Odd ways to describe flavour

[soutso]

Hello,

When reading reviews we see the usual accepted terms to describe flavours. Spicy, chocolate, cocoa, butter, citrus etc

I thought it would be good to describe flavours in a more raw state, in a way that's probably inappropriate for a formal review but one that may make you laugh in relating to it or even make you feel better to know there's others out there that feel the same.

I'll go first:

When I enjoy a cigar I get a taste that almost reminds me of when I was a kid and couldn't resist taking out a 9v battery from my speed racing set and put the terminals on my tongue - ahh that cuban twang!

[PigFish]

Nik here is one for you.

During the fuel crisis in the 70's my little gang of thugs and I used to siphon gas to make our machines run (motorcycles). Tannins taste like gasoline to me!

I often describe a gasoline taste in cigars (if I taste it of course).

Cheers! -R

[Onelove]

Earlier in life I was a marine mechanic and so always smelling fuels and oils etc., lately in a few sticks I'm getting a taste of burnt motor oil.

Can't for the life of me understand why a cigar would taste like that and chalked it up to my lack of experience or some kind of weird flashback to my earlier life.

Either way I have no other description for this taste.

At least the snozzberries taste like snozzberries.

[Overproof]

Sometimes, on smell at cold I'm reminded of my Grandad's bag of prunes.

[Ginseng]

Sometimes, on smell at cold I'm reminded of my Grandad's bag of prunes.

And by "bag of prunes" you mean...

Wilkey

[DWC]

When I open my wineador I get a sweet fermenting aroma that smells a lot like the corn silage at the dairy farm down the road from me.

[leftimatic]

And by "bag of prunes" you mean...

Wilkey

Oh gad Wilkey, it's way to early.

Uh, anybody know how to get coffee spray off a computer screen.

Back to topic. My wife makes a rice dish that when I put in my mouth and take a drink of black coffee and retrohale from the bottom of my throat while chewing tastes like a Montecristo. She just kind of stares at me when I'm eating and sipping and breathing heavily through my nose. If I said why I was doing all this she would probably leave the table. Sometimes she doesn't understand. And a Punch Punch tastes exactly the same as I imagined cigars would taste when I was a kid.

[earthson]

Sometimes, on smell at cold I'm reminded of my Grandad's bag of prunes.

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Joke aside, I often find dried fruit flavours in Cuban cigars, not do much in NCs. Don't care to pair wine with NCs either as it seems it is the musty/twangy fruit aspect in most CCs that pair well with red wine.

Other than that, it is absolutely normal to associate something one is tasting with a taste out of one's memory. That's why it's important to experiment with as many tastes as possible if one wants to be able to fully appreciate wine, cigars and others on the intellectual level. You can only pick from your own memory when trying to identify tastes and aromas

[Overproof]

I left the window wide open with that one.

[dvickery]

Talk about mnemonic triggers ... I always have to laugh when someone tastes leather in a cigar.

My first job when I finished high school ... Was working on a ranch as a cowboy .

Whenever someone tastes leather I think ... Cowboys ass .

Derrek

[BonVivant]

I find leather refferences in relation to Juan Lopez and Sancho Panza, but I Personally never tasted Cowboy's ass - that I leave to the more seasoned smokers

[Ginseng]

Bag of prunes, cowboys' asses...not sure I understand where this is going.

But in the spirit of the thread, the young Ramon Allones Estupendos smelled of sweaty prunes in a leather bag. At the time, I interpreted this as portentious of greatness...alas, it has turned out to be the scent of promise unfulfilled.

Wilkey

[saintsmokealot]

Sometimes I find the strange flavors of tobacco...

[rodrigodeanda]

I really don't like reading cigar reviews until I've smoked one piece. Sometimes I find "odd" flavours just to later find that people have tasted the same odd flavours in their reviews, that makes me feel like I'm not crazy and I'm not making up a flavour profile of a cigar Makes sense?

[subport]

I was a swimmer for almost 20 years. In some cigars I get the feeling (note not only taste) when I first dived into the cold water 6am. Its kinda like the chlorine in the pool.

Its a pozitive feeling though but weird

[LeafLover]

So I'm smoking this nice HUHC and I get that nice, sweet, viscous/thick smoke as you get from a good H. Upmann and I've always thought that I've felt this sensation before.

Well, I go into the house and I had the AHA moment. I ate a banana and that's what it was.

A nice, sweet, viscous H. Upmann is like eating a sweet, starchy banana.

[EuroTrash]

Sometimes I have cigars that are plugged and give off what I can only call a burnt popcorn taste.

[sw15825]

Nik here is one for you.

During the fuel crisis in the 70's my little gang of thugs and I used to siphon gas to make our machines run (motorcycles). Tannins taste like gasoline to me!

I often describe a gasoline taste in cigars (if I taste it of course).

Cheers! -R

Or hints of diesel fuel or kerosene in the D4 s. This doesn't seem to be as apparent in more recent productions to me.

[sw15825]

Sometimes I have cigars that are plugged and give off what I can only call a burnt popcorn taste.

Yes, and thats about all except for some dirt and pencil lead flavor in plugs.

[sw15825]

I guess the point is there are so many flavors that remind us at least fleetingly.

It's a great cigar that has all the good reminders of the tastes we like best.

The good ones that have some of both good and a little bad.

The poor ones that taste like, well things were not supposed to eat. But to someone else, they might find great, tastes that they appreciate.

Totally subjective for sure. And never completely the same, even from the same code month or even box for that matter. Each experience is a new journey and what will you find? Pretty fun really!

[dougincanada]

I smoked part of a cuban cigar that smoked like an old rope then threw it out. It may have had old rope in it. If you live in the far north you may say a cigar tastes like roast caribou or reindeer, where as in the far south you may say roast wallaby or lamb....