Boswell Pipes & Tobacco Raspberry Cream

This was the first of Boswell's I have tried. I started with 2oz about 3 weeks ago and as of now only have a bowl or two left. The smell in the bag is great, kinda like raspberry jam on a sugar cookie. It smells like its good enough to eat. The taste is mild ripe raspberry with a faint vanilla finnish. Actually, you have to really concentrate, I thought, to detect the vanilla. Not a very strong tabacco flavor but a good relaxing smoke. If you like aromatics this is the one to get. I will definitely be ordering more to keep on hand.

For my money this is the best of the Boswell blends. Made with high quality tobacco and topped with a flavoring that actually taste like raspberry rather than something cooked up in a meth lab. Smooth and creamy smoke that won't bite. Great first pipe of the morning with a hot cup of coffee.

Simply put, this is one of my favorites. The raspberry taste is perfect. Not overwhelming, fake, or artificial. Burns great. No goop and stays lit. This stuff is awesome when smoked in a meerschaum which I highly recommend. Oh, and as a side note?..the room note is incredible and is my girlfriend?s favorite! She always comments ?honey, can you smoke the raspberry!?? Expect complements galore even from non-smokers on this one.

I guess I will have a desenting opinion on this one. I got this as a part of a aeromatic sampler, which as a whole I found to be a good investment to find some new blends. Raspberry Cream just didn't make the cut, especially when it comes in the same sampler as Berry Cobbler. The taste was pleasant enough, a little weak for my tastes and it got bitter toward the end of the bowl. I will stick with the Berry Cobbler or perhaps CAO Black

Rasberry cream the smell from the bag was good, the tobacco was easy to work with. One thing I didn't enjoy was how fine cut some of the strands of tobacco were but what can I say. The smoke at first did have a citrus lemon fill to it with hints of vanilla in the finish. A regret I have with this tobacco was smoking it in an older corn cob. I'm looking forward to trying this again mainly because the pipe used really allowed me to smoke hot even with slow sips. Overall another solid aromatic by Boswell whom just haven't disappointed myself so far. This product gave a great room aroma as well as feeling my taste buds with a solid tobacco flavor.

I've yet to sample all of what the Boswell's have to offer and, judging from what I've sampled thus far, I'm very much looking forward to the rest of the journey. I ordered my sample of "Raspberry Cream" along with several others, all of which I absolutely loved, with the one exception being "Raspberry Cream". The aroma upon opening the zip lock bag was wonderful, as was the room note, but the flavor was weak with only a slight hint of any kind of berry taste. The tobacco was a tad damp so I dried it out a bit overnight, put it in a jar the next morning and on the shelf it sat, untouched, for 3 months. I guess all I really need to say here is that if you cellar this tobacco for just a few months you will be well rewarded. It still had a decent amount of moisture in it and the flavor upon light up was incredible! Yes... toasted raspberries! It burned great, with a couple of relights near the bottom. The relight flavor is creamy and wonderful. So get it, shelve it, then enjoy it. The Boswell's just do not disappoint!

Wow! This gives a whole new meaning to getting a raspberry!

I was gifted a sample of this blend and it smelled so wonderful in the pouch and I had a sweet tooth going so thought I would give it a try. The pouch aroma is almost like raspberry jam. It is a dark mix of brown to mostly dark brown ribbon cut tobaccos and it was almost sticky with the topping but not like a lot I've tried over the years. Upon lighting up, a wonderful room note aroma burst out of my pipe, and the taste of fresh raspberry settled on my tongue and it tasted quite good. Those that think an aromatic can't taste like the pouch aroma need to try this, it tastes exactly like it smells. For the first half of the bowl, my sweet tooth was quenched and it tasted wonderful but very little of the tobacco taste came across. Then just past the mid point, I started tasting the tobacco come through. The first half was very mild and rich while the second half started biting and got harsher and at the bottom of my pipe it became very bitter. To it's credit though, it did not gunk up my pipe and did burn down to a dark grey ash and a little dottle. While in no way would this be a regular smoke for me, I have to say I did enjoy it overall and it will be nice to have when I have the sweet cravings. Because of the bitter end I can't give it four stars, I will give it three because for an aromatic it behaved quite well and was enjoyable.

This is a good one. It doesn't bite, or taste artificial. The raspberry is subtle, and bakery like. There's also a whisper of vanilla somewhere in there. It leaves a nice aftertaste, and Burns exceptionally well. These guys always impress me with there aromatic blends. I don't know that I've ever seen a raspberry flavored blend before. I'll give it an extra star just for that.

This was one of the first aromatics I tried & to this day it remains one of my all time favorites.

It smoke/tastes like it smells in the jar & that's a rare trait. Very pleasant tastes of raspberries & cream.

Towards the end of a bowl I can taste a stronger creamyness in the tobacco & that's just fine with me.

I don't really pick up on the vanilla hint that others get...

This blend burns cool & clean. No gurgling or left over trash just like other Boswell blends. To that point, this is made with premium tobaccos & it holds up perfectly to aging without losing any of it's qualities.

Smoke it fast & it still retains the raspberry & cream tastes but I've found if you smoke it very slow you can really taste the creamy part of this blend.

Imo this is easily an all day long smoking blend without any bite & you'll still be tasting the flavor of this blend bowl after bowl. It's also pleasant to others in the room making it ok to smoke around others. My girlfriend always enters the room & comments on how good the room smells with this blend.

Being a cavendish blend you can't go wrong giving it a blind try & I'll go as far as saying even if you don't like raspberries you may find you still really enjoy this blend. I've never tried anything close to this blend so go ahead & order you some raspberries & cream!