Quote Originally Posted by cigarsarge View Post
The best way to taste the true flavor of a cigar is to expell as much smoke through your nose as you can stand. Milder cigars are much easier to to this than fuller flavored. I do this on every pull of the cigar...Usually expelling about 50% of the smoke that way.

When the smoke makes your nose tingle and your eyes run you have become on with the cigar. Go forth my brother and taste...
I tried the smoke thru the nose thing on my lunch time cigar today, Cusano P1 cafe' robusto, and damn did it ever smart......my nose and eyes were running almost immediately and there was so much pain that the flavor was not on my mind at all for the first few pulls. But, being basically masochistic at heart anyway, I made it a point to exhale at least 50% of each pull through my nose for the whole smoke, and I gotta say.......thank GOD it was a short one!! I don't think I noticed anything additional flavor-wise with this smoke than the previous ones I have had.

I guess I was one with the cigar, but my nose felt like the cherry. If I continue to try this, will it get easier/better? Or was the P1 the wrong cigar to start with since it is on the full side of medium imho anyway? Is any of the smoke to be inhaled before exhaling thru the nose, or simply held in the mouth and exhaled (I didn't inhale any pulls this time)?

I thought 25 years of non-filtered cig's had toughened me up, but damn, my nose is still smarting.