Sutliff SPS-27 Pistachio Pipe Tobacco

Highly recommend if you’re into aromatics. Nice autumn smoke.

I wasn't sure what a tobacco blend aiming to taste like pistachio would actually taste like. The answer, not much of anything. I did find it worked well to mix with heavier flavored tobaccos to mellow them out though.

Tin note is a burley with sweet vanilla, both are not strong. Leaves are moist nicely and easy to light. The first aroma is typical light burley with sweetness. But the first flavor is unique, sweetness and taste of a kind of fatty oil; those two flavors are obviously separated. The fatty oil taste is similar to old face powder - a kind of middleweight vegetable oil. The oily taste is not good but a dominant character of the first smoking stage of this tobacco and this taste divides like or not like; an older person may feel coquettish. Then, the flavor notably changes by breath and diameter of the bowl. Stronger breath brings a typical burley taste but no tongue bite. From the middle stage, the face powder like taste is gone and natty taste appears and the natty taste change the character of both aroma and flavor dramatically. Both become rich and tasteful and bring the best satisfaction of smoking. But not burley taste dominant, the taste is just a good leaves mixture. In this stage, burning is fast so keeping slow burning is important, but no much juice. the smell of shank inside is not strong; weak burley and weak Virginia. The final dominated by strong natty taste but nice. The natty taste becomes stronger to the end. I enjoyed a very nice nutty taste with a nice tobacco flavor. This dynamic change of the character of this tobacco is very attractive. I think the character of this tobacco is strong, so it is better to mix with other tobaccos.　I tried a mixture, it brought nonmonotonous smoking - just wonderful.