Von Eicken Springwater Exotic Cut

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Springwater is a blend of golden sun-cured Virginia ready rubbed flakes and black, shiny cavendish. This fine exotic and cool burning tobacco gets its irresistible note from the Manila fruit aroma, similar to almonds.
Notes: Available from Mars Cigars.

Details

Brand Von Eicken
Blended By Kohlhase, Kopp und Co. KG
Manufactured By  
Blend Type Aromatic
Contents Black Cavendish, Virginia
Flavoring Almond, Fruit / Citrus
Cut Broken Flake
Packaging 50 grams pouch, 100 grams tin
Country Germany
Production Currently available

Profile

Strength
Mild
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
Medium
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Pleasant
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Medium
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming

Average Rating

2.82 / 4
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jan 02, 2003 Mild Mild Mild Very Pleasant
The "VANILLA fruit" in the description above is a slip-of-the-finger. The tin says "MANILLA fruit", and the German in DAN's famous catalogue says "MANILLAFRUCHT AROMA". This is a DAN Tobacco selection, from Germany. "Manilla" is the German spelling of Manila, the capital of the Philippines, on Luzón island.

Manila fruit aroma refers to MANILA ELEMI, the soft, colourless resin of CANARIUM INDICUM, or Java Almond (also known as Luzón Almond), one of 14 genera of tropical balsameaceous trees yielding a variety of commercial gums, balsamic resins and oils. (I found all this in my trusty old Britannica, under the article NUT.) Sehr exotisch, as DAN would say.

The blend does smell and taste vaguely of almond paste, or rather almond-flavoured praline, the kind of confection the French call frangipane; not excessively, though: this is not a savagely cased tobacco.

The basic mélange is some "wild-cut" (large) bright Virginia, some tan, broken-flake Cav leaf, and a lot of black Cavendish. The result is light but still tasting of tobacco, airily spicy, clean-burning and decidedly agreeable. Though this kind of Cavendish-dominated mixture is simply too lightweight for my taste, I think that aficionados of mild aromatics will love SPRINGWATER.

It comes in a vacuum-sealed goldfoil pouch tied with a ribbon, like candy, ensconced in a large, handsomely illustrated 100g étui?très de luxe!

Think of it as an exotic, nut-rich twinky.
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Apr 01, 2012 Very Mild Medium Mild to Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
By far this is not a good tobacco. It's not "high quality selected leaf" or something like the aromatic Larsen, Peterson et al. I got it for a fairly cheap price from an e-tailer and having a puff of it right now. My pouch indeed says "VANILLA" fruit aroma, but also mentions to be hand blended. What ever this means. The tobacco consists of broken and rubbed VA flakes, and a high amount of Black Cavendish. All in all it is rather too dry than too moist. Smell reminds me of fondant and dark chocolate - quite strange because I expected "Exotic" (for example pineapple, mango, banana, ...) and didn't detect anything fruity. Filled an inexpensive Kansas pipe using the Frank method. Quite easy to light and stay lit. Puffs away cool and tastes more and more like coconut with chocolate and roasted almonds. Not too high on Vitamin N, and surprisingly no bite at all. Very cool smoke, indeed resembling flavoured cigarettes. No gurgle, though towards the end of the bowl it tastes more and more like cigarettes. The aroma stays throughout the bowl, likely to leave a ghost in the pipe. This is the only thing to criticize about the baccy. Room note is exceptionally pleasant, and considering its uncomplicated and smooth smoking properties and the price (!!!) I dare recommend this mixture, scoring 2.5 of 5 stars. Don't expect wonders!
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Oct 20, 2004 Very Mild Medium to Strong Medium to Full Pleasant
Since my son tried Springwater cigarettes and liked them, I decided to try this aromatic which represented quite a departure from my usual VA & Va/Perique flakes. It wasn't a bad trip. I'd classify this blend as a coarse cut of golden VAs and deep black cavendish with some brown, broken flakes included in smaller measure. I had to adjust my packing technique to avoid numerous relights and even @ my best, they were more frequent that with my flakes. The pouch aroma was artificailly sweet and reminded me of a Hershey chocolate with almonds candy bar. Even though the original moisture content was satisfactory, a wet smoke resulted but I find this typical of many heavy aromatics. However, even as the pouch tobacco dried out, a cool smoke without bite was enjoyed and the room aroma accepted by non-smokers. This is one of the better aromatics I've tried and the Germans certainly generally beat out the US drug store blends in this category. However, if you want tobacco taste and a stronger smoke, you might want to skip this blend. I'll just reserve it for a change of pace or when in company.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Apr 29, 2017 Mild to Medium Mild Mild to Medium Very Pleasant
Springwater is now long gone. Originally produced by Von Eicken and then taken over by Dan Tobacco at some point in the early 2000's. A blend of golden sun-cured Virginia ready rubbed flakes and Black Cavendish that has been cased with Almond. Yes, it sounds cliche' but the overall presentation was a bit nutty. I did enjoy the the Vrginia flavor that came through and that did not surprise me because Dan Tobacco knows its Virginia. A marvelous smoke for those who enjoy aromatics and almonds.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Aug 26, 2013 Mild to Medium Medium Mild Pleasant to Tolerable
it is a strong blend. meduim flacoring. it tastes and smells like cigarettes. it is an OK blend.
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Sep 24, 2009 Mild Extremely Mild Mild Pleasant
A friend gave me a pouch of this, when i opened the smell was like aged dried prune and plums. it tasted like cigarettes and burned hot,the last quarter of the bowl had too much tar in it and was hard to light up. the nicotine content was at the low side, my girlfriend said the room note is good but feels artificial and has a hint of cigarette smell in it.

