Danske Club Black

I received this as a sample with an estate pipe purchase. It was rather dry for an aromatic and still took 3 matches to get lit. After it did light, it unfortunately stayed lit. As an aside, I generally smoke non-aro blends. Can't endorse this stuff though. It actually and at one point tasted like what burning tires must taste like. No finish to speak of and although I received no tongue bite, the potential was there. I attribute this to the fact that I used a very small pipe and smoked slowly. Better aromatics out there to be sure. Have to take a huge pass on this one.

This is 100% sweet Danish Cavendish. The same thing as that used in Sweet Dublin from Orlik. For me, this is a blending tobacco and it should not be smoked as it is. Who would want to smoke pure Perique or pure Latakia?

I guess if you like the taste of classic Danish Cavendish, and would like to add a little extra to a boring aromatic, this might be the thing for you. I'll just steer clear and stick to my VA-flakes....

Jakob Kiilerich, Denmark

Like the reviewer above, I got my hands on this tobacco in the "Smoker's Cocktail" pipe tobacco collection. My Father was visiting relations in Britain when the clerk at the duty free talked him out of buying the Dunhill variety pack for the variety package containing Black Luxury, Mixture, Sail, Clan and Capt. Black. I'd like to take this opportunity to wish the clerk at Manchester airport duty free a case of incapaciating flatulance.

Upon opening the package the first thing I noticed was the complete lack of tobacco smell. Instead I noticed a sweet, molasses syrupy kind of smell. Hmmm, not a good start. I chose a clay pipe to smoke the stuff in so at least I'd be able to burn out the smell if it smoked like what it smelled. It did, but worse. The material in the package (I can't call it tobacco) packed easily and lit with no problem. The flavour was mostly absent, tissue paper soaked in honey would have had more tobacco flavour. The room note reminded me of the smell of a pot left unattended on the stove buring a combinationn of perfume and carmel. The tobacco burned very hot, though on the bright side it wasn't as moist as other aromatics I've smoked in the past. However, it did leave a lovely layer of goop on the sides of the pipe bowl and I'd imagine if someone had the misfortune to smoke this travesty in a brair, meer or corncob they'd have to be tasting sweet perfume for a good long while after.

If someone offers you this tobacco, ball up your fist, hit them and run.

Danske Club - Black Luxury.

I bought this 6 months ago whilst on holiday in Majorca. Sadly, the highlight of that holiday was finding some tobaccos unavailable here in the UK. The rest of the holiday sucked!!

The ribbons are robustly built, very dark brown in colour, and have a potent aroma of sweet vanilla. The moisture isn't as I'd expect such a strong smelling blend to be. It isn't even a touch moist, but spot on.

The vanilla is unquestionable in the smoke, unfortunately it's not the best vanilla aromatic I've had. On the positive side, it ignites easily. To be fair, for the initial quarter the flavour's nice: lots of smooth vanilla. But, after this stage has passed the smoke develops a scathing note. Sort of burnt, astringent, and bitter; this ruins the rating. Again, being fair, the temperature of the smoke's low, and I get no tongue bite. The tobaccos taste alright, but struggle for attention because of the hefty topping.

Nicotine: mild. Room-note: not bad.

Black Luxury? Hmm, the initial flavour's worth a recommendation, but subsequently it becomes horrible. Because of this I can't recommend it, at all:

One star.

My brother was given this Tobacco as a beginners taster... We smoked it together on many different occasions.... Never really came to understand it. It just seemed to taste bad. Very quickly tasted of ash. Really not nice stuff. It has a beautiful room note... But that won't do u much good... Only ur neighbor. My brother has ened up throwing it out. We now smoke Kentucky bird.. That is a great starting pipe tobacco. Can't recommend this stuff.

Perhaps for people who love vanilla (in their pipe that is) I could somewhat recommend this. However, if it is just sweetness you are after, you can easily find something better.

The flavor, although overwhelming, is not even so bad. My main problem with this blend was that I found it a very wet smoke which didn't burn well, needed constant attention and was always gurgling with condensation. When your pipe feels like a drinking straw in charred vanilla juice and you no longer seem to be smoking tobacco, no matter how hard you work to keep it going - you find yourself in an altogether unsatisfying pipe experience.

This tobacco may be produced with mildness and smoothness in mind, but the fact remains it will parch your tongue and impair both your pipe and your taste buds (at least for a week!). Out of a whim, I bought a 50 g. pouch once, in a rather cold and windy day while living in the East Anglia corner of Britain, and I could never finish it.

I don't mean to say this is an awful tobacco, but it is rather similar to Borkum Riff's Black Cavendish: excessively cased (vanilla and some other sweet agent), inevitably goopy and far too enervating to be enjoyable. I do enjoy a good aromatic every once in awhile, but this stuff is just too much for me. Absolutely no tobacco taste and so sweet I can't taste the flavors of anything else for weeks!