Dan Tobacco Sweet Vanilla Honeydew

I'm not an aromatic blends fan, but I consider this tobacco very good to smoke sometimes. Expecially in the summertime, I add some vanilla tobacco to my EMs, trying to obtain some light, cool and a little bit less demanding smoke for the morning and to me Sweet Vanilla Honeydew has the best flavour fo all. 3,5/5 in my personal rating system.

This is a very good aromatic tobacco.

The way I tend to judge aros is if I can still taste the tobacco. And this one does that well. With the topping on the surface and the base tobacco shining through.

Tin note is sweet with a hint of vanilla. Beautiful brown ribbon, packs easily, not too moist.

Smokes and behaves well for an aro, with a few relights. Smokes evenly with no gurgle. I dont get a ton of vanilla but I do get the sweetness from the honey. And whats nice about this one is the quality base tobacco comes through half way through.

It is a well done aromatic.

Will buy again.

it's one of the first tins I've ever tried, about 2 years ago, and didn't like it much, but I revisited it again yesterday, I kept the tobacco in the tin(half of the tin was full) and interestingly it's still moist! not too much, but after 10 mins it's ready to pack, I'm smoking it right now, I taste, chocolate, vanilla, sweet, honey, it's tasty! Virginia in this is grassy and citrus, but it turns down by the topping but you can taste the tobacco. it won't bite(sometimes a tingle on the tongue) if you puff on this slowly it taste better. room note is good, and it didn't ghost your pipe. I'm not an aromatic smoker but it is a good change every once in a while.

I have a feeling that all Dan tobaccos are extremely long cut. It's not the easiest to pack a pipe - at least in my fashion and not easy to keep lit. Will have to pack tighter maybe let it dry out a bit before the false light. Best flavor was mid-bowl. Harsh light if exhaling through the nose. Decent flavor. Maybe a bit too rich for me. Cellaring for a year or two to see how it develops.

Pretty tasty, does bite a little, but all in all.......right good! The room note is outstanding, and in the tin smells like a desert. I would recommend this.

I've always liked Sweet Vanilla Honeydew. Very sweet aromatic with a great flavor and room note. Recently, I've found it to have somewhat of a bite, perhaps because I smoke fast with a lot of puffs, but you can't beat the distinctive sweet honey flavor.

I just ordered Vanilla Cream by Mac Barens but company had mistake and send this brand to me, its half flake, very dry and hard to burn. I believe it's not best Vanilla tobacco but not to bad 🙂

Nice smoke and a great honey/vanilla finish! I found that it likes to be smoked very slow, but in turn will give you a room of thick rich smoke. It certainly is a classic well crafted Dan tobbacco, and will make my rotation when I'm having that sweet tooth craving after dinner.

It was quite long ago, since the times of my review to Admiral's Flake (which I liked very much), that I haven't dedicated any pipeful to a vanilla-flavoured blend.

The Christmas period seemed to be the right one for a new vanilla experience, so I grabbed a tin of this SVH - one of the most expensive blend by Dan (here in Italy, I mean)- due to the favourable reviews in the TR community.

SVH is a blonde Virginia-based ready rubbed, the tin aroma very appealing indeed. Mild in strength, it burns cool and velvety, with no bite at all even if pushed. The casing imparts what is supposed to do but in a "transparent" way, leaving the quality virginia weed some place to display its herbal/fruity tone. The burning qualities are optimal, absolutely dry with no gurgle and no goop, and not leaving the pipe insanely hot like many Virginias do.

Regarding me, I could rate this four * if only the strength/body were a wee bit more pronounced, like Admiral's do in force of the B/Ky reinforcements.

All in all, SVH is a blend of good qualities, and confirms the good job Dan is doing in the Virginia department.