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Understanding Orientals/Turkish and what is recommended
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<blockquote data-quote="Sasquatch" data-source="post: 67400" data-attributes="member: 509"><p>Bent, the term "orientals" covers a lot of ground, so your confusion is warranted. A little like the term "cavendish", it really doesn't offer a definitive flavor spectrum if you hear that a tobacco contains "orientals". </p><p> </p><p>Crack the Red Rapparee and light it up. There's a richness, a fullness, a spicey note, a smokey note from a bit of cyprian latakia, and an obvious virginia sweetness. I suspect the first 3 are from the "orientals" in that blend.</p><p> </p><p>Crack the Presbyterian. It smells different than Red Rap by a long shot. It might even have a casing of some kind. But when you light it up, there's a very similar spicey fullness to it. I don't find it as sharp as the Red Rapp. (I think the little flat bits are cigar leaf too, so there's a bit of body added by that).</p><p> </p><p>If you move into the yenidje or the drama, you'll get a hit of those specific tobaccos, and you may find them to your liking and you may not. </p><p> </p><p>The way I try to understand tobaccos when I am exploring them is to see if I recognize any taste from some other tobacco, then I can kind of put it aside, and operate on the assumption that the other tastes in the blend come from the other components.</p><p> </p><p>To answer your latakia vs oriental question, latakia is an oriental tobacco, smoke cured I believe. But when we say "orientals" we don't generally mean latakia because it's so different in nature than the turkish stuff and whatever else there is that we classify as "orientals".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sasquatch, post: 67400, member: 509"] Bent, the term "orientals" covers a lot of ground, so your confusion is warranted. A little like the term "cavendish", it really doesn't offer a definitive flavor spectrum if you hear that a tobacco contains "orientals". Crack the Red Rapparee and light it up. There's a richness, a fullness, a spicey note, a smokey note from a bit of cyprian latakia, and an obvious virginia sweetness. I suspect the first 3 are from the "orientals" in that blend. Crack the Presbyterian. It smells different than Red Rap by a long shot. It might even have a casing of some kind. But when you light it up, there's a very similar spicey fullness to it. I don't find it as sharp as the Red Rapp. (I think the little flat bits are cigar leaf too, so there's a bit of body added by that). If you move into the yenidje or the drama, you'll get a hit of those specific tobaccos, and you may find them to your liking and you may not. The way I try to understand tobaccos when I am exploring them is to see if I recognize any taste from some other tobacco, then I can kind of put it aside, and operate on the assumption that the other tastes in the blend come from the other components. To answer your latakia vs oriental question, latakia is an oriental tobacco, smoke cured I believe. But when we say "orientals" we don't generally mean latakia because it's so different in nature than the turkish stuff and whatever else there is that we classify as "orientals". [/QUOTE]
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