Name the flavour note that seems to be very common, that you never ever get

[Cigarsmoker81]

Very interesting thread

 

cookies, doughnuts, cake etc I don’t know how to pick up these flavors 

[99call]

7 minutes ago, Cigarsmoker81 said:

Very interesting thread

 

cookies, doughnuts, cake etc I don’t know how to pick up these flavors 

Do you smoke a lot of Cohiba, Trinidad or Quai D'Orsay?

On the flavours you've described, I've not really experienced them outside of these 3 marcas

[Cigar Surgeon]

15 hours ago, Habana Mike said:

Interesting observation there Kevin. 

For previous experiences I worked on a farm when young. Cattle, horses, growing fruits and vegetables. I know what that shit smells like.

Was also a professional chef/baker at one point.

For a few years a while I was a cigar reviewer for a local regional paper and also on the panel of Cigarsense from their start until I tired of having to smoke NC like it was a job.

I agree that past experience with tastes and smells adds quite a bit to what is experienced while smoking a cigar, drinking a rum, Port, Cognac or whisk(e)y.

Regarding bean flavor Domino, think coffee bean, vanilla bean, Jelly Belly

 

Yeah this part drives me crazy when people have asked me: "How do you know what leather tastes like?" "How have you never experienced putting leather in your mouth? A keychain? Leathe rein? Wallet? Leather stitching?"

If you've been in a barn or on a farm for any reasonable amount of time; when I say 'barnyard', you know exactly what that combination of sensory inputs is. 🤣

[Cigarsmoker81]

42 minutes ago, 99call said:

Do you smoke a lot of Cohiba, Trinidad or Quai D'Orsay?

On the flavours you've described, I've not really experienced them outside of these 3 marcas

those are some of my fav marcas and I smoke them on a regular basis!
 

I keep on wondering if I’m picking the same flavours but I don’t associate them with doughnuts or cake if that makes sense ? 
 

 

[Bijan]

1 hour ago, Cigarsmoker81 said:

those are some of my fav marcas and I smoke them on a regular basis!
 

I keep on wondering if I’m picking the same flavours but I don’t associate them with doughnuts or cake if that makes sense ? 
 

 

I get a very specific cake donut from some Trinidads, sweet flavour (not always though I prefer it when they are sweet) and allspice and/or cloves. Edit: maybe nutmeg?

[rcarlson]

1 hour ago, Bijan said:

I get a very specific cake donut from some Trinidads, sweet flavour (not always though I prefer it when they are sweet) and allspice and/or cloves. Edit: maybe nutmeg?

Same here.  On the Fundi I get an unsweet cookie dough/almond paste that I love.  

Also got warm buttered croissant from JL 1 with a few years.  Couldn't put my finger on it until Rob mentioned it and I'll be damned if that was precisely what I was getting.    

[NicPac]

4 hours ago, Hollywood Ninja said:

Same. Though I’m not entirely sure I’ve ever been around stewed fruit IRL either.


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Haha. Me either. I’m not really even sure what it is. 

[Kevin48438]

5 hours ago, Cigar Surgeon said:

Yeah this part drives me crazy when people have asked me: "How do you know what leather tastes like?" "How have you never experienced putting leather in your mouth? A keychain? Leathe rein? Wallet? Leather stitching?"

If you've been in a barn or on a farm for any reasonable amount of time; when I say 'barnyard', you know exactly what that combination of sensory inputs is. 🤣

I have put leather in my mouth for sure.  Playing baseball when I wanted to tighten a knot on my glove, I would hold one tag end with my teeth, and pull the other tag end with my free (throwing) hand.   I’ve put my wallet in my mouth to hold it for a moment while I use my hands.  I look side-eye at someone who says they would have no idea what leather would taste like.

 

Stewed fruit I would describe as such:  Imagine strawberry, rhubarb pie. Or mixed berries.  Remember (or do it asap) a bite without the crust.  Try then to disassociate the sweetness from the sugar and just sense the slightly sour, natural sweet flavor of that filling.  Stewing the fruit kind of harmonizes those and brings the dark “frutiness” to the front.

[MrBirdman]

I definitely get dried fruit from a RAS or RASS, but never fresh fruit there or in any cigar (excepting the citrus notes I get with some marcas). 

Also agree I’ve never gotten stone fruit, though I’m not a huge HdM fan which seems to be the marca most commonly associated with that flavor.

I’m surprised so many people don’t taste coffee, because I get that note so strongly in Montecristo and Cohiba Linea Classica (especially when they’re young). I’m not a coffee drinker normally but I do enjoy a good cup every now and then, so perhaps that is why I can detect it.

