Pipefan2009
Number of posts: 8
Age: 32
Location: Medford, MA
Tobacco: Sillem's Black, C&D Pirate Kake.
Pipe: Boswell Spiral Freehand
Registration date: 2009-12-10
 | | Subject: Sillem's Black Wed Dec 23, 2009 9:22 am | |
| I have started smoking Sillems' Black. This is an amazing Latakia airomatic. The question is, do I smoke it in an aromatic pipe, english pipe or it's own pipe? |
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jhuggett
BoB's Pioneer & Founding Father
Number of posts: 5235
Age: 41
Location: Olympia, WA
Tobacco: Davidoff Flake Medallions, Reiner Long Golden Flake
Pipe: Sara Eltang Christmas Pipes 11 and 18 of 30
Registration date: 2007-12-09
| | Subject: Re: Sillem's Black Wed Dec 23, 2009 10:45 am | |
| Welcome!
I've never smoke a tobacco like that but just from the description you might have to dedicate a pipe to that being it may ghost either side of the spectrum.
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"Freedom, Security, Convenience: Choose Two"
"For me, I will take freedom over security and I will take security over convenience." ~ Dan Geer
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kilted1
Great Scot!
Number of posts: 3514
Age: 52
Location: North Georgia, USA
Tobacco: GLP Haddo's Delight, SG 1792, Condor Original Long Cut
Pipe: Ardor, Viprati, L'anatra
Registration date: 2009-01-11
| | Subject: Re: Sillem's Black Wed Dec 23, 2009 10:47 am | |
| I really have no experience with tobaccos of this type, they just never appealed to me. I smoke some very heavily scented Lakeland tobaccos and have pipes dedicated to them. My best guess would be try some of it in a cheap corn cob and them some some of your other favorites and see if you get the desired results. Some aromatics will impart a ghost which will color everything else you smoke from that day forward, others are pretty neutral and perceptions are a funny thing. I'm blessed to smoke Condor from time to time through the generosity of an English friend. Many a smoker claim that once you've smoked Condor in a pipe, that if you don't like Condor you may as well send the pipe into orbit for all it's usefulness afterward. For me this isn't the case at all, 1792, Bracken Flake are sufficiently scented to mask or over power whatever ghosts Condor may leave behind.
Good Luck! |
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Justpipes
The Duke
Number of posts: 7935
Age: 54
Location: Randolph County, NC If you don't know, you wouldn't understand.
Tobacco: John Middleton Walnut, Prince Albert, GLP Cumberland, C&D Exhausted Rooster , add Carter Hall to the mix, as well as Perfection Plug Burley
Pipe: Brissetts, Kaywoodies
Registration date: 2007-12-17
| | Subject: Re: Sillem's Black Wed Dec 23, 2009 10:59 am | |
| C&D blends some pretty good English aromatics.
C&D Aromatics containing Latakia. |
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Pipefan2009
Number of posts: 8
Age: 32
Location: Medford, MA
Tobacco: Sillem's Black, C&D Pirate Kake.
Pipe: Boswell Spiral Freehand
Registration date: 2009-12-10
| | Subject: Condor Wed Dec 23, 2009 11:13 am | |
| I have tried Condor and have a friend who smokes it daily. I was one of those guys who can't stand it. It is definitely different. |
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babysinister
Number of posts: 424
Registration date: 2009-05-09
| | Subject: Re: Sillem's Black Wed Dec 23, 2009 11:29 am | |
| I have a Peterson SH Lestrade dedicated to Sillems Black and W.O. Larsen's Old Fashioned. Both will leave a ghost on the pipe that will not affect the other aro (at least for me) but will definitely affect the burleys and especially the Virginias. The aromatic qualities of Sillems was a little too strong for my taste out of the tin. Several weeks in a jar tamed the perfume considerably and now it is for me a much more enjoyable smoking experience. |
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