McClelland Blending Oriental
(3.40)
The finest Oriental leaves from Greece and Turkey, cut in classic English style ribbon form to add their delicate, spicy, exotic scent and gentle sweetness to your own Oriental mixtures.
Details
| Brand | McClelland |
| Blended By | McClelland Tobacco Company |
| Manufactured By | McClelland Tobacco Company |
| Blend Type | Other |
| Contents | Oriental/Turkish |
| Flavoring | |
| Cut | Ribbon |
| Packaging | 50 grams tin |
| Country | United States |
| Production | No longer in production |
Profile
Strength
Mild
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
None Detected
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Pleasant
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Mild to Medium
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming
Average Rating
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3.40 / 4
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Reviews
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| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Oct 15, 2011 | Mild | None Detected | Mild | Pleasant |
Mostly walnut-brown in color and a ribbon cut. Musty smell of old gym lockers in the tin. Good blending tobacco, for sure, but in order to know what it brings to a blend, it needs to be smoked straight.
Not a ton of flavor, which is to be expected. I doubt even the Turks or Greeks smoke oriental tobacco straight, but what do I know. Definitely a spicy earthiness to this, but I detected almost no sweetness. The Grand Oriental series has predominately Virginia, which makes up for the sweetness this stuff lacks. Room aroma is very pleasant - sort of a soft incense, just the thing to take the smell of a cigar out of a room without a heavy masking.
As a blender, this shines. I use this mostly for Virginias with perique, where it lends a light spice and tones down the perique. But it's also fun to mix it with a straight burley, such as C&D's Burley Straight, where it adds some nice complexity and spice to the monodimensional but great tasting burley. No blending table should be without this stuff, even though I agree with a previous reviewer in that it would be nice if we knew which orientals we were blending!
Not a ton of flavor, which is to be expected. I doubt even the Turks or Greeks smoke oriental tobacco straight, but what do I know. Definitely a spicy earthiness to this, but I detected almost no sweetness. The Grand Oriental series has predominately Virginia, which makes up for the sweetness this stuff lacks. Room aroma is very pleasant - sort of a soft incense, just the thing to take the smell of a cigar out of a room without a heavy masking.
As a blender, this shines. I use this mostly for Virginias with perique, where it lends a light spice and tones down the perique. But it's also fun to mix it with a straight burley, such as C&D's Burley Straight, where it adds some nice complexity and spice to the monodimensional but great tasting burley. No blending table should be without this stuff, even though I agree with a previous reviewer in that it would be nice if we knew which orientals we were blending!
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 2005 | Extremely Mild | Extremely Mild | Very Mild | Pleasant to Tolerable |
This is indeed a nice blending tobacco and I had a lot of fun (but, little success) in trying to improve other blends with the addition of this stuff. Betty Crocker I am not.
Upon popping the tin, I was in heaven. This is really what Oriental leaf of top quality should smell like. Deep, exotic, musty and rich, I could not wait to try it by itself just for fun. It had a lot of sweet spice and a very cool presentation. Sweeten any pot with this one!
Upon popping the tin, I was in heaven. This is really what Oriental leaf of top quality should smell like. Deep, exotic, musty and rich, I could not wait to try it by itself just for fun. It had a lot of sweet spice and a very cool presentation. Sweeten any pot with this one!
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Jul 31, 2011 | Mild to Medium | Medium | Mild to Medium | Pleasant |
Good for blending, sandalwood+cinamon tones. A must for oriental lovers (Nikolas/Greece)
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Mar 06, 2008 | Extremely Mild | Extremely Mild | Very Mild | Very Pleasant |
Tin: Standard appearance of brown and black ribbon. Rich and pleasant, sweet, buttery incense aroma, a sweet, soft fragrance. The bag(in bulk) had a fine perfumy clove-sandalwood scent. Exceptionally sticky stuff, the resin had to be washed off my fingers.
Taste: None; exceptionally smooth, arguably the smoothest tobacco I have ever smoked.
Aroma: Bland, light sandalwood; the bowl was left cool to the touch
Overall: I was anxious to try MBO because I have been sampling pure blending tobaccos in order to gain an ability to discern the qualities of blended tobaccos. This pure oriental does not produce the expected profusion of taste or aroma. It produces a rather light sandalwood aroma that would be difficult to detect in most any blend. In other words, the pouch aroma was not matched by the smoking qualities.
This tobacco educates me to think of MBO as nothing but filler to soften up heavy tobaccos with a light sandalwood element.
McConnell's Oriental is better, having more definitively oriental qualities, but is only partially oriental, having VA blended in. To put it more succinctly, McClelland's pure oriental has lightweight oriental qualities, compared to an oriental blend that is not even 100% oriental.
3.4 stars for easy and soft smokability. 2 stars for the oriental attributes, in that it's 100% oriental designed for blending
Taste: None; exceptionally smooth, arguably the smoothest tobacco I have ever smoked.
Aroma: Bland, light sandalwood; the bowl was left cool to the touch
Overall: I was anxious to try MBO because I have been sampling pure blending tobaccos in order to gain an ability to discern the qualities of blended tobaccos. This pure oriental does not produce the expected profusion of taste or aroma. It produces a rather light sandalwood aroma that would be difficult to detect in most any blend. In other words, the pouch aroma was not matched by the smoking qualities.
This tobacco educates me to think of MBO as nothing but filler to soften up heavy tobaccos with a light sandalwood element.
McConnell's Oriental is better, having more definitively oriental qualities, but is only partially oriental, having VA blended in. To put it more succinctly, McClelland's pure oriental has lightweight oriental qualities, compared to an oriental blend that is not even 100% oriental.
3.4 stars for easy and soft smokability. 2 stars for the oriental attributes, in that it's 100% oriental designed for blending
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| May 19, 2014 | Mild | None Detected | Medium | Pleasant |
Just finished a bowl of this mixed 50/50 with P&C's black stoved Va. Phenomenal from start to finish - I put it in a big (Gr 6) meer & it started off creamy, tart, & floral, changed over to sweet & tart, lightly acidic in a pleasant way, finishing cool and creamy-sweet to the ash at the end. As a blender, highly recommended.
Pipe Used:
Big old $10 meer from Mom's
PurchasedFrom:
Gift
Age When Smoked:
6 yrs
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