Cornell & Diehl Pasha's Dream

(2.17)
A blend of Turkish, latakia, red Virginia, Kentucky burley and bright strips. A complete long cut blend with the unique combination of caramel and vanilla flavors. Mildly aromatic.

Details

Brand Cornell & Diehl
Blended By Cornell & Diehl
Manufactured By Cornell & Diehl
Blend Type Aromatic
Contents Burley, Latakia, Oriental/Turkish, Virginia
Flavoring Caramel, Vanilla
Cut Ribbon
Packaging Bulk
Country United States
Production Currently available

Profile

Strength
Mild to Medium
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
Mild
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Pleasant to Tolerable
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Mild to Medium
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming

Average Rating

2.17 / 4
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jan 29, 2019 Mild to Medium Mild Mild to Medium Pleasant
None of the varietals dominate in this blend. The smoky, woody, earthy, musty sweet Cyprian Latakia is in a lead position followed closely by the woody, dry, earthy, herbal, vegetative, mildly floral, mildly sour and spicy Turkish. The nutty, woody, earthy, mildly sweet Kentucky burley is a little more obvious than the tangy dark fruity, earthy, woody, bready red Virginia. The tart and tangy citrusy, grassy, lightly sugary bright Virginia strips tend to be more of a condiment. The caramel topping is fairly mild, while the vanilla is very light. They don’t sublimate the tobaccos that much. Sometimes, I catch a hint of an alcohol topping, but I’m not certain what it is. The strength is a couple steps past the mild level, and the taste falls just short of the center of mild to medium. Won’t bite or get harsh, but it does sport a few small rough edges. Burns cool, clean and fairly smooth at a moderate pace with a mildly sweet flavor that has a savory touch, and some inconsistency. Leaves little moisture in the bowl, and requires an average number of relights. Has a short lived, weak after taste, and room note. An all day smoke that lacks depth in most all departments.

-JimInks
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Dec 16, 2002 Mild to Medium Extremely Mild Mild to Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
General Comment for All C&D Blends. So far, all my samples have burned clean and dry. They contain quality ingredients. If purchased fresh from C&D, I find that I must adjust the moisture content, and let them rest for 3-6 months before sampling. They change flavor dramatically in just a few months.

In appearance, this looks like a standard English Blend. All the colors are there with dark to brown pieces and some bright larger flakes. When I first received this, the bag aroma was a combination of the typical straight English aroma plus a flavoring that I did not appreciate. It smelled like burnt sugar to me. My first bowl, when fresh, was not well appreciated. Since all C&D blends need some age, I put this away for months. I did open the plastic bag on occasion to adjust the moisture content. Now with some age, this is turning into something more appealing. Most of the aromatic that I noticed has favorably evaporated. Now, I don't really notice the aromatic addition. It tastes like a mild, good light Latakia-Oriental blend that is on the sweet side. If I'm not careful, this can have a light bite. The room aroma is more appealing than a non aromatic English. It also has some sweetness to it. This blend should work for those that appreciate English-Aromatic crossovers, and also for those that like Latakia blends but need to have a better room aroma for others nearby. Compared to others of this type, this has very little aromatic in it. It burns dry to a somewhat dark gray ash.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Mar 25, 2019 Mild to Medium Mild Medium Tolerable
This blend didn't do much for me. For a blend that has so much in it, it sure comes off as boring. If pushed to state what kind of blend this is, I would say it falls into the Americana type blends of yesteryear. C&D makes many of these types of blends and this one ranks pretty low on that list IMO.

By Old Timey Americana I mean a blend that is primarily a topped Virginia/burley blend with some oriental and/or Latakia thrown in to add a little something different. Blends like Revelation, Barking Dog, Walnut, et al . . . . The one thing that differentiates this and the other C&D blends from those one-time-popular drug store blends is the complete lack of any chemical humectant taste. This is definitely a plus.

Like many of those blends, this is also very easy to smoke. It pretty much gets into the zone without any effort at all and remains there just as easy. It won't bite no matter how much you provoke it. So that is another plus. The topping is applied very lightly, but strong enough that you will know that it is caramel and vanilla as the description had led you to believe, so this is also good.

With all of the plusses I am putting down, it seems like I should give it more than two stars, but the problem I had with the blend is that I wanted more from the Latakia and the Oriental and I could barely detect either. Furthermore, and this is pretty odd for a C&D blend, I found it to be a little light on the nicotine and found myself wanting a bowl of something else each time I finished. I see that some people recommend this one as an intro to latakia/Balkan blends or, as some people refer to them, crossover blends. I think the oriental elements are too light in this one to form a proper intro. I would recommend either one of the two Peter Stokkebye blends: Luxury English (kind of similar to pasha, but with more Lat) or English Oriental Supreme (my favorite of the so called crossovers)
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Feb 18, 2005 Medium Very Mild Mild to Medium Pleasant
this is another tobacco to answer the age-old problem; husband likes english blends, wife hates the aroma. wife likes aromatic blends, husband hates the taste. interesting thing is, this blend has done a pretty good job of bridging the gap. one caution for dedicated english smokers; don't let the pouch aroma scare you off. it has a strong butterscotch smell that i found less than appealing. with a little trepidation, i packed the pipe and fired it up. surprise! very little casing is noticeable, something that is hard to believe after taking a whiff of the pouch. what is noticeable is a good medium english flavor, with notes of latakia and burley. lights easily, needs very few relights, and burns down to a fine gray ash with little or no dottle. my wife described the room note as "pleasant". maybe not as nice as dan tobacco's sweet vanilla honeydew, but still very good. January, 2005 update- I must reduce my rating by two stars as I've found other aromatics that are preferred to this one. I doubt that I'll be ordering any more. Cornell and Diehl still make many other tobaccos that are on my favorites list.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Mar 14, 2001 Medium Very Mild Medium Tolerable to Strong
N.B. This review is based on a sample I received in 1998, and I’ve noticed that the blend description has changed slightly since then.

