Plastic wrappers - stay or go?

[CitizenZero]

Even going back to my Puff days, this always came down to a matter of personal preference but I’m curious if anyone else notices the unpleasant odor that I do. It doesn’t seem to matter what stick, good/bad, cheap/expensive, I notice a similar acrid smell whenever I take a cigar out of the cello. It’s the one and only reason I remove the plastic and usually let my sticks hang out for about a week before I smoke em.


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[Old Smokey]

Even going back to my Puff days, this always came down to a matter of personal preference but I’m curious if anyone else notices the unpleasant odor that I do. It doesn’t seem to matter what stick, good/bad, cheap/expensive, I notice a similar acrid smell whenever I take a cigar out of the cello. It’s the one and only reason I remove the plastic and usually let my sticks hang out for about a week before I smoke em.


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I'm curious what it is your smelling. How would you describe it? Tobacco fermentation?

[CitizenZero]

I'm curious what it is your smelling. How would you describe it? Tobacco fermentation?

I mean.... maybe? When I think tobacco fermentation, my mind usually goes to a sweeter smell kinda like pipe tobacco but maybe that’s it. I want to use the word “sour” but I don’t think that’s quite it.


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[Old Smokey]

I mean.... maybe? When I think tobacco fermentation, my mind usually goes to a sweeter smell kinda like pipe tobacco but maybe that’s it. I want to use the word “sour” but I don’t think that’s quite it.


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I have always related tobacco fermentation with an ammonia taste of smell. I am about as far from an expert as possible, but it is my understanding cigars go through up to 4 fermentation periods with the first 2 being most prominent. Could this the odor you smell?

[CitizenZero]

I have always related tobacco fermentation with an ammonia taste of smell. I am about as far from an expert as possible, but it is my understanding cigars go through up to 4 fermentation periods with the first 2 being most prominent. Could this the odor you smell?

Yeah, a light sort of ammonia odor sounds about right.


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[allusred]

I have always related tobacco fermentation with an ammonia taste of smell. I am about as far from an expert as possible, but it is my understanding cigars go through up to 4 fermentation periods with the first 2 being most prominent. Could this the odor you smell?

Have forgotten about that smell, do remember noticing it. And think it was the fermentation You mention. However seldom sniff the cigar, just cut & smoke.
Mebbbe jes ain't got no time fo dat.

[CentralTimeSmoke]

Even going back to my Puff days, this always came down to a matter of personal preference but I’m curious if anyone else notices the unpleasant odor that I do. It doesn’t seem to matter what stick, good/bad, cheap/expensive, I notice a similar acrid smell whenever I take a cigar out of the cello. It’s the one and only reason I remove the plastic and usually let my sticks hang out for about a week before I smoke em.


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You're saying it's like this with every cigar you smoke?

[CitizenZero]

Yeah. Pretty much.


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[CentralTimeSmoke]

Yeah. Pretty much.


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Hmm. Strange. Cellophane is a natural product made out of cellulose. It does have a bit of a smell to it. It has to be that. There's no way that every cigar you smoke is having fermentation issues. What do you keep your RH at?

[Emperor Zurg]

Cellophane is a natural product made out of cellulose.

Production:
Cellulose from wood, cotton, hemp, or other sources is dissolved in alkali and carbon disulfide to make a solution called viscose, which is then extruded through a slit into a bath of dilute sulfuric acid and sodium sulfate to reconvert the viscose into cellulose. The film is then passed through several more baths, one to remove sulfur, one to bleach the film, and one to add softening materials such as glycerin to prevent the film from becoming brittle.

Yeah, that sounds pretty 'natural' to me... no wonder the stuff stinks