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Username: Sasquatch
Post Number: 288
Registered: 05-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, December 31, 2006 - 08:29 pm: | |
Ordinarily, an aromatic is something with a scent or flavouring agent added to it, in order to give it a non-tobacco smell both in the tin and in the smoke. I certainly wouldn't consider Irish Oak to be an aromatic, though there is, I understand, a wine ingredient to it, so it might qualify after all. Usually, aromatics smell like Vanilla, or Maple, or fruit, or rum or something nice like that, and Irish Oak smells like burning socks, so I sure wouldn't call it an aromatic from that point of view. Actually, it's not that offensive, but it's too reminiscient of cigarettes to be to my piping taste. As always, there are products which defy any particular set of definitions. Sort of a Godel's Theorem for tobacco. |