Smoker's Pride Vanilla Cavendish

Ok, this stuff is simply bad. I purchased a bag (12 ounces) since several trusted friends had told me that it was a "decent enough cheap smoke." No. It has a very strong chemical taste, which simply overwhelms anything good. I tried baking the P&G off, with lukewarm success. That did make my house smell like roasting marshmellows for a few hours and thet is about the best I can say for this stuff. It is still strongly chemical tasting. I would try to use it for compost but I am scared that it will hurt my plants. Looks like this just gets thrown out.

My brother smokes this stuff by the bagful. He gave me about half a pound for Christmas (I gave him half a pound of Gawith and Hoggarth's Bob's Chocolate Flake. Who do YOU think came out on top?!)

It reminded me of Captain Black White. The strong black cavendish was rough on my throat. And it made the rim of my pipe bowl shiny and sticky with sugar and goo. It's rougher than Captain Black.

I wanted to like this, because I have so much of it. But, alas, I don't. I'll stick it away in a closet for emergencies, but I won't buy any more.

Bugenhagen

You could buy 12oz of tobacco you don't want to smoke or like 6-8 of tobacco you do. I'd pick the former, this is the latter . Everything about it is horrible, it smells chemically and not very vanilla, the cut is very weird and there are lots of larger pieces of unbroken leaf, it is a pain to pack, a pain to light, and indeed painful to smoke as well. Save your money and find something good in the bulks section, 1q, PS luxury twist flake,

It tastes better than Captain Black and it is cheaper. If you are desperate for a vanilla blend, this is the stuff for you.

I enjoyed the Smokers Pride black cavendish so purchased some of the vanilla. Lemme tell you, this is terrible stuff. Not QUITE as bad as the cherry but almost. On the upside, it is pretty dry and lights/stays lit quite well. That and the price are this tobaccos only redeeming qualities. Harsh tasting, tongue biting, and stinky. In the bag it smells "ok" but while burning I can only compare it to the smell of burning grass (lawn not pot). I tried blending this with some other tobaccos and still not worth smoking. The rest of this went on the plants outside to kill bugs, hopefully it does this well. Not recommended at all.

Nothing impressive with this tobacco. I did not hate it, just found nothing really good about it either. I did not notice any "chemically" taste, just bland tobacco with no taste of vanilla (hardly any odor of it either). The only things I find notable about it is its very cheap price and the ability to blend it with other more tasty tobaccos and you don't notice it even there. Smoker's Pride makes a cherry that is horrible HOWEVER I found that by mixing three parts of this blend with one part of the cherry flavored, it turns something unsmokeable into something I actually can tolerate. I will not buy this product again but if given to me as a gift I would use it unlike the cherry which I can only recommend for use as a bug killer or plant fertilizer.

With all due respect to another reviewer, I found two other things that made this stuff taste like crap... lighting it and puffing it.

This was an early Christmas gift from a well-meaning but utterly clueless non-smoking friend. Much to my chagrin, it's the 12 oz bag. In actual fact, this tasted mostly like a sour batch of warm air with a mild trace of vanilla in the air and a fair amount of juiciness in the pipe. I haven't smoked Captain Black in many years but I don't recall that being this much of a waste of time. Yet both are blended by Lane's and I suspect this is CBW using a much lower quality leaf and a much higher percentage of propylene glycol for shelf-life. Not recommended at any price, including free.

As per my custom, I did blend this with some C&D Kelly's Coin and got something smokable. However, in order to make it so, I had to use a very high ratio of KC to this - so much that it makes much more sense to chuck this mess and smoke KC straight. On the other hand, smokers of CBW should give this a shot. They may like it as much and save money to boot.

I purchased a bag of 'Smoker's Pride' (if you could really call it that!) in 2009. Residing in South Korea, I thought that I had scored some good baccy considering how hard it is to find quality stuff here.

Initially, it had some aroma to it but lacked any depth/tone to the overall flavor. Yes, there was a hint of Vanilla but it was rather in passing and one cannot enjoy a good smoke based on aroma alone. I am glad that I did not smoke this stuff in my Stanwell pipe! It tends to leave goop at the bottom... even after a year of sitting in the bag! It has now, sadly, soured my Benton Churchwarden pipe (but I am willing to part with it anyways)

I had thought that after having given this baccy a year that it would turn into something worth going back to. Sadly, it has left nothing but a bitter taste in my mouth.

I would not recommend this to those considering this as a starter. If you're really on a budget, hit the Captain Black's or Alsbo gold (now this one's a treat!).

This is my first review. And I will first say that I have simple tastes for the most part. I enjoy unassuming tobacco and my favorite so far has been of the codger burley variety...you guessed it, the famous prince. I do, however, enjoy a nice aromatic from time to time as a "snack". There are MUCH BETTER blends out there just from Lane LTD (who makes this also). This is by far one of their worst IMHO. If you want a cheap drug store/ wal-mart aromatic, try the captain black royal or white, but don't waste your beer money on this. How could they call it Vanilla? The stuff does not even smell like vanilla. It smelled like cheap perfume and the taste was nothing but chemical. I even have this stuff for about 6 months hoping it would get better, but it's actually getting worse. Don't waste your money. That's just my 2 cents.