Super Value Vanilla Cavendish

I lit this blend in one of my cheap pipes (after five matches) and puffed this pipe weed for about a minute and then tapped it out. This is horrible stuff. The Federal Government should order this to fire proof the Pentagon, as it is very difficult to burn. Absolutly horrible to my palate. But, it's cheap and it would be well for a VERY new newbie. Do not smoke this in anything but a cob. Or, if you're an old hand at the briars, not at all. Sorry, but this won't be going in the slipper.

I also got this in a free pouch from a order I got. I kind of like it it's not bad I smoke it in a corn cob. It is a little wet in the pouch you may want to let it air dry for a little bit. I like the Vanilla that I smell and can really taste after the first light. I had no real problem keeping the pipe lit as I do some times being a new pipe smoker. The room note was nice, If you walk out and then walk back in about ten min. later you can smell the sweetness in the air still and I kind of like that. I only smoke tobacco that has a good room note in my place the others I smoke on my little deck. I liked it I'm happy that I got it for nothing as a freebee so I will enjoy my 1.5 oz and maybe get a bit more just to have on hand to make my place stink good..

I received this as a free gift with a large tobacco order. Why, I do not know, since nothing in my order would indicate that this stuff would work for me. Perhaps they were just trying to get rid of it. I do enjoy a few aromatics but they have to be of high quality. This one isn't.

I wasn't going to smoke it but it smelled so good in the bag! A little synthetic but still nice. It also smelled nice in the room. But there the fun ended. The taste was so mild, it was like smoking hot air. I used 6 pipe cleaners to dry the gurgles in one bowlful. Folks, there's a good reason this tobacco stays wet even though the pouch isn't sealed when it's sold. Humectants galore in this one. It sounded like I was smoking through a hookah!

As an innocent bystander, this gets 3 stars. If you actually smoke it yourself, 1 star... and that's a gift. Low quality tobacco + high humectant content = zero smoking satisfaction. Captain Black is a definite step up.

This Dream Castle concoction was not quite the vanilla that I've been dreaming of. Like a double-edged sword, this tobacco cuts both ways: through the full, round flavor of vanilla, the familiar fist of tongue-bite is more than ready to T.K.O. an unsuspecting smoker.

As I have rolled the dice at the high stake of $2, I am duty bound to devise a use for these saturated candy leaves. Might be worth experimenting with drying the tobacco and blending it with a benign drugstore blend such as Carter Hall.

Either that, or I could make the wiser decision of fleeing the hot-burning scene of that "briar crime" so that my palate may live to taste another day.

In summation, the pouch is perhaps good for two bowls and the remainder may be prominently displayed amongst your tobacco collection as a cautionary tale for you and your posterity.

This is a good tobacco for those who are on a budget it is a very good tobacco overall and it is better then captain black (see my review about captain black to compare) it does get goopy at times but other then that there is nothing that bad about it

Super Value Vanilla Cavendish...very inexpensive, smells quite strongly of brown sugar with a good bit of vanilla in the bag, as does the room note when smoking; I must tell you it has a great, very agreeable room note with nice traces of the leaf showing up. It tastes mostly like a Virginia and Burley blend, nutty and tangy, with only quite small amounts of the aroma translating to taste. Body on the smoke is quite thin,which would be downright airy, were it not for the PG. Nicotine is detectable but mild for most smokers and probably undetectable to some. It burns cool, for the blend type it is, and I would recommend long, slow draws every 5 to 10 seconds. It's not bad and will definitely see use when I'm not particular as to what to smoke. Again, don't expect a lot of vanilla in the taste, smoke it in a cob and it does the job. Somewhat recommended because it burns decent, doesn't taste too cheap, smells great and is dirt cheap. Like with all tobaccos, one must form their own opinion.

My local tobacco dealer has been out of my usual every-day aromatic for a couple weeks, so I picked up a bag of this to "get me through" until his next shipment arrived. I thought for the low price of $14, it would be hard to go wrong. Boy, was I mistaken.

Right out of the bag, it's a little wet and doesn't want to stay lit. It has very little taste. Were it not for the tongue bite, there would be almost nothing to write about.

"Vanilla Steam" would be a better name for this (if it had more vanilla flavoring).

Anybody want a slightly used free bag of tobacco?

The flavor is very nice and sweet. It comes very wet with very heavy casings, so you have to let it dry out a bit when you get it. This was my first and favorite tobacco for quite some time until I got into English tobaccos, and then later discovered high quality aromatics (Boswells). I brought this down to 2 stars as my expectations of aromatic tobaccos has increased. I ended up giving this stuff away for free.

It's cheap. It's vanilla. It gets two stars.

All the same there are many things I don't like about it. Not the least of which is that this stuff is sticky. You could grab a hand full of this stuff and roll it up into a ball and it would stay that way. Roll it across the floor and let your cat play with it. It even looks wet.

Doesn't like to light easily. Doesn't like to dry out easily. Leaves nasty gooey stuff in your pipes. Did I mention it's vanilla and cheap? Get a cob if you are going to smoke this stuff.