How long did it take for you to develop your "nose"?

[Devil Doc]

With my miniscule experience with cigars, I am definitely not picking up anywhere near the amount of flavors that more experienced smokers are... hopefully my palate will wake up the same way it did with beer some years back.





I gotta ask...gearslutz?

Why don't you just enjoy your cigars. The point of cigar smoking is to relax. If you're sitting there thinking about what flavors you should be experiencing your not relaxing and wasting your money. In my opinion, of course.

Doc.

[mrtr33]

Why don't you just enjoy your cigars. The point of cigar smoking is to relax. If you're sitting there thinking about what flavors you should be experiencing your not relaxing and wasting your money. In my opinion, of course.

Doc.

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It's funny you mention that...I actually first included that in the "first draft" of my post, but then deleted it as I didn't want it to be too long-winded.

I do currently, and will continue to enjoy my smokes without the complex flavors that others pick up... though at this stage of my experience I am looking forward to learning more so I can actually know a little something about what I'm smoking.

I guess my point is: Did I know shit about beer when I first starting drinking it? Hell no...but I still enjoyed it! I now know a few things about it and get more and more enjoyment out of each pint than I did when I first started...that's similar to the same kind of knowledge I look forward to having with cigars one day.

[ashauler]

It's funny you mention that...I actually first included that in the "first draft" of my post, but then deleted it as I didn't want it to be too long-winded.

I do currently, and will continue to enjoy my smokes without the complex flavors that others pick up... though at this stage of my experience I am looking forward to learning more so I can actually know a little something about what I'm smoking.

I guess my point is: Did I know shit about beer when I first starting drinking it? Hell no...but I still enjoyed it! I now know a few things about it and get more and more enjoyment out of each pint than I did when I first started...that's similar to the same kind of knowledge I look forward to having with cigars one day.

One of these days you'll be bopping along smoking a stick, maybe doing something else like reading or having a conversation and you'll draw on your cigar and exhale and say...WTF was that. hmmmmmm, another draw, yeah, that's kinda interesting, what the heck is that..........it's nice, reminds me of .....

[prophetic_joe]

Why don't you just enjoy your cigars. The point of cigar smoking is to relax. If you're sitting there thinking about what flavors you should be experiencing your not relaxing and wasting your money. In my opinion, of course.

Doc.

I would venture to guess that most of the people you seem to be looking down on do just that 99% of the time. The only times I will actually think hard about and try to find flavors in my cigars are when it comes to writing a review. I have said before that I agree tobacco tastes like tobacco but in a review you try to get the flavors across the best way possible now if I say a cigar has a sweet tobacco taste to it and a new smoker says well what do you mean by sweet tobacco I'm supposed to then say "Well it tastes like sweet tobacco you fuggin moron." no I need to try to put it to him the best I can so he has a better idea than simply sweet tobacco.

[WIP]

In my opinion, tasting for the little extras is fun and relaxing. Each person is different, if it strains you too much to think about the tiny nuances, just smoke your cigar and forget about it.

[Devil Doc]

I would venture to guess that most of the people you seem to be looking down on do just that 99% of the time. The only times I will actually think hard about and try to find flavors in my cigars are when it comes to writing a review. I have said before that I agree tobacco tastes like tobacco but in a review you try to get the flavors across the best way possible now if I say a cigar has a sweet tobacco taste to it and a new smoker says well what do you mean by sweet tobacco I'm supposed to then say "Well it tastes like sweet tobacco you fuggin moron." no I need to try to put it to him the best I can so he has a better idea than simply sweet tobacco.

You got it backwards Nate. It's the chocolate tasters that do the looking down. We're just fighting back. Get used to it.

Doc.

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As a non-chocolate taster who's not opposed to one day tasting chocolate...can't we all just get along?


Edit (just saw your post)

One of these days you'll be bopping along smoking a stick, maybe doing something else like reading or having a conversation and you'll draw on your cigar and exhale and say...WTF was that. hmmmmmm, another draw, yeah, that's kinda interesting, what the heck is that..........it's nice, reminds me of .....

