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Post by Legend Lover on Sept 7, 2018 3:18:52 GMT -5
Let me clarify...
So when I smoke, I can smell the smoke and it smells great...BUT...
When I am in the presence of someone ELSE who is smoking a pipe (let's say it's the same blend), the smoke smells SO MUCH better.
Does this happen to anyone else or is it just me?
If it DOES happen to others, any idea why that is?
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Post by morallynomadic on Sept 7, 2018 4:17:59 GMT -5
I wish I could offer you an explanation but I would only be guessing. I experience this as well.
I am always asking my wife and daughters how a blend smells when I try it for the first time and the answers I get don't always make sense. They say McClelland 2020 smells "pretty good" but Mississippi River bothers them a little bit, and they have similar components. I was also told that Dreams of Kadath just smells like cigarettes even though it's got a huge range of flavors.
Room notes are tricky.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2018 11:02:45 GMT -5
I'm glad you can smell the essence of what's in your pipe. It must be nice to be able to do so.
For the most part I am not able to smell. All I get is the bland smell of smoke. The same is true with food don't smell much there
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Post by Matthew on Sept 7, 2018 11:55:41 GMT -5
Paddy,when you smell the smoke from your own
smoking it is altered by what you taste.The room
note from anothers smoking is a purer aroma.
That coupled with being jealous that they are smoking
and your not,,,,you know,grass is greener on the
other side thing.Desire to light up with them....
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Post by stilllernin on Sept 7, 2018 12:08:25 GMT -5
Half the enjoyment of pipe smoking is the aroma it smells nice for sure, subtle sweetness like some sweet confectionary delight, even otcs have a nice aroma to them, smoking with a sweet like coffee with cremer can enhance the experience.
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Post by stilllernin on Sept 7, 2018 12:10:26 GMT -5
I've smoked ryo with a few blends just for the room note at times.
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Post by Legend Lover on Sept 7, 2018 12:16:40 GMT -5
Paddy,when you smell the smoke from your own smoking it is altered by what you taste.The room note from anothers smoking is a purer aroma. That coupled with being jealous that they are smoking and your not,,,,you know,grass is greener on the other side thing.Desire to light up with them.... You may have nailed it there. I can see the difference. I wish it was nicer for me as a first person smoker rather than a third person smoker. |
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Post by slowroll on Sept 7, 2018 12:17:17 GMT -5
Yep, noticed that for years. When i'm smoking in a smaller room it's nice when I leave it, then come back to the aroma.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2018 12:20:00 GMT -5
So when I smoke, I can smell the smoke and it smells great...BUT... When I am in the presence of someone ELSE who is smoking a pipe (let's say it's the same blend), the smoke smells SO MUCH better. Actually, I experience the opposite, LL. Tobacco smells best when I am smoking it. |
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Post by Legend Lover on Sept 7, 2018 12:24:00 GMT -5
So when I smoke, I can smell the smoke and it smells great...BUT... When I am in the presence of someone ELSE who is smoking a pipe (let's say it's the same blend), the smoke smells SO MUCH better. Actually, I experience the opposite, LL. Tobacco smells best when I am smoking it. now that IS interesting...to me, anyway. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2018 14:27:04 GMT -5
So when I smoke, I can smell the smoke and it smells great...BUT... When I am in the presence of someone ELSE who is smoking a pipe (let's say it's the same blend), the smoke smells SO MUCH better. Actually, I experience the opposite, LL. Tobacco smells best when I am smoking it. I too enjoy the aroma of my tobacco’s once lit, puffing clouds of smoke👌👍👍 |
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Post by beardedmi on Sept 7, 2018 14:34:23 GMT -5
This is a minor bit off topic but related if indirectly. My wife and I both enjoy pipes and cigars, she tends to pick a blend or cigar and that's her smoke. While we were at the chicago show this year wandering the smoking tent on friday at the preshowshow I kept looking around for anyone smoking a pipe near enough I'd catch wind of it and there wasnt anyone. We would go from table to table and I'm looking for a smoker close enough to waft smoke at me steong enough I'd smell it. This went on for almost 45 minutes, and I'm getting frustrated cuz this mug is following me and I cant pick him out of a crowd aside from the room note of his tobacco. Wife and I stop to talk to some friends and I walk through her smoke.. it was her the whole damn time. So Arrowhead pipe club mixture is the tobacco that smells like pipe tobacco should to me. I don't know why but its what my brain says pipe smoke smells like. I enjoy the room note more than the smoke because of my thoughts on its scent. Now that theres a memory associated with that smoke I'll remember that moment whenever she smokes it.
