MEGA Review: Felicia (My Father Le Bijou 1922 Torpedo)

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Prelight Taste:
Good tobacco.	Earthy, grassy.
Sweet tobacco scent with some musty leather. Light tobacco on the cut prelight taste.	3 in 1 oil that I had on my hands transfered to the cigar yummy. Had a slightly sweet taste.
Muted spice, less than expected. Some cedar wood.	Nothing particular.
Nice on the tongue, but the cold draw is… sandy.	Could have used some salt.
Raisins and sweet tobacco.	Sweet tobacco-cedar
Typical tobacco. Like sucking through a garden hose. I can tell I'm going to have to be careful taking a draw.	Kind of woody with hints of spice but much lighter than expected.
Cigar has a few pronounced veins and a wrapper imperfections. The head on this cigar is off center and leaning to one side. These appearance issues suggest this stick is from the lower end of the spectrum. Prelight taste is somewhat grassy.	Very airy draw. Not much flavor. Hope I didn't screw up with all that hot sauce on my chicken.
Woody, leathery and sweet, not the wrapper but the overall pre light draw was sweet somehow.	Sweet, cedar, pepper, spice and leather.

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Taste 1st Third:
Nothing remarkable...little harsh to start, but settled nicely.	Spicy, tasted earthy.
Light leather and oil. Spicy, hard core retrohale (holyshit!) Flavor falls short after that. Some residual oil, but it leaves a celery like aftertaste. Mellowing into...report on 2nd 3rd.	Started off with nothing standing out other than a oily taste.
First couple puffs had a nice spice, then gave way to dry-woody/earthy. Not bad, wish the spice had hung around a little longer. Reminds me of the standard My Father cigars. Fantastic amount of smoke, the draw is on the easy side, but exactly how I like it (so I say it's perfect). Not too strong, I'd say medium, maybe med-full.	The first puff gave a very strong kick of spice and lots of smoke. I had a hard time determining the major taste; woody or musky. I also picked up a slight hint of fruit. Towards the end of the 1st third, I ran into a bad burn issue and the cigar almost went out.
Whoah. Not what I was expecting. Started off hot and harsh and strong. Too much ligero for my liking. After an inch, the cigar has settled a bit, but is still power, power, power. I'm uncomfortably numb.	I don't taste much in the first third, paying more attention to things like the burn, smoke volume/draw.
Rich cocoa flavor right from the start. Chocolate cupcakes. Sturdy medium body, yet super smooth.	Some spice tobacco pepper.
Copious smoke. Too easy draw compared to what I prefer, but an agreeable flavor. Salted caramel on the finish. I'm worried about this booger Buzz wiped on Felicia.	Nice and smooth with that hint of spice present with a woody taste still. Again not as powerful as I was expecting but I would say a good solid medium body smoke. I am enjoying it so far. The only downside at this point is I had a bit of a split in the wrapper that I am having to baby a bit but the overall experience as of now has been good.
A puff on this stick generates an ample amount of smoke and the draw is right in the middle. I'm not noticing any spice, so I'm ruling out Nicaraguan tobacco. Pretty bland.	Harsh. Airy Draw.
Very woody and leathery but no sweetness.	I would describe this cigar as having a long finish. Woodsy and earthy flavors dominated the first third.

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