ElAbogado Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 We all have our favorites. I'm generally a lover of 'dessert' flavors (coffee, cocoa, vanilla, cream, honey, baking spices). That is not what this thread is about though! This thread is about those flavors that send you running for the hills (or at least back to the humidor!) For me personally there are two flavors that I really try to avoid: 1) Big black pepper 2) Damp soil/barnyard I typically blame my general aversion to black pepper for being what really got me hooked on Habanos, as I get very little black pepper from Cuban tobacco. What say you FOH? What are your LEAST favorite cigar flavors? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DropTopDee Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 Strong Pine/grass Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post raymond5737 Posted November 16, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted November 16, 2015 Ammonia 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElAbogado Posted November 16, 2015 Author Share Posted November 16, 2015 Strong Pine/grass Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk Not sure I've ever gotten pine, but it doesn't sound like something I'd be particularly fond of! Grass is also generally not a favorite of mine. That said said I do enjoy Cohiba, even though grass/hay is a regular flavor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkz Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 I get a lot of floral flavors with most of the RyJ´s. Cant stand it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DropTopDee Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 Not sure I've ever gotten pine, but it doesn't sound like something I'd be particularly fond of! Grass is also generally not a favorite of mine. That said said I do enjoy Cohiba, even though grass/hay is a regular flavor. I get from H upmann (young upmann) mostly. I say pine because it reminds me of smell of pine trees in the spring. Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leftimatic Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 I get from H upmann (young upmann) mostly. I say pine because it reminds me of smell of pine trees in the spring. Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk I know the one. I get it as a cedar taste almost a woodsy aftertaste. Very dominant in the retro hale department. Don't mind that so much as a perfume taste I get from HDM Epicure #2's. Everyone I have had reminds me of a blue haired old lady counting pennies at the grocery store. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DropTopDee Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 I know the one. I get it as a cedar taste almost a woodsy aftertaste. Very dominant in the retro hale department. Don't mind that so much as a perfume taste I get from HDM Epicure #2's. Everyone I have had reminds me of a blue haired old lady counting pennies at the grocery store. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSXCIGAR Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 Interesting question. I'm thinking about it and I'd have to say that as long as the flavors are distinct I don't think there's any flavors in Cuban tobacco I don't like. Maybe some I prefer more than others but nothing I dislike. If you had to pin me down maybe the salty/driftwood flavors of Sancho Panza would be my least favorite. Obviously, ammonia isn't pleasant but I don't think that qualifies as a "flavor". My biggest problem comes when the flavors are "muddled" and indistinct. There's a dank, wet earth flavor that can be found in many LEs that I dislike. But I'm not sure that's an intended "flavor". 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElAbogado Posted November 16, 2015 Author Share Posted November 16, 2015 Interesting question. I'm thinking about it and I'd have to say that as long as the flavors are distinct I don't think there's any flavors in Cuban tobacco I don't like. Maybe some I prefer more than others but nothing I dislike. If you had to pin me down maybe the salty/driftwood flavors of Sancho Panza would be my least favorite. Obviously, ammonia isn't pleasant but I don't think that qualifies as a "flavor". My biggest problem comes when the flavors are "muddled" and indistinct. There's a dank, wet earth flavor that can be found in many LEs that I dislike. But I'm not sure that's an intended "flavor". I would tend to agree with you actually. There aren't many flavors I get from Cuban tobacco that I don't like either. That's part of why they have come to dominate my humidor space. The flavors I mentioned in my OP were both experienced in NCs. I get big pepper from both Nicaraguan and Dominican tobacco, and the damp soil I've experienced in Nicaraguan and Honduran. The only real issues I've had with CCs are, like you, muddled or muted flavors - usually due to smoking them too soon after receiving them, or smoking them too young. But as far as well aged and acclimated Habanos, there may be flavors I like more or less than others, but I have yet to find any that were deal breakers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKA27 Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 Ammonia and that damp soil taste. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lant63 Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 LE Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garbandz Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 I notice an aluminum foil taste/flavor in Dominican tobacco that turns me off. The flat,dusty dryness of Indonesian tobacco (Sumatra) will make me put a cigar down quickly. Even a Sumatra binder ruins a cigar for me....... In Cuban cigars the only bad note is the gritty taste I sometime get from poorly cleaned tobacco. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firebender Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 perfume Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smallclub Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 Tobacco 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnS Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 I concur with ammonia and damp soil flavours. Also...soap! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElAbogado Posted November 17, 2015 Author Share Posted November 17, 2015 I concur with ammonia and damp soil flavours. Also...soap! Soap! I forgot about that, but that's another good (bad) one. I've definitely experienced that before, and I wasn't a fan. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
planetary Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 There's a very noticeable fungal/mushroomy flavor that I've been getting in the last third of several cigars lately. Not sure if I've been smoking too fast or what, but I really don't like the flavor, and it's bedeviling me. I really have to baby the cigar to avoid pulling it, once it raises it appears. EDIT: Yes, it could be acrid youth, I suppose. For some reason, it appears to me as mushrooms or a foul umami character. It's fairly consistent in this to me, which is bizarre, since I've not heard it characterized as such by others. Anyway -- this is the worst flavor in cigars, in my book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxcjs0101 Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 Acrid, foul tasting smoke after you relight a cigar and bitter, chemical tasting harshness generally found in young sticks or towards the end of a cigar. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yhomas Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 I have a low tolerance for black pepper and bitterness, but the worst I have experienced is funky burnt rubber flavor--which I found a very prominent feature in the (NC) C.I. Obsidian (with the big black band). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatAlfonso Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 Acrid, foul tasting smoke after you relight a cigar and bitter, chemical tasting harshness generally found in young sticks or towards the end of a cigar. I get the chemically taste every once in a while too and have always wondered what causes it. I have noticed when I do get it that the tobacco is seeping a dark oil from the head. It really is the worst taste. As for flavors the blenders intend to include that I avoid I most dislike what I call spice but is probably more accurately a black pepper taste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChefBoyRG54 Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 The NC after taste has been a big turnoff for me in recent months pushing me completely away. Although this has been trending quickly for about a year I just got to a point where I live in regret with the damp, muddy, swampy taste I'm left with after smoking NC. The peppery kickstart is also a turnoff. Why so much power up front? Let it build:) Most CC I smoke leave me with a rich lingering taste even an hour after I'm done. But NC taste lingers much longer and it's more dense for me. This applies even if the cigar was decent while smoking. The worst is waking up with the stale NC palette....gross. Spoken like a cc snob I guess. No turning back! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxcjs0101 Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 I get the chemically taste every once in a while too and have always wondered what causes it. I have noticed when I do get it that the tobacco is seeping a dark oil from the head. It really is the worst taste. As for flavors the blenders intend to include that I avoid I most dislike what I call spice but is probably more accurately a black pepper taste. The dark oil is most likely tar. I've only gotten tar once and that was from a Brazilian puro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxcjs0101 Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 The NC after taste has been a big turnoff for me in recent months pushing me completely away. Although this has been trending quickly for about a year I just got to a point where I live in regret with the damp, muddy, swampy taste I'm left with after smoking NC. The peppery kickstart is also a turnoff. Why so much power up front? Let it build:) Most CC I smoke leave me with a rich lingering taste even an hour after I'm done. But NC taste lingers much longer and it's more dense for me. This applies even if the cigar was decent while smoking. The worst is waking up with the stale NC palette....gross. Spoken like a cc snob I guess. No turning back! I'll be glad to help you offload your NC stash, thank you very much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangolf18 Posted November 17, 2015 Share Posted November 17, 2015 Ammonia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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