Alsbo Black

An easy beginner's aromatic. High quality Cavendish for a reasonnable price with a good vanilla topping. It smokes very smooth, with a mild taste and a wonderful room note. No problems with packing and lighting, leaves very little dottle and doesn't smaoke wet if you smoke slowly. I like to have some in my car or my vest pocket as an all round or emergency tobacco. Not for people who look for complex flavors, nicotine kick or 'real' tobacco taste.

Alsbo Black is a good, though rather pedestrian, Black Cavendish, It's sweet, very aromatic and the description is pretty accurate: vanilla and hazelnut is what you get.

Unfortunately, and unlike Mac Baren's Black Ambrosia, there`s not much in the way of tobacco flavor. However it burns pretty well, virtually without tongue bite and with a room note that tends to dissipate quickly. It has a little more ump than its Golden sibling (basically a vanilla/pistaccio tasting golden cavendish).

Recommended as a very nice and smooth introduction to aromatics.

This is the first tobacco I smoked and really enjoyed. I think this stuff is great and usually have some lying around. It is mild and has a great room note. Even non smokers will be complementing you on your choice of tobacco. I usually smoke this when I've got company as most folks really like the aroma. I'd recommend this to a new pipe smoker as it is not too strong and is a very pleasant mild smoke. I personally find Alsbo Black to be a great smoke any time of day or night.

This is one of those tobaccos I wish I had an oportunity to start pipe smoking with years ago, back then I went the usual way: Captain Black, Mac barens, Clan, etc... this one is better than those in the sense that is both mild and aromatic but tastes like something (something like vanilla and hazelnut) Then again, is a great tobacco (not superb quality though) but there are so many other brands that I became a big fan of in the meantime, that now I feel great for finally trying it out, but even though I'm enjoying a pipe full of this stuff, I think it's hard to get stuck on something like this like I would have done years ago, but I will strongly recommend it to both, starters and anyone who fancies a mild danish aromatic that's a bit classier and less goopey than most cheap aromatics. It's a great all day smoke. and leaves a great room note. For the english tobacco smoker, this is probably girlie stuff.

This is my current all day aromatic smoke. I discovered it on this website before buying. It can be best summed up as Clan sweet and low in my opinion.

Great vanilla taste and room aroma. SWMBO even comments on how nice it smells when I come in from the garage. Virtually no tongue bite unless you puff really hard. Nicely packaged and relatively good value. What more can I say. Will keep buying until I find a better aromatic.

Recommended.

UPDATE - by the time I finished the 50g pouch I was pretty fed up of the sickly sweet taste of this tobacco. Don't think I will be buying it again as I have found better tobaccos since.

Like all pipetobacco's from denmark, this is a great tobacco to smooke. Here in belgium all kinds of Albo tobacco are not hard to find, and I smooke them all regular.Looking foreward to smooke American blends, but we don't have them over here and they are hard to find. Anyway, all blends of Alsbo are great and usefull to try them all!

This is a fine tobacco. Pouch says vanilla and hazelnut. Don?t know about the hazelnut, but this is a typical Danish cavendish aromatic with vanilla aroma. The taste however, is rather more like tobacco than dessert. Mild in strenghth and easy to smoke- typicaly Danish ?no problem? smoke. After a few bowls of English blends, I smoke this one to please my wife with ?something that doesn?t stink like that other stuff I smoke?. I smoke this to the end of the bowl, and it leaves nothing more than fine gray ashes and a nice smell to the room.

I use to smoke Black Cavendish tobacco regularly and this one is a very good and mild one. Very mild and pleasant,easy and slow burning with a very nice aroma and room note.Very good in taste . Very easy to fill and pack. A pleasure to be smoked and smelled.

One tends to leave aromatics in the trend to more refined tobaccos, learning the joys of fine Virginias and the rich Latakias - odes be payed to these all mighty Godessess of fumes. However, the love certain non-smokers demands the use of unoffensive smelling tobaccos. This is the best I know for such purposes. I wouldn't even call it an aromatic if I'd never crossed the path of someone smoking it. As a bonus, it actualy as *TOBACCO* in it, and it is GOOD, much above average, dispite it's wonderful room note - people turn their heads around sniffing like cockerspaniels - but not fruit-like, just pipesmoke. The rich cavendish smoke is delightful and rich. Never had a tongue-bite, as it is not wet as the so-called commercial aromatics. So I do keep it at hand and smoke it even when I'm alone.