The aroma from the tin is of sweet almonds which shows through in the room note as well. On the palate it's joined by a caramel flavor as well.

Like many aromatics, for me it seemed to turn towards bitter as I neared the middle of the bowl. Forget about smoking to the bottom- way too hot for my tongue and palate.

That said, if a great smelling aromatic is what you're looking for this one has some finesse. --------------- Rethinking this post, not only have I moved away from aromatics, but I feel that Killarney was hard to keep lit. Have to pull a star...but who cares, since this is all quite subjective anyway? Cheers.

This is obviously a high quality product. But I am too experienced to smoke such a tobacco.

This is better suited for the beginner seeking a high quality cased tobacco. For them I highly recommend it.

Salty dogs like myself should avoid it.

Right out of the tin, the aroma is quite strong, but once lit, there is a pleasing bouquet of background flavor that never overwhelms the fantastic burley and virginia flavors.

Lights easy, smokes cool, tastes fantastic. The room note is also very nice. I think I just found my new standby aromatic. If you're an aromatic smoker looking to work your way to virginias, this is a must. Give it a shot, you won't be disappointed.

Sunset Breeze burns nice and slow and the room note is wonderful, my wife even commented that she enjoys the smell of this one. The burley gives this smoke a very well rounded and mellow taste. It also smokes extremely cool (again I attribute this to time left to dry out a bit) and leaves my pipes surprisingly dry. I highly recommend this Burley, Black cavendish, Virginia mix. Happy Smoking.

So I quickly developed a penchant for English blends and vapers.

I tried Sunset Breeze on a whim after reading the reviews. I was already odering 6 tins of Old Dublin to cellar, and I had them throw in a tin of Sunset Breeze.

Upon opening the tin, I did not really pick up Amaretto, but it was very pleasant. I picked up dried apricots and the natural smells of he Virginias and Cavendish. It was a little on the moist side, so a 10 minute rest was in order.

It lit easily, but still required 2 more lights throughout the bowl. The room note was wonderful - no wife chaser here. It burned to a nice white/grey ash all the way to the bottom. Sunset Breeze burned clean in the bowl and not one time have I ever experienced any tounge bite no matter how hard I puffed.

I never had a blend I called "my aromatic" but this is it. I have 6 tins on order to cellar. This is just a very nice blend.

With that being said, what a wonderful surprise! I was very sceptical when I read the description on the tin, but I figured I could not knock it until I tried it. I am not an aromatic smoker, but being a fan of Peterson pipes, and their other blends I figured I would give this one a shot.

Upon opening the tin I was greeted with a whole lot of amaretto and what I could have sworn was a faint cherry. The first thing that came to mind (after oh God what did I waste my money on?) was an Amaretto Sour. The tin aroma was gorgeous don't get me wrong, but just about every other experience that started out this way ended with a very bad case of tongue bite and a week of cleaning my pipe.

Defiantly not the case with Sunset Breeze. Right out of the tin I was surprised to find the tobacco extremely dry for an aromatic. The texture was very refreshing. It loaded easily into a Peterson 313, and behaved its self throughout the duration of the smoke.

The first light was an interesting sweet nutty amaretto goodness with an even more delightful full Virginia back bone. The thing that surprised me the most was the wonderful room note this blend emitted while allowing me, the smoker to enjoy a very delicate VA leaf.

Some have indicated that the aroma does not carry over to the smoke, and while this is true I do not find it to be a fault. I like to think of this as an "under cover" tobacco. One can appease the noses of passer-byes and the wife, but still enjoy a full, grown up VA tobacco.

I found the flavour to be just right. The sweet amaretto seemed to carry just enough through the smoke to compliment the naturally sweet VA leaf used in this blend.

I was also incredibly surprised to find that no matter how quickly I puffed away at this little treat, I never once got nipped. It is like the playful puppy dog that no matter how much you annoy him, he just comes back for more, each time gentler and gentler.

Another re-leaving factor in this blend was that it burned down to a perfect white ash leaving no soupy mess in my bowl.

The strength left a little to be desired, but then again it is not advertised to be a heavy hitter, therefore I can not fault it on this front.

I enjoy this blend mostly in the spring time early in the morning when the dew is still nestling on the leaves. It goes very well with an English breakfast tea, or at lunch with a Belgian style Whit beer.

I would recommend this tobacco to anyone who enjoys a drier more subtle aromatic. I would also say if you were entering the world of Virginia tobaccos, this might give you a gentle nudge in the right direction.

