Mac Baren 7 Seas Regular Blend

Flavor Profile: Butter (Creamminess?) + sweetnes (Vanilla maybe?)

Mechanics: Really really Bad - smokes hot, hard to keep lit, and gives a hard thonge bite even with slow breathe method. Caramelizes and gets hard to keep lit and tamp.

Nic intensity: 1/10

I bought this based on reviews and the taste is okay but not what I expected. Room note was okay for my wife which is a good thing because she hates almost all my smokes.

Its something like butter and liqour/vanilla cavendish with no strenght in tobacco flavor, just a tad more than your average 100% cavendish aro, but still I was expecting more intensity (I am an aromatic smoker btw).

But the thing is that it tends to bite because of the moist level. From the tin, its unsmokeable and goopy. I tried letting it dry a couple of minutes but then it burns like crazy hot and tastes way less. So far I tried multiple things to get this tobacco to match the raveing reviews here, but no success.

Overall for a simple butter-like tasting tobacco with bad mechanics there are way better things out there.

Update: I opened the tin and smelled its raisiny sweet smell i love, and thats when I realized why I disliked this so much - tin note is raisiny fruity sweet but smoke tastes like boiling butter. If you want an aro that does match the raisiny fruity tin smell to flavor try Peterson's Connoisseur's Choice.

This blend came in very, very wet in the pouch and the scent vaguely resembled dark chocolate, with a chemical undertone, but no vanilla unlike I expected. The blend is mostly black cavendish from what I can tell.

Although the smoke is creamy, the tobacco taste is very uninteresting, the chemical topping barely comes though and it bites. Hard. For those reasons I should have stopped but I stubbornly—and regrettably—didn't want to waste the pouch, so I powered through more bowls. In the course of a month smoking this on and off, my mouth got sore and irritated every time, no matter how much I dried it and no matter how slow I smoked. And it coated my mouth, not letting me taste any other blends afterwards. It insidiously numbs your mouth before you feel the soreness. I even tried to mix it with a local VA brand, letting it meld for a week and a half under pressure, but that didn't help any. This blend is made with low-grade tobaccos, and for that it simply cannot be improved.

No and no, Mac Baren. It's cheap, but from my experience I cannot recommend this to anyone and will surely dispose of the leftovers. Look further.

Bystanders derived much pleasure when I smoked this blend in their presence. It truly does have a vanilla/confectionary aroma in the room. I, the smoker, was less pleased in my experience. There isn’t much tobacco flavor.

This aromatic is comprised of black, brown, red, and a few errant blonde strands. The cut is a combination of rough cut and fairly narrow ribbons. The pouch aroma is a mix of semi sweet chocolate and vanilla. When smoked, these conspire with the underlying tobaccos to give a flavor somewhere between caramel and butterscotch. The vanilla is only faintly detectable in the smoke, being more pronounced in the room note. The toppings are just ok. They can actually lend some unsettling chemically notes on the palate. It ships fairly wet but dries easily enough. Unfortunately, no matter how I prepared/packed/smoked this blend, it always smoked wet.

Another overrated blend, this time because it's cheap and quite easy to find.

It's pure black in the pouch, so predominantly black cavendish.

Another quite dry bag from the MacBaren logistic, this time in Spain. Different Countries, same problem...

I purchased it to enjoy a "balanced cake". I did not find what I was expecting. Taste was based on the typical "all purposes" MacBaren blend they use for everything within the 15€ pipe tobaccos (I believe), with an extra dose of black cavendish. Stop. Doesn't burn as good as the Scottish Mixture, and it's not balanced as the Classic loose cut.

I was curious because of the god rating and because of the room note I got from a man close to my table in a pub, outside, that looked really good.

Now I have enough experience to understand that, YES, the room note is important but the taste is MORE important, and they do not necessarily match.

So I did not finish it and for sure I placed a red X on the 7 seas brand, I won't get another one ever.

This is a very "meh" blend. It was one of the first aromatics I smoked, and it really didn't do it for me. Very mild smoke and it tends to bite a bit.

My tin opened, 5 years old. Bought it at Boswell's last year due to the fact it was missing the new UGLY warning labeling. Nice tin art, very classy look to it. I've smoked MacBaren's 7 Seas Royal and loved it for years. This just did not match up at all. I have heard this blend is comparable to Captain Black in flavor (minus the PG additive) but it didn't come close to matching that expectation. This tin had nothing in flavor going for it. I dumped the contents and kept the tin as a collector's piece.

Its like CB White Pouches. No need to anytime, I think.

Well today I smoked soap. Thank you MAC BAREN. If you look at the price, you will first think why is it so cheap? Then a brief look at the tobacco leaf and cut you understand that is just the remaining unwanted tobacco of the company sprayed with...soap?

I must inform you that i'm not an aromatic pipe smoker. But I think that even those who like this sort of tobacco will be very surprised how bad this blend is!

I got this as a sample from my local shop when this first came out. Hmmm, a white pouch aromatic with a reference to the sea and a ship on the front. I wonder who they are trying to compete with?!?!

I was not overly impressed with this blend. The aroma and room note were exceptional but it smelled just like Captain Black White to me. It was wet and goopy just like CBW as well. However, this blend is more expensive.

If you like CBW then save your money and keep buying that. Otherwise, try a better tinned aromatic like Stanwell's Melange or Cornell and Diehl's Autumn Evening.