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Emeritus Account (29935) | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Mild | Mild | Mild to Medium | Pleasant |
This is, however danish it may be, a very pleasant mildly aromatic tobacco which I found pleasant for everyday smoking.
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Courtney Fish (28) | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Mild to Medium | Medium | Mild to Medium | Tolerable to Strong |
Well now, looks like my review is the opposite of most of the others! Apologies to anyone who enjoys this blend.
Yes, this smells OK from the pack, a bit like orange flavour fondant sweets. Based on this and the relatively low proportion of Cavendish to Virginia and Burley, I was expecting to enjoy this...
First off the tobacco tastes cheap and to be honest, pretty nasty. I could detect virtually no vanilla and the only thing masking the tobacco flavour was an unpleasant artificial orange taste. It also produced a similar artificial orange sweets aroma in the pungent room note.
Positive aspects - very few relights required and it was only a little damp at the end.
Harsh and hot throughout, with frequent bite and a bad taste at the end of the bowl. Slightly less harsh and a little cooler with a large pipe but I still don't want to try it again.
Pipe Used: Large briar to small cob
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StevieB (2008) | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Mild | Medium | Mild to Medium | Pleasant |
Holger Danske - Vanilla & Orange.
A retyped early review.
Starting with the best feature, the unlit aroma: candy shop. Burley and Virginia account for far more than the black Cavendish.
The smoke seems anomalous to the pre-light aroma. I detected vanilla in the aroma but can't in the smoke: I only get orange. Being fair, this flavour's alright, what ruins it is the temperature: hot. However, because the burn's so raucous it means there's no dottle left come the end! Ghost? Yes: smoke this in a dedicated pipe or cob.
Nicotine: mild. Room-note: pleasant.
Sadly this only deserves one star:
Not recommended.
Pipe Used: Various
Age When Smoked: New
Purchased From: Various
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renwardhoop (177) | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Medium | Mild to Medium | Mild | Pleasant to Tolerable |
Another typical Danish, supposedly, vanilla/fruit blend.
It's as dry as our sons toothbrush, and comes in a rather useless pouch that might have something to do with the aridity of said tobacco. On transferring to a tin it seemed they had been very generous with the contents, seemed more like 100g than 50g.
It looks like most of the others in this Holske range - black and brown with a few lumpy bits here and there.
Smells really quite fresh and tasty in the pouch with a trace of vanilla.
Orange ?
Nope don't get that at all.
As we all know opening tin/pouch fragrance/taste come through in the smoke about once in a blue moon and this one is no different, although , to be fair, it does try.
Vanilla - very faint. Orange ? Even fainter, actually non-existent.
It's harsh - again like a lot of Danish tobaccos - and it doesn't take too many prisoners when it comes to heat of bowl. Could bite hard if pushed I think.
Mrs RW has made no comment on room aroma - it seems to have passed the house test.
In conclusion, a typically stolid Danish blend not very different to the others. Recommended ? No not really unless of course you are a Danish fan and working throught the range.
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