Dunhill Light Flake

Aroma was great in Tin, flavor was hay-like. Unfortunately, this one gave not only tongue bite, but mouth bite, very odd burning sensation in my whole mouth. Not able to smoke this.

Dunhill Light Flake was my first attempt at Virginia tobacco. The packaging was first class & the tin aroma was a nice dried fruit smell. I tried this tobacco lightly rubbed out, fully rubbed & in a "MacBaren" roll but it never really did much for me. I won?t pretend to have liked the experience of smoking this tobacco; it was not good & I was disappointed to have spent the money it cost to try it. In spite of what some reviewers seem to believe an old established name or high price doesn?t guarantee a good smoke. The taste & aroma were the same to me as the cigarettes smoked by my Canadian relatives. That is to say harsh & tarry. I never did attain the sweet or citrus flavors noted by other reviewers, only the flavor of tar & later in the pipe an ashy-ness. The aroma was so bad my wife complained of the odor even though I was smoking out in the yard w/ the house closed up. I have to give credit to Dunhill that Light Flake was not bitey & didn?t leave sticky glop in the pipes I tried it in. Other than that there was nothing going on for this tobacco. MacBaren?s HH Mature Virginia is a much better experience in Virginia tobacco. Has Light Flake been discontinued? I never would have noticed & won?t miss it a bit.

For me, DLF proved to be a very mild, one-dimensional VA flake that is short on taste and, consequently, failed to satisfy me. It has a subdued citrus flavor as well as an underlying and subtle soapy/floral taste, the latter of which I did not care for. I just like a tobacco with a little more ?punch? and taste than DLF offered. On the positive side, it did not bark, growl or bite and it has good burning qualities. Regarding all Dunhill blends, there are some pipesters who feel that Dunhill blends just ain?t what they used to be.

A cigarette is to be smoked. A cigar is to be enjoyed. A pipe is to be savored.

I rate this tobacco 4.8 out of 10.

to me this is a poor blend no character at all.other blends out there beat this.

Noorrmm's review below expresses my sentiments perfectly.

Standard grassy smelling virgina that bites like hell. That about sums it up.

When you open the pack you might go thinking YES!I found it!a great tobacco with lemon flavour...but when you smoke the 1st pot you get disapointed!although it has a stong flavour of lemon,there's no taste of lemon whn you smoke it nor there will be some lemon fragrant in the air!so i don't recommend this to any aromatic smoker like myself,it's waste of money to buy it & waste of time to clean your piep to get rid of the smell!

I hate to disagree with the foregoing reviewers, especially the esteemed Eulenberg, but in my estimation Light Flake is a fatally flawed tobacco. Why? That damned soapy taste, which persists through at least the second relight. Like Peterson's Sherlock Holmes, DLF is a beautifully made, beautifully cut flake ruined by that weird lathering of sudsy taste that British tobaccos sometimes have. (Whose idea was this, anyway?) DLF smokes beautifully, too. A crime! Sigh... back to Marlin Flake, which I can count on to taste like tobacco, not Ivory.