Solani 127: Green Label

I don't get the tongue bite other reviewers noted, but then again, I don't smoke like a train. However, I can see this being a biter if you do, as it's rather dry in the tin, which is not usually the case with Solani products. Hydrate it first and it won't give you tongue bite if you're a real fast puffer. Very sweet and rather pleasant if you don't mind not tasting much of the tobacco. Heavily topped, I can taste the sugary black cavendish and the sweet apple flavor is very obvious, which isn't always the case in apple flavored tobaccos. The apple topping has a slight perfume note that I find distracting. The red Virginia is earthy, woody, tart and tangy dark fruit sweet, but mostly overwhelmed by the other flavors. The strength is almost medium, while the taste is medium.The nic-hit is a couple of steps past the mild mark. Burns cool and clean at a reasonable pace with a very consistent, deeply rich apple taste from top to bottom. Leaves almost no moisture in the bowl. Requires a few relights. The after taste lingers too much. Not an all day smoke.

-JimInks

This came a little dry. I smoked it as delivered, and I also did the "breathe through the bowl" trick to try it with a little more moisture. The flavor was a little stronger in the hydrated, but it did not really change the smoking experience for me.

The greatest quality of this blend is that it actually tastes like a green apple/Granny Smith cross. If that is what you are looking for in a tobacco, you will love this. I found it easy enough to smoke and keep lit. I did not experience tongue bite or similar.

I also did not experience much tobacco flavor. What was there was fairly thin and the Virginias were part of the slightly tart apple. There is another odd top note I can't identify.

I can smoke this, but I am not going to get more. It is a 2 in general, and I would give it a 3 if you want an apple blend that tastes like apples.

Now this one is especially for the aromatic lovers around the world even though there have been some less than complimentary reviews by some members earlier, but I guess its a matter of personal choice. As you open the tin, one is able to immediately discern a distinct fruitiness. Enclosed within lies a blend of High class Virgina and Black Cavendish cased with the bouquet of apples, cinnamon and perhaps a hint of cherry. The fruitiness spreads evenly in the room and perpetuates one of the finest room notes. Pace this one slowly as it does carry a bite.

The apple topping is very high when you crack the tin.the moisture level as it comes from the tin is proper though the tobacco cut is very unusual for a pipe tobacco and not helpfull at all for packing your bowl.the lighting needs effort and some relights are needed.while burning you only get apple taste with lots of sweet notes that doesn't feel natural.the virginia tastes are absent due to the full taste of cavendish.burns cool and slow.the tongue bites are frequent even if you go slow.burns to total ash and leaves no moisture at the end of the bowl.the nicotine level is low to medium but it's not an all day blend to me due to the tencity of the topping.

This blend is going to take a place in my rotation. The leaf is "wild cut" and irregular with riff, crumbled cake, cavendish, etc. The color is mottled with black and shades of brown. The tin smell is pleasant and it's like a tart apple. There is a taste of apple the whole duration of the smoke but it's a natural rather than artificial or chemical taste. It smokes cool, dry and slow. Good stuff!

I gave this Solani a try recently, and also Sweet Mystery. I was nostalgic of the nice, yummy smell of the aromatic tobaccos with which I started my pipe smoking career. Also, I smoked the Luxury English blend and liked it, so I was curious about Solani's aromatic blends.

I very rarely have little obsessions about aromatic blends; the last crisis happened 3 or 4 years ago before I tried Solani Green Label. I usually smoke the VAs/Périque mixtures since quite a while.

Upon opening the tin, a marvelous sweet apple smell welcomed my senses. I just stood there sniffing it and enjoying myself. The tobacco is a mixture of ready-rubbed red virginia, loose golden Virginia and black Cavendish. I must say, this looks like very good quality tobacco. My other half, upon smelling the tin, took it away from me, went to sit down in the living-room and just smelled it for a while, a big smile on her face.

When I started smoking this blend, the taste wasn't too overwhelming for an aromatic, but pretty mild. My wife was walking around in the smoke and just ecstasic(...)

The thing is, after a couple weeks, the nice sweet smell and taste of the apple is tossed away by the more brute smell and taste of the golden Virginia, which breaks a bit the magic of the aromatic. Surprisingly, for an aromatic, the bowl is left rather dry at the end.

I would definitely recommend this tobacco to those who enjoy aromatics. This is a very good quality for an aromatic tobacco. For my own taste, too aromatic and way too mild - that's the problem with aromatics, they quickly become tasteless, which is not the case with more natural tobaccos, all depending of the blends, of course. This is definitely not a drugstore blend, it's aromatics with class!

Very nice looking tin with fancy shape; upon opening the tin the tobacco is in a gold pouch, the aroma was that of an apple orchard with very fresh tobacco. The cut(s) of the blend were ribbon Cavendish, and broad cuts of Virginias

Packing the pipe was very easy and to my surprize the tobacco took to a mitch and stayed lit. This tobacco can get a bowl very hot very fast and may even nip your tongue a little as this is a Virginia blend with an aromatic flvoring with ribbon cuts of Cavendish all blended together. I did notice once the tobacco started burning down there was a coolness about the smoke as a sweetness of the Fermented Apple Cavendish was very easily detected.

This tobacco is not for those who dislike an aromatic as this presents itself as a fruity aromatic.

I love a good aromatic, but this one is just too sweet for me

A friend of mine came over with a tin of this one day so I figured I might as well give it a shot. I had a bit of trouble packing this properly in one of my corn cobb pipes (which I keep around mostly for occasions like this) due to the odd cut. It's not really a ribbon... I'm not sure what you'd call this. The pieces are like cornflakes only about half to 1/3rd the size. Due to this it was a little hard to get it lit.

To me this seems like just another unremarkable aromatic that looks a little more fancy than average. Despite the claim of "natural sweetness" on the can, it seems that this has a fair amount of Flavoring. Supposedly its apple, though thats not quite what jumped out at me when I opened the can and took a sniff. I remember buying a small bag of some Lane bulk apple aromatic a couple of years ago that seemed more apple-like than this.

Oh well... I doubt I'll ever buy a can of this myself.

The casing level of this tobacco is too much for me.

The quality is obvious, but I do not like overcased tobaccos.

This has to be one of the worst cased tobaccos I have ever tried. It smelled bad in the tin and tased even worse. It was astringant, and so overwhelming that I couldn't even finish half of the bowl. I am seriously wondering if the pipe will have remnants of this tobacco forever. I can not say strongly enough that NO ONE should EVERY TRY THIS!