Dan Tobacco Devil's Holiday

The tin note was overwhelmingly fruity. So much so, you knew this blend is absolutely saturated. Sometimes the strong tin note doesn't transcribe into the smoke - well this one did. It was just simply too much, with too much casing. I could not discern the nuances within this one, it was simply in your face, take as much topping as you can handle. Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoy a good aromatic, but this is one that is over the top in trying too hard. It lacks tobacco nuance and the overpowering flavoring gets old real quick. If you can discern any individual flavors other than "berry", you have been gifted with some outstanding taste buds!

I bought this based on the reviews that claimed this tobacco to be 'heavily cased'. I thought I was going to get a berry tobacco in which I could taste some berry.

What I ended up with was a shadow of a memory of a hint of a whisper of berry. I can hardly taste berry (or tobacco for that matter) at all. There is not even a room note of berry. The predominant flavor in this tobacco is WAX PAPER.

I guess Dan has joined the long list of other tobacco companies in pandering to the people who want their aromatics to taste like squadron leader (i.e. hot air - no taste at all - not even tobacco).

Dan, please put the flavor back in and stop using wax paper in your tins.

This is what seems to be a disturbing trend. If you dont want to taste berry/apple/vanilla/cherry/orange then dont buy berry/apple/vanilla/cherry/orange tobacco DUH!

If you only buy aromatics to draw attention to yourself then complain that you can taste berry/apple/vanilla/cherry/orange, well - grow up and stop ruining it for everyone else, and tobacco companies, stop listening to them.

I enjoy good aromatic tobaccos but couldn't handle this one. Too sweet and extremely cloying. Too much berries and not enough tobacco. I turn slightly green just thinking about the overbearing sugary berry aroma. If you want a classy berry/cherry tobacco, try Karl Erik Private Blend No. 16.

I have had this on my tobacco counter at home for five years. I like the tin art on this. As for the tobacco, terrible. If you blend this into another tobacco you will ruin it also. It smells so good in the tin, as for alot of aromatics. And again, as in most aromatics, the smell does not translate into flavor. To be fair, I am not an aromatic smoker. I like the flavor of tobacco and I love nicotine. That is why I smoke pipes and cigars.

if you like over the top goopy aromatics, this is for you. For everyone else I'd say there are twenty better options. Dan Tobacco makes some great non aromatics, but their aromatics tend toward the very sweet and goopy.

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.

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.

I bought a couple ounces locally in a Zip-Lock bag.

If you have children, you may want to spread this with peanut butter on their sandwiches in place of raspberry jam. Smoking it wasn't particularly unpleasant, and seemed to get more tolerable after I became accustomed to it. The smoke aroma was a bit annoying. But the pervasive, cloying aroma from the unsmoked tobacco escapes through the plastic bag, wafts through half the house, and stings my nose. I usually enjoy smelling of pipe tobacco, but with Devil's Holiday, I just want to take a shower and wash it off before I go out in public.

Wow, I had such good luck with DAN tobaccos I bought 3 tins of this. That was a mistake. When I opened the tin, I found a dark tobacco leaf that was moist and smelled like berries. Not bad for car fabric, infact I think hanging an open tin above your rear view would be the best use for this. Very hard to keep lit, and smoked VERY wet. It bit with every puff, and the nasty flavor stays in your mouth. I hate to knock a tobacco blend, so I have had a total of 3 bowls. Let me say that all where the same. I ended up dumping the tobacco out and keeping the cool tin. Very glad I smoked this out of a corncob.