The flavor, although overwhelming, is not even so bad. My main problem with this blend was that I found it a very wet smoke which didn't burn well, needed constant attention and was always gurgling with condensation. When your pipe feels like a drinking straw in charred vanilla juice and you no longer seem to be smoking tobacco, no matter how hard you work to keep it going - you find yourself in an altogether unsatisfying pipe experience.

The packing goes easy. The lightning a little less easy. It burns well when smoking slow but it needs attention.

The taste is mild and the smoker does not taste tobacco, but the pure flavoring. The same goes for the room note.

A little too much flavoring in my opinion, but recommended for those who like heavy flavored tobaccos.

Of the large number of vanilla-flavoured BCs out there at the time, Black Luxury was one of the best, together with Black Diamond. Which does not say very much, really, because BD contains generous amounts of VA.

Out of the fresh pouch or tin, this tobacco is soggy and hard to light. The tin aroma is delicious, though. The vanilla sauce gives it a strong (and pleasant!) room note, but for the smoker, this one offers a choice between two hells: fresh, it goes out every few sips and attempts to drown the smoker with condensation. Dried even a little, it'll burn like Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD, and still flood your pipe, and most of the flavour will have gone where the woodbine twineth to boot.

If this were the last tobacco blend on earth, I'd give up smoking.

You can smoke it as it is - but the resulting experience is very much One-dimensional. Probably you will not be able to stand it for long due to shear boredom. The resulting room note is quite strong and sweet - perhaps even sickening in its sweetness.

I thoroughly agree that this performs much better if mixed with something else. I did have a no-name strong aromatic which was bought in Russia. If I had understood correctly at the time this was also intended to be used for making your own blends. The pouch aroma was something between herbal tea and tangerine - and I could not really stand it. It also burned quite hot...

So, I mixed the two up and the result was quite agreeable and did not get excessively hot.

I don't mean to say this is an awful tobacco, but it is rather similar to Borkum Riff's Black Cavendish: excessively cased (vanilla and some other sweet agent), inevitably goopy and far too enervating to be enjoyable. I do enjoy a good aromatic every once in awhile, but this stuff is just too much for me. Absolutely no tobacco taste and so sweet I can't taste the flavors of anything else for weeks!

I guess if you like the taste of classic Danish Cavendish, and would like to add a little extra to a boring aromatic, this might be the thing for you. I'll just steer clear and stick to my VA-flakes....

Jakob Kiilerich, Denmark

Upon opening the package the first thing I noticed was the complete lack of tobacco smell. Instead I noticed a sweet, molasses syrupy kind of smell. Hmmm, not a good start. I chose a clay pipe to smoke the stuff in so at least I'd be able to burn out the smell if it smoked like what it smelled. It did, but worse. The material in the package (I can't call it tobacco) packed easily and lit with no problem. The flavour was mostly absent, tissue paper soaked in honey would have had more tobacco flavour. The room note reminded me of the smell of a pot left unattended on the stove buring a combinationn of perfume and carmel. The tobacco burned very hot, though on the bright side it wasn't as moist as other aromatics I've smoked in the past. However, it did leave a lovely layer of goop on the sides of the pipe bowl and I'd imagine if someone had the misfortune to smoke this travesty in a brair, meer or corncob they'd have to be tasting sweet perfume for a good long while after.

If someone offers you this tobacco, ball up your fist, hit them and run.