Danske Club Black Luxury Pipe Tobacco Reviews

This is an all-black, medium-cut cavendish blend from Denmark with a pronounced sweet, perfumy aroma. As usual, I have difficulty identifying the components of the aroma, but in addition to vanilla there might be a nut-like (almond?) flavour as well.

 

Unlike many American black cavendishes, which are often moist and a bit sticky, this is a fairly dry tobacco that does not tend to clump together despite its casing. It follows that this is a dry smoke as well, as many Danish aromatics seem to be.

 

It is mild on the tongue, but still a degree or two less than I expected. This blend actually has a little bit of punch for a black cavendish, probably due to the burley it contains. A slightly earthy flavour lurks beneath its sweet top flavour, which makes it remind me of Edward's Buccaneer and many of Cornell & Diehl's aromatic blends.

 

It's fresh-tasting, not syrupy-tasting. As one gets further down a bowl of this stuff, this earthy flavour becomes a little more apparent as some of the aromatic flavour seems to fade and, especially, lose its sweetness. It's quite a nice smoke if you like aromatics at all - medium-bodied and cool-smoking by nature, although its mildness makes it easy for you to smoke it a little hot inadvertently.

 

It burns down to a fine whitish-grey ash and leaves a notable vanilla-tobacco aroma in the room. Thanks Ken for the generous sample.