Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) Troost Special Cavendish

Brazilian and African tobaccos combined with Virginias but topped with a distinctive but unknown flavor. Looks like a pressed flake that has been randomly broken up and packs easily. Dry from the pouch for me as is typical of the Troost line which resulted in a hot smoke unless puffed slowly. Reminds me of the Amphora blends that are no longer imported into the States due to legal concerns. If you enjoyed them, give this one a try. Both the taste and the room aroma are of tobacco and not the flavoring.

Not a bad blend really......I remember my father smoking a lot of this when I was a teenager. Lots of nostalgia here. Once it drys, it burns decent. Some caramel, nutty and toast flavors that do not over power. It does have some tongue bite, but puff slowly and this can be enjoyable. Not stellar, but a nice smoke when you are not in the mood for a super sweet aro, a super smokey lat, or a hot Va.

Nope. That's all that this blend deserves, by way of review. Hot and without a pleasant flavor. I wouldn't even take a free bowl of this very disappointing tobacco. Nope.

Govern Yourself Accordingly.

An orange pouch that says made in the EU. A Dutch style Cavendish that is so lightly flavored with cocoa/licorice that I barely consider this a light aromatic. The flavor is monochromatic with the flavoring showing up once in a while. The real challenge being of pacing yourself so that you take advantage of a genuine old school pipe smoking experience. If puffed too fast, you will be reminded to slow down by some light tongue bite. I do believe that I was lucky enough to get an older production pouch that would explain the light casing and the seasoned tobacco taste.

Virginia lover

Disappointing...i read a review thinking this would be really good but i could hardly detect any taste from it as well as got tongue bite....now for me I found it a very strong tobacco ...I felt sick from the nicotine or something...the aroma in the pouch wasn't bad..the room note I'm not sure because I was nauseous afterwards. I have put this one away to age and hope to revisit with a better experience in future. I would not buy this again.

I have tried both the tin and the pouch.

Please avoid the pouch. It is not up to the wonderful tobacco contained in the tin.

The tin displays an outstanding broken flake of light and medium brown.

The tin aroma is of walnuts with a little sweet extra, maybe a bit of vanilla.

The tobacco is mild but rich, a real pleasure to smoke.

The tobacco is the pouch is dry and hasrh. Stay away from the pouch if you can!

I found this a little light on flavor compared to Skandinavik's Regular or Full Aroma cavendishes. The flavor I did get seemed more of the artificial honey that cases the tobacco than actual tobacco but it wasn't overly sticky or heavily processed. The taste of this Dutch blend was lighter than its Danish brethren, and I think that's mostly a good thing. However, the overall flavor was a bit too light for me.

I liked the cut of this and it smelled quite natural in the pouch. The taste was pleasant enough, but I prefer a bit more joie de vivre. Complexity was minimal, but that's ok - I don't think complexity is the point with Dutch-style cavendish blends. The taste was uniform top to bottom and this did not bite me. I can certainly recommend this to someone who prefers a lightly sweet smoke and doesn't want to be overpowered by flavor or nicotine. I won't buy more but I wouldn't turn down a freebie!

Like "alfabet", I first smoked Troost in or about 1969 in pouch or slices (the slices were also in a pouch rather than tin). My usual tobacco was Old Georgetown, a local English blend. As a change I would smoke Schippers, Troost and Edgeworth slices. I don't know how it could have been but Schippers was my favorite of the three.

Last year, I bought a five pack of Troost based on these reviews and I'm very happy I did. I'm into my second five pack now.

It seems to be a VA/Burley blend with the VA up front and the burley rounding it out. The pouch aroma is very good. I can't determine the toppings but the topping seems to be rather subdued once lit. The pouch rates it aromatic 4 out of 5 but I would rate its aromatic quality a 3 at most. Scandanivic Regular is a close approximation but I prefer Troost and believe it to be a step up from Scandanivic even though both present tobacco flavor quite well.

This is my "go to" VA pouch tobacco. It tastes like tobacco, burns well down to a fine ash without gumming up your pipe with an unoffensive room note and comes at a good price.

Back in 1969 as a freshman in college I picked up the pipe smoking habit. With a master pipe maker owning a tobacco shop in the small central Pennsylvania town, it was easy to get started. After going through the usual "drug store" brands I quickly found that virginia, burleigh and dutch cavendish were where I was most inclined. Somewhere around that time I became aware of Troost Special and, yes it was much more available- in pouches as well as half pound cans. Over the next 35 years, whether I "gave up the habit" or returned on a very sporadic basis, Troost was always my go to tobacco.

Most recently I returned to my off again, on again pipe smoking and bought a pouch, now only really available on the internet. I was not disappointed but either I have stepped into a different realm in my old age or the blend is not quite the same. The latter has been what I have seen on these reviews and I would like to believe that this this is the reason that it is no longer a favorite. I was also disappointed to hear that the slices are no longer available in this country or that these, too have been reformulated.

There appears to be so much good flake and ready rubbed tobacco which incorporates a virginia and burleigh blend that I find myself moving in that direction. Most recently I bought some samplers of PS luxury twist flake and SG best brown flake and I have been enthralld by both. I have an tin of Orlick golden still to open and it looks similar to the troost slices but that remains to be seen (or smoked).

I can still recommend the Troost Special. It just isn't as "special" as I recall.