What's on my cigars

[tjhemp]

Got a five pack of Illusione Epernay and I noticed what looks like a fine powder on them. They all look the same and it isn't real obvious just in the right light. The camera seemed to pick it up pretty good. What do you think. Could it be mold, plume, or something else?

[Ropey]

Bloom?

[Laynard]

Does it wipe off? My thoughts are a mild pluming, or simply a hairy-like structure to the leaf. Doesn't look like mold to me. Could just be dust from the box they originated from.

[tjhemp]

It does wipe off pretty easily. It doesn't look like any mold I've seen on cigars. It is very uniformly covering the cigar in what is almost a white powdery substance.

[Tobias Lutz]

Could just be dust from the box they originated from.

My vote^^^ in my experience, the spanish cedar cigar boxes are never finished with much detail, and I don't remember Illusiones being wrapped in cello.

[Ropey]

How long ya had 'em?

[tjhemp]

How long ya had 'em?

Just got them yesterday from Small Batch Cigar.

[Cardinal]

In before, "It's never plume."

But seriously...it's never plume. Right?

You use kitty litter for humidity control? Sometimes that generates a little dust, but if you say it's uniform across cigars then that answer doesn't sound right.

[Indyhp]

Looks like sheetrock dust.

[AuTechCoM]

All of you guys are wrong. This is what plume/bloom looks like.





However I have had the same thing on a Nica Rustica.