Mac Baren Vanilla Cream Loose Cut

This is a great aromatic. The vanilla flavoring is apparent, but not over powering. Burns well and is not goopy at all. Needs just about 10-20 min of dry time and then is ready to go. Can bite a bit, but hey it is Mac Baren. If you like OTC/Bulk goop piles, or steamy stuff like 1Q, this will be a different experience for you. This still has a tobacco flavor and the vanilla casing is their to add to the tobacco flavor, not over shadow it.

Very tasty mix of teenie tiny flakes and black and yellow ribbons. High class presentation and a wonderful vanilla bean aroma. It will bite if provoked so it must be smoked slower. Throw a little burley in to cool things down and i'm in a dream. This would be a fav if it had a little more Vanilla flavor. I desire full on Aromatics. Good stuff though, i'll keep a tin around.

This is a quality aromatic. The taste is like a good brandy based vanilla. Very rich and somewhat monochromatic like most aromatics. But with something a little better than most. A good tobacco for mixed company.

Very enjoyable vanilla blend that doesn't forget what's this all about: good tobacco. Burns hot so needs a bit of discipline, but quite frankly I learned how to smoke a pipe with this tobacco because the taste was so good it gave me the motivation to really get into this hobby. Only issue: it can get boring after a while and it prompted me to try other blends. Always nice to come back to it though.

Might sound weird to some hardcore pipe smokers out there, but to me this tobacco shines with a filter. The vanilla flavour comes out a bit too harshly without one. I personally tried it with and without a 9mm balsa filter and enjoyed it much more with it.

Great tobacco to smoke in social settings since the room note is amazing. My house didn't even smell like smoke but more like baked vanilla cookies. Great, great, great.

I am not a fan of aromatics, but I liked this one. A little bit bitey though, but a fine tobacco for a good start for the day. Natural lovers would not enjoy it I guess, nevertheless it worths trying.

They aren't kidding when they say Vanilla Cream. The Vanilla taste in this tobacco is certainly the strongest I have tried. It is also very, very good, applied over quality tobacco which is only just barely in the background due to the very strong casing.

A wonderful aroma in the tin as well as in the room. Packs easily and burns to a fine white ash.

This won't be a regular smoke for me because the Vanilla is too much out in front, but I'll give it three stars simply because it is nothing but quality.

Lovers of Vanilla Cavendish owe it to themselves to give this tobacco a try.

First off, If you don't like vanilla aromatics stay away 😉 If you do, you'll find this a very satisfying smoke. This is miles beyond your average drug store vanilla.

In the tin: heavenly smell, mostly vanilla but also some genuine sweet virginia.

In the pipe: This packs and lights easily yielding dense clouds of blue smoke. The flavor is predominantly vanilla but there is some plain tobacco flavor in the smooth, round mouthfuls of smoke. I find it burns a bit hot and thus advise slow smoking.

This is not a profound tobacco, but when you feel like having yourself a vanilla aromatic this has to be high on your list of choices.

Vanilla Cream was a staple in my aromatic rotation for years. I hadn't smoked any for some time, so I purchased a pouch and dug out a Stanwell I had dedicated to this tabac. It's easy to see why so many(smokers and non)enjoy this blend. It is mild, low maintenance and smells like a candle party. It even tastes somewhat like tobacco, but that casing is more determined than a russian olympian...a good party smoke when no-one around you would care for EMP.

I generally stay away from tobacco with vanilla flavoring , but I kept seeing this one at a tobacconist shop I frequent and it just stuck in my mind so I went on the site to see what some of my trusted reviewers had to say about it. Well, there’s a guy that’s tested almost 3 thousand tobaccos on this site and he and I usually agree. So thanks Jimlnks for helping me make some purchases that I wouldn’t usually make. If he says it’s a 4 , then it probably is. He gave this one a 3 and I agree and it’s not like I smoke this kind of stuff that often, but this tobacco is a high quality Virginia with enough vanilla to make it interesting. I saw a few reviews that complain that this and other MacBaren blends are automatic scorchers and I don’t get it . I couldn’t get this stuff hot if I wanted to. If you’re a normal smoker, then this one doesn’t bite at all. Burns well and adds no moisture to the bowl. If they made this in a flake , I’d probably give it a 4 . Read the reviewers that have smoked hundreds or thousands of tobacco and leaves the hyperbole at just what it is………Because of it’s low nicotine hit and mild flavor, you can smoke it first thing in the AM and all day without any tongue bit of palate fatigue.