Peter Stokkebye French Vanilla (No.9-F)

I purchased this blend because I'm trying to find a good vanilla tobacco blend that isn't all gooped up with PG and will actually dry out enough to enjoy. This so far has not dissapointed. It drys out very well if set out for a bit before your smoke. I dry mine out usually about an hour beforehand. I would rank this up there with the CAO/Dan Tobacco Treasures of Ireland - Galway but this Stokkebye blend is a lot cheaper in price. I love both but will keep this blend around as my everyday smoke.

It has a pleasant vanilla room note. However, my tobacco does not have an overly-vanilla taste. I can still taste the flavor of tobacco in there. I recommend this blend.

Perhaps the folks at Stokkebye have 'tweaked' this blend since the last review of the product (8/06, below). Although on the moist side, air drying helped immeasurably and, I think, brought out the vanilla flavor/sweetness and eliminated any goop build up in my pipe. It burns fairly cool; well, take your time and you will suffer no tongue bite. If you enjoy a hearty vanilla-cased aromatic, this is a good one.

Being an empiricist, I had to try this for myself, and while I didn't find it as awful as many others here, I would say there are many much better vanillas out there.

If you're smoking this or are looking for a strong vanilla, I'd suggest you try Stokkebye Vanilla Gold or Nat Sherman 314, both of which have much better strong vanilla flavor than this one.

I bought this to please my wife. (So that I could actually smoke a pipe in the house.) And I regretted it.

It smells so good in the bag, and the room note is really really nice, but it has a taste to it that is sort of overbearing, and extremely synthetic. I like "soapy" lakeland blends, but not with this kind of vanilla taste. I really burned my tongue seriously bad on this blend, and in an unexplainable fit of massochistic lust, I put a listerine strip on my tongue just minutes afterward.

My wife loved the way it made the house smell, and while I love her so much, there's no way I'm smoking that blend again. It's not as bad as some I've had. This tobacco at least HAD a flavor that had a few tiny pieces of redeeming qualities. It's mostly the tongue bite that makes this a "not my cup of tea" blend.

Again, I'll say this to all who love it: God bless. I do not like this tobacco at all.

Daniel

I picked up a few ounces of this by accident, looking for Sweet Vanilla. I am a big aromatics fan and especially fond of good vanilla blends.

Nice taste of plastic, artifical vanilla flavor and little plastic souvenier Eiffel Towers or something like that. Did I mention the plastic taste? I think if you steeped shredded milk jugs in cheap artificial vanilla, you might come close to this.

Considering PS is a generally decent line of inexpensive bulk tobacco, this was extremely disappointing.

Is that a dead Frenchman or a rotten vanilla bean which crawled into my bowl? Tastes like soap or formaldehyde. Somewhere between tasteless and yuck.

October-2003. Just like trying to smoke an extra strong Vanilla Thick Shake.And very difficult to keep lit.No applause here!

There was not a selection for Taste of YUCK, this to me tasted like soap more than it did Vanilla.

Take one frog, fill with vanilla bean, soak thoroughly, and add a nasty set of piranha-like teeth. Voila, French Vanilla!