Sutliff Tobacco Company Almondine J3

I picked this up as one of my first pipe tobacco purchases only a few months ago. The aroma of the opened pouch was wonderful. Filling the bowl was easy enough but lighting it was less than desirable as I wasn't patient enough to let the pouch dry out a little before trying. After lighting, the first third of the bowl was pleasant enough with a hint of almond and perhaps vanilla. After that what flavoring was there had left the bowl and the tobacco had strengthened. By the end of the smoke I was left with a flavorless tobacco that became quite dull. However, the room note that was left was quite pleasant. Enough so that my wife(who doesn't mind at all if I smoke indoors!) complimented it greatly. The room note also increases greatly if smoked inside a car leaving a more than welcomed toasted marshmallow aroma. It did improve a little when it had been dried out to my liking, but I can only recommend this aromatic if one is looking for a good room note only. I give this two stars on account of its wonderful room note.

Well if you like to smoke chewing gum this is your blend... wet and sticky. It tastes ok but like other reviewers say the casing wears off and it taste ashy after that. Not my cup of tea.

Pouch smell is great, but when you put it into a glass jar it just gets nice and heady/boozy smelling. But a few puffs after you get it burnign in your pipe the sweetness you recieved descends into a mellow blandness.

Did have an amaretto, not almond, taste and smell when smoking it, and the bowl did reek of amaretto when cooled down. Just not worth the time to me anymore.

pipe smoking has brought such pleasure into my life that I am reluctant to be severly critical of any product - after all, if it sells it must be giving some pleasure to someone.

Almondine came to me as part of a gift package of aromatics at Christmas. With all the affection for the gifter it has to be pointed out that the taste and smell of this concoction are synthetic. It is not really possible to recommend it to anyone: there are so many delightful aromatics around.

A friend told me about an online promotion where Altadis sent out samples of its products so I gave them my personal information to exploit. Two weeks later a box of about 15 blends, one to two ounces each arrived.

All but one or two of the tobaccos were aromatic but almondine had the best aroma. Maybe the best pouch aroma I have ever experienced. I wanted to eat it.

The tobacco was moist and burned poorly. Once dried it burned okay but was still a five plus match affair. The flavor was a blast of sugar and the almond did not really come through. The sweetness burned away after ten minutes. The make up was removed from the flavorless, cheap tobaccos. At this point the tobacco is not even worth smoking. I finished a few bowls on principle but it was a bad experience. If altadis is still running the free tobacco promotion maybe this is worth trying as chaw while fishing, but it is not worth gunking up a pipe for ten minutes of sweetness.

Like Frangelico you can smoke, sort of...an after-dinner cordial/liqueur type thing that will make those around you (those who aren't anti-smoking sheep) swoon with delight.

They'll tell you how wonderful it smells and you'll smile and then tap the stuff out as soon as the casing burns off which, like chewing all of the sugar out of a stick of cheap bubble gum, occurs all too quickly.

No cathedral to the noble leaf here. Yes it gurggles, yes it'll burn you if you let it, and yes it is very sweet, but the casing is decently executed (though somewhat synthetic at times) and you certainly get what you pay for at this price.

Almondine was a huge disappointment. The aroma in the pouch did not prepare me for the burning tobacco. It was mild, but had a strange aftertaste. I tried Almondine twice, both times a quarter bowl was all I could handle.

This blend starts out nice enough. It packs well. It isn't too sticky and wet. It burns well. The almond liqueur is pleasant enough. The problem is, the base tobaccoes just don't hold up. Once the casing burns off (as it inevitably does) you are left with some rough, ashy tasting tobacco. For me this happened about a quarter of the way down the bowl. It does smoke cool and didn't bite me. But the taste once the casing was gone really put me off. Consequently, I can't recommend it.

Picked up a pouch on sale while traveling. After reading reviews of it, I wasn't very optimistic about my purchase.

I agree with other reviewers that the pouch smell is very nice. It wasn't too goopy with PG when I opened it to aerate the shag. Loaded nicely and packed well. Lighting took some coaxing, but once lit it was good on its own. Burned hot, but very little bite.

There was a mild PG flavor upon lighting, but then nothing until I got half way down the bowl. Once I got there, suddenly there was flavor to the smoke. I'd call it a subtle, earthy sweetness. Room note was pleasant throughout the bowl and it finished without a huge nicotine hit and no dottle to speak of.

Not even close to unseating my top three, but definitely not a waste of $4.