Thomas Radford Sunday's Fantasy

If you plan to buy this thing, (I won't even name it tobacco), please consider chinese made pout pourri. It costs less, burns better and the house is more scented. Pheeewww!! What the hell was this?? Due to the lockdown, it was the only "tobacco" available in my surroundings, so, I said to myself... maybe it is like Clan.... WHAT???? Clan is Ennerdale compared to this shit! Dry as a bone, "leaves" of different shapes and cuts, color ranging from deep black to yellow diharrea, with some red spots (????). Pouch aroma was so strong you could smell it some feet away, it recalled large amounts of talkum powder sprinkled over peaches and other fruits. Approaching the flame it immediately took fire as dry twigs, the mouth aroma was awful... talkum, some old lady's cologne and ...fruits? I don't know, I only know I had some nausea after a few puffs, and had to throw away the rest of it

Oh, this is another step in time, to one of the first tobaccos I’ve smoked!

Tin note: Strong, boy! Strong! Leave this tin open and you’ll have your room scented for 3 days. Strong vanilla taste, some flower notes, just a little dry fruit and plums and just a little citrus. Very strong and sweet, almost to the extend of a woman’s perfume.

Cut: Coarse cut, large pieces of tobacco, but “mixture cut” would apply to this better. Equal amount of black and gold leaf. Very easy to pack.

Burn: Lights up perfectly. Burns excellent, doesn’t go off, doesn’t deliver hot smoke, doesn’t get the pipe hot, yet it might bite if not smoked carefully or if it’s too dry.

Taste/Aroma/Flavor: The first smokes deliver some dried fruit and plum notes, with some shy vanilla notes and it’s also a bit citrusy (lemons I detect). As you smoke, it gets lighter and smoother, delivering mostly vanilla and plum notes, but also a soapy taste. Has a cool smoke as well, won’t bite if smoked properly. The virginia can also be detected, even though it is dominated by the black cavendish. However, the soapy taste gets way too pronounced as you continue, and if you smoke from a P-lip the roof of your mouth will feel like you accidentally got some soap in it and will feel like it’s getting a thick layer on it. Retrohaling doesn’t give much. Use a fishtail stem for this one.

Conclusion: The tin smell and room note are good if you want to perfume your home or impress ladies. The burn is excellent. But the taste... maybe if it didn’t have that heavy soapy taste it would be better tolerated, but this is just too much, feels too chemical. I wouldn’t recommend it, unfortunately.

The tobacco itself smells very "peachy," especially just after opening the tin, but as I'm smoking it, I'm not finding a lot of that pleasant sweet peach aroma. In fact, the smoke tastes harsh and bitter - not pleasant at all. Also not used to the wild cut, maybe I'm not doing it properly but I find wild cuts to be more difficult to burn. Tried this for two smokes and decided to give up.

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.

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.

With a rude cut, and a nice rectangular tin, this tobacco is a disappointment. When you open the package its tin flavoring is very pleasant but not when you fire it in your pipe: I like very much aromatic tobacco but it's difficult to mantain alight this (it is too much wet for me) and the flavoring is a plum-cake kind even for me who I like this kind of tobacco! Then some minute that flavoring disappear to leave only smoke.

Bad quality tobaccos which are hidden behind double fermentation processing and a lot, a lot of artificial flavours. One of the worst and most offending Black Cavendishes, I've ever tried. I can't recommend it to nobody except the people, who would like to have his favourite pipe spoiled by this mixture. Sad, but true.

If you are a beginner and a fan of aromatics, this may be a nice experience for you. It smokes somehow hot so be patient and smoke it slow.

Not my taste. It is very sweet. I don't think I will purchase another tin of this stuff.