I was brave enough to take down 1.5 bowls of the 1oz I bought, before just tossing it. Grab a long match to start burning through the shell, then get ready for that muck, muckity smoke which is tooth shatteringly sweet, yet flat and unsatisfying at the same time. Grab some gloves and dip into this sticky mess of spongy what-not that used to be tobacco. The waves of sweet (vanilla/caramel? - sure why not) vapors kind of have a hint of rum for the imaginative type, but at the end of the road is a bowl Cocoa Puffs that has been fermenting in the hot sun. You can smell a bag of this drenched, flavor sprayed, stuff a mile away. Pipe Used: Aldo Velani Duke, Ukrainian Pear Wood, MM Cob Just enough flavorings to make it enjoyable, but not over the top like some Aromatics and it's an all day smoke. This is a tobacco I would recommend to them as they build up to more bodied tobaccos. When I review on TR, I try to make my reviews something the "newbie" or less experienced piper can gain something from. Very mild, and finishes pretty well on the palate all the way through each bowl I've enjoyed. It does burn cool, but of course that depends on the smoker and the vessel. No bite, but I would definitely not smoke this too fast because of the moisture content, which I'm sure would then give it a bite.
The Rum is apparent and just enough to balance out the caramel and vanilla. The first few puffs yielded a very nice flavor that was sweet, with just a little saltiness (probably the caramel casing) but nothing overwhelming. The room note is really, really nice, kinda soothing. After packing a bowl, and lighting it, it ignited right away and for the most part stayed ignited throughout each bowl. So 3 years later it's still the same except instead of the bag it was shipped in, it's been in a mason jar. Very mild, with really decent flavor to it, would fit in my early morning rotation". I picked this up about 3 years ago, and the notes I made say: "very, very moist out of the bag, aroma is nice, typical of Altadis tobacco. I have a HUGE cellar of tobaccos and every now and then I take something out to smoke that I either forgot I had, or for whatever reason just didn't want to smoke it. Although I've enjoyed pipe smoking since the 70's, I would not call myself an expert, so I only give my fair, honest opinion of what I think of tobaccos.
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