Blends

DavidR002

Do the different blends really have maple or cherry and all the other blends  in them. I am smoking the Sutiff Vanilla Royale. It has great flavor but it does not have a vanilla taste to it. It  could be just my taste buds

motie2

Aromatic pipe tobaccos that taste like they smell are few and far between in my experience. When you find one you like, you are blessed.

DavidR002

Good answer, thanks 

motie2

@DavidR002 -- You are most welcome. One of us is always glad to answer any questions you might have about our pipe smoking hobby.....

Bonanzadriver

That being said, there are blends out there that truly deliver an excellent experience.

As I had posted, earlier this year, I love peaches and have been chasing a peach aro that delivers.  I finally found Sutliff's Peach Cobbler.  It's a great creamy, buttery and even peachy smoke. 

Very cool, mild and flavorful with no tongue bite.

Have also found a Caramel Apple that is excellent as well.

For me, when smoking an aro, the main thing I'm looking or is something mellow and not harsh, like Haunted Bookshop, that smokes cool and is flavorful.

As motie stated, often times they do not taste like the cherry, berry, vanilla or whatever they're supposed to be, but can still be enjoyable all the same.

Welcome to the forum and enjoy.

Dino

p.s.

If you haven't tried it yet, you owe it to yourself to smoke a bowl or 12 of Molto Dolce.  Creamy, Vanilla-y, smooth and enjoyable.

KA9FFJ

Agree with @motie2 and @Bonanzadriver When I smoke and aro, I'm looking for the aroma of the "flavor" being specified. The literal flavor of, let's say, cherry, I have yet to find. But a good cherry blend should give me the aroma, or room note, of cherry.

In a way I'm glad the actual flavor of aro blends aren't there for me. If it was, I would probably go on a "smoke diet" and die a slow death...

judandhispipe

Aros are predominantly about the aroma, not about the taste.

DavidR002

Thanks, did not know that. I guess it makes smokers like me buy all these tins thinking it is going to taste like moms apple pie. LOL

motie2

@DavidR002 -- The closest you are going to get is Mrs. Hudson's, which tastes very much the way it smells. Non smokers are appalled by how much they like the room note.     By all means, try some Molto Dolce. You may not stay with it.... I didn't .... but as Hawk used to say, "What a rush!" (of smoking pleasure, of course).      
Think of it this way: I really like Chinese food, but I don't want it every day.... and there are other foods I like even more.... and some I have not tried that I might really like.....      That's pipe smoking.        I am, unfortunately, the exception that proves the rule: I only smoke one blend. For much of 2017 I only smoked Barbados Plantation. Then, a brother pipe smoker waxed rhapsodic about Sutliff Sunset Rum. Now, I only smoke a 50/50 blend of Barbados Plantation and Sunset Rum.

(From way too much time on my iPad)

ghostsofpompeii

@Motie2 Got in my order of Sunset Rum and I can see why you'd pair it with Barbados Plantation. But after smoking both I've come to the same conclusion with Sunset Rum and Plantation Barbados as I have with Molto Dolce and Cream Brulee ... the taste profile is so similar that it seems the bulk blends of both Sunset Rum and Cream Brulee are variations of the more expensive Plantation Barbados and Molto Dolce. There might be a slight variation ... not as noticeable to someone with a less discriminating palate. But the similarities are unmistakable. So much so that I don't mind mixing the cheaper Sunset Rum with the more expensive Barbados Plantation because it not only taste similar ... but also taste great - and increases the amount in the tin, which like Molto Dolce, is about half full when you open it.     

motie2

@ghostsofpompeii -- I'm with ya on that, 100%.

Montecristo

How To Blend Pipe Tobacco w/ Jeremy Reeves of Cornell & Diehl

https://youtu.be/hyqAqMucin8