Drucquer & Sons The Devil’s Own
(2.89)
Named for one of its most famous devotees, Sir Henry Irving, during the time he portrayed Mephisto in the London production of Faust, ca. 1885. The Devil's Own is a medium mixture with a wonderfully balanced taste and aroma. It is simultaneously somewhat sweeter and fuller than Inns of Court due to a greater proportion of golden Virginias and Cyprian Latakia. The addition of a little air-cured leaf and unflavored black cavendish add body and richness to the smoke. - Gregory Pease
Details
| Brand | Drucquer & Sons |
| Blended By | G.L. Pease |
| Manufactured By | Cornell & Diehl |
| Blend Type | American |
| Contents | Black Cavendish, Burley, Latakia, Virginia |
| Flavoring | |
| Cut | Ribbon |
| Packaging | 3.5 ounce tin |
| Country | United States |
| Production | Currently available |
Profile
Strength
Medium
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
None Detected
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Tolerable
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Medium
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming
Reviews
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| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 2018 | Very Mild | None Detected | Very Mild | Tolerable |
At our very first swap/sell show in 1993, when we were called Ohio Pipe Collectors (now known as NASPC), I met a guy that used to own a smoke shop in Zanesville, Ohio, and he had some Drucquers tins on his table. I had never seen them before and bought what he had. I liked them so much that I bought every English blend tin he had in his possession the next time he and I met. Now, here is the weird part; I have no recollection of smoking The Devil's Own. There are two possible explanations: one, he didn't have any tins of this blend in his old store stock or, two, I couldn't identify his tins of this blend that were open as an English mixture (he had boxes of old Drucquers blends and all had a specimen tin opened). This later explanation looms large in my response to the current tin I opened recently - I couldn't immediately identify it as an English blend. In the tin it kind of looked like Early Morning Pipe, though the tin aroma was weaker and not as English fragrant as I remember recent tins
of EMP being. It showed a rather fine cut that I thought a little odd for a pipe tobacco. It was a little moist for lighting and I set some out to air out for about thirty minutes. When I loaded up my pipe I noticed that the odor of the sample had decreased to a lower level and seemed to be more of a Virginia forward aroma, in keeping with reviewer Big Train's review of 2016-09-03. So, I lit up and discovered that I couldn't develop any taste or aroma in the smoke. This caused me to puff harder and learn the lesson of not heeding reviewer Jimlnks' advice 2016-09-30 that hard puffing would be rewarded with tongue scorch. I never got anything much out of the top third of the bowl. This blend did develop a little backbone in the middle third but stumbled a bit in the bottom third. The taste and aroma and smoking satisfaction were thin and weak all the way through the bowl and left me wanting more of everything. The only blend purporting to be an English that smokes weaker is Davidoff Royalty; a blend that I simply could not identify as an English blend. The Devil's Own most closely resembles Cornell and Diehl's Crooked Lane, though Crooked Lane is a little stronger. Not being offensive or anything, I rate this blend as two stars.
of EMP being. It showed a rather fine cut that I thought a little odd for a pipe tobacco. It was a little moist for lighting and I set some out to air out for about thirty minutes. When I loaded up my pipe I noticed that the odor of the sample had decreased to a lower level and seemed to be more of a Virginia forward aroma, in keeping with reviewer Big Train's review of 2016-09-03. So, I lit up and discovered that I couldn't develop any taste or aroma in the smoke. This caused me to puff harder and learn the lesson of not heeding reviewer Jimlnks' advice 2016-09-30 that hard puffing would be rewarded with tongue scorch. I never got anything much out of the top third of the bowl. This blend did develop a little backbone in the middle third but stumbled a bit in the bottom third. The taste and aroma and smoking satisfaction were thin and weak all the way through the bowl and left me wanting more of everything. The only blend purporting to be an English that smokes weaker is Davidoff Royalty; a blend that I simply could not identify as an English blend. The Devil's Own most closely resembles Cornell and Diehl's Crooked Lane, though Crooked Lane is a little stronger. Not being offensive or anything, I rate this blend as two stars.
Pipe Used:
Northern Briars sea urchin
PurchasedFrom:
smokingpipes.com
Age When Smoked:
2 yrs old
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
| Oct 06, 2019 | Mild to Medium | None Detected | Mild to Medium | Tolerable |
After Trafalgar, which I loved, this is my second Drucquer "replica" blend. A light-medium English, I could see this as a tobacco that fits as an alternative to Dunhill's Early Morning... if it weren't that it's a style that I actually don't care much for.
The aroma in the tin is nutty, ripe and delicious: not much Latakia, but good red Virginia and an obvious hint of Burley earthiness. The problem with me, is that the smoking experience is not exciting. It's a limitation of my tastebuds: I usually enjoy blends with no Latakia at all, or blends with a lot of Latakia and orientals, but I rarely enjoy "the middle ground". It has body (thanks to the Burley), it's a refined and nuanced complexity of flaovur, but for me it remains on the bland side.
Well made and with leaf of the usual high quality, but not my style, sorry. If you like just a bit of Latakia in your English blends, give it a try though: it might fit your taste much more than mine.
The aroma in the tin is nutty, ripe and delicious: not much Latakia, but good red Virginia and an obvious hint of Burley earthiness. The problem with me, is that the smoking experience is not exciting. It's a limitation of my tastebuds: I usually enjoy blends with no Latakia at all, or blends with a lot of Latakia and orientals, but I rarely enjoy "the middle ground". It has body (thanks to the Burley), it's a refined and nuanced complexity of flaovur, but for me it remains on the bland side.
Well made and with leaf of the usual high quality, but not my style, sorry. If you like just a bit of Latakia in your English blends, give it a try though: it might fit your taste much more than mine.
Age When Smoked:
3 years
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