Planta - Danish Black Vanilla pipe tobacco reviews

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orka	12/06/2012	Very Mild	Mild	Very Mild	Pleasant
Been sitting on this tin for years now. I sometimes open it to smell the contents (it still smells really nice), but smoking it I felt was always a bland affair, so I rarely bothered to do it - which is why I find myself at this impasse. Is it worth the effort to rehydrate for smoking? Unfortunately the answer is always no. I've tried it a few times before and by the time it's finished, my attention will have wandered off to other things and I'm left with a temporary container with nice smelling tobacco that goes dry again. Though, to be fair - when fresh, it had a pretty nice and mellow vanilla quality about it, I don't remember the base tobaccos making much of an impact however. So, I suppose that if you're looking for a nice smelling tobacco with a very mild taste and nicotine content, it might be for you (just remember to finish the tin in a reasonable amount of time).
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TomekKGG	11/06/2012	Mild	Medium to Strong	Medium	Pleasant

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Vovinam	08/30/2012	Mild to Medium	Medium to Strong	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
Maybe not the worst pipe tobacco of the vanilla types, but really doesn't work for me. The vanilla flavour is mild and pleasant, the black cavendish tends to re-balance the casing in a more smoky way, but in the first times the aftertaste of vanilla haunt your pipe for about free or four charges. Once the casing is gone the basic tobaccos lacking of consistency: the virginia is pratically absent and the black cavendish become preminent. the basics in combination with the vanilla's remains, obtain some sort of pointy, maybe a little bitter but surely annoying taste that remeber olive; at this point your pipe is save from the vanilla ghost but in disvantage of a good smoking experience. Try it if you want, I won't! 1 Star, (maybe 2). Type: Artificial Medium Aromatic ; Contents: Virginia, Black cavendish ; Flavoring: Vanilla from the Madagascar ; Cut: Loose cut ; Humidity: moist but don't need to be aired when opened ; Lighting: easy with constant smoking ; Pipe recommended: any type, maybe better with a large bowl
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machinebacon	04/03/2012	Mild	Medium to Strong	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
This is a vanillin bomb which will render your pipe unusable :) Comes in a funny tin with pipe holder indentation, wrapped in a plastic bag (!) which adds to the OTC impression. If you have other low-quality tobaccos you want to spice up without dumping them, add 30% of Black "Vanilla" to them, mix well, pack your cheapest pipe and puff away when you are outside for a walk. People always positively comment on the 'fragrance'. I can't imagine to smoke this stuff pure again, it's that artificial and bland after a few puffs. If you are into vanilla, try those of Mac Baren. Won't buy this again. 1 out of 5 stars - for the tin.
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0	01/31/2012	Very Mild	Medium	Mild	Very Pleasant
First impression when i smelled the pouch was "is this really even tobacco?", the smell is very sweet and pleasant, something of tea, applepie and brandy mixed together, but definitely not natural vanilla, impossible to describe accurately, but the smell is just lovely. Ripped open the pouch and there was the second surprise; the tobacco was either very fresh, or very soaken to begin with, either way it gave the impression of having fresh tobacco, and it almost felt like delicious cookie dough minus the stickiness when i loaded it to my pipe, needless to say the scent supported the impression of handling something delicious. I packed the pipe rather well, and well did it light up too. Some couple first puffs i mostly tasted what i had smelled so far, i didn't quite notice the smoke flavour, but the sweetness of the flavouring, which felt like i was rather drinking the tobacco with a straw rather than smoking it. Quickly the smoke came in as well, but the strenght was rather mild, but noticeable (as if it was possible not to notice that you are actually burning something in your pipe). Flavouring settled down to a level where i didn't feel like having a sweet drink anymore, but it was still present, and it never got sour or started to bite back as with so many aromatics. The smoke was superb smooth to inhale if you are into that, and well suited for smoke rings as it won't irritate your throat no matter what, and nonsmokers won't choke on your smoke. Unsurprisingly room note was easily tolerable as well, and still had some pleasant scent in it, but less noticeable that i would have tought for this sweet tobacco. The bowl burned pretty fast, but certainly not hot and there was totally no bite at all. It left very fine ash, unlike most aromatics i've smoked. So good as it sounds it was both a very pleasant surprise for being so easy and sweet tobacco, as well as somewhat disappointing that it was so fast and mild that i was unsatisfied after a single bowl. My everyday smoking blend is 50/50 full flavour amphora and mac baren vanilla, which still results in pretty mild blend, but this Planta product is way milder that that. Might be of satisfactory in a big bowl in your "normal bowl situations" tho. Looking forward to give this another go, the sweetness got the best of me. TL;DR: Very sweet, mild and fast tobacco, probably not strong enough for everyday use, but could do for "all day" use in a kingsized bowl. Great flavour, but whatever it is, it is not vanilla.
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TEO	10/25/2011	Very Mild	Medium	Mild	Tolerable to Strong
I definitely love vanilla flavour in food, drinks or tobaccos, but this is no vanilla, no natural flavour. Like tons of other discount aromatics, vanilla aromatics, the smell in the pouch and the taste is awful chemical vanilla-licorice. If you look for good virginias blended with some flavour you better run away from this. If you look for vanilla, you found a nano-tech chemical essence not vanilla here. Terrible, definitely not recommended, with much respect to you fellow pipemen who like this, I can't stand it. It goes right down the medicine trash container. ABSOLUTELY NOT RECOMMENDED.
