Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) Velvet

This OTC blend needs to be compared to other OTC blends. It's not nearly as mellow as CH. It doesn't have that slightly nutty quality of PA. It has less flavor than CB. But it also has less bite than BR. Burns hot and wet. The price is a bonus, but is it really? There's just so much better out there, for just a few bucks more, if you want a decent OTC, burly-based blend. Can't recommend.

Just awful! I really wanted to like this blend. It smells very good in the pouch but that’s where anything good stops. It tastes to me like almost nothing but there is one prominant flavor and that is the flavor you get if you’re sucking on a popsicle stick after the popsicle is gone. Just a dusty gross wet popsicle stick taste. My least favorite pipe tobacco I’ve ever tried.

This stuff tastes like an old dirt gym sock that has been used to clean up a puppies "accident". Flavor is mild, which is fortunate, because if it were any stronger it would got from horrible to a form of torture. Wife wasn't fond of the room note, and she's usually pretty easy. I cannot realistically imagine a scenario where I would be tempted to ever smoke this again. Ever.

The best thing I can say about this tobacco is its boring. Lacks flavor and has no character . The worst thing I can say it it does bite the tongue. It is difficult to stay lite as well. It will remind you of your childhood in that it does smell like play do.

The other reviewers here were spot on. It tastes like play doh smells. Enough said.

America's smoothest smoke my ass.

I call this my mystery tobacco because...I CAN'T FIND WHAT THE HECK I SHOULD DO WITH THIS SH*T!!!

I bought this blend to go with my new Bjarne Viking Classic Dublin. and i am ashamed to have this stuff grace my pipe.

O how shall i count the ways i hate thee...

For one this blend bites me no matter how i smoke...and its not uncommon for me to get threw a bowl with just one light.

Its a small bite not much but a constant bite that distracts from the flavor which is were this blend shines.

It taste very nutty with some fruity sweetness to it and its a very good taste and i would love to smoke this stuff if it would stop biting me.

And thats not it it also burns very hot which irks me to no end.

But alas there is some hope i find if you carefully play around with this its a great blender.]

I mixed it with 2 blends a Blenders Gold Black Cavendish mixture that was too sweet for me and my own blend that is Carter Hall mixed with cigar leaf and the result was my Black Cavendish got alot more mellow and more enjoyable and the cigar blend was mellowed out alot so i can actaully smoke the stuff without needing a drink.

While this stuff does have potential as a blender its crap as a single smoke.

Not good. Not terrible, but not good. This review is based on one pouch only, but the tobacco was still moist so I don't think it's a case of it being past its prime. It doesn't bite or anything, there's just no character to it. Very light on flavor. What little flavor there is seems to be more in the vein of SWR than PA. This just seems like cheap, sub-par leaf to me. I really enjoy other inexpensive codger burleys, but this is cheap in the bad sense. Spend your coin on some real SWR or PA if you want a drugstore burley. Perhaps the tub product is superior to the pouch product, but what I smoked was utterly vapid.

When I smoked a pipe in the '70's-'80's, this was my all day smoke. I just tried it this past week and don't know what happened. Won't stay lit and I don't know what burley they're using but it isn't the same smoke. Got through a few pipes and put it aside.

I couldn't get past the Play-Doh smell and taste. Both in the bag and in the bowl. Smoked one bowl, and threw the rest out!