New stuff has a more chocolaty sort of smell. Stumble across an older tin, say from 2004 or so. Then the aroma of dead mouse permeates that tin. I've had older tins that made you wonder just where that dead mouse went. Like he laid there and stewed for a few days after becoming deceased. "SIGH!" I miss the older stuff.

I just can't handle it straight, but mixed in low amounts with light aromatics or latakia blends, it adds a nice "punch" to the smoke, but allows me to smoke near nonsmokers who don't complain when most of what they smell is Trout Stream, or 1-Q.

Natch

Regarding Boxer's feelings about 1792...

roogles wrote:

This might be my favorite tobacco review ever!

This.

Puff Daddy wrote:

Hey Boxer, you need to go to tobaccoreviews.com and post that review

And this.



I pretty much have side cramps from laughing so much. I'm thinking about writing a short film screenplay with this as the theme. Considering I have yet to man-up enough and try 1792, I'm likely going to see if filming myself trying it and having this reaction might happen. That would be worth it.

First tried out 1792 about 10 yrs ago. Remember it being very odd, but also strangely beguiling. I finished the tin but didn't buy another. Figured it was one of those weeds that one had to smoke a bunch of in order to catch the taste.

10 years on, I got in another tin but haven't cracked it yet. I remember BH saying something like it needs multiple years of ageing to tone down the Tonquin, and then it's sublime.

So perhaps I'll get a tin every year and wait at least 5 years to open the first.....

Then again, maybe I should just open the tin and go from there. After all, my tastes have changed fairly radically in 10 yrs!





Cheers,

RR