Von Eicken Springwater Exotic Cut

Springwater has a good name and good pack but not a good taste. Although I really prefer to smoke aromatic ones I don?t like this one.

Did I smoke same tobacco that already was mentioned here? I don?t think so.

This is a fantstic tobacco indeed, I'm afraid I am repeating what has been said about this tobacco, it is indeed a choice one may take as a "life tobacco".It has very little tong bite, and the rich flavour of this tobacco makes it. It is a very pleasent smoke, at the first pouffs of smoke you can tase the richness of aromas, while beign cool and not very strong in nicotine.

This is a aromatic who remembers me the AC Peterson`s Kentucky bird. In the tin you can find some "not tobacco" pieces. Springwaters burns easy, with a great aroma for your "audience", very low in nicotine, but a lot of flavor. If you are a aromatic`s fan this is you blend, but if you not... stay away!

One of my favorite aromatics -- if not the one -- and one I often use to break-in my pipes.

When you open the green and gold foil pouch, the rich chocolatey, almondy, slightly vanillaish aroma envelops your nose instantly. Mmmm. Almost like candy. A lovely introduction.

Packs well, lights well. The caramel-aroma comes nicely through in the smoke. A very good experience.

The chocolate confectionery feel drops from the foreground somewhere around the last third of the bowl. After that, it's just rich and tasty - with a nutty, almondy, chocolate feel in the back of your throat.

Burns well all the way to the bottom. Smokes wonderfully cool. No tongue-bite in normal smoking conditions. Keeps lit pretty easy, though a few re-lights are unavoidable, as this sometime tends to smoke a bit wet esp. outdoors, when it can even gurgle at times. (Mind your tongue at these times).

This isn't as light as it seems tastewise or residue-wise, either. You'll note that when cleaning. For a seemingly light aromatic this one's a pretty strong blend. "An aromatic with a backbone". Another thumbs-up to this blend.

Room note is well-liked, by passers-by and kin alike.

Most people probably will find this to their liking, whether they smoke orientals, va's or aromatics.

[update] After half a year I gotta say that the more I smoke this, the more I like it. After a month's break, I noticed the Virginias very distinctly. Aromatic and straight va. notes alternating...

[update] A year in rotation, and still keeps me happy. The chocolatey taste works in marvellous ways, and even gives new taste-sensations every now and then. From a jazz bar to a cruiseliner, from sun-shiny garden to a bat-watching night by the lakeside, a most versatile tobacco.

Note: Don't let this one dry out much, it won't benefit from it (rather the opposite, it becomes a thin-tasting tongue-scorcher).

I thought it was high time I move away from my beloved oldstyle American blends for a time and expand my venues. The best way to do so, I surmised, was to pick up a pouch of something totaly off of the beaten pipe path as far as my smoking ventures are concerned. This should be about as far off as I could get, but this is not to say that I did not like it, quite the oppisite. I was amazed at how good a heavy aromatic blend such as this could be simply by having a virginia base as opposed to the low grade burley so often employed in such mixtures.

With that Virginia base supporting the high grade black cavendish, a winning combination and full complexity were established from the start and remained throughout the bowlfull. The sauce that was liberally doused over the blend(Lord only knows what 'manilla' is supposed to refer to)was not at all cloying, acrid, or overtly artificial tasting to my palate. Be assured it was bright and fruity and thuroughly pleasent throughout. Even better, though I suspected from the very beginning that Springwater would contain a more than generous dose of glycol, within but a few days of opening the pouch I found the contents had gone bone dry. It would seem that even preservative additives had been put on with a light hand.

All in all, Springwater has served to cement a precept that I have had for some years with my occasional ventures into German tobacco: there's aromatics, and then there's German aromatics.

Regards, A. Morley Jaques

like springwater cigarettes a great taste & a great smell when you smoke it,vanilla's magic!

seems mild when you smoke it but if you notice your pipe's filter,you'll understand it's not that mild....very good for aromatic smokers like me.