Peterson Sunset Breeze

After 2 years and remembering the good taste of this tobacco, i bought a new tin and it was suprisingly not the way i enjoyed it 2 years ago. I tried to smoke it in 3 different pipes and nothing great happened except some tongue bite. It's a little better with some red wine but nothing special. I'll not buy it again. When i bought it, was very dry, i re-hydrate it but...

Of course, we all have different tastes when it comes to our choice of tobacco. As a general rule, I really enjoy the Petersons blends, but I was not so keen on this one. It might just be the inclusion of the Maryland tobacco.

As with the other Peterson blends, the aromatic casings do not over power the high quality tobacco. They also work well together in providing an overall flavor. The tobacco packs and burns well to the bottle of the bowl, leaving a fine white ash with no "gurgle" that you can find with lower quality aromatics.

If you like Maryland blends you should give this a try. Personally I found the taste a little too "dry" and reminded me a little of English Blends. Not for me - but it might be for you.

This tobacco has been highly recommended so I was eager to try it. I was a little disappointed. It has a lovely aroma as you open the tin and the flakes are beautiful! Unfortunately, I got this right after I'd had a pouch of Alsbo Black and quite honestly, I couldn't really tell much difference in it taste wise. I did find this stuff tended to give me tongue bite and it seems to be quite wet smoking with lots of residue in my pipe. Taste it is OK, not terrible but if I wanted this tobacco again, I get Alsbo Black. Quite simply I can not justify the cost of Sunset Breeze compared to other blends. I can buy higher end bulk blends or save a few dollars with Alsbo Black. That being said, I would buy it again, but it is near, or at the bottom of my list of "Must Have Again" blends.

Sunset Breeze 50g round screw lid tin.

Tin appearance:Black and tan for the main with some very bright cornflake yellow blond fleks,,,rough cut and ribbony pot pouri appearance.

Tin aroma:Confection like; ala christmas chockolates,strawberry fondant,almonds,vanilla,turkish delight, its something sweety like. Evidentally aromatic but no actual chocolate really;more like the essence of what is the mystery contents/centre of such hypothetical allegorical chocolates.The aroma smells rich at point blank nasal range, but not over heavy;lightly vanilla cased with perhaps a lighter fruitier topping.

Tin moisture and feel:Feels ok and dry enough to smoke without airing(but experience has taught me that peterson aromatics benefit from a little airing for a while before packing).

Sipping prevents nip,which after a 1/4 inch depth has been burned,it nolonger threatens and seems to self control itself into an a neutral PH state from which i can judge its settled properties.

The first thing i notice is the topping which is like an aromatic fruit tea,,unsweetened and non cordial or confection like compared to the tin aroma which is a good start. I detect more of a topping aspect than a casing while smoking, there is no sickly factor.

The aroma doesn't intrude over the tobacco which although milder compared to other things i smoke,,,it does have a tobacco taste..

The baccy beneath is harder for me to describe because aromatics are not really my speciality and they don't convey as much to my imagination but;this in its pensive aescetic silence said enough with few words and left me to think about other things..

As i got into it and the bowl settled, the tobacco itself reminded me of aromatic natural white steamed rice. 'simple' ,gently sipping away the ingredient leaf combines to creat a natural rice like taste (in an interesting way and not an appology for blandness). Uncluttered ,measured, subtle like a great song heard as a whisper throught the wind, i am left to my own imagination really.

Back to the topping scent(although this tabacco smells cased in the tin,it doesn't manifest itself as a charecteristic in the smoking experience;-it imparts an aroma and mild taste like fruit tea over the bowl of rice (tobacco) as a compliment - simultaneous like two separate entities happening at the same time in syncronicity ,without one dominating the other.(imagine eating a ball of rice with a cup of aromatic fruit tea) aromatic yes ,but not a cherry bomb.

It has got a nice balance,behaviour and consistancy.when i pause my sipping cadence to breath and swallow my spit,i get a light cavendishy burley sweet bitter taste like a white wheat beer,,;not necessarily nutty,but perhaps more lemon grassy and water chestnut..

The cavendish scent up my nose is pleasing and sweet and on my palate comparable to a fresh crisp sugar snap (a cross between a runnerbean and sweet pea in a pod type green thing) with a yeastyness natural and nothing fortified,artificial or synthetic.

