Lane Limited BCA

First I find this blend smokes best in a Meerschaum pipe. It smells fairly nice just won't jump out with aroma. I smell mostly chocolate. Lights a little rough as there seems to be a bit of moisture there. Room note is nice with chocolate and coffee smells. Taste is fairly subdued with swirls of chocolate, vanilla, and coffee from time to time. Burns really pretty cool for a aromatic. This is what I call a pleasing blend. It will not knock you down with flavor but it is certainly a pleasant smoke at any time of the day.

Note to viewers: this review mainly so I can keep track of the tobacco I like.

For an aromatic I really like this one for its simple smooth vanilla flavor. not as smooth as chocolate cream, but simple, nice room note. would get again.

I'm more of a premium natural and light aromatic smoker but I finally got around to trying this and it definitely has merit for an inexpensive black cavendish. It has the typical moist character of Green River black cavendish and from what I read it's supposed to be dark fired cured leaf. Well, it's so processed I can't detect much in smokiness but there is a slite extra character in it's overall flavor/aroma profile that may be accounted for from the fire curing. Sutliff's B20 Black Cavendish has a more noticeable smoky note by comparison. It's flavor is typical for this sort of tobacco, slight marshmallow sweetness but it's aroma is rather unique and outstanding. One of the aspects I like about this tobacco is it doesn't have a prominate note of vanilla which I hate in tobacco and if it's in there it's so far in the background as not to annoy me. The aroma is sweet with prominent fruit and a lesser caramel note. The caramel note sans vanilla is what I think I enjoy most of all. I'm a bit baffled as to what the fruit may be. I can't quite nail it down. I though at first some kind of cherry but no. I keep coming back to blueberry. Blueberry, caramel dark fired cavendish? Well, whatever it is, this one works as attested by time and popularity. I likely will buy it again.

While shopping for a new pipe (ended up getting a used estate Tilshead while there) I packed a bowl of this dark stuff and it sure made shopping fun!

I'm always on the lookout for a better vanilla and this one fell someplace in the middle. It uses the approach many others seem to use by employing mostly black cavendish, giving you that sweet brown sugar aroma which I like.

The odor and smoke had a nice balance, nothing too overpowering, and the light vanilla sugar was always present to the very end.

For the cost, it is a great vanilla buy, but nothing I would stock up on and want to smoke on a consistent basis.

My first taste was of sweet vanilla in a very smooth smoke. I smoked it in a small-medium BBB Dublin. The tobacco was moist to the touch coming out of bulk and I smoked it that way with no air time, but I do recommend some air time for BCA. The smoke is light to medium in richness and is low in nicotine. It was purchased with the intent to blend it with other stronger tobaccos, but it is a very good aromatic by itself. Not much complexity here, just smooth vanilla aromatic smoke. It smokes cool with no bite. And, in spite of my not giving it any air time, it smokes dry.

This is a cool, fairly dry, pleasant aromatic. If you are in the mood for a sweet dessert of a smoke, give this one a try. It is simple and consistent. The vanilla flavor is strong enough but not ridiculous like with some. It stays fairly consistent from top to bottom of the bowl. The flavor and room note are both sweet vanilla and pleasing. I have to be in the right mood for this. But, when I am in the mood for a sweet one, this is my go-to.

Dark, black and sweet. The flavor isn't too strong, but you can tell it's there. If you're smoking around someone, they'll appreciate the room note. I've heard it's sold often under other names by brick and mortar stores, but I picked mine up online. It has a sweet smell, maybe a hint of raisin?

As far as smoking, it's damp to wet and will likely need some relights. You'll expect that once you smell it. Overall I'd say it smokes well. Retrohaling is smooth and pleasant.

Overall, it's cheap, tastes good, and smells good; hard to ask for much more from a tobacco. I'll throw it in a travel pouch if I'm going away for the weekend. It's a good smoke, and if it dries out I'm not out much.

This is a very pleasant tobacco. I receive compliments about the aroma regularly. Light enough to smoke all day, first aromatic I tried and I continue to return to it.

I easily smoked a pound of this leaf in the first years I took up the pipe. Cool burning, with notes of coffee and vanilla. This blend is a crowd-pleaser, but don't expect any real tobacco flavor. As far as sweet black cavendish tobacco goes, this is the best.

That being said, once you venture out into other blends, it's hard to come back to BCA. The flavor is very one-dimensional.