Blend: #17
Pipe: Grabow Golden Duke rusticated pot
Packing method: Codger stuff
Appearance: Ribbon cut that seems like it was chopped down a little smaller. A small amount of yellow, some dark, and mostly medium brown tobacco.
Pouch Note: Smells sweet, and has some kind of topping though my nose cannot make out what it is. Seems very familiar though, like something I've had before. I'm guessing a mild cherry with maybe something else in the mix.

This blend is moist, so I set some out to dry a little before lighting up.

With a bit of drying, it lights up easily, on the first flame. The smoke is sweet and pleasant. The tobacco, which I'm guessing is burley and Virginia, is mildly pleasant. The aromatic topping does not come through in the smoke, except as that sweetness I mentioned.

By about halfway, it's gone out a couple times, but mostly because I either slowed down my cadence too much, or set the pipe down to type. I'm starting to get a bit of crackle in the pipe due to moisture. This pipe resists gurgling though, so I probably won't need to run a pipe cleaner through.

In the last quarter, the sweetness has tapered off, but I am getting a bit of a cherry aftertaste in my mouth. In the end it burned down to ash with a small amount of dottle.

As an aromatic, I thought this was pretty good. My wife enjoyed the room note and the pouch note. She likes an occasional pipe herself, so she might try this next.