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Smoking a first MdO No 4 from a ETP SEP 15 box to check out how they are going. No review, but just to report, and interested in member’s views of these: Draw, construction, burn in this specimen perfect, although the box showing quite a wide range of ring gauges, feels like 30 to 36…. Definitely young with a noticeable greenish note. No ammonia, as this one had been stored separately for a couple of days. Med-full-bodied right now, while the retrohale is not too acrid, manageable, in particular after an inch in. Classy smoke already at this young age. Most remarkable was a certain taste, a note which I couldn’t quite pinpoint, as hard as I churned my head. Something along the lines of, well, not the normal green/young taste but perhaps – Wasabi less the hot component? Smell of “new car” interior? Sawing a multiplex wood board? Absolutely no idea, it’s just not exactly it. But as weird and nasty as it might sound, not at all unpleasant. Rather giving the whole smoke a somehow refreshing note. Wouldn’t mind at all if that undertone would stay during aging. Anyone else having tried this ETP 15 batch already and perhaps experienced similar? Paul