Peter Stokkebye Kentucky Nougat

It's very sweet with the nougat, some vanilla, a fruit flavor I can't ID, and barely any nuttiness from the burley. The Virginia is grassy and may have some citrus, but all the tobaccos are sublimated by the toppings. The black cavendish is muted, but is responsible for the vanilla note. Not much nicotine. Burns wet and leaves dottle, though the flavor is consistent all the way through. Though there's no tongue bite, it can get warm on your tongue. Needs some relights. A working man's aromatic with a nice room note. An all day smoke.

-JimInks

A good friend of mine used to work at one of the Tenderbox chain stores. He says this Stokkebye blend (North Sea/Kentucky Nougat), was off the charts in sales compared to almost every other proprietary blend they sold. Naturally, I wanted to try it and am glad I did.

This is an aromatic in the most general of terms. The pouch aroma and actual smoking presentation are totally different, IMO. After your sniffer screams "SWEET AROMATIC!" your palate will scream "QUALITY TOBACCO!"

I love the flavor of a good Burley... You can taste it here. I love the flavor of a good Virginia... You can taste it here. I love Honey Nut Cheerios... You can taste it here.

Cool burning, non-cloying and doesn't ghost your good briars.

Peter Stokkebye Kentucky Nougat.

This has a great smell coming from the unlit blend, a classic tobacco smell with a sweetness there as well, however I don't get at all overpowered by the sweet touch as it seems that the amount is of the right quantity for me. This is also at a good moistness, mind you as this is loose packaged conjecture would say a proportion of the quality award goes to the vendor, well done Smoke King!

Once the bowl is filled I find it incredibly easy to light, it actually gets going on the first attempt and I find the smoke to be good in most factors . Factor 1: Thickness.... the smoke is brilliant in this department , not too full or thin (think Squadron Leader). 2: Vitamin N.... a lovely level that doesn't spin your head and it is not one you won't notice. 3 : Inhalation.... this will slip down with ease without irritatio . 4: Bite.... from start to finish not one episode of tongue bite. 5: Flavour.... the flavour of this is a real pleasure, sort of a dichotomy of toffee and tobacco;, the taste from the tobaccos is perfectly balanced without any being too predominant while all along their is a fair toffee/fudge like sweetness which again is not too , only a good embellishment to the blend. 6: Room Note.... the room note is very pleasing with this for those who appreciate tobaccos but be warned, it does tend to lean more towards the heavier end of the scale with its sweetness and full tobacco smell. 7: Ghosting of Pipe.... it can leave a ghost in the pipe if regularly smoked in the same pipe, so If you take to it either dedicate a pipe or clean between smoke. The only other field which this scores negatively (for me) is the smoke does tend to be a little on the hot side, which even though it doesn't bite can be a touch disconcerting at times.

That is the only real reason for me to deduct a point, if it were cooler it would be sure to get full marks.

One of the early blends I picked up and instantly loved due to the amazing smell and flavour. I've kept some cellared for a couple of years and the flavour has mellowed but not gone. Highly recommended for a newby or those who enjoy a good mellow smoke.

I was given this as a present from a friend who just visited the US. I had previously smoked it socially (definitely a crowd pleaser), but it is not a tobacco that I would keep. Funny: in the plastic bag, the blend has a very strong and pungent chocolate-vanilla smell, to the point I double wrap it. But once you smoke it, the flavor is quite mute and sober (the exact contrary of, say, Borkum Riff's Black Cavendish or Cherry Cavendish), not at all cloying or enervating, and, oddly enough, the aroma does not infest the pipe!.

I enjoy this as a very occasional morning or early evening smoke. It produces a pleasant room atmosphere (kids love it, though they shouldn't be near it) and the chocolate scent tends to dissipate quickly.

The problem for me is that the tobacco taste, though present, tends to be too elusive and ethereal. Its mildness does not produce tongue bite, but I don't really get that tobacco satisfaction that I find in other aromatics, such as Clan or Larsen's Selected Blend No 80 (my favorite aromatic). But this is definitely a fine, mild smoke, very elegant and refined, and an excellent way to enjoy a pipe or two when in the company of unknown people.