Looking forward to that... On a few occasions I've sat down with the same stick that I've just read a review of and tried to see if I can match up with their findings...it didn't work out so well. But then again, once I realized that I'm still trying to get my humidor just "right" for me, I figured it was a moot point for the time being. Doesn't stop me from enjoying it though.

[badwhale]

You got it backwards Nate. It's the chocolate tasters that do the looking down. We're just fighting back. Get used to it.

Doc.

Chocolate! Chocolate!!! CHOCOLATE!!!!!

Chocolate (cocoa, but not a baker's chocolate, and a touch of lavender & pork loin) tasting armys unite!!!!!

Will

[Devil Doc]

Just say no to Gustatory Hallucinations!

Doc.

[ashauler]

Just say no to Gustatory Hallucinations!

Doc.

Gimme Chocolate instead.

[badwhale]

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight ...

I've got my cigar rag, text books
Lead me to the station
Yeah, I'm off to the cigar tasting war
I've got my traveldor, my heavy boots
I'm smokin’ in the rain
Gonna smoke till my lips are raw

C.A. kid, C.A. kid, second generation
And I'm a soldier at thirteen
C.A. kid, C.A. kid, realization
There's no easy way to be free
No easy way to be free

It's a hard, hard world

I left my doctor's penicillin prescription bungalow behind me
I left the door ajar
I left my vacuum flask
Full of hot tea and sugar (and cocoa, mint julep, touch of leather and smoked almonds)
Left the keys right in my car

C.A. kid, C.A. kid, second generation
Only half way up the tree
C.A. kid, C.A. kid, I'm a relation
I'm a soldier at sixty-three
No easy way to be free

C.A. kid, C.A. kid

Keep away old man, you won't fool me
You and your pre-boom history won't rule me
You might have been a fighter, but admit you failed
I'm not affected by your blackmail
You won't blackmail me

I've got my cigar rag, text books
Lead me to the station
Yeah, I'm off to the cigar tasting war
I've got my kit bag, my heavy boots
I'm smokin’ in the rain
Gonna smoke till my lips are raw

C.A. kid, C.A. kid, slip out of trouble
Slip over here and set me free
CA kid, CA kid, second generation
You're slidin down the hill like me
No easy way to be free
No easy way to be free
No easy way to be free

[prophetic_joe]

You got it backwards Nate. It's the chocolate tasters that do the looking down. We're just fighting back. Get used to it.

Doc.

I actually saw the members of this forum that say they can find tastes in their cigars to be saying "Hey don't sweat it, it takes time and it's no big deal so long as you enjoy what you smoke." If you seemed to be crusading this on a forum with pretentious douchebags I'd be right there with ya Doc but we don't have a lot of them here.

For the record I don't taste chocolate, I have had time when the sweet tobacco has been mixed with a little bitter and sort of, again sort of, reminds me of a dark cocoa, but not because there are extremely remarkable similarities but because language give me no other decent description.

[cinda]

I actually saw the members of this forum that say they can find tastes in their cigars to be saying "Hey don't sweat it, it takes time and it's no big deal so long as you enjoy what you smoke." If you seemed to be crusading this on a forum with pretentious douchebags I'd be right there with ya Doc but we don't have a lot of them here.

For the record I don't taste chocolate, I have had time when the sweet tobacco has been mixed with a little bitter and sort of, again sort of, reminds me of a dark cocoa, but not because there are extremely remarkable similarities but because language give me no other decent description.

Lets face it if cigars tasted like chocolate more womem would of taken over this vice long ago.

[nhcigarfan]

I swear I had a cigar once that tasted like what I expect ass to taste like.

[VancouverMark]

I swear I had a cigar once that tasted like what I expect ass to taste like.

You could have a field day doing a review on that cigar!

[CptnBlues63]

Lets face it if cigars tasted like chocolate more womem would of taken over this vice long ago.

ROFLMAO

I love how you put that cinda.............."women would of taken over"

Not, "taken up" but "taken over" now there's a dose of reality for all you unmarried guys.



I wish my wife smoked cigars, then I could smoke them in the house. She thinks they're "stinky" yet has told me if I smoked a pipe, I could smoke that in the house. That so doesn't compute for me I have a meltdown whenever I try to do the math on it *sighing*