Solani - 113: X - Sweet Mystery pipe tobacco reviews

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bteddy	03/30/2012	Mild	Strong	Mild	Pleasant
First off, I am not a real fan of heavily flavored aromatics, that said, this tobacco is one reason I got away from stuff like this when I first started pipe smoking 40 some odd years ago. This tobacco would do the beginner justice for about one bowl, then after the nice room note faded, your left with that sickly sweet taste. Yuck. If you like tobacco to taste something other than tobacco then this is for you. For me, the strong flavoring of black currents, cherries, etc., was too much. As usual, it has a great smell, but tastes like hell. I wouldn't even give this away...it's straight to the trash.
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L. McQueen	10/19/2011	Mild	Mild	Mild	Pleasant
This smells extremely similar to Petersons Sunset Breeze but with an added kind of plum scent. It's a bit deeper than Petersons and the tobacco was more moist in the tin but they are extremely similar. It has a mild taste...a pleasant room note. It did not taste sweet though some of the plum came through at times. I would probably not buy again and instead go for another plum cake...or aged cake aromatic in search of better taste.
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SMOKETSES	09/23/2011	Mild to Medium	Medium	Medium	Very Pleasant
A Virginia blend consisting of red sweet Virginia, gold Virginia and double-mashed sweet black Cavendish. Its aromas are beautiful and distinct: a pinch of black currant combines beautifully with Bacardi and CocoCream giving a sweet treat. As for the room scent??? A-MA-ZI-NG. This specific mixture has several different types of cuts. One morning I woke up fancying a smoke right away. It bit me a lot, which lead me to the conclusion that you have to be careful with it if you don’t want it to hurt you. It lights up rather difficultly
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Keac241	07/12/2011	Mild	Medium to Strong	Mild	Very Pleasant
This is a personal favorite of mine as I am a huge aromatics fan. The smell is absolutely sensational and the room note is by far the most pleasant one since the invention of perfumes. I have not met one person who doesn't like the scent. Taste wise it is very mild. I couldn't really taste the coco cream and once in a while i can taste the black currants slightly, other times it seems to be hiding. That says, it is an very pleasant and cool smoke. If i could taste the black currants every-time I draw this would by far be my No.1 blend but hey, I think the name 'mystery' explains it all. Highly recommended to the aromatics lover and you can be sure it will delight the people around you and yourself.
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rattdogg	06/21/2011	Mild	Strong	Extremely Mild (Flat)	Pleasant to Tolerable
I've got to agree with the previous reviewer on this one. Hot and nasty sums up my thoughts on Sweet Misery. In fact, I think this crap just might earn a place on my 25 worst pipe mixtures of all time.
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Galathorn	06/21/2011	Mild	Very Strong	Very Mild	Pleasant
* Update 12/28/2011 (Changed all the review to express better my opinion. The stars remain the same) Worthless tobacco in my opinion. "Why that?" some of you might ask. Well, for the following reasons 1) Nice, but pungent tin aroma 2) TOO MUCH CHEMICAL FLAVORING. To get an idea, the surrounding paper of my tin was yellow. I haven't seen that in other blends. 3) EXTREME tongue bite in my first bowl. 4) No taste at all in my opinion. And I have smoked this 3-4 times. Really, I cannot see why tobaccos should be chemically flavored so much. Artificial sweeteners and aromas alter the taste of the tobacco. With the heat they decompose, polymerize, oxidize and god knows what else... So don't expect this tobacco to taste like Blackcurrants and Bacardi. If you want something sweet, go buy a cheesecake. It will taste much better.
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Nick O'Teen	03/31/2011	Mild	Medium to Strong	Mild	Very Pleasant
A quality, cool smoking aromatic with a very nice flavor and room note. I probably won't buy this again, as there are many aromatics that I prefer to Sweet Mystery, but depending on your flavoring preference, you might really enjoy this one. A must try for aromatic lovers.
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Arkie	03/03/2011	Mild	Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
If our beloved government know how good this stuff is they would either ban it outright or tax it ten fold. I didn't taste the rum or coco cream but the currant flavors came through very nicely. The flavoring was perfectly applied by the blenders - it didn't overwhelm the tobacco taste and it didn't fade away in the course of smoking the bowl. It was sweet without being cloying. Great stuff!!!!
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Claudius Stradivarius	12/26/2010	Mild	Medium to Strong	Mild	Very Pleasant
The best tin aroma I had the pleasure to smell. Beautiful tobacco composition, obvious high quality. Too mild for a salty dog as myself. But perfect for the beginner looking for a high quality starter!
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Garin	04/05/2010	Mild	Medium	Mild	Very Pleasant
I'm not a big fan of most aromatics, but this is definitely an exception. It's a great easy clean light cool smoke. Especially the blackcurrants come through gently but nicely, peaking about half way through the bowl, with a mild background of earthy tobacco taste. I enjoy this most out of a corncob with a pretty small bowl. I'm hesitant to put it into any of my favourite pipes (or devote a good pipe to the rare times I smoke this), but I feel like the cob lets the low-key flavours in this one come through decently. Just when it starts to get a bit cloying, the bowl is done. As I keep stressing, this is not a heavy hitter in any way -- mild flavour, light nicotine, easy going. The room note is quite appealing to my lady, she much prefers this to my usual english blends!
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tsd	03/23/2010	Very Mild	Medium to Strong	Mild	Very Pleasant
I can understand why this would seem like a dessert to some. It seems heavily cased. Perhaps not my "normal thing", but the [unusual] flavors worked out well enough for me to make the 100g tin fit into my "occasional" rotation.
