Davidoff Blue Mixture

You've got yourself a nice toilet cleaner if you purchased this piece of turd. Don't smoke this, seriously...

Well its creamy on the tongue and it feels awful. The taste is bad. After a while you only get the burnt ash taste. I don't even understand what the aroma is.

Maybe I will blend this with some other to make it smokeable.

Skip this.

Bought on a whim after reading good reviews elsewhere (never again) and hoping on a sort of easy to smoke, summery & debonair tobacco. Well, not too far from this concept, IMO this is just the classy rendition of Borkum Riff Original: less vanilla (read chemical), a bit more tang and better burning qualities. Not bad but too light, wispy, ethereal..... definitely it doesn't worth the money.

Out of the tin you get the promise of fudge and marshmallow aromas. Once lit, it leans more towards vanilla, albeit very faint.

It smokes cool and tends to become slighly gurgly towards the end. The strength seems to increase slightly when smoked in a larger bowl but does not develop any complexity.

If you are looking for smoke that smells great but does not demand anything from your taste buds, than this will do nicely.

The aromas upon opening the tin are fantastic, unfortunately they don't come through when smoking the tobacco.

The first few bowls were very enjoyable, but this tobacco dries very quickly and if you don't smoke on a regular basis, you will find it gets worse as it 'matures'.

I would only recommend it to beginners of pipe smoking.

This is a re-review of the tobacco 7-8 months aged in a jar. When I open the jar, the aroma is very pleasant, similar to what I experienced from the fresh tin many months ago. The tobacco has a medium ribbon cut, it does not need any drying time, though you can try to smoke it directly from the tin/jar or playing little with the drying time which might affect little the re-light times. The smoke is not very wet but it does need more than an average number of relights. It has similar constituents with Davidoff green, but it seems to be milder in terms of strength and somewhat “more aromatic”, but the differences are small though. The black cavendish leads, and it gives a very creamy and sweet light smoke. It is consistent throughout the bowl and it burns cool with no chance of bite even if you try it in non-filter pipes. If you are an aromatic lover, you can try it in medium and large bowls, e.g., savinelli 614, 320 KS, 611 KS/EX, 111 KS. Perhaps it can perform well in some Peterson and definitely in corn cobs. It can be, similar to Davidoff Green Mix, one of the recommended tobaccos for new pipe smokers, if you direct your interest into aromatics, at least it does worth as a mild, sweet and creamy good quality blend to try a tin and you see in the process if you would continue with more tins purchase. For me it would be a 2 and half star blend, rounded to 2 starts, but i do think that for aromatic lovers this can be easily a 3-star blend, thus, it is recommended as an aromatic, say in a semi-rotation fashion.

I appreciate the ready rub cut. I find the thickness creates a good burn, and (at least mentally) the pre crumble rub helps freshen things up (as one would rub fresh herbs in cooking), but how does it smoke?

The tin aroma is just OK, with a kind of sour/bitter cocoa smell. Think more dark than milk chocolate here, with a musty dusting for good measure. Like a good sprinter, the first puff is quite tasty, but things taper off quickly, spending most of your time with a bland, almost bitter vaper. Being that this is one of the easiest Aromatic flavors to get right (there are plenty of good chocolates {ie. Lane's 1Q}), I was fairly bummed out.

Having no chemical taste saved it slightly, but if it wasn't for the great cut, it would be a 1.5 star for me.

For this one, I had read some mixed reviews but went out on a limb because recently I have been finding aromatics interesting. I have thus far been opting for mainly English crossovers like Engine #113 with top notes of caramel/molasses and Haddo's delight with a brandy note, as well as some American burley blends like C&D's Epiphany, etc. I had worked my way up and wanted to try a full blown Danish Cavendish aro, so took a chance. When I opened the tin, I was greeted with a vanilla top note that was quite strong. There was something else there too that was quite sweet. I was expecting the moisture to be far heavier than what I found here. Lots of dark black Cavendish and some dark brown as well, and obviously a good number of quite long twigs which I promptly removed. I wavered about laying out the tobacco for a few minutes but impatiently, I justified packing a bowl straight away with the thought that it wasn't particularly damp to touch. No telltale springiness due to the crisper form of the treated tobacco, so for next time it needs to be considered as regards moisture differently to ribbon.

A bit of trouble getting it to take a match, but after 2-3 charring lights it was going. Very sweet bright Cavendish taste from the start. Virginia could be made out but the note was very strong. I warmed up to the bowl after the first third and allowed myself to take in the experience and generally appreciated it. No "true" tobacco flavour other than hints of VA, as from start to finish, it was different strengths of the vanilla topping/casing. Overall this burnt quite slowly and twice in the last third, I was convinced the bowl was finished, only to find the tamper landing on firm mounds. The flavour did not go sour on me and was relatively consistent to the end. The room note I must say was very pleasing to me, and I expect that my wife would much prefer me to smoke such things over my normal fare.

Honestly, I know Davidoff delivers high quality tobacco, so the fact that I finished one bowl and am still not convinced if I like it may be due to the style of tobacco, rather than the delivery or quality of the blend itself. Now that the tin is cracked, I will let it sit for a couple of weeks and try it a bit drier and mellowed, as some here have suggested, and then update my notes. I am slightly worried about the next smoke in the same pipe, as the note seemed to persist the next day when I tugged it empty.

Update 1/24/20: I had enjoyed 2-3 bowls when the tub was first cracked, but lost interest and put it away. 2 weeks ago, I ran across it and took the lid off and got a whiff of mellow vanilla but with an added hint of anise or licorice that I see from above was not noticed or noted previously. The moisture had really balanced out over the last 8-9 dormant months, and I really had a great smoke. I reached for this 5-6 times over the last week or two, finally finishing the tin last night. I am upping my rating to 3 stars - recommended.

unless you are a die hard aromatic smoker...one who likes a heavily coated danish style smoke, this isnt for you. its fine for what it is, and there are certainly worse versions of this one the market. In fact this is likely better than most. But its just too sweeet if you smoke a pipe for tobacco taste./

A 50gms tin was gifted to me by a friend he bought it from a duty free shop of some gulf airport. Tim aroma is very pleasant you can smell vanilla tops and some mild spice but when I light it up that spice taste was so strong that I immediately feel my nose burning... I Jared it up and again smoke a bowl after 2 weeks now that spicyness is very mild but it's still there and smoke is somewhat pleasant. I smoke it occasionally whenever i want to change taste.