ATTENTION: CB Pipe Tobacco Review Bombing Run Version 2.0

[Horsefeathers]

Details:
Date: 4/18/2015
Name: Horsefeathers
Tobacco: R - Pink Dunhill #965
Pipe: Savinelli Obi-Two Billiard
Indoor / Outdoor: Outdoors (Garage)





Observations & Examination (how it looked, felt and smelled): This tobacco was the third of three that came sealed in an air tight pouch, and is the final tobacco up for review. Opening the pouch I was greeted with a distinct but not too strong aroma of burning wood / campfire. I felt like there was an faint underlying scent of raisins, but I'm also wondering if I just think most pipe tobacco smells like raisins...? The tobacco it self was finely cut into many small individual strands. I believe this would qualify as a shag cut. It was dry to the touch, but not so much so that it was crunchy.

Preparation (how did you prepare and pack it): For the third straight time I again packed the pipe with my best attempt at the Frank Method (and I do believe I may be getting the hang of this). I checked the draw and thought that it may be just a tad on the snug side, but decided to just forge ahead since it didn't seem to greatly impacted.

Burn: The tobacco was so small that it took 3 charring lights before I had a solid even layer of ash to tamp. Once I had it going I had no issue with the burn. I did have two relights. One being me getting distracted and talking for too long. The other was towards the bottom of the bowl. I lit and it immediately went out again. I dumped the ash and got another 5-10 minutes before I was truly to the bottom. Anecdotally, it'd be nice if all pipe tobacco burned this easily. The smoke it self was moderate and pleasant, never becoming hot or astringent. The bowl itself seemed to give off more smoke than other pipe tobacco I've smoked.

Flavor:For the second straight tobacco the flavor was pretty straight forward. There were mostly notes of soap / perfume with not much change throughout. The flavor overall stayed a a mild-medium intensity, and for me was just at the right spot for this flavor profile. Retrohaling didn't change the flavor at all, but did amp up the intensity of the flavors overall. Therefore after my second pass through the sinuses I abstained from any further attempts.

This tobacco was paired with a glass of water.

Comments and Conclusion:I feel like this is what I should have started with when doing the reviews. This had a very similar overall flavor profile to C- Pink (The dark flake), but was much milder. I'd equate this to easing into the pool over jumping straight into the deep end with C - Pink. I also didn't get much in the way of nicotine with this tobacco. I feel like anyone who likes the soapy / perfumey profile would find this a great morning smoke. I'd also say due to the over all experience would be a great into into pipe smoking for someone who was new to pipes as well.

I greatly appreciate the opportunity to review these samples, and hope these have been of some value for Pete's sake! (see what I did there, hardy-har-har)