Cornell & Diehl Apricots & Cream

Very wet consistancy. Like coat your fingers wet. More wet than Molto Dolce. The smell is a fruity apricot and cream, just like the name says. Smells wonderful.

A very mild, sweet, vanilla cream smoke with no tobacco flavor except maybe some sweetness from the cavendish. It’s wet so if you don’t dry it out some I would suggest smoking carefully to avoid tongue bite. Did leave wet unsmoked leaves in bowl.

Smoking this around non pipe smokers will surely we welcome as this smells great.

If you need something that’s aromatic and smells nice for the wife this might be it.

An even burning cavendish with an apricot casing that isn't too strong or too artificial tasting. All in all, a decent smoke.

This is a sweet tobacco that leaves a very nice room note. I bought this at the Chicago show in 2007 and it is better after two years! When I bought it I got a lot of goop and moisture in the pipe and it will ghost the briar, so beware. Now that it's aged and dried out it's not as wet, but still smokes hot with tongue bite that goes away shortly after smoking. I find this too sweet now that I have branched out into other tabaccos. I like Iwan Ries' Banner-Lite as opposed to this blend.

I got a sample of this from a friend. It was drier than I expected. A name like Apricots and Cream makes me think of sticky, overly sweet tobacco. It burned a little warm like a sweet blend would but it was managable. It didn't have an overpowering apricot or cream taste. The tobacco tastes were the show and they were very nice. The room note was delightful. It had a bit of a bite to it but not bad. I'd smoke it again for sure, but might not buy more when this sample is gone.

This is a Black Cavendish blend, but not one of the goopy, PG laden variety. The cavendish is Green River Burley, I believe, and is more of a very dark purplish brown than black. When you first open the pouch an intensely fruity aroma assaults your nose, and you?d be forgiven for being hesitant about putting it in your pipe. While the room aroma is very close to the pouch aroma, the smoke, surprisingly, is hardly sweet at all. Some of the flavoring does make it through to the smoke, but the main flavor is the tobacco, especially as the bowl progresses. The Burley base provides a good bit of strength for an aromatic tobacco. The main drawback is that I find the smoke a bit harsh, especially toward the bottom of the bowl, but I seem to have that problem with a lot of C&D blends. I'd recommend this to those who usually smoke aromatic tobaccos and those interested in trying an aromatic that provides the smoker with tobacco taste and those around him/her with a fruity aroma. A word of warning, however: the aroma may very well work its way into your pipe, so you may not want to smoke it in anything you're likely to smoke an understated, subtle tobacco in.