Mac Baren 7 Seas Gold Blend

Mac Baren - 7 Seas Gold.

Another of my early reviews where I decided I could do a better job:

After a few bowls the one descriptive phrase that comes to mind is 'hard work'. The added flavour's mild, but gives the smoke quite a harsh top-note: citrus with maybe a hint of nectarine, or something of the like. The burn from 7.S. Gold is horrendous, unless it's packed very loosely; without doing so mine won't stay lit. The tobaccos' taste fairly decent, but as light as the topping is, it ruins the flavour. The smoke's medium in temperature, and it can give me a slight bite.

The nicotine qualifies as being mild, and the room-note's pleasant to tolerable.

I bought a new pouch to re-do my first review, now I wish I hadn't bothered!

Not recommended.

I am new to pipe smoking. And the only reason I thought of posting my comments was to say that it appears like I am smoking a whole different blend. The 7 Seas Gold pouch was fairly new. The bowl stays lit and the tobacco is easy to pack. But man is there some bite! After two bowls, I felt like someone had steamed my tongue! Taste wasn't bad I think, but honestly I was trying to avoid the bite and concentrating on just that. I am going to let this tobacco sit for a while and see how it is a few weeks later.

My first Mac Baren but didn't like it at all. The taste was insignificant and after smoked it the bowl was so dirty that it tooks me 5 minutes to clean it properly. I've tried few puff of other tobacco of Mac Baren and was very pleased. Maybe was just misfortune.

Oh my god a tasteless tobacco. Leaves you with a bitter aftertaste. Fortunately its not a hot smoke.Traces of sweetness over half of the bowl.Another mac baren failed tobacco. Definitely not recommended even for a newbie.

I feel it too wet for me, seems a diabetes soggy pancreas when packing, hard to make it get a good flow. In the pouch smells good, like cocoa (not chocolat) but the artificial flavoring end up hiding the tobacco flavor and also it still unrecognizable, i barely feel any molasses taste, only sugary-sweet taste. no honey, no vanilla, no chocolat, nothing but "sweet". It also leaved my mouth covered in a thick layer of PG, really unpleasant. Can overheat your bowl and bring the devil to dance in your tongue so sip it slowly!! Again it has a good smell in the pack and nice tobacco color but at the end what is important is the pleasure when smoking, what this blend doesn't gave me. Captain Black gold is way better IMO.

I am not going to waste too much time on this one:

Tastes of stale shortbread cookies. Did not enjoy it whatsoever. Gave it away to an undiscerning smoker who seems to appreciate it more than I do.

The aroma is almost a toffee/butterscotch, which smells amazing. The smoke is pretty unremarkable. It's not terrible, but there are better blends out there. I can't justify recommending this.

I enjoy a very wide range of baccy and tongue bite is very rare for me. However, not only do I find this blend to bite, but it's down right harsh. The pouch aroma is inviting and the light tan tobacco has been well cut. It arrives a tad moist, but based on the pouch scent, I couldn't wait to dive in, but i gave it some dry time. That's where all enjoyment ended. If nursed very carefully, there are some nice flavors here, but with the wide range of aromatic offerings on the market and only smoking aro's about 10% of the time, for me it's not worth the effort. I seem to find this harshness with MacBaren's blends in general so it may be just me. It you a one that gets bit by MacBaren, this blend will not offer any relief. I do think that smokers of their aromatic blends will enjoy this blend but it won't be occupying any space in my cellar.

Tobacco is gentle aromatic smelling after some fruits and as second aroma would be vanilla maybe. I was not able recognize what kind of fruit was leading aroma. It was apple or pear maybe to me. Moisture was accurate, burned well..

Taste of smoking was very average. I can imagine, that new pipe-smokers could easily get tongue-bite. Don't get me wrong. Tobaccos seems to be in good quality, but but everything was very shallow, without body.

You need fair amount of relights, burn till end without moisture.

There are definitely better tobaccos out there. Even better aromatics.