Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) Skandinavik Regular

(2.52)
Toasted cavendish and mild Virginia tobaccos. New pouch description: Skandinavik Regular is a blend of flue cured Virginia and air cured Burley tobaccos.

Details

Brand Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG)
Blended By Peter Stokkebye
Manufactured By Scandinavian Tobacco Group
Blend Type Virginia/Burley
Contents Burley, Virginia
Flavoring Other / Misc
Cut Ribbon
Packaging 50 grams pouch
Country Denmark
Production Currently available

Profile

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

Average Rating

2.52 / 4
4

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15

5

Reviews

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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jan 29, 2011 Mild to Medium Extremely Mild Mild to Medium Pleasant
I really like it! It's perfect for beginners and gives satisfaction to seasoned smokers! Opening the bulk it's quiet clear the smell of a good virginia inside the stuff. I let it dry for ten minutes and the packed. Very easy to pack, very easy to light. I really love this smoke! No topping flavour, just tobacco taste. It's like...horizontal flavour. In the center you can feel the nutty tast of the virginia, with sweet wings aside. It's one of those tobacco you can feel during smoking the same smell not smokers smell around you! Doesn't bite at all and goes til the end with almost no relighting. It requires a cold and slow sipping, 'cause it can become hot. I must repeat: I really like it. Cheap and loyal. I suggest this tobacco as a all day tobacco for seasoned smokers like me or as a school tobacco for people who start smoking pipe now.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Oct 13, 2012 Mild Mild Mild to Medium Pleasant
The tobaccos are processed in the cavendish style. The nutty, toasty, lightly earthy, woody burley has a mild molasses and cocoa sweetness, and takes a little lead over the grassy, tart and tangy citrusy, lightly bready Virginia. The Virginia also provides a minor honey note. There’s a very light spice that may come from the burley, or it may come from a very mild Danish-topping. The strength and nic-hit are mild. The taste is in the center of mild to medium. It will bite if pushed, and much anything past sipping may get you a warm tongue. The flavors are very consistent form start to finish, and few relights are required. Leaves virtually no moisture in the bowl. Has a pleasant, lightly lingering after taste and room note. An all day smoke.

Edit: 4-4-2018: The above review was based on the 1970s and ‘80s version of this blend. Smoking a pouch from 2015, I see the formula was changed. The later production was sweeter with a topping I can’t define. The cocoa is a lot less noticeable.

-JimInks
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Sep 01, 2011 Mild to Medium Very Mild Mild Tolerable
I didn't have great expectations about this tobacco, and it kinda surprised qualitywise. A regular Virginia/Burley/Cavendish mixture with low casing, providing a fair tobacco taste. Nothing remarkable, but a solid morning smoke, when you need a good tobacco that won't saturate your taste buds nor require you to sit contemplatively in order to enjoy it.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Feb 01, 2010 Mild Mild Mild Pleasant
Review based on a sampler I received from a friend - perhaps an ounce and perhaps too little to make an honest assessment. However....

This is a pretty decent rendition of the typical Danish-style burley-based cavendish aromatic. Nothing leaps out here but it has the typical subtle honey flavor and nice room note - mild but with a tendency to bite if puffed too rapidly. Much more tobacco flavor than an American-style aromatic. I loved the cut of this - sort of a mostly rubbed out but not completely rubbed out flake. Nice burning qualities. The flavor was a bit too mild to make this a reference blend. It came across as sort of a dumbed down Mac Baren Symphony, lacking that tobacco's immense complexity in favor of a simple mild all day tobacco.

I'm just getting into these "Danish OTC's" if you will so I can so far really only compare this to its sister blend, Full Aroma Cavendish, at this point.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Dec 26, 2010 Mild to Medium Mild to Medium Mild to Medium Pleasant
Different than the Full Aroma, I noticed a sweet and nutty aroma upon opening the tin.

It tickled the tip of my tongue as I was smoking.

Nice offering, a change of pace from more complex mixtures.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Mar 04, 2010 Mild to Medium Very Mild Medium Tolerable to Strong
I was recently overpowered by the design of the pouch and instead of buying a more reliable blend I bought this one, being seduced by it's appellative Nordic wooden theme.

As I was driving home I thought - Well, thats bound not to be a great tobacco, it's cheap, they seam to have it everywhere it's likely to be something quite bad...

