Sutliff Tobacco Company Vanilla Custard Z92

A very pleasant, top-notch vanilla Cavendish blend. This may be a bit moist for many people, so allowing it to dry a bit can help. Even at that, it burns clean, with little gloopiness.

Aroma is sweet, with a noticeable eggy-vanillay-custardy aroma and flavor, without being candy-like.

Fully aromatic with little tobacco flavor. No bite. A good all-day smoke. I buy this by the pound!

This stuff is absolutely great!!!!!! It smokes good, and tastes exactly like it smells. This is one of the tastiest tobaccos I have ever smoked! I would HIGHLY recommend this one.

Wonderful stuff, and smokes better with age. The thing I like about this aromatic is that it actually tastes pretty much as it smells when loose. Lovely, creamy taste with the vanilla really coming through mid-bowl. No bitterness nor loss of flavour towards the end and absolutely no tongue bite, even when puffed aggressively. Highly recommended.

Revised 7/3/23: After a couple of years of trying all kinds of tobaccos, I settled on English tobaccos as my favorite. The only aromatic I continue to smoke is Davidoff Danish Mixture.

Original review:

Revised review: After having this tobacco resting in a jar for six months I tried it again and was very pleasantly surprised. Though it does have the strong added flavor, it has mellowed a bit and was much more pleasant to smoke than when new. I will be smoking this occasionally for a change of taste from English-style tobaccos.

This is a good example of why a tobacco that makes a bad first impression should be kept and allowed to rest in storage for a while before making a final judgment about it.

Original review: A bit too strongly flavored for me. Leaves a lot of deposits in the pipe bowl.

For me, this was a good tobacco for helping me to learn how to taste pipe tobacco, and to properly light a bowl of tobacco. It's great for that because the strong flavor makes it easy to sense when I've used too much flame and overly charred the tobacco, and the sweet flavor is so strong that it makes it easy to sense when I'm getting a good vanilla flavor.

But for better or worse, I've found that I prefer less assertively flavored tobaccos. I have had the same experience with Boswell Berry Cobbler and Raspberry Cream: Helpful to learn from but just not my cup of tea for smoking regularly thereafter.

A quality product and I can recommend it for someone looking for the stronger flavor. I highly recommend it because it is what it is claimed to be: a full flavored vanilla aromatic.

Technique notes: My smoking technique is to focus only on smoking. No reading or work or other distractions. Just enjoying the smoke. Outdoors only. A few bowls per week of pipe smoking. Lightly charring the tobacco initially and with relights. Sipping. Occasional retrohale. Peterson pipe lighter with smallest practical flame. Sometimes a BIC EZ Reach lighter.

Am using a variant of the Frank method to pack a 2/3 full pipe without first putting loose tobacco in the bowl. I just take a wad of tobacco and press it into place Frank-style. Tobacco is stored in OXO POP container with size 60 Boveda 72% pack.

Savinelli 207 smooth is my favorite pipe and favorite pipe design.

A very stylish mixture, if you have low blood sugar, please have a bowl, it is also good for dessert after dinner. Is worth to recommend，A four-star

As a newer pipe smoker, I am mainly exploring the different blends (I favor aromatic blends, although I am dipping my toes into the non-aromatic blends now) to find what I like. Opening the bag and smelling it, I wanted to eat it instead of smoking it, it smells that good! The room note is mostly vanilla, unlike the tin note. Smokes really easy, was worried as it is a very moist blend but I didn't have to dry it to smoke it with no issues keeping lit and no tongue bite at all.

This tobacco has a delightful aroma and flavor. You can tell that you are smoking premium tobacco as there no stems, etc, to deal with. It takes a lite well and requires very few relights. I detected little nicotine, and experienced no bite at all with this blend. It smokes very cool. Everything considered, this is a great smoke all day and night.

Highly Recommended!

Don't we love reviews that start with "I'm not a fan of aromatics and I'm gonna tell you why I hate this one in particular."? This is not one of those reviews.

My tastes prefer semi-aro's with a light topping. An aromatic like Vanilla Custard would normally be one I'd avoid simply due to it's name but after reading the reviews here I had to give it a try. If it turned out to be overly sweet and or goopy I would have just mixed it 50/50 with Windsail Virginia.

Upon opening the bag, the aroma was so strong that I was sure it would need toning down, so I was rather surprised that VC smoked fine straight from the bag. It did not require any dry time.

What a lovely smoke. Yes it's sweet but not overly so. It's got a really nice flavour and the room note is very pleasant.

The course cut is easy to pack, it doesn't burn hot and although it does leave some moisture it does not leave any goop at the end of a bowl.

Mild, smooth, very tasty with low nicotine. Not even a hint of bite.

Normally I only smoke a couple of bowls of aromatics over the course of a day, since I enjoy most genres but I found that VC did not wear out it's welcome when I smoked a few bowls in succession at a social event.

For my personal tastes this is a three star blend but for what it is, Sutliff has got this sweet aromatic right. For aro lovers it's a four star blend. Highly recommended for aro lovers, would be a great beginners blend and for experienced smokers looking for a mild, sweet smoke for social occasions or a change of pace. For those who don't appreciate aromatics just no [So we can all be spared yet another negative review expressing why you hate aromatics]

Bought in bulk along with Sutliff Creme Brulee.

Rich vanilla smell. Decent vanilla flavor. Perfect mild sweet smoke with morning coffee. Not much tobacco flavor, but won’t leave a bad taste in your mouth the rest of the morning. If you’re looking for a mellow sweet tasting morning smoke I would recommend.