pros: no tongue bite, acceptable room note, cigarette taste(some people like it)

cons: does not burn cool as the description promises, high tar, cigarette taste(I don't like it)

there are much better aromatics, there is no point in smoking a cigarette tasting aromatic with no special taste in it.
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Jun 22, 2009 Strong Very Strong Full Tolerable to Strong
I did not expect too much when I purchased this blend. But wow, it is a very good aromatic blend. I enjoyed it first with my aromatic-dedicated pipe. The taste it nice but it may be polluted with the residue inside the cake. One week ago, I started smoking it with my meerschaum and the taste just boomed. Yes, the few mudly-liked elements from this blend matched perfectly with the marine smell of the meerschaum. It would be definitely one of the blends in my permanent rotations. Hightly recommended!
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May 23, 2008 Mild to Medium Mild to Medium Medium Pleasant
I bought this from a Duty-Free shop in an airport in Thailand as a souvenir, and wasn't sure I would like it, as it was an unabashed "Vanilla" aromatic, and I generally smoke English blends. But my 6-year old daughter egged me to stuff it in my pipe and smoke it.. so I did.. and I was pleasantly surprised! It smokes dry, and cool; it has a pleasant fruity aroma, and has good tobacco taste. I thoroughly enjoyed the experience! And I think my little daughter did too! Lol! It's become a favorite... Highly recommended!
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Sep 18, 2007 Mild Medium Medium Tolerable
This is an interesting aromatic I dare say. Upon opening the pouch I actually did not want to smoke this. It reminded me of a terrible experience with Petersons's 140 years Special Reserve (the most savagely cased tobacco in the history of tobacco consumption). I then decided to eventually just go for it in order to put it to rest and write my report, I was pleasantly surprised I must say. The tobacco is not as heavily cased as the aroma would suggest and actually enjoyable. One of the better aromatics for sure, it did burn slightly wet though but not bad enough to make a fuss about. I would smoke this as a change of pace I guess, once in a while I do smoke aromatics to remind me of how I started this great pastime of smoking pipes, not a bad smoke, lots of cavendish. Mo, South Africa
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Feb 26, 2007 Mild to Medium Medium Mild to Medium Pleasant
One of the nicest aromatics that came to me over the festive season last year. I am not sure if the aroma is of vanilla or something else, nor am I sure of what the exotic cut is, but the tobacco is dry burning and reasonably cool smoking. I will smoke it again happily if it came my way but would not go out in search of it. Springwater would make an excellent introduction to aromatics.
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