Flavorah Oriental Tobacco
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Setup: Mutation X v2, dual 8 wrap 26g kanthal 3 mm ID, cotton wicks @ 55-60 Watts.
Testing: Flavorah Oriental Tobacco @ 1.5%, steeped 1 month.
Flavor description: From Flavorah: “Nutty and bright sun cured tobacco, like a fresh opened pack. Some cedar notes are present. This tobacco flavor has low or no ash content, making it great to use in a flavor profile where you want a crisp tobacco note, but not the heavy ash, or spice of darker tobaccos.” I don’t personally get the nutty (maybe I’m turning in to a nutty mute?) and I do get a hint of some spice. Maybe the cedar note I’m picking up as spice. I think this makes a great base to build a Turkish Blend on. I prefer to use this with a little bit of HS Elder Captain over FLV Turkish. Their Turkish gets a bit weird for me. The tobacco in the Oriental is a crisp and bright Tobacco, not completely different than their Cured or Native. Not smoky or ashy really. It’s got some pretty nice body to it. It could probably work as a stand-alone around 2%, but I like to keep it around 1-1.5% and build on top of it.
Off flavors: Some of the FLV tobaccos give me a weird laundromat taste when I take them too high. I don’t think this is very common, but I know that it at least happens to a guy I work with. But at 1.5% it’s not really noticeable, and I mix with it closer to 1-1.25%, and don’t pick it up in a mix. But FLV usually doesn’t require enough to bring out any of those off notes.
Pairings: Throw Some Spices in with it. Some Fig or raisin. Goes really well with that raisin smell from a fresh pack (I use INW Fortuna Strike.) I imagine it would play nicely with some fruits. Maybe some Wood Spice if you want to exploit that cedar note and get really woodsy.
Second Opinions: For some reason I couldn’t really find any other notes on it. Not sure why, I think it’s probably one of my favorites from FLV. Anyone got any second opinions?
I suppose since there’s no second opinions and only 2 public recipes for it on ATF, I’ll throw out my Turkish for Pipe recipe just to give some more ideas on how to use it.