Have you ever tasted the following in a Cigar?

[zmancbr]

Just once could taste honey: in a Edmundo Dantes 54.

Wow that one surprises me...I haven't smoked any to know (I do have a gifted one from a great friend of mine), but I would've figured Monte-esque flavors not honey.

For me I get chocolate in varying degrees in Montes, RG (especially the PC and Perals), and occasionally in a few other cigars like SP. It will vary from deep rich bakers chocolate to just a light sweet milk chocolate flavor.

The honey I get is almost always in LGCs. The #3 and #4 ALWAYS have a nice vein of honey in them that just melts on your tongue with all the lovely floral back-notes.

[RagingPorkBun]

I've tasted a great number of things in a cigar. Haven't tasted honey in a long time though. Think I last tasted honey was in a NC Cohiba. Cream and chocolate are pretty common.

[stunod]

Chocolate & cream, yes, those are the profiles I look for. Monte Grand Edmundo lots of chocolate, Monte pe cream, but never honey. A few people say honey in aged Cohiba, my taste buds don't pick it up.

I'm sure if 10 people tried a cigar, we would get different flavors picked up.

[DoubleDD]

I had a JLo 2 yesterday with immense toasted marshmallow notes.

[Dbone]

Chocolate has two possibilities? Dark chocolate or Milk Chocolate. Dark chocolate yes, but milk chocolate is rare. I've only really had that flavor nailed from a VR Unicos, it was one of those smokes you never forget. It was like drinking a glass of chocolate milk.

[Mr.T]

I like where you are going with this Prez! I don't come across honey often other than some PLs and Trinidad. I've got some more work to do in the palate training department

[CaptainQuintero]

Cream I refer to as the flavour, not thickness of smoke.

[Drguano]

I just smoked one of the original release Por Larranaga Magnificos to celebrate the Vernal Equinox. I was trying to put a name to the predominant flavor and came across this thread. Honey and tons of it! I had been thinking caramel but not exactly. Definitely honey.

[DWC]

Last night I had a JLPC that I could taste milk chocolate but that is unusual for me.

Usually I get a lot of bakers chocolate from the cold aroma but not the smoke.

Now what kind of honey are you talking about? The store bought single blossom type crap that tastes practically like corn syrup or good natural local wild flower type. There's a huge difference! My Grandfather and Father kept bees for a period of time and I can't touch store bought honey. I'd love to have that 'good honey' flavor in a cigar

Occasionally/rarely I taste honey (store bought), but usually it is some other kind of sweetness. Usually Cohiba's

Cream flavor, no. But creamy type feel to the smoke, yes

As a side note, I have never tasted 'bread' either that some people talk about.

[westg]

Definitely had milky chocolate , have some dark petit monti edmudos that are very bitter chocolate and very nice.

[Yagermeister]

The one stick I definitely got honey from was a Fonseca No. 1. I do get floral notes out of RyJ Short Churchills sometimes, but not sweet enough to qualify as honey.

I get more chocolate out of NCs, personally.

[Skyfall]

After many years of smoking cigars, I tasted something new today.

1999 LGC Tainos

Really rich and creamy but a specific taste of walnuts! I've had many cigars with a nutty taste, but none this much of a define walnut taste.

Loved it!

Anybody else ever get walnuts?

( insert deeznuts joke here)

[dangolf18]

Cream yes. Chocolate not so much. Honey very rarely...only in some aged cohibas.

[PuffDaddie]

Had a VR Maestros from -07 pure dark chocolate.

[Ghabanos]

Honey is a toughy

[ogus]

I would like espresso with cayenne please

[markmurase]

I certainly am not very good at picking up certain flavors and defining / naming them.

Of course it very much depends on your taste/smell frame of reference for other things like food and drinks, or anything really, so imo it will probably differ quite a lot depending on the region where you live, culture, or just personal preferences / habits.

A taste which I usually can pick up quite easily is nuts (hazelnuts actually) in e.g. a RASS.

Chocolate is also something that I pick up regularly.

Honey on the other hand is something that has never entered my mind when I taste a cigar.

When I taste sweetness in a cigar (like e.g. in the PL Robusto RE), I connect that more with a caramel kind of sweetness.

Of course when somebody says at that moment that it tastes like honey, then I will make that mental note as well and then that sweetness will taste a lot more honey-like than before. But on my own, tasting honey in a cigar, no, never happened.

Just my opinion.

I've never tasted honey either, but I do look forward to finding it some day I agree that caramel does come through sometimes.

[markmurase]

I do find the thing cigars taste most like is ......... Cigars

Just stirring - I actually love finding flavours in cigars.

[fabes]

I've found definite unmistakable honey in the two Viaje's I've had. Chocolate and cream pretty regularly. More often I get baking cocoa.

[johnhenry]

Cream: Aged SPbeli,rass,RA cf NC buetra,Ashton cab.

Honey: coro, cola aged, behike NC Fuente signature ( big honey blast when you light the nipple) and most of the Hemingway line.

Chocolate: Cohiba secreto NC liga #9 toro aged a year

Other not so common things I have tasted are burnt marshmallow in some of the dec cabs of party shorts when they were fresh, tin or metallic in vsg rounds and old opus, citrus and raisin in fresh opus, and only twice have I tasted meat ,but I don't remember what cigar. Oh ya when the p2 came out pumpkin pie.

[maxcjs0101]

I get honey, nuts and chocolate (when paired with coffee) in almost all my Cubans.

[ZinZan]

I like where you are going with this Prez! I don't come across honey often other than some PLs and Trinidad. I've got some more work to do in the palate training department

Now that you metion it PLs yeah especially PLPC. Trinidads hmmmm.

[Perla]

After many years of smoking cigars, I tasted something new today.

1999 LGC Tainos

Really rich and creamy but a specific taste of walnuts! I've had many cigars with a nutty taste, but none this much of a define walnut taste.

Loved it!

Anybody else ever get walnuts?

( insert deeznuts joke here)

Have a box of H.U. Connie#1 with a lot of walnut taste.

Honey, chocolate I found often in ERDM or PL.

[mgravito]

Chocolate I find pretty often, but more of a cocoa powder than a milk chocolate bar.

Cream, I seem to find both in terms of the viscosity of the smoke as well as the sort of milky/fatiness that coats my mouth.

Honey, I find rarely. Usually with CoRos.

[rmill3r]

My concept of flavor profiles started with whisky. I was amazed at how many different profiles, aromas, etc. came out of an alcoholic drink, and then when I came over to cigars I didn't find that I "picked out" as much. In a whisky, I could get fruits, ocean spray, vanilla, oak, caramel, figs, candy, etc., etc. With cigars, it was often just leather, wood, or general earth. More and more, though, milk, coffee, cream, chocolate, and various spices and herbs are usually what I pick out of a smoke. It still doesn't generally go further than that though.