Peter Stokkebye French Vanilla (No.9-F)

Frankly, I was not going to own up to the fact that I tried a bowl of this. I knew better.

What Lustra said, and then some.

If you use your pipe as an air freshener this might work for you. If you are like me and think tobacco should taste good to the smoker then you will most likely hate this as did I.

Not anything positive to say for this blend other than it is cheap. I will leave it at that.

It's hard not to pick up an ounce of a new-to-me Stokkebye product each time I order online, and why not, there have been some misses, yet they do make some real winners to (try the Sambuca).

The open pouch had an OK, light sweet smell, that could pass for Vanilla (French or otherwise), but nothing terribly enticing. The "ready rub" cut was actually a soft, bouncy pile of ribbons that were slightly damp and needed some dry time, but without any 'sticky to the touch' topping thankfully. Once lit, it let out a semi acrid cloud of smoke that I would categorize as uninspired sweet Cavendish stew... the kind of thing good Aromatics eat for breakfast.

On its own, it earns as easy 1 star, but as a mixer, there is a world where it could be a passable 2 star blend.

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.