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HotSoup	05/21/2009	Mild to Medium	Medium to Strong	Medium	Very Pleasant
I'v been pipe smoking for about 5 months now and I smoked a circular tin of this. I didn't taste any of the Bacardi or coco. Black current is a type of berry not often seen here in the US so it's not something that people may have a readily available appreciation for but after smoking this I do. ** march,2,10 im going to get some more of this its something that i want to have again
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Sonaris	05/01/2009	Mild to Medium	Medium to Strong	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
Having tried the Solani Green Label 127 and finding it impressive, my taste buds lured me to explore more and chose Solani X Sweet Mystery out of the options available. Again, Solani hits the mark, and I was not disappointed. As one opens the the tin, a whiff the most pleasant and sweet aromas infiltrates ones olfactory tracts, and immediately draws you to fill up the good ol' bowl and take it for a spin. It seems that the blend is cased by fine berries dowsed in rum and topped with healthy dollop of scrumptious cream. Absolutely deliciously concocted by the blender for a sudden change of pace and 'mysterious' surprize! This is indeed a prime example of aromatics at their best with Solani taking it to a totally different level. If you are not into aromatics per se, this is surely the one to try. Its refined, its cultured, and above all not to over-powering. If one wishes to impress an audience and get the smoking satisfaction - this certainly tops the list. As with all aromatics, pace it as it will bite the impatient.
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Pipe-billed Grebe	02/10/2009	Mild	Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
I am not sure what Coco Cream is... coco-nut? coco-a? I can't taste either in this blend, but the blackcurrant is deliciously prominent in the aroma in tin and smoke. What I really like is that I can also taste those Virginias. It depends on the pipe, but I have this little Ehrlich billiard that really brings out the VA in X Sweet Mystery. Mmmm. It also burns pretty dry and clean. XSM reminds me of some Larsen blends I've tried, in that it features bright tobacco flavors and quasi-naturalish-tasting fruit toppings, putting it in a different class from the much-maligned sticky "drugstore" aromatics. I don't smoke aromatics all the time, but when I do, I prefer X Sweet Mystery. (Apologies to the Most Interesting Man in the World.)
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DUPE.1512	05/30/2005	Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
The casing just dont work for me. Soloni's aromatics just seem extremely "overcased".
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chaplikc	10/02/2004	Mild	Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
This reminded me much of a toned down version of Rattrays Charles mixture with a touch of an additional flavor that I could not put my finger on, maybe fruity would best describe the topping on this. This benefits from a little bit of drying in that it is on the wet side out of the tin. This is not something that I would smoke regularly but would make a good occasional , desert type of smoke. I would of given this a little bit higher of a rating except that the flavoring was a little stronger than I like in an aromatic blend. I do recommend this to aromatic lovers.
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lustra	09/07/2004	Very Mild	Mild to Medium	Extremely Mild (Flat)	Pleasant
Sweet Mystery is built of beautiful wild-cut Virginias and Cavendish. It is a remarkably cool smoke and it finishes with a nice white ash. It burns well. It has a wonderful aroma. In fact, Sweet Mystery is so obviously a quality offering that one may, for a few moments, somehow miss that for this tobacco, as with Gertrude Stein's Oakland, there is no there there. At the top of the bowl, this tastes mostly like nothing. In the middle, it tastes like nothing plus maybe the hint of a taste that is not quite identifiable. At the bottom of the bowl, it is nothing, still nothing, but there is a taste, perhaps, that comes and goes, and it may be sort of fruity. If you smoke this in a briar, over a few dozen smokes, maybe a tin, you might be able cobble up the impression that you're smoking tobacco. Then again, you might not. For fans of Erik Satie only.
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Pipestud	06/22/2004	Very Mild	Medium	Very Mild	Very Pleasant
I received a free sample of this Solani blend with a recent tobacco order. It smelled wonderful and sweet through the pouch (usually a sure indication that I will not like it at the match.) The golden and black leaf was coarse cut and moist. But, having been in a pouch (baggie) rather than a sealed tin, the moisture content was tolerable. Upon lighting up, the smoking experience was also tolerable, but little more. Frankly, I just have trouble enjoying sweet aromatics - even as a change of pace. Positives - The blend smoked cool (all things considered.) There was a strong hint of true tobacco flavor throughout the bowl. My wife absolutely loved the room note and the lingering smell on my mustache - Now that I reflect, perhaps I need to buy more of this stuff! (-;
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JohnnyFlake	01/19/2004	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
(4-16-03) I decided to buy the 100g tins rather than the 50g tins for two reasons. First the cost savings is considerable and the 100g tins are designed as collector tins. The aroma upon opening the tin is sweet, very sweet, yet it's also wonderful in a way. I like it, yet it may be too much for some. It's a very course cut blend which is about 1/3 dark tobaccy, 1/3 med. brown and 1/3 yellowish/tan in color. It claims to be topped with Black Currants treated with Bacardi and Coco Cream. I do not detect either. For me, the prominent aroma is that of ripe sweet prunes and raisins. It's far too moist for my liking so what I've been doing with this blend is packing a pipe full and then just letting it sit for 4 to 6 hours before I smoke it. At first I let it sit for about 2 hours but it's not long enough. Six hours seems perfect for me. After sitting out for the time specified, it fires up easily and burns nicely from top to bottom with very little maintenance. The flavors are sweet, all the way, from top to bottom, getting slightly spicer and richer after the half way point. I still cannot define the flavor properly, as it seem a bit different from pipe to pipe. Sweet Mystery was a well thought out name for this blend. I will say that from time to time, I do pick up notes of Coco and berry and what seems to be white grape, for lack of a better description. This tobaccy has grown on me over a short period of time. I really enjoy it! Highly Recommended for those of you who enjoy quality aromatics and for a quality change of pace for others. THIS IS GOOD STUFF!
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