"Interestingly, the wife hates the smell of this cigar and says its smoke has a chemical smell. She likes most others.[/QUOTE]

I have to agree with your wife. I sometimes take a cigar into my workshop with the A/C running and door closed. So it's normal to go in several days later and still smell cigars. But, I once smoked a Macanudo in there and for about a week I could smell the difference. This is absolutely a fact. I wonder what they add for so-called flavor enhancement. It definately does have a kind of residual sulfurous chemical smell.