Sutliff Tobacco Company Molto Dolce

I found this tobacco to have a distinctive artificial smell. Despite the advertised flavor, I don't smell caramel or any other food product. Instead, I detect a vague alcohol topping that I can't quite place.

I detected no flavor in the smoke, even after trying this blend in several dedicated aromatic pipes. I persevered through the entire tin, hoping to detect the wonderful flavors which have garnered this blend much praise, but could only detect sweet steam.

There are many aromatics I enjoy, but this is not one of them. Too wet, too chemical smelling in the tin, no real flavor. I tried to like this one, but it just wouldn't click with me.

I got a tin of this free from JR Cigar after purchasing some other pipe tobacco blends. Lovely tin note upon opening the lid, but a very wet tobacco offering. Literally drenched in casing. A predominantly dark leaf that was oily looking and stained my fingers with loading my pipe. While lighting, it sizzled as if I was lighting pure sugar. Surprisingly, it did not smoke hot. I could not actually taste any vanilla or caramel at first, but with slow smoking, both peaked through from time to time. There was a slight spiciness to the taste which I attributed to the honey - almost a combination of honey and sen sen, and mild at that. Not much in the way of tobacco flavor, and there was the ever present taste of PG. All in all, if you are looking for any tobacco taste whatsoever, look elsewhere. The room note may be appealing, but not enough of a draw to put this into regular rotation for me due to the lack of tobacco flavor and the PG presence. I can't recommend this one and most likely won't finish the tin. While I think about it, it reminded me of C&D's Pennington Gap which I did not care for.

Here I go again, bucking the wisdom of my peers. But, in my defense was moved to put this blend on my wishlist by reading the rave reviews of members whom I have gleaned wisdom from in the past.

Having said that, it's not for me. The tin note was inviting, vanilla, caramel and a alcohol scent...whiskey? It was propylene wet, slick to the point where when squeezed it lacked any tackiness. That right there let me know what I was in for-a inorganic experience.

Now it starts out tasty, I get a vanilla-nougat taste through mid-bowl, but as I reach midbowl a coolness not unlike that of a menthol cigarette starts to grow. No menthol flavoring whatsoever, mind you, just something chemically happening-attached to the burley perhaps?

It soon grows to the point that it's all I sense, and its absolutely chemical in origin....and not good. Then it's replaced with tongue bite, even though I'm sipping slowly. And get this, as you light it it crackles and pops like a pine camp fire. Any attempt to blow back into the stem is met by ruin, as the baccy becomes like a powder keg, blowing out the bowl game covering me as if I was in Pompeii back in the gap. All the while all of these reactions go on without any excessive heat in the bowl...weird.

So here in the States we the ill-informed masses are inundated with advertising about organic this and organic that, mainly concerning stuff that already is organic by definition.

Molto Dolce bucks that trend, however, by legitimizing the need for the obvious...its so laden with chemicals it doesn't qualify as being organic. Perhaps it's actually synthetic after all...?

For my tastes Deep Hollow has been the most authentic vanilla, but this blend only makes three attempts at findings a quality vanilla- there's gotta be something out there....sigh. Deep six time for this blend 🙁

I take it this blend is for people who do not like the taste of tobacco? The tobacco is covered with oils and sugars and sure, it smells pretty good out of the tin but I'm not wanting to eat my tobacco, I want to smoke it! It smells like dessert and that would be okay from time to time if the tin note actually translated to taste but this it does not! It tastes like absolutely nothing! The room note is good but so are those little vaporizer things it seems everyone is smoking these days. You may as well vape it up because you'll most definitely get more flavor out of one of those than you do with Molto Dolce. Horrible excuse for a pipe tobacco blend! Just horrible! -4 stars.

Too sweet, goopy and needs drying. Like Captain Black on steroids. Better as a mixer.

This is horrible stuff. It's not pipe tobacco - someone has found some old dark fruit cakes, crumbled them up, mixed them with oily flavors, then added a dose of lighter fluid for combustion. Put all this in a tin and write 'pipe tobacco' on the... lid. It's absolutely smothered with flavorings and preservatives - sticks to the fingers and won't dry out. Somewhere in the tin there must be some tobacco, but I'm blowed if I can find it amongst all the raisins, currants and orange peel. Smoked one pipeful then threw the rest away. Half a star for the rather nice presentation tin and plastic lid.

Smoked this right after finishing off a tin of their Mountain Pass blend. Got to say, I was majorly disappointed. The tobacco seemed a lesser quality than the latter, and very sticky. The smell almost made me think it was mentholated. Upon smoking it, I got the same feeling. Although it has vanilla up front, somewhere in the there made me feel like I was smoking a Newport. I am not completely turned off from it, just this pales in comparison to Mountain Pass blend in every way. On the bright side, room note was nice and zero tongue bite (and I smoke like a train).

I purchased this blend based on the hype found in the reviews and basically ignored the negative views given. I was definitely wrong to have not listened to the negative reviews. After a year the blend is still greasy (not wet). It has a very pleasant room note and has no tongue bite. It will not stay lit no matter what methods I have utilized in packing the blend or in what pipes I have utilized. Another thing about this tobacco is that it does not have the flavors related to be so wonderful when attempting to sip this and smoke same slowly. The most upsetting thing about the tobacco is that it never can be smoked to the bottom of the bowl. There is always a wet mess with the dottle and unburned tobacco left. This was the first tobacco I tried when I started the hobby after a hiatus of many years. I was nervous about the English and Balkan blends and that is why I started with the aromatic blend discussed here. I thought my technique was off and I just about gave up smoking when I moved to the English, Balkans and Virginias. I never have any problem with the blends from these mixtures. I rarely write something so negative about a tobacco but this stuff is just "junk". Sorry Folks!

I have high hope for this particular tobacco due to its reputation of how easy to smoke. But as I opened a tin, I can sense some sort of heavy synthetic aroma. The tobacco itself is too wet to smoke right out the tin so I left to dry a little for about half an hour. Still, it's too wet to smoke and I couldn't keep my pipe lit no matter how hard i draw. First I think I packed them too tight so a couples of days later I try them again and packed fairly light. I kept my pipe lit for about only five minutes. Apart from wet tobacco which I couldn't lit, the grease from the tobacco stick to my fingers and easily left greases all over places. In conclusion, dissatisfaction is the only emotion I got from smoking this tobacco.