Cornell & Diehl Old Hollywood

I'm surpised that this blend was so well received by reviewers and the fact that I hated it. For me, this is one of the worst C&D blends I have tried. The tin aroma upon opening the tin was reminiscent of chocolate M&Ms candies but with a slight foul quality as if it was spoiled chocolate left out too long. I ascribed this to a casing, most likely a part of the burley component. When I first tried to smoke it the casing came through, which I could not stand. I let it sit for week and tried again. The casing lessened in aroma and taste, much more in the latter. Overall, this blend was rather bland, characterless and unpleasant. There was no central charcter playing here, no underlyng natural sweetness of the leaf with the condimental players placed on top of that. The casing and burley components are just in impossible contrast to the english elelments. This along with the proportions of the various ingredients seem to cancel each other out when it comes to flavor. What flavor was there was airy and a little sooty from the latakia elelment, dry without any sweetness. This blend just striked me as a poor english and mild aromatic hybrid. But,so many of you liked it. That is the mystery of tobacco, it is perceived so differently from one to the next.