The room note:I smoked outside BTW and sometimes the wind gave me a good passing pedestrian impression of my activity;its mildly pleasant, it doesn't shout very loud.

I think this might be my first tin of this. This is preferable to some of the peterson aromatics and less than others , i would say its in the middle but its a good middle.

I don't think i will actively go out of my way to buy another tin though.. This has mild nicotine. Although a bit spikey in the beginning on the light up it hasn't bitten me. It doesn't convey itself much to me.

What can I really say about this? :- This tobacco doesn't do very much for free ; its like one of those teachers that points the way only and leaves you alone to your own imagination. Its like a gateway , transportive ,you forget you are smoking it, but the subconscious pleasure evoked from the sweetness seems to translate into other pleasurable unrelated constellations of thoughts memories and ideas. It lets you bring your own thoughts to the table and you come round later and realise you entertained the tobacco rather than the other way.

I feel i should realistically give this 2 stars because anything else is more about my imagination whilst smoking it ,which doesn't come in the tin.

Looking for a change of pace from my usual non aromatics Sunset Breeze was recommended by a friend. As with all aros the tin note was evident from the start, a fairly strong ameretto note. Room note has proved to be quite pleasing, certainly more appreciated by my companions than would normally be the case. Cavendish appears to be the slightly dominant tobacco here over Va and Burley but only fractionally. The ameretto is evident throughout the smoke but does not over power the tobacco flavours which I like, but this blend does try to bite if rushed so it pays to take it slowly. What I really dont like about aros in general is the total mess they make of my pipes and this is no different.

Sunset Breeze is a middle of the road aromatic blend, perfectly smokeable but nothing outstanding, mild in strength and taste so it wont get you leaping out of your chair, but if you are looking for a smoke which will not upset the people around you while still giving a pleasant enough smoke then you could do much worse than this offering from Peterson.

I have noticed something about the Peterson aromatics: When you open a tin, they all look identical, as if they are all made with the same tobaccos, in the same proportions, and only the flavoring is different. I'm not saying this comes as a surprise, but it explains why they all have the same aroma upon opening the tin, as well as why they have that chemical-taste to them that I dislike.

This blend smells like Amaretto, but the taste of the Ameretto is faint. Once again, I think the casing overwhelms the tobacco flavors, so what you are left with is an aftertaste of sweet liquor and foul tasting chemicals. This has more flavor than Sweet Killarney (that is not saying very much), but is inferior to other Amaretto blends I've sampled. Peterson pipes are great; the two I own are both excellent, in appearance and smoking quality. But their tobacco blends all seem to be either excellent or poor. This one falls into the latter category.

This and Peterson's Luxury Blend were the first two samples of vacuum sealed tins that I tried a few years back. This stuff tasted pretty good as I recall but was a bit rough on my palate. The tin aroma smells good enough to eat...if it only smoked like that.

The nicotine content of this mix was a bit lacking for me and it smoked a tad harsh. Not bad for an aromatic but just didn't ring my bell. I've since moved to "topped" rather than cased tobaccos...they always seem to burn cooler. I didn't get much tobacco flavor out of this as I was expecting.

Not too bad, however. My rating is based only on the merits of an aromatic blend and therefore, IMHO, Sunset Breeze merits 2.3 stars. Sampled in a Peterson System Pipe.

I realized that I'm not a Peterson guy after all. My friend “takis” offered me a box one night in Myrna, because I do not buy another Peterson, except Connoiseur. The cherry scent gets you just as you open the tin, which contains a fairly coarse black Cavendish. Those who do not smoke consider it as a perfume of the pipe. Boring tobacco. If smoked in a hurry it can damage your tongue. Light hard and in the end of the bowl it leaves “mud” that does not smell very nice.

This aromatic delivers where it's cousin, Sweet Killarney does not.

The aroma from the tin is of sweet almonds which shows through in the room note as well. On the palate it's joined by a caramel flavor as well.

Like many aromatics, for me it seemed to turn towards bitter as I neared the middle of the bowl. Forget about smoking to the bottom- way too hot for my tongue and palate.

That said, if a great smelling aromatic is what you're looking for this one has some finesse.

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Rethinking this post, not only have I moved away from aromatics, but I feel that Killarney was hard to keep lit. Have to pull a star...but who cares, since this is all quite subjective anyway? Cheers.