Dan Tobacco Devil's Holiday

Great if your looking for something sweet. No one in the room will mind a bowl or two. Good out of tin or let stand a bit in the air. Try some and see. Makes yard work pleasant

Based on the reviews here and my love or aromatics among others, I was really excited about this blend. The tin looks very cool, the smell of the tobacco out of the tin is amongst the best I have smelled. I love berry blends......that is where the positives stop. This tobacco is very harsh on your throat. I have never smoked a tobacco like this. It is like inhaling campfire smoke. For something containing black Cavendish I was very surprised of this. I smoke many a heavy English blend and nothing like this. There is a faint taste of berries, but it is even sub par amongst other aromatics. It was a little wet at first, but even after a thorough drying it did not help very much. Maybe I got a bad batch or this is way overrated.

This is one of the first tobaccos I tried as a pipe smoker. I liked it then and I still like it. I've been through about 4 tins and they have all been great. The tobacco is dark and a little moist out of the tin. It smells great if you like berries. It is easy to light and after one charring light it stays lit. The taste is sweet, you can easily taste the Virginia in the mix. The berry topping is strong but not overpowering. No problem smoking down to the very bottom of the bowl. I would recommend this as an after dinner smoke as it is very sweet.

The art work on the tin is pretty cool. This is a fun blend. Much like Solani X Mystery and Treasures of Ireland, Devil's Holiday has very natural tasting berry flavors. I really like these blends that burst with flavor, without being too heavily cased. None of the standard goop in many Aros. The flavor leveled off halfway through the bowl and then I could taste some quality black Cavendish. The tin aroma may turn some people off, but taste of real tobacco may turn some on. As always, it is a matter of personal taste. For a change from the norm. Devil's Holiday is winner for me.

The 1 year aged tin that I just opened, had a wondeful aroma of wild berries.(Warning you must be an aromatic fan to enjoy this tobacco).This tobacco has a great berries aroma to it from start to finish,packed well,lites well,burns well,smoked great.I happen to like berries which makes this tobacco enjoyable.Another fine smoking Dan Tobacco.The best berry tobacco I've smoked.Non smokers and the Ladies are drawn to the berry aroma.

First, a brief explanation of how I ended up smoking Devil's Holiday.

Beside Devil's Holiday I have ever smoked but one other aromatic blend in very limited quantity (some Vanilla Mac Baren pouch I purchased in Austria on my second day as a smoker). I purchased my single tin of Devil's Holiday after deciding that I wanted to try an aromatic blend of quality and popularity. I did my research, and it seemed to me that Devil's holiday could be what I was looking for. It came highly recommended, and I said to myself "If aromatics are so popular with my fellow smokers, there should be something to them!"

This conclusion was severely premature. I found Devil's Holiday to be a supreme disappointment.

The first bowl tasted like candy and cigarettes... The second bowl tasted like candy and cigarettes... I did not smoke a third.

I do not recommend this blend. I suppose I just like my tobacco to taste like... tobacco... This does not mean to say that Aromatics are inherently inferior, or that all of them are bad. After all, I have only ever smoked two aromatics, and if 'whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must be silent,' then I will end my review here.

If you like the taste of berries, you will like this tobacco! The flavor is very authentic blackberry, not artificial. I like this even better than Samuel Gawith Firedance Flake. This is high quality tobacco with right amount of moisture. It burns to white ash with almost no dottle left at the end. Not much kick in the nicotine department. Fills the room with the aroma of forest berries....very nice! It is monochromatic in flavor, but it holds the flavor throughout the smoke. The tin is pretty cool too! I give it 4-star rating, because I like the berry flavor.

If you like Black Cavendish, you will love this one! The reason this one is NOT one of my favourites is that will haunt the living daylights out of just about anything it comes in close-contact with. Ghosting isn't a strong enough word (IMNSHO). You want to ruin an expensive pipe just go ahead, but don't you dare touch one of my pipes! You will note that I "somewhat" recommend this baccy i.e. I can understand that some pipe-smokers like BC, but again some smokers like cigarettes! (...shrug)

This is one of my favorite tobaccos for the warmer months of the year. I bought it after trying some at a fellow smoker's house. I also loved the name.

It comes across as berry mostly to me, the flavor lasts through the bowl and the tobaccos are obviously high quality backing it up and can be tasted through the flavoring.