Hints on training your palette

[WOXOF]

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.

LMAO

You only need to exhale a small percentage through your nose to pick up more flavors. You may not be able to do this with some of the stronger cigars at first or at all. If this is still unpleasant, don't do it. And no, you don't(at least I don't) inhale any smoke into your lungs.

When you're feeling masochistic again, try it with a Camacho Coyolar.

[ashauler]

LMAO

You only need to exhale a small percentage through your nose to pick up more flavors. You may not be able to do this with some of the stronger cigars at first or at all. If this is still unpleasant, don't do it. And no, you don't(at least I don't) inhale any smoke into your lungs.

When you're feeling masochistic again, try it with a Camacho Coyolar.

Being a "Quality" guy I am pretty much masochistic at heart, ya know, kick me..beat me....make me write bad checks, etc.... I deal with complaints and performance failures daily so I get yelled at, cussed at pretty regularly.

I tried again with my morning smoke today, Cusano 18 dbl connecticut, a little milder smoke than the P1 so it wasn't quite so painful. I think I may have picked up some hints of leather for the first time with this stick, and I have smoked several of these. Progress maybe? I am going to search the reviews and see if I can find one for this cigar and smoke another one for my evening smoke to see if I can pick something else up.

wow, I just noticed I have broken the 100 post mark. Think I'll change the senior member thing though....I sure don't feel like one.