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PTpipe	09/27/2011	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Mild	Pleasant
2*
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taha	09/03/2011	Very Mild	Extremely Mild	Very Mild	Very Pleasant
THis is just really great and so tasty aromatic tobacco you should try this lovely baby :)
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punkpiper	05/12/2011	Mild	Medium to Strong	Mild	Very Pleasant
I have to say this is nothing special but not a bad tobacco. Its good for blending and it made the lakeland black cherry my friend brought me smokeable as a mix. Its got two tastes, mostly vanilla but theres some definete tobacco in the background. Smells very nice in the tin, like vanilla essence purely. I'm smoking this as my regular now since I need to lay off the gold blend. It wont surprise anyone ever and its a little damp, so put a bit in a smaller, unsealed tin to dry for a bit before. Might buy it again, purely because its a sociable smoke. Even my flatmates like it.
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T. Siek	02/08/2011	Mild	Mild	Extremely Mild (Flat)	Pleasant
Well it's not bad, but a bit... disappointing? I found the taste hardly detectable, just plain bland. I disagree with it being a hot smoke, however, I found it be a very well-behaved (although fast) smoke. Surprisingly, it burns down to an ash with no soppy remnants (expected from an aromatic). Do plan on finishing this large tin though, and giving it the benefit of the doubt, perhaps I'll discover the taste in it yet. Still, it's something to reach for if you want a very non-committal smoke.
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Kovacs	01/21/2011	Mild	Medium	Mild	Pleasant
I don't know why the reviews are so harsh. This tobacco has a nice vanilla taste and unlike Stanwell's vanilla, it doesn't give a savoury chemical experience (i think Stanwell's can only be smoked with a filter, than it tastes nice). It's not very sweet, but all in all a pleasant tobacco.
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bertalanffy	09/30/2010	Mild	Very Mild	Mild	Pleasant
I'm a fan of aromatics, so I bought a pouch of this to test it. All I can say is I'm bitterly disappointed -- in the pouch, the tobacco is distinctly cheap-smelling (smells of chemicals and is moist and sticky), and in the pipe it's horrible. The first few puffs had traces of vanilla, which were soon replaced by a dull, ashy taste. The very faintly burning tobacco made it's way about halfway down the bowl, at which point it lost any vanilla taste it may have had whatsoever and started violently attacking my tongue. At this point I was definitely also noticing a distinctly gritty texture inside my mouth, which is how I imagine having tar spread over your tongue would taste like. By the end of the bowl, smelling and tasting nothing but ash, I was further disgusted by a sticky sludge at the bottom of the bowl that made it difficult to remove the leftover ash. It behaves somewhat similar to Stanwell, though completely devoid of taste. Rubbish, ashtray-tasting tobbaco with no redeeming qualities that I am throwing away after one smoke.
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tibetansky	09/04/2010	Mild to Medium	Very Mild	Extremely Mild (Flat)	Pleasant
I like the mild sent in the room mild aroma. The tast was there but not strong will try this again and pay more attention to detals .. Cheers
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sailorjosh	08/17/2010	Very Mild	Extremely Mild	Extremely Mild (Flat)	Pleasant
This was my first foray into pipe tobacco. I would say it was a disappointment. The first couple puffs had a nice vanilla flavour, but after that, nothing. I literally could not tell whether or not the pipe was lit, I found it completely flavourless. Towards the bottom of the bowl I found it got pretty ashy and unpleasant. Girlfriend liked the smell.
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Claudius Stradivarius	07/26/2010	Mild to Medium	Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
A really nice tin aroma but there was something wrong with the taste of it. It did not burn well and had a tendency to get hot.
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Eligijus	07/21/2010	Mild	Mild	Mild	Pleasant
I very like this vanilla aromat. I found this to be a very pleasant tobacco if you like vanilla :)
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paulw	07/08/2010	Mild	Medium to Strong	Overwhelming	Strong
I was hoping to like this one since I'm such a huge fan of bca, YUCK! the tobacco was a sticky ,there was a chemical smell and taste.
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ELF	05/09/2010	Very Mild	Medium	Very Mild	Very Pleasant
For a sweet Cavendish;this tobacco is outstanding!I'm a Virgina-Puritan,at heart.I have Huge Respect for a tobacco blender that can make a blend,that has LOADS of Flavoring...Palatable.They obviously DID THEIR HOMEWORK,2Get it Right.Quite amazed it doesn't 'Ruin' and soup up your pipe;like most aromatics. Give it a try You Might Be Pleasantly Surprised. :)
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FALCON	12/04/2009	Mild to Medium	Medium to Strong	Medium to Full	Pleasant
smells and taste like stanwell vanilla.to strong fruity flavoring.not gonna buy again.-
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Alguhan	08/12/2009	Very Mild	Medium to Strong	Mild	Pleasant
I received a tin of this as a gift from someone who doesn't know what a pipe tobacco is. I knew what was awaiting for me but just to be a gentleman I had to light this gift and let my friend enjoying the pleasant room note of it. I couldn't be a gentleman for a long time and had to stop this torture at the half of the bowl. I hate to throw away tobaccos but I couldn't make something better with this tobacco. Vanilla lovers and some beginners would love this blend. Altough I would like to recommend them to find a much more decent aromatic tobacco. From my point of view it does not worth even one star!
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