It does have issues, it is a bit too moist, and it will burn a bit hot if you let it, but in a large bowled pipe, it can be an extremely satisfying smoke.

The fruitiness gives way to a carmelized glazed pear taste through the bowl.

It isn't for the weak of heart, it isn't very forgiving!

First, this stuff is very inconsistent pouch for pouch from the discussions I have had with other pipe smokers. My pouch was dry as a bone and smelled nothing like the sample.

It took over 6 months for the flavoring to mellow out enough to allow this to be smoked, even then the aid of a filter pipe or P-lip would only make this palatable in the least.

As far as aroma take the worst traits from Blue Note and Erinmore Mixture and mix them together, you have Armonia.

Save your money and buy a pouch of Captain Black, which by comparison is a quantum leap in quality...read between the lines. :)

I shall keep it short. Upon opening the tin I was repulsed. Why I went ahead and subjected one of my fine briars to this foul weed remains a mystery to me. Well, the fact is I did and it was a huge mistake. Almost every thought expressed by the above reviewers ran through my mind as I puffed on Armonia. Remove the "r" from the name and you've got my impressions of smell and taste of this miserably failed effort at creating a smokable pipe tobacco. (IMHO)

Then again, if the sample pack doesn't grab you; why go out and buy a tin or a pouch of it?

Upon opening the sample pack, I sensed chocolate covered raisons. ....The next day, I still sensed the same plus a whiskey? ala "Borkum Riff smell".

Upon lighting and thru the top 3rd, I still was reminded of chocolate covered raisons. By half way, I started tasting a burnt chocolate. Near bottom, a charred chocolate/fudge taste. ...None of which, grabbed me.

No innocent bystanders were present to comment on the room note.

Physical Characteristics: A long thin ribbon cut, moist enough to stick together in great clumps. If seperated strand by strand, it packs moderately well, though it retains it's penchant for clumping, even after leaving it sitting out on my desk for a few days, a sure sign of a heavily PG laden blend.

Notes: This is crap, pure and simple. While I am no great lover of aromatic blends, I have smoked a good number of them, and have enjoyed quite a few of those. This, however, fails in almost every category. The room aroma is pungent and unpleasant, driving away friends, relatives, badgers and skunks. The astronomical moisture content guarantees the impoosibility of taking more than two or three puffs before relighting. The burn is uneven and haphazard, even with the most careful packing and tamping technique. The flavor, such as it is, wavers between burnt sugar, which of course, burns the tongue, and a gin distillery, both unpleasant in their own right, but geometrically more so when so inelagantly juxtaposed. Laid over top of this foul conglomeration of tastes is a healthy layer of hot steam, as this burns perhaps the hottest of any tobacco I have ever smoked. It is one thing to be careless when smoking a bowl of high sugar Virginia and find that afterward ones tongue is a bit sensitive, but it is quite another to have the entire inside of ones mouth screaming in agony before one even finishes the first third of a bowl. The only vaguely redeaming quality that this tobacco has is that due to the insanely high temperature it achieves, it does manage to burn quickly enough to spare one the unremitting torture that would be an average length smoke.

Verdict: Given the repellant aroma of this blend, the outrageous moisture content, the penchant for clumping into a sodden mass, and the extreme difficulty in keeping it lit, not to mention the scorching, asbestos like flavor and the room aroma that would be better used to test gas masks in the military, I would have to say that the person or persons responsible for this tobacco abomination need to be unceremoniously taken out back and beaten.