Theodorus Niemeyer Neptune

excellent to go along with your morning coffee! sweet honey-ish fruity chocolate/vanilla. this tobacco refuses to go out even with minimal care. with this tobacco for me, the sweet tobaccos begins, less sweet/flavorfull is a more pure tobacco for me, even more sweet are the ' candystore sweet' tobaccos.no wet dottle, no tonguebite no matter what you do, atleast for me, and especialy in the morning i can be a hasty puffer. smokable in all bowl sizes, although i perfer mid-size. the former pride of niemeyer as i once heared some one say.. recommended !

However I am not a great fan of aromatics, this tobacco is not bad when you want something totally different as usual. My wife likes the smell of it very much. It is indeed sweet but sometimes I like that. It does not bite at the tongue and at the end in the bowl only grey ashes is left. If you like the aromatics then this is a must-try.

This has been around a lot longer than any Borkum Riff offering. It is a typical Dutch Cavendish with the typical redolence of maraschin liqueur. Not a he-man taste, to be sure, but just as in certain giddy Summer days I like rock candy in my Dr Pepper (err...and some gin, as well) I'll get in the funny mood for this smoking charlotte russe, too. Variety, you know?

I certainly like this better than BLUE NOTE.

I bought this while on a visit to the Netherlands, it's not available in the UK. It seemed appropriate to try some Dutch tobacco on my visit, although of course it's all made in Denmark now.

I can compare this to another more familiar Dutch blend from Niemeyer: Clan, an old favourite of my father. This has a different aroma but I can detect the family resemblance - I think both must use liquorice as part of the topping. In the pouch it smells honey sweet, offering liquorice and a suggestion of hazelnut and vanilla. As aromatics go it's about middle of the road with regards the dose of aroma - it smells fairly strongly but not like they spilt a bottle of scent into the pouch.

The tobacco is supplied in a ribbon cut slightly wider than Clan, largely black leaf with some tan and brown making up perhaps 20%. It's not excessively moist with water, but the leaf is all palpably coated with the casing, unlike Clan which although obviously aromatised isn't sticky.

It teases apart easily, and it's a doddle to fill a bowl and light it. It smokes easily in a Falcon, without much recourse to relights and without gurgles or dottle... This is a Falcon pipe of course and I've not tried it in a standard briar. The flavour is... mild. Very mild indeed. I'm not a big smoker of Cavendish aromatics, and this doesn't really excite my taste buds. I think Clan has a little more flavour than this. It has some sweetness and there's a mild liquorice and hazelnut aftertaste of the casings. There's no bite, and I've avoided overpuffing it chasing flavour, an easy mistake to make with this sort of tobacco which can result in a steamed tongue! People have commented favourably on the aroma, which is after all the main point of smoking an aromatic.

So there we have it - an aromatic in the Dutch tradition, mild, polite and pleasant to those in the vicinity. Recommended to lovers of mild Cavendish aromatics, it will underwhelm the St Bruno crowd and Condor lovers might not notice that they were smoking it at all!

I wanted to like this tobacco. I like liquorice and alternative tastes. First it was too wet and tasted like a moist hairy fist, so I let it dry in the pouch for a relight months later. Now it tastes like a confusing slap in the face. Tastes like a combination of flavors that shouldn't be together. Add tonguebite.

I'll give it one last shot at some point. I'll try to not smoke anything else beforehand for an honest final review. As I said, I really do want to like this tobacco

This is simply a wonderfull aromatic. Somewhat sweet but not to much. The Tobacco smokes very easy en there is no tonguebite. In my humble experience the taste is somewhat similar to Jack Daniels.

A Highly recommended Pipe tobacco. Nothing special indeed, but perfect for a spring walk by the river.

Perhaps I am being unfair. I have tried this one only once. It is a strongly cased mixture, rather moist, with a pronounced flavor comprising dark chocolate, raspberries and some licorice. It not only is very aromatic, but the taste is equally sweet, almost sickly sweet. The tobacco comes partly in ribbon cut and partly in rough cut chunks, covering the light and dark brown as well as the black spectrum. IMO not very different from Sail Noir (also blended by TN).

I imagine that the casing agents are responsible for the difficulty in the lightening and smoking characteristics of the blend. However it does not burn hot. It is mild in terms of strength and, as with many Dutch blends, it tends to render the palate dry. Presumably this is TN?s answer to Borkum Riff?s Black Cavendish. Recommended only to die-hard aromatic smokers.

Want something distinguished, full of flavor, sever individual notes, multiple hints and with a kick? Pass on this one. However, do you want a tobacco that literally only needs one lighting, is mild, your family actually will complement you on and leaves the room smelling pleasant? Go for this one. It is smooth, no harshness, lightly sweet and burns evenly. Ideal for indoor, walking, fishing, you name it.