Excellent topic. I've been at this for several years and still don't use the terms right. I think I get "flavor", but the other terms confuse me.

I can't easily use nicotine as a strength indicator, because I smoked cigarettes for years and am largely immune to nicotine.

There have been a couple of good "tasting" cigars that were too "strong" for my liking, but that was the smoke, not nicotine.

How would you classify Oliva V and La Gloria Series R, as they were both "tasty," but too "strong" for my liking?