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Post by Screaming Jazz on Sept 7, 2018 14:36:43 GMT -5
haven't been around someone smoking when I'm not. Never asked my roommates if it smells good either. I'll smoke a bowl later and ask my roommates what it smells like.
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Post by driftingfate on Sept 7, 2018 18:29:57 GMT -5
It's the curse of the pipe smoker - the pipe brings us pleasure and we bring pleasure to others, but we can't have our cake and eat it too.
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Post by Mork on Sept 7, 2018 19:36:37 GMT -5
I am in the camp that actually finds more pleasure in the smoking portion than the room note- at least with the blends I smoke. I was out in the country for a few days and got to smoke inside as a result. Walked out and back in, was stunned at how different it was from what I experienced. Not bad really, just... very very different.
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Post by driftingfate on Sept 7, 2018 20:22:19 GMT -5
just... very very different. Fits your avatar.  |
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Post by Legend Lover on Sept 8, 2018 3:28:40 GMT -5
I'm glad others are experiencing this too. It baffles me as to why we can't smell what others are smelling if we're the ones smoking. Just one of those things that we may never fully understand. I'm ok with that.
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Post by briarpipenyc on Sept 8, 2018 8:25:47 GMT -5
Legend.... One of the biggest disappointments that I ever experienced was facing the reality that pipe smoke from some other guy's pipe smelled way better than the smoke coming from MY own pipe....and my smoke smelled, and tasted nothing like the cherries, chocolate, honey, walnuts, figs, stone fruit, baked bread, camp fire, etc.......yada, yada, yada, I feel your pain. When I was 16 years old, when I first started, Mixture No.79, Cherry Blend, Rum and Maple, etc, always disappointed, and always smelled better when someone else was doing the smoking. Now, I learned to deal with it. But I still like smelling smoke from someone else's pipe, better. I think once the smoke from your own tobacco runs past your taste buds, and into your nose/throat, your sense-of-smell gets screwed up.
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Post by Legend Lover on Sept 8, 2018 8:32:36 GMT -5
Legend.... One of the biggest disappointments that I ever experienced was facing the reality that pipe smoke from some other guy's pipe smelled way better than the smoke coming from MY own pipe....and my smoke smelled, and tasted nothing like the cherries, chocolate, honey, walnuts, figs, stone fruit, baked bread, camp fire, etc.......yada, yada, yada, I feel your pain. When I was 16 years old, when I first started, Mixture No.79, Cherry Blend, Rum and Maple, etc, always disappointed, and always smelled better when someone else was doing the smoking. Now, I learned to deal with it. But I still like smelling smoke from someone else's pipe, better. Frank NYC We can cry together... Actually, that's the solution... Smoke the same stuff with someone else. You get to Smell it and smoke it too. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2018 8:38:29 GMT -5
Legend.... One of the biggest disappointments that I ever experienced was facing the reality that pipe smoke from some other guy's pipe smelled way better than the smoke coming from MY own pipe....and my smoke smelled, and tasted nothing like the cherries, chocolate, honey, walnuts, figs, stone fruit, baked bread, camp fire, etc.......yada, yada, yada, I feel your pain. When I was 16 years old, when I first started, Mixture No.79, Cherry Blend, Rum and Maple, etc, always disappointed, and always smelled better when someone else was doing the smoking. Now, I learned to deal with it. But I still like smelling smoke from someone else's pipe, better. Frank NYC We can cry together... Actually, that's the solution... Smoke the same stuff with someone else. You get to Smell it and smoke it too. That’s one reason I never share a public restroom, learned that the hard way over 40 years ago.....lol. I’m one that never makes the same mistake twice!! |
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Post by briarpipenyc on Sept 8, 2018 8:50:27 GMT -5
I once asked this forum?.....if it was possible to burn your favorite pipe blend(s)...without actually smoking them yourself and thus destroying the pure joy of the blend's aroma? It was suggested that I sprinkle some of my favorite tobacco over a small, pure charcoal, block. I found some of these charcoal "pills" in stores where they sell incense, aromatic oils, etc. It works. Just light up a charcoal block and stick it in an ashtray, wait for it to get ashy, and sprinkle your favorite tobacco onto the smoldering charcoal. Done! It perfumes the room with that special fragrance from your own tobacco blend, and....the best part..... you get to be totally passive. Just sit down, listen to some music, eat, read a book, and sniff away.
