The taste is not incredible, but the vanilla is not overpowering and the tobacco tastes like tobacco; but I don't expect to be satisfied by exceptional tobacco flavor with aromatics. Vanilla tastes and smells natural; there is little trace of "chemical" notes one gets with cheap aromatics. In any case, it's a good tasting blend and will not offend most bystanders at all.

This is really good stuff. Give it a try if you like aros.

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Ok, a long time later, I've revisited this blend. It's still ok to smoke, and the room note is really wonderful. "Recommended" status stays, even though I think I've gotten less tolerant of aromatics in the meantime.

It's an easy, low maintenance smoke, and the benefits are immediate. The flavouring is rather strong: one doesn't taste much tobacco, to the extent that it impossible to identify what tobacco is used in the blend. The spicy vanilla taste is dominant. I also taste black pepper. The taste is good, perhaps a little too sweet, but an excellent replacement for after-dinner sweets, with a cup of coffee. Aftertaste and room note are both pleasantly sweet.

This could be the best of the vanilla blends - it certainly is my favourite vanilla blend, and it has been since I tried it for the first time, back in 2000.

Not the "vanilla cream" I was expecting.

Many people are calling blends 'crossovers' because they are a bit of both worlds when it comes to tobacco and aromatic flavor, but this old time favorite is a TRUE crossover blend! In my opinion Latakia is a CASED TOBACCO (DUN DHUUUN DUUUUUUUHHHNN!) just because it is cased with smoke doesn't mean that its not flavored, whereas Vanilla creme has a TRUE natural virginia taste to sing along with its casing.

This blend will always be a favorite and it deserves more credit than anyone gives it. If you aren't familiar with any Virginians be warned: get to know them slowly or they will bite you, just try to understand that it doesn't make them bad.

Slowly sipping it or using the "breath method" gives a very nice, smooth, slightly sweet vanilla flavor. The smoke is rich and indeed creamy, like the name says. Smokes cool and dry with no bite, if you do it slowly. It's got a nice room note even when you're smoking it. Usually I can't smell the smoke too well when smoking, but this one I can detect if I'm smoking it slowly, and it's very nice.

I quite like this vanilla tobacco and am looking forward to finishing the rest of this pouch.

This is a good smoke when others are in the house. My impartial room note judge said that the fragrance is quite nice, kind of like having a vanilla candle burning in the room. Easily lit, the burn is smooth and fairly cool, especially for an aromatic; I suspect that this is due to the quality of the tobacco used. Once burning, the vanilla flavor is accompanied by a nice creaminess. Think of cream soda in a tobacco. There’s nothing subtle about Vanilla Crème. I did find, though, that the flavor began to get a bit sour by the bottom of the bowl, and it doesn’t DGT very well.

If you want a really good, high quality vanilla blend, go for either this or Sweet Vanilla Honeydew. I personally prefer SVH, but that could be because I smoked it first, and maybe because it has a bit more subtlety about it. Vanilla Crème is a good tobacco to smoke when others are around, especially if those others have a tendency to complain about "stinky" tobaccos.