Sutliff Tobacco Company Molto Dolce

Tin note is vanilla and molasses and the smell is quite sweet. The tobacco is a bit on the moist side. Packs easily. The toppings are the main flavors. Vanilla, Molasses, and Caramel. not much tobacco flavor. The good news is not too much chemical flavor either unless you puff hard, then the chemicals come out. The Virginia is very lite, but you can taste it in the background. For Aromatic smokers this would be a good choice. Nic hit is very mild.

Smells great but I didn't get much out of it. It was wet and hard to keep lit so I smoked it heavily to keep it lit. There's some light caramel taste--it's like what I imagine vaping must be like. It's nice but not very satisfying.

This is a decent aromatic blend. Its qualities are that it packs well, lights up very well even if a bit moist or sticky, it burns consistently all the way to the bottom, it has very little bite, it produces pleasant smelling smoke, and it lasts quite a while in a pouch. The problems are that it smokes wet, there is no real taste except a ghost of plastic, while it does not ghost a pipe it DOES ghost the pouch, requiring me to thoroughly wile it down, and it leaves sticky residue on my fingers when packing, and there is no definitive flavor except generic mild sweet pipe tobacco. Straight up mediocre. I wouldn’t refuse a tin or a few pinches, but I won’t be buying this again.

First impression: It's extremely wet... and oily. You'll get an oily residue on your fingers. That's usually a pretty bad sign in my opinion, and it worried me initially. But, it's an American aromatic, so I'll judge it accordingly. I assumed it meant there'd be a strong chemical taste to the tobacco. But the taste was actually kind of nice. Sweet vanilla and caramel and some Christmas-y tastes. It's not totally overwhelming, at least not to me, but there is a bit of a "chemical" flavor. The tobacco taste is barely there, aside from maybe a slight woody Burley flavor. I can't taste much of the Virginia. I thought I smelled chocolate at first when I opened the tin and hints of it when smoking. There isa nice Christmas spice flavor happening too. I can see how it could be a bit much for some people, but as a heavy aromatic, it's a good blend.

Bottom line: As a heavy aromatic, it works well. It has very nice, pleasant flavors - but for someone used to more natural tobaccos, the slightly chemical tang may be a bit off-putting.

I had high hopes for this tobacco but was disappointed. A good Cavendish has a complex richness that I really enjoy. (Lane BCA, for instance.) What I expected was something along that line with all the flavorful goodness of the toppings that I had heard about with Molto Dolce. After three bowls I can't say I really got much Cavendish richness at all. Instead, all I got was the topping. The first bowl I smoked wet and it was like licking a sucker -- very sweet. I let the tobacco sit for an hour before the second bowl and that was pretty much a dud with very little flavor profile at all. On the third bowl I let the tobacco dry out quite a bit to more typical pipe tobacco levels. On the third bowl, I picked up a bit of tobacco flavor, but it was more the musty/smokey flavor I associate with straight burly than the richness of Cavendish. The toppings were also much more subdued after it had been dried. It's not a bad smoke, but I have yet to find any subtle or interesting subtones, so it's not doing much for me. The room note, on the other hand is evidently quite remarkable. Everyone at the smoking lounge was commenting on it and saying how much they like it.

This blend seems to have a huge following. Although I enjoy several aromatics, this isn't one of them. The room note is superb, but the goop that it leaves in the pipe is uncalled for. Heavy on the humectants, maybe to cover subpar tobacco? Who knows.

If you don't mind a messy pipe or a blend that makes a pipe gurgle like mad, you'll love this blend.

The flavor of this stuff is really good and does not dissipate as the bowl gets smoked. But man is it wet and goopy. I could not seem to dry iy out even after mixing it with 5 brothers, which is a dry burley blend. Hence, it does not pack well and can get hot. Sutliff's Honey & Chocolate blend is a better choise. As is any of the Lane aromatics. I don't find the Lane blends goopy like some do.