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Post by Legend Lover on Sept 8, 2018 9:11:38 GMT -5
I once asked this forum?.....if it was possible to burn your favorite pipe blend(s)...without actually smoking them yourself and thus destroying the pure joy of the blend's aroma? It was suggested that I sprinkle some of my favorite tobacco over a small, pure charcoal, block. I found some of these charcoal "pills" in stores where they sell incense, aromatic oils, etc. It works. Just light up a charcoal block and stick it in an ashtray, wait for it to get ashy, and sprinkle your favorite tobacco onto the smoldering charcoal. Done! It perfumes the room with that special fragrance from your own tobacco blend, and....the best part..... you get to be totally passive. Just sit down, listen to some music, eat, read a book, and sniff away. Frank NYC I tried that with bbq coals after I was finished cooking. Sprinkled a pinch of a tobacco I didn't care for on the coals and it smelled fantastic. |
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Post by rmb on Sept 8, 2018 10:40:09 GMT -5
That's an amazing idea! How many aros do people have hanging around that they bought for the room note to make other people comfortable while they smoke but they don't care for the taste? I like aros and even I have a couple. Just turn that mess into incense!
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Post by Legend Lover on Sept 8, 2018 10:59:07 GMT -5
That's an amazing idea! How many aros do people have hanging around that they bought for the room note to make other people comfortable while they smoke but they don't care for the taste? I like aros and even I have a couple. Just turn that mess into incense! Repackage it and you could make a fortune. I don't see the fda on the heels of insence manufacturers (although, to be fair, I didn't check). |
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Post by trailboss on Sept 8, 2018 11:25:32 GMT -5
I know that when I sing along to Eric Burden on The house of the rising sun, I nail it, perfect pitch. Not sure about other’s perception. I hear you Paddy, I am pretty much where you are at. |
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Post by Legend Lover on Sept 8, 2018 12:45:06 GMT -5
I know that when I sing along to Eric Burden on The house of the rising sun, I nail it, perfect pitch. Not sure about other’s perception. I hear you Paddy, I am pretty much where you are at. 😂😂 that's another thread altogether. I sound great in my own head. But I AM surprised how many people are with me in this. Normally I'm a freak on my own. |
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Post by pepesdad1 on Sept 8, 2018 13:31:37 GMT -5
Wife is allergic to smoke, hence I smoke by myself on the porch or in the A/C'd shed. Bummer! Never get to smell what I am smoking, unless I go out of the room and then come back in. Since it is hot outside, I don't do that too often.
Didn't add one thing to this thread, except words.
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Post by Legend Lover on Sept 8, 2018 13:43:09 GMT -5
Wife is allergic to smoke, hence I smoke by myself on the porch or in the A/C'd shed. Bummer! Never get to smell what I am smoking, unless I go out of the room and then come back in. Since it is hot outside, I don't do that too often. Didn't add one thing to this thread, except words. That's fine by me though. I now know you a little better. |
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Post by rmb on Sept 8, 2018 13:45:23 GMT -5
Wife is allergic to smoke, hence I smoke by myself on the porch or in the A/C'd shed. Bummer! Never get to smell what I am smoking, unless I go out of the room and then come back in. Since it is hot outside, I don't do that too often. Didn't add one thing to this thread, except words. It's a forum, all we ever add are words. |
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Post by Quintsrevenge on Sept 8, 2018 16:49:38 GMT -5
I also find this happens to me , the smell of pipe tobacco is elegant not harsh where as cigarette smell is a complete turn off to be around.
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