CAO Eileen's Dream

I just picked up a tin of this to try. First smoke was excellent. Cracked the seal on the tin and the first nose was fantastic if you are A Bailey's fan ans white chocolate fan (who isn't). Packed easily using the tried and true gravity/tamp x3 method, perfect. I was a little concerned with relights due to the moisture, but I was surprised that after the charring light, I needed no other relights. The real flavor of the Irish Cream and white chocolate come out about 1/3 the way into the bowl, fantastic flavor not overpowering or oversweet. Very reminiscent of a good Nougat blend but more complex depth to my palate. Get some of this as a nice after dinner smoke. Room note A+. Value is also good at less than $10.

I am rather new to smoking a pipe being that I am more of a cigar smoker, but I have now embraced the pipe more recently. This blend is my favorite so far. It has a great taste and room note. My wife does not mind the aroma at all, in fact she is rather fond of this blend. It does have a slight aftertaste but I like it. I highly recommend this blend

Nice sweet blend, and has a pleasant aroma. Burns and packs easily

Didn’t like that much. Smells amazing unsmoked but while smoking made me cough a lot and flavor wasn’t complex.

Smells like white chocolate, condensed milk, some booze and black cavendish. Moist, well topped. Dries well enough, smokes fine. Flavour is good and grows throughout. Flavour has a smidge of grass and nuttiness, with a wisp of smoke and earthiness from the cigar leaf, but it’s basically just straight black cavendish and the white chocolate topping. Tastes pretty similar to the smell. Perfectly fine, but the dullness of the cheap cavendish knocks it down a notch. Extremely gentle on the palate. I would highly recommend this for beginners. It’s an easy 3 star aromatic and I’d happily smoke this anytime.

Strong, consistent and very pleasant Irish Cream flavor throughout the smoke. Tobacco itself is virtually undetectable due to the strong topping.

Needs to be smoked slow and cool. Stronger puffs and relights lead to a very sharp, acidic, chemical taste. Must be dried out before smoke.

Smokes quite wet, so expect some gurgling and an unignitable wet bit at the end of the bowl. As with most aromatics, the aftertaste isn't that pleasant.

3.5 stars as far as aromatics go. 3 stars overall.

Chocolatey Irish cream for sure. A bit of nuts and some tobacco flavor too. I just feel this one fell a little short. Everyone raves about it as the best aromatic around but I just think it’s ok. It’s not bad but the flavor falls off after the first half of the bowl, it has a cigarillo black n mild taste to it which just feels gas station tobacco to me. Not bad but for my money there’s a lot more tasty aromatics around.

This blend is really nice - not great, not very good, really nice. I have about a half a bowl left of a tin I had for a few months. It must be dried properly (meaning not OVER dried) to have really any flavor at all - and when you can get it that way in a suited “dry” pipe- excellent: slightly tart but sugary black cavendish that develops well, not overly sweet. Not as glorious as an LJ Periti black Virginia - but close. Don’t dry test by touch - I think there is some PG in it. Not a fan of that, but I still like this blend. Extremely mild. If you didn’t have to near perfectly nail the humidity - I’d recommend this as an excellent “new to pipes” blend.

As I have previously noted I’m not an aromatic smoker, preferring Virginia’s and Va/Per blends primarily. Having said that I do on occasion try an aromatic spurred on by a friend, a good review or description that intrigues me. That’s the case here. Frothed cream and Irish whiskey, hazelnut and cocoa...well that did it. Tin note is white chocolate, cream, a slight mint and very faint whisky. A little like Baileys Irish Cream. Moisture level requires some dry time but not to much. I will say that the taste when smoked mirrored the tin notes. At the same time the Virginias still come through. I was very pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed this. While I wouldn’t smoke this often, I do really enjoy it when I want a break from my routine and want to have some very different flavors from what I normally smoke. I’ve been told by those around me that the room note is outstanding. A downside for me is that it has a very low to nonexistent nicotine hit. This one is all flavor and not much else.