The Good - this is a gorgeous flake in appearance... truly beautiful. It breaks up easily enough. It behaved wonderfully and smoked nicely. Completely inoffensive, exhibiting some fine qualities of VA leaf.

The Bad - as feared from the mere smell of this tobacco in its sample bag, it is heavily cased with a rather generic, cloyingly sweet flavoring (I'd hazard a guess to include vanilla, maybe honey, baked goods). This casing mutes the natural qualities of the leaf drastically and flattens the entire smoke. Sure, it makes for a lovely aroma, but a rather boring and unsatisfying smoke in my opinion.

This is not to say that it is a bad tobacco, just very much not to my liking. And given my experiences with Gawith's Best Brown Flake, McClelland's Brindle Flake and Pease's Union Square, this tobacco strikes me as more of an aromatic than a proper VA flake.

I've smoked the sample I got and will not be smoking any more. However, to new pipe smokers, Luxury Twist might be an excellent tobacco to start with.

On balance this is perhaps the best value among all the tobaccos I smoke. The flavour is always present, calming and satisfying: the essence of Virginia's sweet mellow fragrant character.

The burn is, again, perfection itself: excellent for beginners and anyone who favours Virginia tobacco. It's easy to smoke at a faint glimmer, which brings out the best flavours and aromas.

All without the need to relight if you cultivate the right pace. Some refer to this as "breath smoking" but I just call it slow and steady.

Packing is the same as for Bullseye Flake: fold each piece twice, tease lightly until rounded, and insert loosely into the bowl. Even off the top and sit back for 2+ hours of restoring calm.

If you have been smoking English blends all day, and feel like switching to something a little sweeter, this might be the perfect interim smoke. It will cleanse the pallet, and leave the senses searching for more substance so that you will immediately pick out the nuances of your next tobacco. If, however, my first pipe of the day is an after dinner puff, this tobacco is not one that I would pine for.

This blend responed best to being rubbed, or shredded and then torn into small pieces. The roll-and-stuff method left little half-burned tobacco bits stuck to the bowl, and trying to cube-cut it resulted in the strips just falling apart anyway.

It smokes cool and dry, and is the first Danish blend I've tried that did not give off a vile sour taste or Char-Broil my mouth. It also seems to have quite a lot of nicotene; after my first smoke, I had to sit down because my head was spinning. However, the taste falls into two categories: remarkably similar to McClelland's 2045 Oriental (the blend previously smoked in my little ol' cob), or nothing at all. I probably would have enjoyed it more were my palate a little better developed and not ravaged by cigarette smoking. My girlfriend found it unappealing, and it's also a bear to keep lit.

If you're a Virginia fan, this blend may just ring your bells. Luxury Twist Flake has merit, but at this time, it's just not for me.

Very well behaved VA which is lighter on the citrus but with some added sweet casing. The casing was not intrusive but I would like to try this without it. Even so, this was a good tasting flake, easy to prepare, and with no faults. I prefer stronger VA's as a rule but this was a fine smoke with decent complexity that really shone during the last 1/4 bowl or so. Then it became expansive and richer.

Recommending this one, as with LNF and LBF, is a no-brainer. Some folks may prefer other VA's but there is nothing to dislike here. I may buy some more and play around with some additional blending tobaccos, as this has a very solid base.

Tin note reminds me of some sort of vanilla/maple danish. That same tin note transfers over to the inital light, but diminishes after about the 1/4 mark. Never hints at biting, and smokes dry down to the bottom of the bowl.

I give this 4 stars due to the fact it is an awesome flake for all pipe smokers to enjoy.

Makes a great morning smoke with coffee.

This would be good as an all-day smoke, as you can smoke a lot of it without any ill effects, but it does lack a certain depth.

Over the years I´ve tried several flakes, though I find them hard to preserve, pack, and smoke. Yet, a few of them deliver such a unique and delicious flavor that they are worth the while. Luxury Twist Flake is one of this tobaccos.

Discribe this flake as "light aromatic" can be deceitful. Yes, it is a little aromatic. But this tobacco taste like tobacco in an this-is-virginia way.

The taste is zesty, floral with a hint of grass, you can perceive molasses, and fresh barley.

Took me a solid week to figure out fold and stuff after I started on flakes, but that's the way to go with LTF. With one late tamp and relight, goes right to the bottom and I generally only need one match to get it going. I managed to get some tongue bite my first go at this, rubbed out, but it was definitely "operator error". With fold and stuff, it burns cool and sweet, a superior smoke through and through.

The possibly the prettiest tobacco on the planet. The aroma in the bag is exceptional, although I have no idea what the flavoring might be. The room note is subtle and delicious and certainly shouldn't bother any but the most hardcore anti-smokers.