Favorite Lakeland Aromatic Tobacco

...far too many to name...the only one I don't care for is either SG Cannon Plug or RB Plug...the one that has a fragrance of Honeydew is fine...but the other one sucks...It ghosted one of my Larsons so bad, I haven't smoked it in over twenty years...

All Gawith Hoggarth for me.

Ennerdale Flake, Kendal Flake, Rum Cake, Grasmere Flake, and most all other tobaccos pretty much that GH & Co. make. For SG tobaccos I prefer only their Full Virginia Flake, St. James Flake, and Best Brown, yes, these are not considered aromatic tobaccos but they are still Lakeland tobaccos manufactured in the Lakeland district of Kendal.

They’re not similar. Grousemoor is hard to describe, while Grasmere from GH is straight forward Rose and Geranium over a nice medium-mild VA flake of brights. Both very good. One thing to seriously consider before delving into Lakeland tobaccos is they are for very experienced pipe smokers. They are almost all stronger tobaccos full of nicotine and the flavors often turn people off because they cannot handle them. 

Tonquin and other plant essences are Lakeland flavorings. Rose and Geranium are just two essences of nearly 20 and are not in many Lakeland blends as well.

Thats interesting because I'm guessing that 90+% of pipe smokers associate Lakeland with floral.  Are there other blends that you'd consider Lakeland that do not have the floralness?  Sam's Flake, maybe?  

Frankly, we’ve went over this for years until it was fully discussed  from all angles. Long story short, it’s all sauces or flavorings used in SG or GH tobaccos made in the Kendal Cumbria Lakeland district of the U.K.

Things I’ve said as well as others are discussed at length at PSF. 

Full Virginia Flake is lakeland tobacco. No it doesn’t have floral oils added to it. It’s all the more confusing because a lot of people don’t know what they are tasting. They don’t know what tonquin, or musk, or heliotrope, or almond flavoring, geranium, or rose, so they resort to making things more polar and confusing by just saying things like, “it tastes like a grandma or grandma’s closet.” No offense to the ones in this very thread that already thought that was funny and used that, but no Lakeland tobaccos taste like a grandma, they taste like specific toppings. Some people can’t discern flavors so it makes it all the more confusing and polarized, because they hate what they can’t understand.

Good to know. I'm not sure I would distinguish the ghost in any case... I can't even distinguish the flavours in tobaccos in general.

Let's discuss it at length here if you guys don't mind. Some of us don't frequent PSF or are new to Lakelands. And who really knows how grandmas taste anyway?🤡

The phrase "tastes like grandma" actually refers to the perfumery floral scents we might associate with our special times spent with granny... and not her raw flesh, bad breath, or unwashed self (said affectionately with tongue in cheek).

Oh yeah....  I did remember such a discussion but am "mysteriously" unable to log in to PSF or perform any kind of search there.  I didn't recall the whole debate or that you were the same guy....

Anyway, to me this is similar to the English-Scottish-Balkan malarkey.  In PPP (piper's popular parlance!) we all know what we're talking about when we use such terms even if they're not technically correct or "official". Very few of the "English" blends we smoke are made in England anymore, and probably none of the Scottish, and none of the Balkans (which shouldn't really include Turkish tobacco, but presumably does).  But they're useful shorthand. 

And "Lakeland" has become useful shorthand for the more floral-type blends we're talking about.  Sure, all SG/GH are technically "Lakeland", but they don't all feature the floral-type scents and flavors commonly known as "Lakeland" that are featured only in tobaccos made by those blenders (or only by GH, really)?  If you distinguish merely as scented or unscented, that's essentially the same as saying aro or non-aro (whisky, chocolate, grape)?  Because the scented blends are not named for their scents (instead having names like Ennerdale which tells us nothing), I think it's legit to speak of a typical Lakeland sauce. Plus, people are going to continue to do it anyway.  

Did I say all this before?    

My grandma's "scent" was all Jim Beam and Benson & Hedges.

Someone once said that Old Paris or macouba snuff reminded them of how grandma's underwear smelled.

Which begs the question......

One of the reasons I enjoy the floral Lakeland blends is because such various toppings, casings, what-have-you, seem to help accentuate by contrast the Virginia's especially, rather than sublimate them. Examples of this for me are Condor, Revor Plug, Erinmore Plug, Ennerdale Flake, Kendal Flake & Plug, etc... In all, they enhance the experience for me.

I have probably smoked another 4 ounces of the Black and Brown. I wish more of you would try it so I can feel like I am part of the discussion here. It does everything an aro should do, at least for me. Plus it is in bulk and cheap. It also doesn't remind me of a pair of trailboss panties.

I've smoked several Lakeland aromatic blends over the last three months and am hooked. My ranking thus far is:

1. GH Bosun Cut Plug Unscented (Bosun Cut Plug [i.e., scented] is in the mail),
2. GH Rum Flake or Kendal Flake (Both are wonderful - can't make up my mind),
3. GH Ennerdale,
4. SG Kendal Cream,
5. GH Grasmere Flake,
6. GH Brown Flake Vanilla,
6. GH Kendal Dark Vanilla (I need to try this one again. I didn't like it the first time around, but it was my first Lakeland aromatic and, perhaps, a bit of a shock).