I later found myself corrected, as I and a fellow pipe smoker decided to try the Tobacco (and the brand, neither of us had ever smoked skandinavik). My first impression when I opened the pouch was the freshness of the tobacco, it was in imaculate state of conservation and moist, it didn't smell aromatic, yet it smelled rather sweet and woody. Packed it lighted it. It was tobacco.Very simple, tasty, yet mild, no pretense, just a respectable cool burning, lightly sweet blend. I was instantly impressed, it was exacly what the name 'Regular' makes you feel. As the bowl progresses it might get a little bit stronger, and it is not aromatic, I don't recommend it in public indoor places, though is very much tolerable in the sense that the smell doesn't propagate very far, (or so it seams).

I've since then purchased more of this blend, I find it a very good companion for when you don't know specifically what you want, and just want to enjoy the pipe, and a good smoke.

Well, I've been around some 'over the counter' pipe tobaccos, taking in consideration that it's a cheap, very available tobacco (at least around here), I cannot resist giving it top score (in it's class)
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Dec 16, 2010 Mild to Medium None Detected Mild to Medium Pleasant
Sk. Regular... Having this 50g pouch in my stash for a while, I decided to give it a go. Opening the pouch exposed some really colorful tobacco, yellow to dark brown strands, with everything in between, with a pleasing all tobacco, topping free aroma, The pouch indicated it was made by Orlik, so with very little risk, I grabbed my cob and this freshly opened pouch, and went about my business, with this as my day smoke. Worked out just great as a all day choice. Easy to manage, stays lit and best of all no soap mouth feel or bite. Even with my erratic outdoor puffing cadence. Well done Orlik. For its intended purpose in a cob, 3 stars. With my personal rating also in a cob, 4 out of 5
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jul 09, 2010 Mild Very Mild Mild Pleasant
I was anxious to try both Skandinavik Regular and Full Aroma, so much so that I basically smoked them right off the UPS truck when my order arrived.

I chose Regular for my first smoke. I love the new tin packaging; 4 1/2 ounces of very fresh tobacco. There was no aromatic tin aroma, just the mild scent of tobacco. Packing and lighting were both a breeze. The Regular was predominantly Burley forward. I thought after the first few puffs that it would be a milder version of Troost Special, but it never developed in the flavor department like Special as the Virginias maintained itself far in the background. There was no moisture to speak of, nor did it really bite - just the occasional tongue nip. A moderate nicotine presence as well. Slow puffing brings out a nice Burley presence - subtle and appealing, and with a faint taste of raisin and honey. There was also a mild, spicy character while smoking that was quite enjoyable. In taste, it reminds me of Mac Baren's Burley London Blend (one of my favorites), but without the tongue sharpness. The room note is naturally pleasant - very pipey .

Skandinavik Regular is the type of pipe tobacco that originally attracted me to pipe smoking some 35 years ago. It is a nice, simple, and comfortable smoke. Great for when all you want is "a pipe."
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Feb 24, 2022 Very Mild Extremely Mild Mild to Medium Pleasant
There is a feeling of nostalgia associated to this tobacco, at least for myself. My two great uncles (captains) were both smoking a tobacco with this particular taste.

Living in a small town, this is the only tobacco readily available that a devoted non-aromatic pipe smoker can tolerate. So, when I mess up my internet orders of refined premium grade tobaccos, I know for a few days I can count on Skandinavic Regular.

The mechanics are quite good. The humidity is most of the times ok if not a bit on the dry side, but this is dependent in many factors. Burns slow, produces a bit of smoke and smokes nice till the bottom. It can burn a bit hot if you overdo it, but slowing the pace it 's easily corrected. This cannot be done with any of the drugstore brands I have tried up to now. And all this in unfiltered pipes. The one thing I don't like is slight aftertaste it leaves. Not a complicated smoke, holds the taste for the whole duration of the smoke. Overall I think this is the most honest drugstore pipe tobacco, Although I would never imagine myself craving for it.

Pipe Used: group3 briar
PurchasedFrom: local drugstore
Age When Smoked: fresh from the pouch
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Oct 31, 2017 Mild to Medium Extremely Mild Mild to Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
A very nice, slightly sweet, but natural tasting mixture of Virginia, Burley and unsweetened Cavendish. This is somewhat mild yet rich and flavor and, if smoked slowly, it won't bite. It has a Danish-pastry undertone, but not in an obtrusive way. It's a simple, straight flavor, slow burning, with a very nice room note. Nothing out of the ordinary, but a good companion when traveling: uncomplicated, easy to light, and agreeable to most civilized people.
Pipe Used: Savinelli Roma, Parker Special Briar.
PurchasedFrom: Tobacco shop in Bolognia, Italy
Age When Smoked: N/A
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