Mixture No. 79 Review Contest

[T.E.Fox]

After sailing the seven seas, and being delivered via kangaroo, the sample of M79 kindly sent to me by @c.ortiz108 has arrived. Firstly, a shout out to Chico who not only has sacrificed his time to send this, but has also included a sample baggy of four(!) other tobaccos to try! An incredibly kind gesture, and I can't wait to try them all. Thank you Chico.

I've been away for a week for work and came home to find my package had arrived safely. My girlfriend had already unpackaged everything and tucked it safely away in my tobacco storage esky! I've got the night to myself while she is at work, so what better way to unwind after a long week than with tobacco.

With such glorious comments put forward about M79 I was half expecting to encounter things not unlike that of a bad acid trip, but I was pleasantly surprised. My interpretations are exactly that, but what ran through my mind was as follows:

Upon opening the bag and having a good ol' sniff, I was immediately transported to a lolly shop not far from here. A small shop that specialises in olde worlde and international candy and other treats. I get that sickly sweetness that one would get from the small sugar candies similar to a pez, mixed in with the treats of old which often used floral and nutty essences. The whole thing has a thin, dusty overtone of the scent that a shop can only get if it's been operating for decades. It's nothing I'd ever expect from a tobacco blend, but it does get nostalgic points.

First char gives a huge burst of the sickly notes mentioned before, and on subsequent lights (I am a bad offender for smoking a pipe in short bursts) the flavours mellow out and I think I understand the soapy description people get. There's a feeling at the back of the tongue that you would only normally get if you were to say, down some liquid soap. Having accidentally ingested liquid soap before I can certainly see the similarity. It feels almost like an oily coating which has those (chemically) floral notes to it.

The room note I'll be honest and say isn't overwhelming but rather pleasant for a tobacco, in an odd kind of way. I can't say I'd stock up on M79, but I'll smoke through my sample and consider it for what it is - a novelty tobacco of sorts. Were it not for the soapy mouth feel I'd say it's enjoyable.

Thanks for the opportunity guys.

[c.ortiz108]

After sailing the seven seas, and being delivered via kangaroo, the sample of M79 kindly sent to me by @c.ortiz108 has arrived. Firstly, a shout out to Chico who not only has sacrificed his time to send this, but has also included a sample baggy of four(!) other tobaccos to try! An incredibly kind gesture, and I can't wait to try them all. Thank you Chico.

I've been away for a week for work and came home to find my package had arrived safely. My girlfriend had already unpackaged everything and tucked it safely away in my tobacco storage esky! I've got the night to myself while she is at work, so what better way to unwind after a long week than with tobacco.

With such glorious comments put forward about M79 I was half expecting to encounter things not unlike that of a bad acid trip, but I was pleasantly surprised. My interpretations are exactly that, but what ran through my mind was as follows:

Upon opening the bag and having a good ol' sniff, I was immediately transported to a lolly shop not far from here. A small shop that specialises in olde worlde and international candy and other treats. I get that sickly sweetness that one would get from the small sugar candies similar to a pez, mixed in with the treats of old which often used floral and nutty essences. The whole thing has a thin, dusty overtone of the scent that a shop can only get if it's been operating for decades. It's nothing I'd ever expect from a tobacco blend, but it does get nostalgic points.

First char gives a huge burst of the sickly notes mentioned before, and on subsequent lights (I am a bad offender for smoking a pipe in short bursts) the flavours mellow out and I think I understand the soapy description people get. There's a feeling at the back of the tongue that you would only normally get if you were to say, down some liquid soap. Having accidentally ingested liquid soap before I can certainly see the similarity. It feels almost like an oily coating which has those (chemically) floral notes to it.

The room note I'll be honest and say isn't overwhelming but rather pleasant for a tobacco, in an odd kind of way. I can't say I'd stock up on M79, but I'll smoke through my sample and consider it for what it is - a novelty tobacco of sorts. Were it not for the soapy mouth feel I'd say it's enjoyable.

Thanks for the opportunity guys.

Nice review, thanks! I wish I tasted Pez when I smoked it...

Glad the package arrived okay. Let me know what you think of the others once you've smoked them. I like that Racine & Laramie a lot, even though I'm not crazy about burleys. They're an old timey shop in San Diego and they still do their own blending.