Drew Estate Central Park Stroll

A solid aromatic. Its not overwhelmingly sweet, and smokes ok right out of the tin, although i do like to give it a little drying time, maybe 10-20 minutes in low humidity. i'd give it 2.5 stars

Ive taken to mixing it 50/50 with carter hall most of the time

Got up this morning and opened my free tin from JR's. Tin has a very very very strong smell. It is wet and oily to the touch. I spread it out and let it dry for two hours. Seems to be be just a as bad. I want to try it anyway. I fill half a pipe and light it. It chars after three attempts. Tamp down and relight. You can smell the coco and get a strong chemical taste in it. It reminds me of the very cheap drug store blends Walgreens sold for years in the tube. Produces a very heavy smoke. Taste starts to drop off and by the end of the bowl it tastes like crap. Note the tin date is Aug 2015. I will jar it and try again later. I would not recommend at this point.

Good morning for the last day of 2017. I rummaged this morning in to my jars of please never smoke again and found Drews-CPS. I opened the jar and it holds a very mild smell. The oil is gone and so is its bounce. I pack it, light it and smoke it for an hour in a GBH. It still smoked heavy but tasted like half and half. Still was not that great of a mix. Resealed and will try one more time.

I've never been to Central Park, so that association is lost on me. But I have stood outside of a bakery before, and it never smelled like this. Like nearly all the aromatics I've tried, I don't try to detect the advertised scents in the taste and flavoring so much as the room note. I suppose there is a "sweet" or "syrupy" character to the smoke, but chocolate, vanilla and caramel? No, not really. The good things about this blend are its quality leaf and burning characteristics. Like all aromatics, it can bite the tongue a bit, but thankfully, it's not a chemical bite, merely a heat bite, so puff slowly. It's really not bad, but I will continue to look for an aromatic that has more flavor and is truer to its advertised "notes" or "hints" of flavor.

After a few smokes which I liked but didn't love, I jarred this and it sat for a year in my cabinet. Took it out yesterday and had a couple of bowls and then another this morning. A year of age hasn't helped. It's just as I remembered it. Has a boozy, bready smell in the jar. Neither translate very well into the smoke. Only very mildly. The main nuances of flavor are chocolate and cream. It's a nice flavor until toward the end when it gets a little bitter. It's a little goopy in the bottom with wet dottle. My biggest complaint is the moisture level. Very wet and doesn't want to dry. Needs numerous re-lights. Although I like the flavor, the other issues bring this down to 2 stars.

Mild in body. Mild to medium in flavor.

My second aromatic to try. Out of the tin this smells like fresh baked bread. I would say that it is overly moist and it leaves brownish stain on your fingers. I have to dry it out for a full day to have an almost perfect moisture.

First light was okay. Immediately you can smell the vanilla wafting out. Due to its rather high moisture content it takes a few relights. Mid-bowl the chocolatey aroma creeps in and out. A hint of vanilla every now and then.

It pains me to say that CPS leave a gloop at the bottom of the bowl and there is a sticky mess at the base. I will try it out in a couple of weeks to update this blend.