Medium to dark brown tobacco predominates, with 10% or so very dark to black. A blend of Turkish, Latakia, Red Virginia, Kentucky Burley and Bright Strips with rum flavor. (Later descriptions from C&D mention vanilla and caramel, but not rum.) This is not quite what I expected when I ordered it. The description sounds more aromatic than I think it is. The pouch aroma is very much like an English blend, very leathery, but with a bit more sweetness. On the whole, the aromatic character was very muted, and was easily cancelled out in the room aroma by the Latakia. The taste of the blend is a bit hard to pin down. It’s definitely more of an English than an aromatic. The Latakia is present in sufficient quantities to be the dominant note, but the Turkish and Burley add some complexity, and the Virginia combined with the top note provide some suggestions of sweetness. But overall it’s more of a savory tobacco than a sweet one. There’s something about C&D’s English blends that strike me as strident and unrefined, and this one also fell into that mold as well. There was a gradually increasing harshness to this. It never became unsmokeable by any means, but by the end of the smoke, the tickling in the back of my throat had tuned into more of a scratching feeling. But still, I think this could be an interesting departure for the diehard English fan, or the aromatic smoker. This blend might very well benefit from some aging. I don’t know if that would lessen the top note (it’s pretty transparent to begin with), but the base tobaccos might meld into something a bit more smooth.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Apr 23, 2020 Mild to Medium Mild Mild to Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
This is one of the those infamous "crossover" blends. The tobacco has quite the collection of components with a topping of an aromatic.

The jar I have is from 2018, so I'm not sure if some of the topping has dried off, but to me in the smoke I got the taste of a traditional English with very little sweetness from the topping. The room note however (according to my wife) has a sweetness to it. For comparison purposes, I smoked some "Mountain Camp" side-by-side with this.

The burn is good. It didn't require many relights if any. It burns down without too much moisture. The ribbon burns really well in my Radiator pipes. In the aftertaste, I get a little bit of sweetness, more than in the actual smoke.

This is not a blend I'd probably buy again. So it'll stay in the "2 star" range, but its not a bad smoke by any means.
Pipe Used: Various Radiators
PurchasedFrom: Smokingpipes.com
Age When Smoked: 2018
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Oct 05, 2013 Mild to Medium Mild Mild Tolerable
Good quality tobacco , just not a lot to offer. Seems C&D have quite a few blends that are like this one.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jun 03, 2021 Mild Mild to Medium Mild to Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
This blend is a pure illustration of what happens when you try to please everyone at once: "Let's take good Virginia, Latakia, and orientals, mix them into an English blend, add some burley, drop in some fruit flavoring, and we'll have..." - and really, what do we have?

The 100 gram jar was frankly aged in appearance and had a 2011 excise stamp. Apparently it had been stored somewhere in a far corner of the warehouse until someone would like to purchase it. So, it was me. Despite the age, the vacuum lid kept the tobacco condition moist enough. Upon opening it, I smelled a completely different flavor than the manufacturer claimed. Instead of the vanilla and caramel soaked in tobacco over the years, I got notes of smoked Cyprus Latakia, the bread smell of Virginia... But all this was interrupted by a strange sour-creamy smell mixed with blackberry, even though nothing that could give such a combination is stated in the composition! I think Turkish with caramel flavoring made such a splash in the jar while aged. The sour smell wears off easily, but the blackberry spirit stays for a long time.

The tobacco is sliced ribbon-like. However, it is possible to distinguish the varieties, even though the Virginia has darkened a bit over the years. The tobacco is a little drier than I am accustomed to, but the humidity is acceptable. It's easy to fill and smoke. The tobacco tastes the same blackberry note, plus a bit of citrus, smoke from the latakia and nut (finally felt a burley!). Virginia is barely felt, and the overall feeling is that the tobacco has a fair share of cavendish - but it's not known to be in the mix. The tobacco has a harsh taste, and also bites a little when smoked in a large pipe. The strength of the tobacco is clearly below average, the nicotine hit is not threatening.

The smoke disperses fairly quickly, it contains smoky and berry notes and is clearly somewhat heavy.

In the end: the desire to create a crossover blend between English and Aromatic led to a very strange mix. It has its own character, but does not evoke any emotions for me. I will finish the can, of course. But this is clearly not my case. "Pasha's Dream" remains a dream.
Pipe Used: Peterson 999, XL26
PurchasedFrom: Online
Age When Smoked: 2011
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Dec 08, 2022 Mild Mild to Medium Mild to Medium Tolerable
Cut is a mix of ribbon and chunky broken flakes. Tin note presents mild Latakia, a little musty orientals, and a touch of Kentucky. I don’t smell the Virginias, but they could be hiding behind the sweet topping. The topping is caramel forward, but not heavily applied.

The smoke is fairly thin and cool, with the mild Latakia taking a slight lead at times, and the orientals making their presence known. The sweet topping is also present in each puff. This is pretty mild on the palette, and I find myself wanting more flavor.

An easy, pleasant, but fairly unremarkable crossover blend.
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