Mild Aromatics Or Strong Aromatics?

Light aromatics- Peretti: Thanksgiving, Sutliff: Holiday Match, Frog Morton: Cellar, Carter Hall,Samuel Gawith: Bothy Flake, and of course Edward G. Robinson! These have really grown on me and become some of my favourite blends.

Full Aromatics- Captain Black: Original and Copper, Casey Jones: Last Ride, Sutliff: Pumpkin Spice, C&D: Corn Cob Pipe and A Button Nose, Pete Stokkebye: Peaches n Creme, McClelland: Mocha Black, Hearth & Home: Vermont Meat Candy, and a real favourite- JustForHim: Shortcut to Mushrooms.

For me the difference is that I can smoke from the first list all day and from the second maybe 2-3 smokes and I'm all flavoured out. Also, many full aromatics give me a sore throat. More accurately my sinuses, soft palate, and hard palate become irritated. I found the casings on Half & Half and Velvet to be so caustic that I couldn't take more than a few puffs. Kind of heartbreaking as I really wanted to be a Half&Half man. That can looks dapper on any shelf.

Zero to very light topping for me and prefer it to be a casing and not actual topping. A little Lakeland essence is fine by me as well.

Mostly, I like an occasional light aromatic, but do have a few I enjoy that are more of a full. Something like Casey Jones Last Ride.

light aros are nice for me...the stronger ones get cut with blending burley

My preferred aro is Mac Baren Vanilla Cream/Flake. Tobacco Review comments are all over the place as to the level of topping experienced in these. It seems applied with a fairly light hand to my tastes; however, it's obviously relative to the individual smoker.

@10furlongs makes a good point. I think Vanilla Cream Flake is pretty strongly aromatic, as is FM Cellar which @redwinkle thinks is light. I guess I like both light and heavy aros, but when I'm in the mood for one I definitely want to taste the flavors it's supposed to have.

I still like aromatics, not as much as when I first picked up the pipe. I started out with a few different light aromatic tobaccos.
After that I tried a couple strong aromatics & they just about put me off all of them for good.
My tastes or tolerances for stronger tobaccos, I found, does not relate to heavier aromatics.
I can tolerate a few different flavors, but some just don't work for me at all.

Definitely Mild, for me.

I tried them and was disgusted. Tsal sent me a length of Rum Twist and it made me ill. I keep the remaining piece in a Mason jar and we take it out for a joke every so often because it looks like it was manufactured inside a small dog. Tastes worse though. I know that Tom meant well, but I get more enjoyment from looking at it than I ever could from smoking. As for Lakeland, I mixed up Erinmore with Ennerdale. Yuck.

I'm guessing Captain Black Root Beer would be left on your shelf for long periods of time

Recently I have been trying some G&H Lakeland blends. I didn't think I would like rose geranium & floral essences as much as I do but once lit the taste transforms into something great. Glengarry Flake, Ennerdale Flake, Bob's Chocolate Flake & Rich Dark Honeydew are all very tasty. I smoked a tin of Grousemoor many years ago but that was it. Sometimes it's good to go outside your comfort zone.

I like both light aromatics and heavy. For lighter ones I enjoy Peterson University flake, Mac Baren Vanilla Cream and Modern Virginia Flake.
For heavier blends I like Cult Blood Red Moon and Molto Dolce. I smoke the heavier aromatics when my kids are around or when I get a sweet tooth.

The one blend I smoke that has a bit of Lakeland is St Bruno Flake. It is lightly applied and I can taste the Virginia and burley's along with the topping.

I much prefer light aromatics as a concept and have had luck with Match Holiday and hope to try Match Ready Rubbed at the end of April. The heavy aromatics they sell here aren't my favorites; I've been trying to mix them together with whatever to improve the flavour without any luck so far.