Mac Baren Aromatic Choice

Please Note: I am trying to work off my back log of tobaccos i have tried years and years ago. In most cases i have no clue anymore when. Or who produced it back in the day. Also my memories are faded by time and those reviews are based mostly on my notes but sometimes i have a current tin for comparison as well:

I first tried this when it came out and still was named Mild Choice. Back in the day the pouch design was the only thing that made me courious about it. And since i recently got a large sample of this blend i thought its time to revisit it.

Mostly black tobacco with some very few brown sprinkles in it. The pouch aroma is rather off putting even tho i couldn't exactly tell why. There is some artificiality to the smell so maybe that's why i dont like it. In any case it smells like something trying to emulate fruit. Maybe like some fizzy powder or realy cheap bubble gum.

Packing and lighting are easy enough. Burning properties are excellent with only little maintenance needed.

The first light revealed why i had to toss out most of the pouch way back when i first smoked it: it has that incredibly bad taste like peach iced tea. And i hate peach iced tea, especially the cheap brands that taste exactly as this blend does. There is no tobacco taste involved here either. The flavouring lasts throughout most of the bowl and only the very last of the bowl has to be tossed out.

Aftertaste is just what you tasted in the smoke and lasts long enough. Tongue bite is no issue unless you puff away too hard and/or too often.

Room note is nice but on the heavy side and the kind that non smokers identify with pipes.

So, do i recommend this blend? Nope. It just doesn't cut it for me but if you dig peach iced tea this might just float your boat. I am just no fan of the new Mac Baren blends and think they are redundant at best. Except of course for the marvelous HH series. But all the choices and cubes and 7 seas and mild that and modern here velvety blends in my opinion are just pointlessly buggery blends no one waited for. And yet i am a huge Mac Baren fan for their classic line of blends so giving them bad ratings really does pain me.

This is an ultra aromatic mild and heavily cased tobacco with very good aroma and room note but without any memorable taste or flavor, other Mac Baren blends are much better. Try Mixture

Yet another aromatic by Mac Baren. Everything written on description above is true, I prefer this one -and Mac Baren Vanilla Choice- when I am exhausted with challenging tobaccos but still have desire to smoke. Easy but non-satisfying to my taste.

It was my first ever tobacco and I'd recommend it for newbies. All of my friends loved the smell and, although the taste wasn't noticeable, I enjoyed smoking it. I never bought it again and I don't intend to, but I have a good memory of this blend.

No tongue bites, nice aroma with no tobacco taste...Doesn't feel like i'm smoking tobacco but feels like breathing a room spray...I saw better aromatic tobaccos of mac baren...

lemon taste is different. if you like aromatics you should try this at least once (not twice!) but otherwise it offers nothing different.

a good intro aromatic baccy, but simply put, I would advise beginners to start with Vanilla Cream.

This is my first tobacco review having just started the hobby so having now tried 8 tobaccos I feel able to usefully comment. I had no trouble packing and lighting (thanks you tube) and keeping it lit but I did manage to burn a cave into the bowl of my first and not very cheap Peterson pipe. I put that down to technique. The tobacco was light on flavour but did not burn my tongue and the smell was pleasant enough. A pretty goood introduction into pipe smoking but I dont think I will buy it again. There are so many alternatives.

Funny, I got both Mild Choice and Aromatic Choice and they are very different. Mild Choice is a milder version of the Original. So let?s talk about the Original first. It is very very aromatic. In fact so much so one can only taste the heavy creamy sweet vanilla with just a generous non-detectable tobacco flavor. Great to impress your friend with and fun to have around, I guess. But then they have the Aromatic Choice. It certainly makes me wonder, how can this be more aromatic then the Original? As I found out, once the bag is open, I am greeted with smell of assorted fruits, especially peach. I see a few yellow/brown leaves and that?s it. Once fired up, it is peach flavored aperitif all the way. Sorry, but this sway a bit too much from the purpose of pipe smoking.