Thomas Radford Sunday's Fantasy

This blend should really taste and smoke a lot better than it actually does. And now, after cellaring it for months I remember why it was there in the first place.

It's pouch/tin aroma is incredible, and it has the look of one of those really expensive Danish blends, with large yellow-brown flakes mixed in with dark cavendish. Looks really appetising.

I dug this out of the back of my pipe cupboard, like I've done many times before and it was in the same state as it went in. Wet, that is. Very wet. I recalled that drying it out made no difference, in fact it made it worse.

Hundreds of relights later and the pouch aroma has come and gone. Left behind it a damp tobacco that you have to push really hard to keep it going. Yes, people here have said this could bite and it certainly has the potential to do so. I ended up with (ironically) a very dry mouth and a strange flowery aftertaste.

It's going back in the cupboard until the next time I feel like draining my supply of butane.

A close friend who wanted to start smoking a pipe got a bad advice from the tobacconist, and he went to my house with a pouch of this tobacco. I don't pretend to be an expert, I just started one year ago, but this tobacco is, IMHO, one of the worst pipe tobacco on the scene. The positive notes: the pouch aroma. That's it. The bad ones: strange cut, which doesn't make packing your pipe easy at all. The smoke itself: like smoking warm air. Nothing of the pouch aroma is present while smoking. A terrible product, which I would not recommend to anyone.

I've tasted this this one some years ago, when I first got into pipe smoking. I remember trying different tobaccos then, varying from aromatics to non-flavored blends. Recently I've returned to smoking pipes and I have to admit this "Thomas Radford - Sunday's Fantasy" was one of the few I recalled. So I had to try it again and to my surprise it was as much as I remember: Great fruity like taste (a bit to sweet maybe), enough strength, burns well and no tongue bite, if dried a bit. So far it's my favorite aromatic aside for my Latakia cravings. An excellent beginner aromatic (though I suspect some chemical add-ons), something that can be smoked after a good meal. Also cheaper than many other brands. No doubt there are many great aromatic out there just waiting to be tried, but this "Sunday's Fantasy" will surely be on my menu sometimes.

This tobacco is quite attractive to the eye, the wild cut of brown shades & black makes it very appealing to me.

he pouch-note is very strong, the fruit/citrus notes do come through. There is a brandy/sherry like sweetness to it, which makes me think it may have been stoved in barrels or perhaps had alcohol added at some point in its production.

The tobacco loads easily & takes the light well. It is worth bearing in mind that I received mine as a sample from a friend, so I cannot comment on how it burns straight from the tin, although mine was in no way dried out, so I think it was quite fresh. Required few relights.

The room note is fairly pleasant, fruity and mildly spiced.

The taste is okay, and what I expected it to be from the pouch note, fruity & rich, and also quite overpowering. The tobacco doesn't particularly shine, but I don't know if this is just due to too much topping, or the topping combining with weak flavourless tobaccos. Given the strength of the added topping, though, I suspect the former. Towards the end of the bowl, when the topping has largely burned off, the tobacco can be tasted, but it's really too little, too late for me.

No tongue bite was received from this tobacco. Thus ends my short foray into the word of aromatics, I'm going to be sticking mostly to English blends & Virginias from now on, I think. I may sample some other aromatics at some point in the future, but was not particularly excited by any of them (apart from Clementines Nip from GQ - an outstanding smoke). I'll give this two stars, wasn't terrible, but not something that made the Earth move, not by a long shot.

I'm not normally a fan of aromatics but this one I really do like, it's lovely. If this tobacco had more strengh it would be on my permanent list.

The flavours are lovely as is the tobacco.

This is a totally different aromatic to the usual gloopy, soggy mess that some are famed for.

In a nutshell it's delicious and just a tad short of Lady N if she were in the package it would be heaven 🙂

In all seriousness it's a really nice tobacco and well worth a try, for everyone who enjoys a pipe.

Wonderful scent followed by naught worth mentioning. A pretty 'baccy, a real eyecatcher. Disappointing tho' bland and bitey. Lacks 'culture' I feel. Maybe a little less roughly hacked would help. Not one of my rotation.

When you open the tin you’re invaded by an astonishing flavor of chocolate and fruit but, when you smoke it, the flavor is less pungent. It gives its top flavor in corn cob pipe, it’s a good beginner tobacco but there are better tobaccos around.

That tobacco made me be a little bit skeptical about cavendish. There's no doubt, it is an excellent choice for aromatic lovers: smells and tastes really nice, no tongue bite at all, mild and soft (too mild for me though), one may sense all its flavor and goodness. The Virginia leaves inside provide all the necessary sweetness and taste for a well balanced and of great quality aromatic pipe tobacco. But it just doesn't fit my own tobacco standards, or it's just that I can't cope with too much cavendish in my pipe. Definately recommended to those who like that stuff.

A nice and easy smoke. Aroma/incense with a very mild taste. Ashy at some point. Reminds of England.