Started smoking a pipe in 1995. My reviews are not sponsored by any blender, for monetary or other gains. So I'll give you the straight skinny. I'm going to try not to fall into the reviewer hole of using silly "reviewer" descriptions that make the tobaccos sound like a fruit salad, a forest or anything other than tobacco. Even so, reliance on my or anyone else's reviews is ill-advised. The best way to find out if a tobacco is for you is to try it yourself.