Peterson Sunset Breeze

The best smelling tobacco I ever bought. It's a pleasure to smell it — or even behold it — in the tin. If I won the lottery, I'd consider using it as pot pourri. To smoke, I found it a bit too much work to keep cool, and not that memorable. But I did like how it's not overly sweet.

This tobacco is quite sweet and weak. The Cavendish takes full-frontal stage and the Virginias are swallowed up by the casings. The tobaccos are of a quality but, as a Balkan fan, I find little to enjoy here.

Images evoked: a skeleton talent show being sountracked by 8-track BeeGees recordings where, even though one bonehead might be called a winner, everyone ultimately loses.

Initial light releases a pleasant amaretto aroma. Once into it, a pleasant slightly sweet background complements the good base tobacco. The burley becomes dominant as you work your way down the bowl. Lit well, handled well all the way down to fine ash. Clean pipe was the ultimate result. I also make a pipe break-in blend with this, Granger and Carter Hall in equal amounts. Has served quite well. Solid 2+ as a lone actor.

Peterson Sunset Breeze is the sirens of all aromatic blends. When it comes time for me to pack my bowl with something nice I can hear this seductive tobacco calling my name. It says, "open up my jar and smell me". The smell of this tobacco is truly astounding. This is one of those tobaccos that you almost want to put in your mouth to see if it tastes as good as it smells.

Unfortunately this blend is the equivalent of putting a blonde wig and lipstick on a bulldog. No matter how nice that dog is dressed up, it is still a dog, and at the end of the day, sunset breeze is still an aromatic. As much as I would like it to be more, it is what it is.

In the grand scheme of the aromatic world this is a very solid offering. It is a little sticky and goopy but what aromatic isn't? I would also guess this will tattoo a ghost into your pipe as fast as you can light it. The flavors are nice but it can be bitey, and it never truly lives up to the tin note. Such is life in the world of aromatics.

This is my go to crowd control blend. This is one of the best smelling blends I have ever put flame too, and even the most stringent and abrasive public health Nazi will be subtly wooed by its warm comforting "grandma's house" aroma.

You can buy worse aromatics, but you can buy better ones too. If you occasionally enjoy a shot to the sweet tooth then definitely give this one a try. If you are not usually an aromatic smoker this one isn't going to win you into that camp.

As with almost all aros, the mild flavoring lingers for a minute or so before vanishing into the burley mix, which then really can't be distinguished from dozens of others (at least I wouldn't be able to). An easy smoke if smoked slowly. Unusual, slightly chemical aftertaste. Overall, not bad but nothing spectacular.

Im almost positive this was the first tinned Aro that I had ever tried. Everything before that were from the big jars at my local tobacco shop, and pouches. I thought at the time this would be better than those, but It behaved about the same. Not much taste. It burns a little hot, so you have to watch your cadence. I’ve had several tins of this over the years, and each time coming back to it, I find myself disappointed. I gave 6oz of it away to a friend that liked it a lot so it’s something I can’t revisit unless I buy more, and honestly I don’t know that I would unless someone had some for me to try. Its the only amaretto cased tobacco I’ve seen so I’d somewhat recommend this.

I do enjoy Amaretto cocktails*, so this aromatic ought to be up my bowling alley. The tin aroma was certainly powerful with a sour cherry, sweetness, that did a great job of concocting an Amaretto finish, without being terribly artificial.

The mixed leaf ribbon had a nice weight to it, with a few larger leaf bits added for good measure. No sticky topping, so no required dry time. Fired up quickly and smoldered reasonably well (one of my larger mouth pipes had some relight issues). Like many Aromatics, the smoke is never as intense as the unlit product, having some sweetness burn off, still there was certainly a dark fruity taste present that kept the idea alive.

It wasn't a candy Aromatic that became overbearing by bowls end, in fact there were moments that got oddly bitter, but quite landed for me, even though I couldn't find anything wrong with it. I think it is a good product some of you may wish to explore as a 3 star blend, but for me it was a 2.

*Two of my favorites are a Ferrari (2 parts dry vermouth, 1 part Amaretto) and a Stiletto (1.5oz Bourbon, .5oz lime juice, and .5oz Amaretto) which tastes like Sour Patch Kids.

Opening a tin reveals none of the promised amaretto flavouring, but a rather strong, sickly sweet and slightly chemically smell. Once aired out a little the tin note develops a much more pleasant toffee aroma. The tobacco mixture is small squarish cuts of mostly pale beige and light brown ribbon with about 10–20% Black Cavendish added. It is quite damp straight from the tin and dries very quickly out of it.

The first light is sweet with a distinct toffee flavour although slightly bitter from the casing. The tobacco smokes cool and sweet throughout the rest of the bowl with a building berry-fruity flavour, but very little of the Amaretto is noticeable. The toffee flavour is very satisfying and it smokes cool and sweet throughout, but for me, not getting any of the amaretto makes this a rather run-of-the-mill aromatic.

My first tobacco as I revisit the pipe genre after decades of stogies. Having never being adept to tasting cedars, nuts, fruits in cigars, thought it would be easier in aromatics. Back in the gap I smoked some store - bought apple, but that was childhood play compared to this blend.

Smells of tobacco and amaretto, densely packed and moist, burns well-enough (I guess), it does numb the tongue-not sure if that denotes "tongue bite" ... The better 1/2 enjoys the room note, I enjoy the taste very much, it's a dependable smoke.