Peterson Nightcap

This is a high quality tobacco, but I will have to give my tin away. I like to try new blends, as a departure from cross-over blends hoping to find a full bodied taste experience with tolerable nicotine content.

Nightcap practically took my head off. Not being used to strong, nicotine laden blends I was cautious. After finishing a bowl, I was dizzy and somewhat nauseated. It is probably my fault, as I tend to smoke steadily and hard (coming from cigars).

Alot of my pipe buddies enjoy this blend, but they are long time smokers who appreciate the nicotice kick.

I guess this is just part of the game of trying different blends.

When I want cocaine I will consume cocaine. When I want tobacco, I'll smoke something that doesn't feel like a rocket up my arse.

As a beginning pipe smoker I bought this "famous" tobacco, and at first puff I liked the taste. Nice. Then the nicotine kicked in. Woo-eee! Somebody stop the ride, mate, I wanna get off!

How anyone can call this a "nightcap" is beyond me. Calling this Nightcap would be like selling a quadruple espresso coffee and calling it a mild, relaxing, before-bed drink. Perhaps "Blackjack" or "Brass Knuckles" would be more appropriate.

If they made this in a "Nightcap-lite", I would definitely smoke it. It's got a great flavor. As it is I'm mixing it with vanilla and berry flavored aromatics to get rid of it, a sad waste of some quality aromatics.

Zero stars for the excessive nicotine content.

I think that you are much better off with Early Morning as compared to this blend. Flat with bitter taste. However a really cool tin art. On tin art alone I would give it five stars. On tobacco merit one star.

I'm with the other "odd ball" reviewers, this one just doesn't do it for me. Maybe I'm only man enough to take American imitations of English tobacco blends, but a nauseous light-headed nicotine high halfway through the bowl isn't my idea of a good smoke!

The pouch aroma is strong but nice, the flavor is strong with an awful aftertaste. Sufficient in Latakia for my taste. It burns well and has a pleasent "room note" outside. Minus the hangover and aftertaste, this would otherwise rate higher. There are numerous other blends with which I would rather cap my night.

Dunhill's (Orlick) Nightcap is a bit like this review will be--unimpressive. This tobacco is completely without flavour. All Nightcap has is a high level of nicotine. In fact, it is so potent that I understand the name 'Nightcap' as it made me dizzy to the point of causing illness and forced me to bed to recover. I would have done better, getting it over with without pipe distress, to have simply pumped some nicotine into my system with a needle. 'Nightcap' is bloody ghastly stuff and I have nothing left to say on the matter except the following: good night.

When I first started smoking pipes, my local carried an aromatic named Nightcap. I tried it and found it to be okay, but I was not really into aromatics. They also carried this stuff, and I stayed away from it because I associated it with the aromatic crap.

Then I saw how well it was liked here, so I got two tins to try. I wish that I had stayed away.

Smells good in the tin (which is quite handsome) with a nice dose of latakia and a pleasant twist of perique.

Packed some in a Kirsten that I have dedicated to English blends. Smoked okay, but was nothing special. Then it developed a nasty kind of pepperiness from the perique. It was just never my thing.

Let the tin dry out and still try it from time to time. Last week I tried some in a quarter bent CAO calabash and it was not as bad as before, but rather had developed into a completely undistinguished English blend.

Preparation & Burn: 7/10 Good cut, needs a tiny bit of drying.

Taste: 7/20 I love stout Englishes but this is incredibly lousy. A muddy taste of nothing. Tastes like a dirty pipe.

Mildness: 7/10 My idea of a good smoke is a relaxing, low nicotine session. Therefore, the milder the better. Not much nicotine here.

Total: 21/40

Yes another disappointing tobacco Same as Elizabethan mixture. Don’t trust the reviews saying only good things. I should have stuck to what I like and not experimented. It’s to expensive to try something new. I smoked the whole tin but would not buy again.

Interesting to note that the 'good' reviews are all quite old. This is Sept. 2018. Well I tried the 'jarring for a month' as suggested below, and it still tastes very poor indeed. Sorry and all that, but the only thing I'm getting from this tobacco, after an initial burst of dry spice, is a very unpleasant dark, dull and dry coating in my mouth. Either this tin has somehow 'gone off' (though there is nothing to suggest that otherwise) or it's a case of the Emporer's new clothes. Flat, dull and generally unpleasant, with no strength or satisfaction in it anywhere.