Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) Troost Aromatic Cavendish

This stuff tastes like cigarettes and leaves a room note like stale cigarettes. Definitely not recommended.

Purchased randomly, just for the sake of testing something, here's the worst tobacco I've ever smoked. Bites the tongue, burns hot and bland, the taste is uninteresting. Tried multiple times, without success. In order not to throw it, I mixed it with various other tobaccos, which was a serious mistake since I simply ruined the other tobaccos: pure waste.

I do not find any quality to this tobacco, except that to make you understand that any other will be a better choice. Too bad we can not give the note "zero star". An abomination.

When you open this pouch, there's a sweet smell of raisin or prune. I'd almost compare it to the smell of Marlboro Lights. It was on the dry side for being a freshly opened pouch.

I packed the pipe, hoping that there'd be something redeeming about his tobacco. I have yet to find something. It smokes very hot, and it tastes terrible. I think I'd have better luck with burning grass clippings. I shared this with a smoking buddy, mad did I feel like a jerk. The tobacco went in the trash, and the terrible taste hung around all day. Never Again will Troost grace my pipe.

I appreciated the reviewer who compared it to straw. I agree with his observations. It was a dry tobacco when it came out of the pouch. As I smoked my third bowl in as many days, the slight nuances of the blend became apparent. The only reason I tried Troost was because it's my best friend's favorite brand. What was he thinking? This blonde cavendish is a disappointment. I will finish the pouch (when I'm bored), but I won't buy it again.

Tin aroma: Classic, sweet cavendish with a chocolate type topping on a non-descript burley/virginia base.

Room Note: Fairy pleasant but not very remarkable.

Packing: like shoving straw into a hole to bung a leak: dry with weedy strands.

Moisure Content: Dry as tinder. Awful.

Lighting: I'm amazed it didn't catch fire and consume the whole bowl in seconds it was that dry! Lots of smoke and lots of blisters. Ouch!

Appearance: Like straw; very light and yellow with weedy, unappetising strands.

Smoking: Very dry, hot and bland. Bites like a vampire. If I smoked straw I imagine it would have this heat and taste. Cannot detect any nicotine. Upon further analysis,I think it actually is straw. Bleurgh!

Pros: It smells OK to other people. Other than that, none at all!

Cons: Hot, hot, hot! Acrid, dry and tasteless. Burns fast so at least the pain is over and done with. In my opinion, a waste of time and money. An abomination.

Score: One out of five for the room note only. Enough said!

Troost Aromatic is an economical Dutch Cavendish that reminds me of Sail Regular. Like Sail, it's a seemingly well-cut broken flake that looks and smells like tobacco.

The resemblance ends there, unfortunately.

Sail comes properly humidified; Troost comes dry as a bone and takes several days to moisten into something smokable. Sail smokes dry and cool; Troost smokes hot and bites. Sail has a light, sweet, natural taste; Troost tastes like the bitter burley that it is, and leaves an acrid aftertaste.

In general, for summertime smoking I prefer the Dutch cavendishes to the Danish blends (excepting Mac Baren Navy Flake, which I always have on hand). They generally taste and smoke better to me. Troost Aromatic is the exception to this rule, though. At $4 for a 50-gram pouch, it's a bargain, and it can be made to smoke passably well, but for a few pennies more, you can buy Sail, and why not? Sail is one of the great summertime smokes, and it runs less than half the cost of your average tinned delectable.

I guess that I have been spoiled by smoking high quality tobacco, but I am sorry I soiled my pipe with this stuff. No aromatic flavor that I can taste. Smells and tastes like a cigarette. I suppose that some may like it, but I don't. If it was the only pipe tobacco available, I would give up smoking. It isn't the worst I have ever tasted, but it's in the top 5. I would rate it as 0 stars for myself, but because some folks find it OK, I will reluctantly give it 2 stars. And it is a gift.

This tobacco had a nice pouch smell. It lit well and and burned a bit warm. The flavor was very mild, absent really. It was very boring, halfway through the bowl it began to feel like a chore to smoke.

I bought this online as a 5 different Aromatic Cavendish Blends from Holland. It was Medium dry. I smoked it in a filtered pipe and I still got Tongue Bite. pleasant taste, room note fair.