The tin note when opened is caramel and soft fruit with an apricot background. The mixed blend fills well and stays well lit even with a very slow draw which in my opinion is extremely important. The taste is soft and creamy with just a hint of fruit with the Virginias coming through stronger but not overwhelmingly at the end for a clean finish. No tongue bite at all even when in a hotter pipe after several smokes and the taste is consistent throughout the whole bowl. The room-note is soft and creamy too with a subtle smack of apricots or mandarins; I cannot be certain which fits better. It burns quite clean with a medium light ash and fairly little waste. Quite simply an excellent all day blend the cool burning burly well complimented by the Virginia flake and just the right amount of Cavendish to get the casing taste without the usual gurgling tongue biting side effects! I was very impressed by this tobacco and it will become a regular smoke for me.

Initially purchased with the rest of the complete peterson range of tobacco to try out(a tin of each trial,which i have done since, as well as regular specific purchases)..

Being initially enamoured with pipe smoking and having made my first purchase beyond over the counter bad boys like 'gold block' and 'st bruno' ready rubbed,,;i was far too forgiving of bad mannered tobacco,and i would overlook all too easily the bad aspects because i thought it was just my own amateurism,or i assumed this was a pipeing standard.

Anyway;i will just reproduce my first impressions which i jotted on the peterson product brochure which came with my first peterson pipe purchase..

"Mental scene;summer on the green Season:spring summer. Compliments well with alco-pop drinks because it doesn't clash. Complimentary snack:strawberries and cream. Room note of sweets-sociable aroma that draws people to you. "can i have a go of your pipe" etc Its supposed to be caramel-but oppinions from have a go pedestrians(friends)seem to say its 'fruity berry'. Ladies like it and will talk to you-the smell defies their prejudice of pipe smokers. Medium confection juicy tutti fruiti carp boilies(fishing bait),strawberry&cream sweets,raspberry ripple icecream,hot burner... Sweet. Hot tongue biter!,leave to dry and tamper well-smokes to white unchanged shape ash. Syntheticish topping-not much underneath to report on-its bacca." ------------------------------------------------------------- My second later notes in biro are far less appreciative.

"Sickly sour chemical topped tongue biter-an absolute uncompromising whore. Seeks every opportunity to bite-what does this?;-is it the topping or the tobacco? Possibly a nice tobacco underneath-the flake leaves a nutty cigarish aftertaste,and thats about all after your taste buds have been scortched beyond use. Imagine those sickly acidic sherbert coated sweets that give you a sore throat,watery eyes and rotten teeth;-the topping on this is a sad taint to what might be nice tobacco underneath..?? Pipe used:Peterson 305 system medium calabash.

Method of smoking was loading 3/4 into bowl,and jamming two cigarette rollup filters into the moisture trap chamber and then pushing the stem on;this soaks up some of the juice. Tamper it unti it cannot be tamped futher(to keep heat down),,this is the only way to keep it cool enough to smoke. The walls on the pipe are thin and touching it is like touching a hot tea pot. The virtue is that the pipe is light enough to hold in my mouth hands free. Do not puff but instead breath like a goldfish---in this method it will melt in the mouth gently without biting beyond comfort. Fact is that this isn't a relaxing smoke for pensive relaxation because it controls you intstead of the otherway round. It pins you to the wall and says "you can smoke me this way or not at all-alight?!" --------------------------------------------------------------- After some more trials i had had enough of this unfriendly bastard and the rest of my notes are describing its properties as a chewing tobacco! What i did while my machine was running on the night shift, i decided what to do with this; at my work bench i separated the leaf into piles of its separate ingredients to see if i could coax any worthy bowl out of it and find the offending member.

My review is "killarney separated";i can't be bothered to go into detail because its pointless,,;the yellow leaf was nice like corflakes and the flake was like branflakes and simular to university flake. I ended up spilling it all on the floor where i kicked it under the duct board with a load of absorbent saw dust..

This was complete shit and i will never ever purchase it again. Take a cherry flavoured 'mr-freeze' ice pop,put it in the microwave until scolding and drink it;that is the only way i can describe this.Perhaps smoke it while sucking an ice cube.

One star.

Use at your own risk.

It's very damp...let it dry for 24 hours and it didn't help. Barely stays lit.

The only thing I enjoyed was the smell when I opened the tin. Otherwise, don't waste your money.

How would I describe this blend? As bland, bland, bland! It produced smoke, but no flavor. I smoked four or five bowls of this, all in different pipes, and the result was always the same - disappointing. I then decided to throw in some black cavendish to see if that might bring out some flavor. The result? I tasted the black cavendish and nothing else. If I was stranded on a desert island and had nothing but this to smoke, I would give up pipe smoking. Peterson makes great pipes and has some fantastic blends, but this is not one of them.