For my part, the primary attribute of this weed that allows it to surpass the myriad of other aromatics to be had is the absolute lack of tongue bite: No small feat for an aromatic, whose ingredients are usually a straight receipe for creating nothing but bite. This lack of bite allows one to actually TASTE the flavors intended to be experienced, in this case, sweet arametto balanced with fine, mild tobaccos. One does not overpower the other. There are no issues with lighting. No issues with moisture, at least in my opinion.

So-called purists may balk at the toppings, repeating the tired adages regarding just what a real tobacco is meant to be, but in truth, a real tobacco is meant to taste good and be enjoyable to those who partake, and Peterson's Sunset Breeze certainly does and is. Let the purists scoff: more of it for us!

In the tin, this tobacco smells only of its casing. It's amaretto, a nice twist on the cherry cavendish idea. It packs easily in any pipe, and lights without fuss. It can get hot if pushed too hard, but because this burns so well you really have to push it hard to get it hot.

The nice thing with this tobacco is that, while being an aromatic (and thus pleasing to those around you), this tobacco has a nice tobacco flavor. You can taste the high-quality virginias and burleys that provide the base for this blend. The flavor isn't strong by any means, but it beats most other aromatics I've tried where the casing (or the goopy cavendish) overpowers the tobacco.

Highly recommended for non-aromatic smokers who find themselves in social situations where they need to smoke something more tolerable.

I cant fault the quality of the leaf, it packs well, burns well and has a lovely aroma. To me all those qualities, and forgive the pun, go up in smoke when compared to the much more flavoured Connoisseurs Choice.

Will I buy another tin? maybe one day when I have forgotten what it tastes like. But for now CC is my aro of choice. Must admit though that I am finding Virginia flakes much more satisfying and am gravitating to those as my favourite tobaccos.

2009-12 First of all I dont like too mutch flawored tobaccos. After the first puff I sensed a smell of vanilla only, and that disapointed me a little bit, I was afraid it will become overwhelming, but later I sensed another aromats and that changed my mind. The vanilla was still there, but the tobacco taste emerged and dissapeared after each few puffs. The third arromat begins to emerge and little by little dominate over the vanilla and tobacco. I was trying to get what aromat it is, but couldn't recall it. But then an idea commes to my mind - this is wine! The smell is the same as in the moment when you open a bottle of wine. A little bit sour and with nuanses of a mould. After the smoking I began to sense the wine taste in my mouth too!

This is very interesting experience. The aromats associated with some colors in my mind: light yellow - vanilla; black/brown - tobacco; red - wine. The collors was playing in my mind drawing interesting pictures and actualy the picture on the tin was quite simmilar to it ;)

Negative sides of this tobacco is that it burns very difficult; I had to relight it with 4 or 6 times. And a little bitter in the throat due of suspected unnatural ingredients in the tobacco.

Still it is very interesting and unusual blend! I will try it next time too :)

The room note is fantastic and will garner tons of compliments. Lucky bystanders will get to smell caramel, baked goodies and a hint of almonds. Yet, it has some kind of fresh note too. It is both warm and fresh. Sunset Breeze is an apt name. This is one of those tobaccos where I exit and re-enter the room several times during a smoke just to enjoy the room note.

I can still remember how this tobacco bit me, even when smoking very slowly, when I first took up the pipe. Nowadays there is no bite - just a very definite mouth feel, which actually contributes to the smoking experience. Just shows how mouth chemistry adapts with time.

In conclusion, a very nice Virginia, Burley and Black Cav aromatic, if you like aromatics. It does smoke a bit hot though, and for this reason I give it 3 and not 4 stars.

After all the pomp and ceremony about this one being Petersons better efforts at an aro, well, I'm just not convinced.

I like Ameretto, the tin aroma is wonderfully pungent, strong and promises a lot up front, seemingly at ease with it's reputation as earnt from other tobacco adventurers before me..

However, as far as I'm concerned this pleasant aroma doesn't translate as well (if at all) into the smoke, neither for that matter in the room note either if I'm honest. I detected VERY weak overtones of this aro as it reached the end of it's recyling process of the senses, during each 4 second draw that made up my half-hour's afternoon toke.

This one does smoke a wee bit on the warm side (and I'm a sipper) and it tastes more chemically artificial than most of it's stable brothers that I've tried from Peterson. It's ok, but I won't buy another. 'Connoissours Choice' is a much better option IMO.

Still, it's for you to decide not me...