Planta Cellini Classico

For the lovers of a good aromatic, Cellini can provide a cool and easy smoke. The pouch aroma is of red fruits and vanilla. Nicely cut, it comes in pouches not too dry or too moist. Easy to pack and light, this baccy burns evenly. NO

I gravitate more towards VA flakes and English Blends, so I find this to be too sweet for me. I would say I would smoke it once in a while, specially if my girlfriend is around, because the room note is really pleasant.

Apart from that, it's cheap enough and accessible enough. If you like ARO you will enjoy this. For me, it's more like an occasional thing.

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 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?

This blend came recommended from a fellow smoker who shares my passion for Winslow No 1. That's why I didn't hesitate to put this blend on top of my shopping list. After opening the 50g pouch I experienced a very pleasant & light odor. I was puzzled at first but then identified it as exactly the same smell as "orange jaffa cake" including the scent of the famous thin dark chocolate casing. My expectations were right up there when I fired up the first bowl. A light orangy test was present (but very distant) during the first 2-3 puffs and then suddenly disappeared. Stronger puffs resulted in just a heavier tobacco taste and a sore tongue. The tobacco taste is indeed very dominant and I wasn't able to detect the orange flavor during the rest of that bowl. It's not a bad tobacco, I would say medium quality with medium+ strength. But the aroma is just too faint imho to enjoy it as an aromatics lover. I will definitely finish this pouch but wouldn't buy it again. A classical 2 out of 4, ok but nothing special.

This is very sweet tobacco, great for the new smoker which satisfies the needs for an all day aromatic. The tobacco's natural aromas do occasionally become detectable and the smoke does render a full body. I never seemed to trace any orange in the blend, only an generic licory-chocolaty sweetness.

Not too bad a blend, I got it as a 25g sample at my baccy, I still have about 17g left, its been about 4 months. I guess if one really likes cavendish it would be very enjoyable, its just that I am very much in a virginia phase of pipe smoking and nothing else does it for me. I do remember enjoying smoking it, i just did not have the time to return to it, but do not let my review put you off. Ill update when I have another few bowls. Mo, South Africa

I stumbled upon this tobacco while training for a slow-smoking contest, since it was the tobacco to be used. I thought it would have been an agony (I'm a latakia-addicted), but I found it quite tolerable indeed. The orange flavouring isn't so overwhelming, you can still taste the tobaccos which are quite good, notably the virginias. The packing is easy if you have the wariness to rub the Virginia sheets, which come in the dimension of Alinghi's mainsail.

Actually quite decent for an aromatic, not goopy or wet. The orange flavoring is quite delicate (though less tasty than the grape one used in Cellini Forte), and very tolerable... actually quite pleasant. The problem is that it vanishes way too soon even smoking slowly, leaving a bland and slightly bitter tobacco taste. Someone mixes this tobacco with cigar leaf or with some latakia EM (obtaining a blend that has some similarities with Ashton Type 2), with reportedly good results. I don't think I will become a fan of this tobacco, but it burns well and is quite honest in what it delivers. For the price, you can have far worse aromatic tobaccos.

Classico riservo is an attractive mix of large brown bits with the occasional bright yellow flash and about 10% black flecks. It is packed in a 100gm metallic foil pouch inside a cubical tin. The tin aroma is quite inticing. The moisture level of the tobacco is probably close to ideal for most smokers. Before I comment on its smoking qualities I must say that my preferences are for Virginia flakes or English mixtures. Classico riservo is very definitly an aromatic! CR is very easy to pack if you can manage the foil pouch. It lights easily and stays lit well. The side stream smoke smells delicious to me, however, my daughter complains that the room odour is rather choking. The tin says this is flavoured with orange. I don't get this. To me it tastes exactly like propolis smells. Read that as very good indeed. The casing flavour stands up fairly well although it does tend to weaken toward the end of the bowl in a large Nording. This tobacco will tolerate a fairly slow smoking speed hence, in spite of its sweetness, it remains cool. So far this sounds like a very positive review and that's fair but I do have at least one serious reservation. Is CR tobacco or flavoured paper? I have no idea what Tuscan or Umbrian tobacco taste like from this experience. That's a pity! Still, if you like aromatics, CR has no nasty surprises for you.