cao flavored cigars

[SFG75]

The moontrance is a decent cigar. Of the flavoreds, it's the best IMHO, with Havana Honeys and others closely behind. I don't have many tins, but they are good if you are pressed for time or have relatives who smoke cigarettes and they don't want to wait an hour outside for you to finish a "real" cigar.

[kevin7]

Flavored cigars are for the following

1) Newbies

2) Women

3)homosexual pillow biters

4) dumasses

[SFG75]

The moontrance line is definitely aimed at newer and younger smokers. If not, they wouldn't be doing gimmicks like they did with Tommy Lee and the Motley Crue "Red, White, and Crue" tour by offering the "Tommyland" cigar(i.e.-a moontrance with a new band)

[Roham]

Flavored cigars are for the following

1) Newbies

2) Women

3)homosexual pillow biters

4) dumasses

That list is 100% bang on! I couldn't add to it if I tried

[entheomation]

That list is 100% bang on! I couldn't add to it if I tried

This may be true but if I didn't discover these flavored smokes as a young, but legal, smoker I would have never worked my way up to "real" cigars. I wasn't interested in smoking full bodied smokes or even medium bodied ones as they were all nic. bombs to me at the time. I am thankful for being able to have an enjoyable start to cigar smoking, although you couldn't pay me to smoke them nowadays, rather than just being turned off to smoking from the start. Knowing that it is inevitable that many new smokers (especially younger ones) will try flavored cigars, if they don't heed the advice of the ever so understanding elders and give a nice mild "real" cigar a try, its nice to at least give them a constructive review of the flavored cigar in question rather than steer them away from smoking all together.

I've noticed a lot individuals who don't particularly care for, if not hate, flavored cigars will enjoy Drew Estates Natural Root which is a nice Maduro. Cigar Jack has a nice review here: http://cigars.luxist.com/entry/1234000113045833/ although I'm sure that many will deny it too.

While on the topic of denial:
I have recently been noticing a lot of homophobia (usually a sign of closet homosexuality) on this message board lately, based on the abundance of antagonistic comments and fruedian slips in many posts lately. It's rather sad to witness this behavoir.

[Crickett]

While on the topic of denial:
I have recently been noticing a lot of homophobia (usually a sign of closet homosexuality) on this message board lately, based on the abundance of antagonistic comments and fruedian slips in many posts lately. It's rather sad to witness this behavoir.

How quickly these threads degenerate into arguments. I agree that their homosexual bashing comments are really uncalled for, but I wouldn't say that it is "closet homosexuality." I would probably say that these folks should have been hugged a little more by their dads when they were younger. Nonetheless, some folks will spew out insults about homosexuals to make themselves feel just a bit more masculine. Sad..

With that diversion out of the way: what do you folks think about keeping these "flavored cigars" in their humidors with the rest of their fine smokes? Could these flavors seep out and infect the other cigars?

[Roham]

what do you folks think about keeping these "flavored cigars" in their humidors with the rest of their fine smokes? Could these flavors seep out and infect the other cigars?

I hear that it's not recommended. Maybe get them their own tupperdore I keep my regular and falvored cigarellos in one humidor. And I have a bundle of cojimars sitting in my coolidor amongst some boxs of cigars. Soon I am going to have a humidor just for flavored cigars for sure.

[entheomation]

Aw shucks you guys are all so very understanding and maybe I'm being a bit of a tight ass (no homosexual pun intended) so forgive me, I'm just bitter because I haven't smoked any good premiums lately..

"what do you folks think about keeping these "flavored cigars" in their humidors with the rest of their fine smokes? Could these flavors seep out and infect the other cigars?"

In the past when I smoked ACID and Natural cigars I noticed that if I stored them in a travel humidor with other non-infused cigars, some of the aroma would be absorbed by the regular sticks. Even after the infused smokes had been removed, there would be a residual aroma and this would also slightly alter the non-flavored smokes but not much. In my regular humi (don't poke fun but its the ACID City humidor, bought it when I was a DE fiend, its a nice humidor though) there doesn't really seem to be much of a problem with the flavors transfering from one to another or with the residual aroma. Other tobacconists have told me that the Natural don't present this problem but that the ACID's are the main culprit, although I cannot confirm this based on my own experience. I also believe that whether or not the cigar is wrapped in celophane may play a role in this as well, of course..

[Roham]

[QUOTE=entheomation]This may be true but if I didn't discover these flavored smokes as a young, but legal, smoker I would have never worked my way up to "real" cigars. I wasn't interested in smoking full bodied smokes or even medium bodied ones as they were all nic. bombs to me at the time. I am thankful for being able to have an enjoyable start to cigar smoking, although you couldn't pay me to smoke them nowadays, rather than just being turned off to smoking from the start. Knowing that it is inevitable that many new smokers (especially younger ones) will try flavored cigars, if they don't heed the advice of the ever so understanding elders and give a nice mild "real" cigar a try, its nice to at least give them a constructive review of the flavored cigar in question rather than steer them away from smoking all together. [/quote}

See #1 newbies.

While on the topic of denial:
I have recently been noticing a lot of homophobia (usually a sign of closet homosexuality) on this message board lately, based on the abundance of antagonistic comments and fruedian slips in many posts lately. It's rather sad to witness this behavoir.

I thought the list was funny and didn't even really notice the homosexual reference I have nothing really against anyones sexual preferences. Doesn't make my life any different. Sorry if it came across like that.


Now give me a hug

[Dmitri]

I've come across a couple flavored cigars that I tried. There was a peach one that wasn't great but I had White Owl brand Blackberry Cigar last night that really wasn't bad. But they come no where near a good old fashioned cigar IMO.

[jdavis4082]

i went against natural actions and bought a CAO Mx2. there was not a strong flavor as i expected, but rather a very suttle almost peppery taste. it got better the further down it got, the only oddity i found, at one point my face went completely numb for about five seconds. other than that it was a good smoke.

[Iced T]

When your face went numb, did you see this? If you did, that's a new flavor...

[jdavis4082]

no that whould have been sweeet.

[Kenyth]

Flavoring cigars seems to be an excuse for makers to use cheap or poor quality tobacco. The flavorings hide that fact. A good cigar doesn't need added flavorings.

By all means, smoke them for fun. Just don't make the mistake of considering them cigars. They're not a cigar any more than a wine cooler is wine.

[Corona Gigante]

Flavoring cigars seems to be an excuse for makers to use cheap or poor quality tobacco. The flavorings hide that fact. A good cigar doesn't need added flavorings.

By all means, smoke them for fun. Just don't make the mistake of considering them cigars. They're not a cigar any more than a wine cooler is wine.

Couldn't agree more. Same with coffee.

Someone gave me one of those Amaretto flavored cigars once. I had to smoke it just to be polite. We're not close.