Planta Cellini Classico

I am not able to smoke strong flavored tobacco: here, the aromatizants are overhelming and too sweet. However, if you like these kinds of tobacco, try it.

This is *THE* worst tobacco i ever had the pleasure to smoke. The taste and smell of it positivly made me sick. Something i never ever experienced before or after. It was unbearably to me and i had to emergency-empty my pipe. After that i couldnt smoke the pipe (or even smell it) untill i gave her a salt alc. treatment.

I would like to find something positive to write as well but frankly the only thing that comes to mind is that the tobacco wasnt too expensive and the loss of tossing it out marginal.

The smoke was very thick, both in volume and in aroma. It stuck to my clothes and hair and i had to take a shower afterwards to prevent myself from throwing up. Yes, to me it was *that* bad.

Overall it is a typical Planta blend, with probably even good quality tobacco in it. Which you wont be able to tell since its utterly overwhelmed by the heavily chemical aromatisation. And while i am an expressed friend of all types of tobaccos, from natural blends over heavy english types to strongly aromatised blends, this one here was that bad to me that i registered here just to badmouth it.

Having said that, *if* you still want to give it a try then at the very least have a sniff into the pouch first and see for yourself what you think of it.

I baught a pouch of this in Padova as I was unable to find any of my regular smoke (Sunday's Fantasy) and it was reccomended by the Tobacconist.

I loved the pouch-note. Rich orange and chocolate the nearest thing to a jaffa cake as I have smelt in a long time. The cut was rough and large. I thaught I had found the perfect substitute for Radfords, and it was cheaper too!

However,It did not smoke as well as it should and I was a little dissapointed. It filled well, and lit well, and smoked fairly cool. The rich tastes promised by the pouch-note were there, but very light, I would have expected more from the amount of casing. The light orange faided by mid bowl the chocolate notes lingered but very faint. The tobacco taste left was pleasing enough but nothing special.

The room note was very nice with lots of orange and light cream, its a shame it was not more present in the taste.

overall a fair to good light aromatic tobacco which is good value for money.

A souvenir from my trip to Latvia. Many have mentioned this tobacco (basically “Peter” and “dimitris”). I tried it. The aroma is very intense. It burns very slowly because it is too coarse cut. Yellow Virginia and Black Cavendish. It causes tongue bite and burns the throat. I like it after a spicy meal. With the morning cup of coffee though, it can blow your throat in the air. Perfect room scent

I will never smoke this thing again. Do not bother even to test it.

UPDATE NOV15 2007 i did finish the pouch. People around me liked or tolerated the smell - at least while it was still fresh. But I totally disliked the smoke - it almost sickened me - particularly towards the second half of the bowl.

NEVER AGAIN!!!

INITIAL OCT31 2007 As I mentioned in my notes for Cellini Forte, this reminds me of some variety of Captain Black - just with somewhat coarser cut.

I do not like it and I have actually let it aside for about 4 months now (next to one Captain Black Gold which is standing there for the last 10 months). Well, guess what, they are both still quite humid...

I will try to finish the pouch. If anything changes in my estimate, I will just update...

BTW, the FORTE version is quite decent.

Typical candied garbage ala Europe. Italians should stick to pipe making, opera and pasta and stay out of tobacco blending altogether. European tobaccos of late have been getting from worse to horrid, and this is no exception. This reminds me very much of the WO Larsen 80, which is another hot shag of sweetened cigarette tobacco with anisette extracts and hot air. Don't waste your time.

Zero of five stars

My first tobacco, I got a pack of this when I started, but now I bought another one to be able to taste it properly. So I have two perspective I'd like to tell. When I started, I felt rather intensive taste of orange and something groundy-nutty (the burley, now I know). It was a perfect start. Rarely bit, burned to ash finely. As of now, I still feel the taste, but I can not be so positive. It's taste of orange is rather bland and needs fantasy to feel rather then taste. The burley absolutely dominates the blend, which would make it a nice burley blend, if not the tiny bit of virginia making it "false". Aside from these, a nice, all day blend, goes well with coffee on a cloudy day or at night with some bourbon, but it has a darker atmosphere that feels bad if smoked in sunshine. Room note smells wonderful, can even help it's questionable taste.

I wanted to crack a burley mylar this morning to start the week. I shuffled around my box for a while and grabbed a pouch of Cellini.

I had never tried it but had good expectations. I was expecting a traditional Italian Dark Fired and or toasted burley with an added orange topping. I was surprised to find a VaBurCav rough cut ribbon. The smell out of the pouch is of strong orange rind and chocolate. The smoke is silky and rich. The scent holds up and is well present all along the smoke. Much more aromatic than what I was expecting. Not much nicotine. No bite.

I've never had Exotic/orange Passion. Is it similar?