Stanwell Melange

This is just a swell mildly sweet smoke burns good not over flavored not really strong not much bite to it it’s just a pleasant smoke I would very much recommend it

Tin note of apricots, nuts, and vanilla. Tobacco is a Broken Flake reddish brown, tan a little black. Moisture content is high. Drying will be needed. Burns slow with a few relights. The strength is mild to medium and nic is mild. Flavoring is mild to medium, with notes Apricot and Vanilla. Vanilla fizzles in the first 1/4, then the apricots fizzle out around the 1/2-way point. Taste is mild to medium and consistent, with notes of marshmallow, toast, wood, spice, bread, dry, fermented vegetation, molasses, cocoa, creamy, nuts, brown sugar, floral, fermented, peaty, a grassy background note, and a mostly smooth retro. Burley is leading with Virginia, Cavendish and Flavoring supporting. Oriental/Turkish are cheering them on. Room note is pleasant, and aftertaste is ok.

Because I so enjoy Stanwell Vanilla, I was compelled to just finally try the Mélange. I agree with many others regarding the early notes in the tin, but for me that's where it ends. While it does have wonderful fruit notes and they are detectable in the first 1/3 of the bowl; it just became too acidy for me and also smokes entirely too wet. I have dried it out and still ended with the very same results. All said it's just not very appealing to me like their wonderful vanilla and therefore I won't purchase again.

I've tried this fresh from the tin and also aged for a month and both times the smell was so strong and unpleasant that I simply couldn't finish more than a handful of puffs. The tin strength is very strong IMHO and the smell from the pipe is just a few notches below that. I had to spray a strong air deodorizer to remove the smell.

A fun experience, I enjoyed smoking this tabacco. The taste is ok, pleasant and not so hard and as a room note 5 non smoker ppl. sad that it smells like chocolate.

The people around you will love it. However I did not get impressed with this aromatic.

Melange is a mild tobacco, you will not feel the nicotin hit with this one. I recomend to smoke it in the evening. The flavour is somewhat tolerable, but for me it has too much nuances, which makes it a not well balanced blend. The taste is mild, pleasant till half bowl after that it turns into something else, not to mention the lack of real tobacco taste. If it's that your goal this is not the blend for you. Overall, it deserves a try.

This is a very tasty aromatic, leaves a pleasant room note. However, it burns a little too fast for my taste. All in all, 3 out of 4

Got this in a sampler pack when I started smoking pipes. It was definitely different than the other aromatic offerings in the pack, and I was looking forward to trying it. The tin note is fantastic and almost makes you want to take a spoon and start eating it! It smells like a fruity, sweet dessert; exactly what drew me to pipe smoking in the first place. It packs well, burns fine after a char light, and smokes reasonably cool. Definitely taste the tangy apricot. You'd think I'd be totally happy with this blend, right? No! For some reason, this is the ONLY blend that irritates the heck out of my throat and tongue and makes me cough and cough for hours afterwards. It must be a thing with my body chemistry or something because all the other reviews are so positive. I really WANTED to enjoy this blend, but I guess it's not for me.