Solani 113: Sweet Mystery

The tangy dark fruit, earth and wood notes from the red Virginia are often noticeable in a minor way. The other Virginias barely show themselves; hints of citrus and grass. The black cavendish is sugary smooth and always makes itself known to various degrees during the smoke. The very sweet toppings mostly sublimate the tobaccos. The sweet black currant is lightly tart with a deep berry flavor, and is the star flavor. The coco cream offers some creamy coconut and a minuscule cocoa hit. The rum is a minor player, not always very obvious, but you feel its presence. The strength is a couple of steps past the center of mild to medium. That taste is medium. The nic-hit is in the center of mild to medium. Burns cool and clean at a little less than a moderate rate with a very consistently richly sweet flavor from top to bottom. Leaves very little moisture in the bowl. Requires some relights as the tobacco is a tad moist. I recommend sipping it for best effect, and also because puffing fast will make it a little hot on your tongue, though I experienced no tongue bite. Has a very pleasing, lingering after taste, although there is a distracting feel of syrupiness at times, mostly around the half way point to the finish. It doesn’t spoil the smoke, though it is just a little annoying. Has a pleasing room note. It is just shy of being an all day smoke because of the sweetness level.

-JimInks

I received a free sample of this Solani blend with a recent tobacco order. It smelled wonderful and sweet through the pouch.The golden and black leaf was coarse cut and moist. Upon lighting up, the smoking experience was also, well, to my surprise, wonderful! The blend smoked cool and actually very dry for an aromatic. My wife absolutely loved the room note and the lingering smell on my mustache - Now that I reflect, perhaps I need to buy more of this stuff! (-;

Solani Sweet Mystery X is a quality full aromatic, providing a mix of fruit (not distinguishable to me), alcoholic notes, hints of coconut and the taste of Virginia of course. Down half way I additionally get the impression of cinnamon. The wide cut works fine in larger, wider bowls. Easy handling and no bite at proper cadence. I find it satisfying enough for the morning hours, as a lighter dessert and also enjoyable using a charcoal filter. The room note is described as very pleasant to me, however, I don’t smoke to please others… .

A good and recommendable (not outstanding) aromatic in the line of many others. Very similar to the Winslow line (maybe also Reiner Professional or Peterson Connoisseur’s Choice in strength and fruitiness).

While I don't doubt that this blend is an excellent experience for some people, it wasn't at all for me, and I therefor can't give it any stars of recommendation. The interaction between the tobacco and the flavoring kind of reminded me of Lipton's raspberry iced tea. And while there are lots of people who love Lipton's raspberry iced tea, it is one of the few things that I absolutely will not consume-- it will literally make me throw up, eventually. So, if we share similar tastes in tea, we may share similar tastes in tobacco, and you too may not be able to finish an entire bowl of this. Hopefully this is the only blend that I will ever not be able to finish an entire bowl of due to flavor alone.

A Virginia blend consisting of red sweet Virginia, gold Virginia and double-mashed sweet black Cavendish. Its aromas are beautiful and distinct: a pinch of black currant combines beautifully with Bacardi and CocoCream giving a sweet treat. As for the room scent??? A-MA-ZI-NG. This specific mixture has several different types of cuts. One morning I woke up fancying a smoke right away. It bit me a lot, which lead me to the conclusion that you have to be careful with it if you don't want it to hurt you. It lights up rather difficultly

If our beloved government know how good this stuff is they would either ban it outright or tax it ten fold.

I didn't taste the rum or coco cream but the currant flavors came through very nicely. The flavoring was perfectly applied by the blenders - it didn't overwhelm the tobacco taste and it didn't fade away in the course of smoking the bowl. It was sweet without being cloying. Great stuff!!!!

This evening I found my self in a nice cafe with view of Akropolis and 2 other co smokers enjoying the view and smoking some aromatic blends as we are entering Christmas mood.one co smoker brought this blend and shared a few bowls with me.once i stuck my nose in the tin i thought am i in a bar??a nice and tense smell of rum and coconut came out.a deeper smelling revealed me some cocoa nuts too.the blend moisture was a bit more than medium but no drying time was needed.packs and lights ok.some relights are needed.while smoking the rum topping was dominant from the beggining till the end with some creamy notes escorting it.the tobacco flavours are very sublimated by the topping and come out less than i desired.the virginias give mostly some dark fruits and sour notes.rarelly i got some citrusy notes.the cavendish appear more being mostly sweet and a bit nutty.the flavours don't feel always natural and in my opinion they don't combine well.burns fast ,medium hot to hot with a lot moisture being created.the nιcotine level is low to medium but i cannot consider it as an all day smoke due to the tense topping and the bad aftertaste.the room note is pleasant and no tongue bite appeared.the worst thing about this blend is that one bowl is enough to ghost the pipe.in conclusion i could smoke one or two bowls per week on evening hours with a cup of jot coffee.

A quality, cool smoking aromatic with a very nice flavor and room note.

I probably won't buy this again, as there are many aromatics that I prefer to Sweet Mystery, but depending on your flavoring preference, you might really enjoy this one.

A must try for aromatic lovers.

This one contains quite a bit of bright leaf and the tin note is a very fruity and boozy. The tobacco is quite moist so needs a little bit of drying time. The smoke is very flavorful, and the toppings do translate into the smoke in a very nice and pleasant way, but it can bite if you smoke it like a freight train. The room note is sweet and very heavy. I only smoke outside and when I went inside for 15 minutes and came back outdoors I could still smell it lingering in the air. As far as fruit flavored aromatics go this one's pretty good.

Recently I got hold of 2 tins of Solani sweet mystery dated 8/11 still packed and unopened. Since I use temper with the flake cuter I inserted the round edge of cuter into the coin insert of one of the tin and it woosh opened means vacuum pack was intact and contents still fresh. The top white round cover was stained brown due to long term compressed with the tobacco. I brought the tin to my nose and boy I can smell sweet cocoa coconut creamy and liquorish smell but it was very very pleasant. I immediately filled my nose warmer pipe with the sweet mystery and did the charing light... Oh man that burst of flavors specially the cocoa and coconut captured the whole room it lit very easy and on the second light I was puffing like a train and cocoa turn to more into coconut and cream and after few minutes I feel like chewing my pipe stem for that creamy coconut taste which is my favorite. I really enjoyed smoking this blend more over I left that pipe for two days after smoking this and I can still smell the sweetness. Overall a very good experience and I definitely recommends this for aromatic smokers out there.