Detergent taste

[Alligator Gar]

I'm smoking C&D Star of the East which is billed as half Latakia. I'm new to pipes but not new to tobacco, so take this for what it's worth. Latakia tastes like Cilantro to me, which in turn tastes like Ivory soap. My Texan wife craved cilantro during one of her pregnancies and I've consequently eaten bushels of the stuff. I acquired a taste for it and have spotted it in Cuban cigars on occasion. I suspect I'd like Lakeland, but that's TBD!

[Branzig]

I'm smoking C&D Star of the East which is billed as half Latakia. I'm new to pipes but not new to tobacco, so take this for what it's worth. Latakia tastes like Cilantro to me, which in turn tastes like Ivory soap. My Texan wife craved cilantro during one of her pregnancies and I've consequently eaten bushels of the stuff. I acquired a taste for it and have spotted it in Cuban cigars on occasion. I suspect I'd like Lakeland, but that's TBD!

Just be aware that Lakelands don't taste anything like cilantro

If you dig chewing on a Geranium, Lavender, or Heliotrope, then maybe Lakelands are for you! I love the stuff myself

[Alligator Gar]

Just be aware that Lakelands don't taste anything like cilantro

If you dig chewing on a Geranium, Lavender, or Heliotrope, then maybe Lakelands are for you! I love the stuff myself

Ah, OK. Tobias said "I smoke a Lakeland and it gives me flashbacks to having my mouth washed out with a bar of Ivory by my granny." Chewing those flowers sounds worse than eating soap, to be honest.

[Branzig]

Ah, OK. Tobias said "I smoke a Lakeland and it gives me flashbacks to having my mouth washed out with a bar of Ivory by my granny." Chewing those flowers sounds worse than eating soap, to be honest.

Some people taste soap. Some people say it tastes like a urinal cake smells.

All I get is sweet floral essence out of it. Very good stuff IMO. But it is a very love it or hate genre it seems. The lighter topped varieties are really good too.

A starting point would be Samuel Gawith's Kendal Cream Flake. It is very lightly topped with a sweet essence that goes great with the VaBur. But if you really want to taste the Lakeland taste without having to search for it, be brave and get some Kendal Flake from Gawith Hoggarth & Co.

[455 Punch]

I've never tasted Lakeland essences, but do like Latakias. A floral flavor that I don't enjoy comes in some Greek/Mediteranian/Middle Eastern desserts like baklava and other sweets - rose water and orange blossom water are some of their ingredients. Is that anything close to what Lakeland is like?

[Branzig]

Is that anything close to what Lakeland is like?

No, not really


See my earlier post about chomping on some lavender, geranium, or heliotrope flowers

[PMR]

It is a lot like chewing very pungent spring flowers. Like getting your mouth washed out with soap when you were a kid. Its awful.

Cuban cigars, not exactly like that in them. But, you're not too far off on some of the "floral" notes described in some. I had a cigar not long ago that was light in profile and had a very floral scent and taste. Reminiscent of Lakeland but not too close. But still Terrible.