4noggins Lord Methley's

Though my pipesmoking has revolved around traditional English, Virginia and Virginia-Perique blends for half a century, I do on occasion smoke an aromatic blend when company is over and ladies are present. As I am not familiar with aromatic blends, I chose Lord Methley's based simply on it's numeric rating in the hope I'd get a good one. How it received such a high rating beggars belief as upon opening the bag I was assaulted by every conceivable 'fruity smell' and 'boudoir perfume' that modern chemists can produce. It is so cased in sauce and PEG that it's as sticky as jam, and with its overpowering smell this blend is the Fruit Loops of aromatic pipe tobacco. Taste cannot be described as other than 'muddy' and quite unlike anything I can recall. I gave the remaining 200 grams to a friend who's smoked nothing but aromatics for forty five years and even he can't stand it. If Lord Methley's is a look into the future of aromatic blends or is what fellows new to the pipe consider a worthy smoke, then I weep for the future.