Although I am in the Virginia phase of my 38 year pipe smoking voyage, I received some of this popular aromatic for Christmas, and I am glad I gave it a try. The opening note is mild and fruity, with Cavendish and Virginia predominating. The smoke is copious and tasty at any time of day. The middle third is similar to the first, but a bit more muted. The bottom third of the bowl has a Burley prodominance, but never gets bitter, although the topping is largely burnt off. It holds a light and burns clean and dry, to a dark grey dottle. The nicotine load is quite mild, and it probably will never make anyone's room spin. I have received compliments from all but the worst tobacco Nazis (and I know too many of them) on the room note. All in all, a terrific smoke. Highly recommended.

I smoked this as North Sea a couple years ago.

Although I smoke mostly Virginias today, this blend I remember well. It was a very nice aromatic. Nice tasting and nice smell. I had several positive comments about it's aroma.

A sweet nutty taste with a background hint of deep chocolate. Not strong, but making a cameo appearance from time to time.

As the description states above; the Tinderboxes that I have visited have all stated that North Sea was a very good seller.

If your in aromatics, try this one out.

I tried a sample of this for the completely silly reason that it is apparently the tobacco smoked by Gandalf and company in the ‘Lord of the Rings’ films … call me childish.

Not normally being a lover of aromatics, I came to it without positive expectations; and, to my great surprise, found it absolutely delicious. It’s an aro, yes, but not an over-the-top Borkum Riff kind of aro. It’s full and natural tasting, cool smoking, slow burning and uniform all the way down the bowl, with a pleasant room note as a bonus. The agreeably sweet casing is not at all 'chemical' and does not mask or compromise the flavour of the tobacco. I won’t smoke this all the time - I think the sweetness could cloy if one were over-exposed to it - but I shall certainly go to it for a pleasant change when my sweet tooth fancies a treat. There is a Gawith and Hoggarth tobacco with the same name that I haven’t tried, but will in due course. I’m guessing that the tobacco sold by Frederick Tranter as Kentucky Nougat is the Gawith & Hoggarth version re-packaged.

(BTW: the tobacconist told me that, in the north of England, one says ‘nugget’ rather than ‘noogah’, and that in the USA the preferred pronunciation is ‘noogat’. I never noo that!)

One of my first tobaccos. On buying this, you will stink of licorice and sweets. This stuff stinks! Often overpoweringly so. I sneeze every time I sniff this baccy. The brown and black leaf smells like Christmas cake and is scrummy on the nose. It packs well and stays lit after the char light. Moisture was just right. The treat is the smell it kicks out. Very sweet and very pleasant and you will have armies of people sniffing around you.

However, the taste is a big decider, and this tastes good. Overwhelmingly sweet at first, it tastes very toffee-ish but this soon dies down mid smoke and becomes a little dull. It doesnt bite if you smoke slowly (it will rip your tongue if you puff away though) and doesnt ghost your pipe. I enjoyed it but what I didnt enjoy was the syrupy goo in my bowl and the fact that no matter how I smoked, this gurgled and was a very wet smoke.

That said, I will buy this again

First of all, I should preface this review by admitting that I have only just taken up regular pipe smoking and am therefore quite inexperienced. With this in mind, however, I do feel confident enough to write this short review.

I started with a small loose sample of this tobacco from my local specialist. Upon opening the pouch, there is a strong but yummy whiff of confection. I think I can detect nougat, but my girlfriend, with her amazingly powerful non-smoker's nose, claims it's licorice (but then she said that about two other tobaccos I tried recently...) It wasn't very moist at all, so without further ado, I loaded my pipe with Peter Stokkebye's Kentucky Nougat.

This tobacco burns relatively well, given perhaps two or three lights, and offers a creamy and delicious smoke. The flavouring is evident in the smoking, though much less strongly than the fragrance from the packet suggested, as I believe from reading other reviews, to be the norm with such aromatics. It has a sweet, slightly nutty flavour and we both find the room note to be strong but pleasing. Some quite strong puffing eventually provokes a slight gurgle, but nothing that a gentle blow down the stem didn't evaporate.

So, a strong recommendation from a beginner, for what it's worth ;)_,~