Dunhill My Mixture BB1938 Baby's Bottom
(3.19)
A re-release of the blend previously known as Baby's Bottom, BB1938 is an extremely smooth blend of Cyprian latakia and sweet golden & red Virginias. A wonderful blend for Virginia lovers who are looking for a little extra flavor.
Notes: Smoking Pipes reissue tin description: A blend of Virginias and latakia made famous generations ago for its smooth smoking qualities, Baby's Bottom was at the top of the list for mixtures we wanted to see re-introduced. Now, thanks to the folks at British American Tobacco and General Cigar, it has returned.
Old Dunhill store description: A smooth medium strength mixture which consists mainly of red Virginia, but also has bronze and lemon Virginia, some flake and a good helping of latakia (As smooth as a baby's bottom).
Details
Profile
Strength
Mild to Medium
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
None Detected
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Pleasant to Tolerable
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Medium
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming
Average Rating
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3.19 / 4
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Reviews
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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 Reviews
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Jul 20, 2006 | Mild to Medium | None Detected | Medium | Tolerable |
Forty-seven years ago, as a college freshman, I was introduced to Dunhill blends. I smoked them on those rare occassions when I could afford the dollar to buy a two ounce tin. I continued to smoke Baby's Bottom and virtually every other Dunhill tobacco more and more as my budget would allow. Of all the blenders in those days, Dunhill was peerless. Whenever I was in New York City, I would make it a point to stop at the Dunhill store at Rockefeller Center and pick up a few tins of the exclusive tobaccos blended there. There wasn't one blend that I didn't like although I did have my favorites.
Well, those days are long gone. Even the store is long gone.
The quality of the Dunhill blends have deminished over the years. Just a few years ago, one could pick up a decent tin but now their (they're really not Dunhill's) tobaccos bear only the slightest resemblance to what once was. The resemblance is superficial at best. The current blend does not live up to the standards found in today's finer tobaccos.
Do yourself a favor and skip this one, unless of course, you can find and afford a vintage tin.
Well, those days are long gone. Even the store is long gone.
The quality of the Dunhill blends have deminished over the years. Just a few years ago, one could pick up a decent tin but now their (they're really not Dunhill's) tobaccos bear only the slightest resemblance to what once was. The resemblance is superficial at best. The current blend does not live up to the standards found in today's finer tobaccos.
Do yourself a favor and skip this one, unless of course, you can find and afford a vintage tin.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Jul 29, 2007 | Mild to Medium | Medium | Medium | Tolerable |
Having started pipe smoking while in college some 35-years ago, I have had the opportunity to try many different blends. Early on I found the Dunhill English blends to my liking...everything from Baby's bottom to Night Cap. But knowing that these tobaccos are not blended as they once were, I was reluctant to try a couple of ounces of Baby's Botton in order to rekindle an old friendship, but I did.
My blend reviews are generally generous in acceptance and not overly critical. After two bowls in two of my best tobacco burners, this Baby's Bottom left me feeling like I had just licked the gates of hell. This Baby needs a diaper change!
My hope is that this was just a bad batch...I hope. I scattered it as expensive mulch for my lawn, so as not to again be tempted.
My blend reviews are generally generous in acceptance and not overly critical. After two bowls in two of my best tobacco burners, this Baby's Bottom left me feeling like I had just licked the gates of hell. This Baby needs a diaper change!
My hope is that this was just a bad batch...I hope. I scattered it as expensive mulch for my lawn, so as not to again be tempted.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Feb 24, 2018 | Extremely Mild | None Detected | Extremely Mild (Flat) | Unnoticeable |
Why did I buy this stuff again? I really don’t know, I guess I just wanted to get a taste of some of their lesser known blends before they’re gone. Now I understand why this is one of their lesser known blends, it really doesn’t have much of any flavor to speak of, zero complexities and the nicotine content is low. I’m sure the Murrays version was decent but this STG version is just bland and I mean that in a bad way. I’ll try to cut it with more Lat with the hopes of I can finish the rest of this tin without boring me to death.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Apr 20, 2016 | Mild to Medium | Mild | Extremely Mild (Flat) | Tolerable to Strong |
The smell in the tin was interesting, the moisture was perfect to pack and smoke. I never had the original.
What a disappointment! The Virginias are bland and give an aftertaste of cigarettes that is somehow smoothed by a sweet topping, is it vanilla? Is this the smoothness everybody's talking about? The Latakia is ashy and ends up bitter towards the bottom of the bowl. My mouth feels as if I ate the contents of an ashtray! The more I smoke it, the more I ask myself why? The only thing going on for this mixture is the mild topping that tries to mask the terminal shortcomings of this ''tobacco''.
Virginia lover
What a disappointment! The Virginias are bland and give an aftertaste of cigarettes that is somehow smoothed by a sweet topping, is it vanilla? Is this the smoothness everybody's talking about? The Latakia is ashy and ends up bitter towards the bottom of the bowl. My mouth feels as if I ate the contents of an ashtray! The more I smoke it, the more I ask myself why? The only thing going on for this mixture is the mild topping that tries to mask the terminal shortcomings of this ''tobacco''.
Virginia lover
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Jun 03, 2016 | Medium | None Detected | Medium | Pleasant to Tolerable |
More meh-whatever-next from Orlik, I ought to have known.
This reminds too much of Drum cigarettes, many of the Orlik blends Dunhill and their others have a certain bad-cigarette profile/aftertaste which I do not care for; cheap-junk used as a blending base . . . not recommended, not my cup of tea.
Russ Ouellette's match is considerably better by a long-shot, he also reverse blended one of the older tins from days of yore when the Dunhill pipe tobacco name was truly top-shelf.
This incarnation is unacceptable and typically Orlik, one and done for me ideally none and done. I've lost count how many blends and brands they've besmirched; blacklisted in my books. There are far better tins available the new John Cotton's series comes immediately to mind.
This reminds too much of Drum cigarettes, many of the Orlik blends Dunhill and their others have a certain bad-cigarette profile/aftertaste which I do not care for; cheap-junk used as a blending base . . . not recommended, not my cup of tea.
Russ Ouellette's match is considerably better by a long-shot, he also reverse blended one of the older tins from days of yore when the Dunhill pipe tobacco name was truly top-shelf.
This incarnation is unacceptable and typically Orlik, one and done for me ideally none and done. I've lost count how many blends and brands they've besmirched; blacklisted in my books. There are far better tins available the new John Cotton's series comes immediately to mind.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Oct 19, 2015 | Mild | None Detected | Medium | Tolerable |
Summary: A mixture of Virginia and Latakia with a possible vanilla topping, but too much jagged Latakia contrast to be a mild blend.
Blenders like mild blends as a means of achieving the holy trinity of tobacco popularity: easy burning, cool smoking and a pleasant room note. That allows people to smoke these blends all day. "My Mixture BB1938" creates a light English from mixed Virginias and Latakia, but the Latakia dominates everything else in the blend, creating a jagged flavor sensation that overwhelms any topping and makes this blend the opposite of mild. Otherwise, it is traditional Dunhill quality: easy burning, good natural flavor and a highly subtle marriage of flavors.
Blenders like mild blends as a means of achieving the holy trinity of tobacco popularity: easy burning, cool smoking and a pleasant room note. That allows people to smoke these blends all day. "My Mixture BB1938" creates a light English from mixed Virginias and Latakia, but the Latakia dominates everything else in the blend, creating a jagged flavor sensation that overwhelms any topping and makes this blend the opposite of mild. Otherwise, it is traditional Dunhill quality: easy burning, good natural flavor and a highly subtle marriage of flavors.
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