an almost citrus like quality on the tip of my tongue with every puff, along with a very mild underlying sweetness. This is the most complex tasting blend Ive tried so far. Whither that's due to improvement of my pallet or the quality of the blend I don't know. Perhaps its just that the various flavors in this blend are more pronounced and therefore easier for me to pick out than say...the flavors in the Escudo I tried earlier, which my pallet simply registered as DELECTABLE!
I also had the misfortune recently, to taste a bulk aromatic from a local BnM that my wife selected for her first smoke with her new pipe.
I have no idea what was in the blend (and wish I did so I could avoid it like the plague from here on out), but the name of it was "Merlin's Blend". While the "tin note" was chocolate and vanilla, the taste was enough to convince me that Merlin must have been an unhygienic cross dresser. My wife said it tasted like lavender. I say it tasted more like grandmas dirty laundry with a copious topping of the most odious old lady floral foo foo water imaginable. It was fall down and lick dirt to get the taste out of your mouth bad. I assured my wife that there were better tasting blends than that, and let her try the Barbados Plantation (also by Sutliff) that I was smoking. She agreed that the BP tasted much better, and wants to keep trying different blends. Meanwhile, I'm hoping the stink-weed blend didn't ghost her new pipe before she dumped it out. But if it did, Ill be performing a salt and vodka exorcism to remove the nastiness that was Merlin.
I also had the misfortune recently, to taste a bulk aromatic from a local BnM that my wife selected for her first smoke with her new pipe.
I have no idea what was in the blend (and wish I did so I could avoid it like the plague from here on out), but the name of it was "Merlin's Blend". While the "tin note" was chocolate and vanilla, the taste was enough to convince me that Merlin must have been an unhygienic cross dresser. My wife said it tasted like lavender. I say it tasted more like grandmas dirty laundry with a copious topping of the most odious old lady floral foo foo water imaginable. It was fall down and lick dirt to get the taste out of your mouth bad. I assured my wife that there were better tasting blends than that, and let her try the Barbados Plantation (also by Sutliff) that I was smoking. She agreed that the BP tasted much better, and wants to keep trying different blends. Meanwhile, I'm hoping the stink-weed blend didn't ghost her new pipe before she dumped it out. But if it did, Ill be performing a salt and vodka exorcism to remove the nastiness that was Merlin.
