Flavour Blind

[thedame007]

Evening chaps,

Apologies if this has been covered before...

I was just wondering what your weekly cigar consumption looks like? Over the past year I have varied from 1 a week, to 1 a day. However, i have found that after smoking a cigar 4-5 days on a trot I become flavour blind, and the cigars lose their richness, and taste. If i rest for a day or two, and then light one up, then it's like hitting reset on my senses, and i am welcomed back into the arms of habanos.

Have any of you guys recognised cigar fatigue? If so do you also have 'rest' between smokes? I see some of you gents can fire up two cigars in a day...!

Though it pains me to do so, I now tend to have 2 'rest' periods in the week (not consecutive) to ensure that my pallet is refreshed, and i am not wasting the luxury of a great stick.

I also guess it's good for the bank balance...

Patience is a virtue. Apparently. Tsk...

[99call]

I think cigars should always be a treat, even if you want to treat yourself twice a day. 

I do find excessive retrohaling can end up spoiling a smoke, but I think it all depends what you're are smoking, as to how much your palette may be affected. By this I mean, I have noticed diminishing enjoyment if I smoke the same cigar back to back, but when in a varied rotation, I never really notice a down side

Personally I cant stand post cigar mouth, and generally will brush my teeth and tongue (too much information I know) to ensure any stale feeling/taste is gone. I'm not sure if this has any effect, I definitely wouldn't want to have a Michael Jordan day and chug 6 cigars in a day, all the time having a mouth that feels like death.

[shadowACE]

I wish I had this predicament. Unfortunately, due to the winter months where I live and my general lack of free time I rarely get to smoke even one cigar a week. Usually me a some of the boys will head to the nearest cigar lounge once a month in the winter to get our fix. This usually entails a meal fit for a king and a lot of fine whisky with 3-4 cigars consumed over the course of 6 or so hours. I find if the type, size and strength of cigars are varied enough I don't have any difficulty tasting the different flavours from one cigar to the next.

 

[thedame007]

26 minutes ago, 99call said:

I have noticed diminishing enjoyment if I smoke the same cigar back to back, but when in a varied rotation, I never really notice a down side

 Ah, so what I take from this is: BUY MORE CIGARS TO VARY WHAT YOU’RE SMOKING...

you sir, are certainly getting a Christmas card this year (though not from my Bank Manager...) 

But seriously, thank you for your input, and advice - I do tend to retrohale half of each puff, so this may be having an effect on things!

With regard to post-cigar mouth, it’s odd, some cigars leave me with a lovely almost creamy flavour (even after brushing the pearly whites), which I enjoy. Others make me want to eat a very spicy curry . That said, after any smoke, I am guzzling water for hours afterwards. 

[NSXCIGAR]

If I could, I'd smoke all day every day. That being said, obviously that's not realistic. And I do find I need about 30 mins between cigars to kind of refresh my palate. But I've never had any dead palate issues smoking multiple cigars daily. I also do like to vary the cigars I smoke consecutively. I rarely smoke two of the exact same cigars in a row. If I do, they're smaller like Minutos or Perlas. 

[Buck14]

I hardly ever smoke the same cigar in the same day or even week.  I like to mix it up and never had an issue tasting the smoke (excepting the 3-4 days a year when I go crazy and have 5-7 smokes in a day - then my palate does get fatigued).