Tea is not a note you hear often, despite what a good pairing tea is with many cigars. I don’t get it much either, but occasionally a good Trini will have it (especially the Coloniales in my experience). 

[Bijan]

27 minutes ago, MrBirdman said:

I’m surprised so many people don’t taste coffee, because I get that note so strongly in Montecristo and Cohiba Linea Classica (especially when they’re young). I’m not a coffee drinker normally but I do enjoy a good cup every now and then, so perhaps that is why I can detect it.

Yeah I get coffee in those two marcas and tend not to have coffee with those cigars because then that's all I taste sometimes.

I can drink 20 espressos in a day, so maybe that makes me more likely to taste coffee in a cigar 😂☕

[Glass Half Full]

23 hours ago, Jimmy_jack said:

Stone fruit. Never get that. I have a highly bitter palate. I get bitter notes very easily. 

I'm with Jimmy_Jack on this one:  I believe my palate is pretty good (did work in restaurants for many, many years), ...but I ain't never tasted a stone fruit (let alone multiple  in my cigar.  I wouldn't mind tasting it, ...but haven't yet.

[SpecialK]

21 hours ago, Habana Mike said:

I'd say Grandma's handbag though I have experienced it. Floral, perfume and dusty. If you know, you know....

with faint notes of butterscotch candy  

[MrBirdman]

2 hours ago, Bijan said:

I can drink 20 espressos in a day, so maybe that makes me more likely to taste coffee in a cigar 😂☕

After that much caffeine I’d also be grinding my teeth too hard to smoke a cigar properly!

[Kaptain Karl]

22 hours ago, Monterey said:

I get all the ones above and just about all the other ones except 2.

Bell pepper.  Huh?  This is the only place I EVER hear of  a  bell pepper flavor.  I think this flavor note is more of a thing of "power of suggestion" 

I’ve gotten bell pepper. I’m NOT a fan of that flavor 🤢🤢🤢

[MrBirdman]

10 minutes ago, Kaptain Karl said:

I’ve gotten bell pepper. I’m NOT a fan of that flavor

Me neither - I loath real bell peppers too! it’s one reason I stayed away from Paratagas, but I tried an old D4 on a recent zoom herf and saw the light. No bell pepper, mucho nutella on toast. 

[Meklown]

6 hours ago, Glass Half Full said:

I'm with Jimmy_Jack on this one:  I believe my palate is pretty good (did work in restaurants for many, many years), ...but I ain't never tasted a stone fruit (let alone multiple  in my cigar.  I wouldn't mind tasting it, ...but haven't yet.

the last cigar I had with the most obvious peachiness was the HdM Escogidos, if you wanna give that a shot. I don't get it much from other cigars too

[Cigar Surgeon]

10 hours ago, Heels82 said:

You might as well get some blow.  Either your house is really clean or one spot in your house is really clean after 20 espressos.  😛

[Joeyjojo]

I've heard of people say they can taste mushroom in some cigars. 

I have never managed to catch that flavour myself, I tend to taste white paper in the same blends so I wonder if some flavours are like coriander/cilantro which tastes nice to some people but like soap to others? 

[99call]

14 minutes ago, Joeyjojo said:

I've heard of people say they can taste mushroom in some cigars

I would say it's pretty rare and limited to very few cigars.  Partagas Presidente is the only cigar I know of where I get this note consistently 

[Jimmy_jack]

19 hours ago, MrBirdman said:

Me neither - I loath real bell peppers too! it’s one reason I stayed away from Paratagas, but I tried an old D4 on a recent zoom herf and saw the light. No bell pepper, mucho nutella on toast. 

Well its a good thing I dont get cucumber flavors then. I hate cucumber in food. Completely overpowers the meal. Odd note...some people are genetically predisposed to taste cilantro as soap. So they loath any cilantro in food. 

[Habana Mike]

3 hours ago, Joeyjojo said:

I've heard of people say they can taste mushroom in some cigars. 

I have never managed to catch that flavour myself, I tend to taste white paper in the same blends so I wonder if some flavours are like coriander/cilantro which tastes nice to some people but like soap to others? 

Definitely get a mushroom note time to time. Typically in the cold draw with vintage sticks.

[MrBirdman]

4 hours ago, Jimmy_jack said:

I hate cucumber in food. Completely overpowers the meal.

Precisely how I feel about bell peppers.

[Bijan]

1 hour ago, MrBirdman said:

Precisely how I feel about bell peppers.

I don't mind the green ones but don't like the red ones... Don't know if I have a finely tuned palate or just a weird quirk.