What Did You Smoke Today? (Pipe Edition)

[Emperor Zurg]

Trying a small bowl of Solani Green Label. I can tell it probably smells nice but unfortunately, it's pretty much the same thin, airy, perfumey experience offered by most aromatics. It's not as thin as some but definitely not meaty like the blends I usually gravitate toward. I wonder if it'll mix well with something like Dark Plug to sort of temper the stench and stabilize the burn.

This green label reminds me of a DE aromaitc. It's got the same feel to it. Wouldn't be surprised if they were both made by the same company.

As far as these aros go, I actually like the Ennerdale better. Never thought I'd say that btw... Ennerdale is perfumey but you can tell the tobacco is there and still has some backbone to it. Maybe it's because it contains no black cav; I still can't see the purpose of that stuff.

[Pipe Smoker]

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The only aromatic I’ve tried that I’ll buy again is Solani Tropical Mango Flake. Too intensely aromatic for me to smoke straight, but a little bit of it livens-up tobaccos such as Dunhill Flake. You might like it — definitely has real tobacco flavor under the aromatic stuff. Much more than the three other Solani aros that I’ve tried, including Green Label.

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Sipping Wessex Classic Virginia in my Tinsky brandy. And sipping Nespresso Ristreto espresso too — a tasty combo.

[Pipe Smoker]

Puffing Solani ABF in my Tinsky brandy. I don’t smoke a lot of ABF, but every so often an urge for this burley hits me right between the eyes.

[Emperor Zurg]

The only aromatic I’ve tried that I’ll buy again is Solani Tropical Mango Flake...

I've got a small pile of G&H Cherry Cream Flake diced into cubes and drying out in the event that I get a chance to smoke it sometime in the next day or so. This is one you might like. From the description it's a straight Va with a cherry cream essence. It smells like cherry jam in the jar - you'd think you could eat it. However, once on fire, it doesn't come off as an overpowering aromatic; just a nice Va with a light addition. Nice change of pace.

[Cool Breeze]

Enjoying a bowl of McClelland Anniversary 2005.
Trying to savor it slowly.

[GWBowman]

LJ Peretti Pride of Loch Lomond in a meer

[Pipe Smoker]

A fill of Hamborger Veermaster is going down very nicely in my venerable Kirsten. I don’t know how many fills this pipe has burned, but it’s well into the thousands. There have been months-long stretches when I smoked this pipe exclusively.

[Pipe Smoker]

And now, for something completely different... A well mixed, 50/50 blend of F&T Blackjack and Solani 763, White & Black. The F&T is a quite sharp Virginia, while the Solani is a very mild Latakia & Black Cavendish mixture.

Very good, it is — a successful experiment! Puffing it in my old Kirsten.

[Pipe Smoker]

Puffing The Mallard (Dan Tobacco), in my Tinsky billiard. I’m thinking that The Mallard is the best tobacco that I’ve ever smoked.

[Aguineapig]

A bowl of blackhouse in a Digby Billiard. Carving spoons.