POLL: What are the Flavours that you seek/enjoy most in a cigar.

[El Presidente]

Carrying on from recent threads. let's see where this leads. 

Please use the poll .....but pick three only 

Not that easy I know. Think to yourself, If I were to buy one cigar today ....to smoke today, which three characteristics would I be looking at 

 

[JohnS]

Just three? 

Okay then, I love my creamy textured, sweet spiced (especially honey and/or vanilla) and coffee/toast/bread flavoured cigars. Call me a 'sweet tooth!' 

[tigger]

Really not a fair question. 

What I like is really circumstantial/mood based.

I went for what circumstances/mood draw me to most often: Savoury Spice, Coffee/Toast, and nuts. (though earth tends to come along with most of these).

But there are times when I go in a very different direction,

[PuffDaddie]

Love the wood and coco

[El Presidente]

4 minutes ago, tigger said:

Really not a fair question. 

What I like is really circumstantial/mood based.

I went for what circumstances/mood draw me to most often: Savoury Spice, Coffee/Toast, and nuts. (though earth tends to come along with most of these).

But there are times when I go in a very different direction,

It wasn't meant to be fair 

[Fuzz]

I prefer savoury foods to sweet foods, but in a cigar I want cream, chocoloate/cocoa and sweet spices. I'd also pick coffee/toast, but then that would be four...

[MrGlass]

9 minutes ago, Fuzz said:

I prefer savoury foods to sweet foods, but in a cigar I want cream, chocoloate/cocoa and sweet spices. I'd also pick coffee/toast, but then that would be four...

I was in the same boat Fuzz, but also wanting to throw citrus in the mix as well, but then that would be five.

[cookj1]

...love me some Cuban twang.  

[HDGSN]

Had to go with my 3 favorites: Cream, Sweet Spice, and Nuts, but I was close to picking Citrus. 

[planetary]

The only reason I didn't pick cream is because I think it's sometimes more of a mouthfeel than a proper flavor.

...at least, that's what I'm telling myself as I click other boxes in this poll...

[cfc1016]

Agreed with @planetary about ‘cream’ being more of a mouthfeel than a flavor. 

I voted spices/cocoa/coffee. My real favorite is not represented though - proper meaty flavor. I get blasts of this from time to time. It’s like the iron of a bloody beef steak, with that buttery overtone and creamy mouthfeel (the marble). Combine that with the salt (which is not a savory flavor) and the cocoa and I’m delighted. 

This is why i love a reyes so much. 

[El Presidente]

4 hours ago, planetary said:

The only reason I didn't pick cream is because I think it's sometimes more of a mouthfeel than a proper flavor.

...at least, that's what I'm telling myself as I click other boxes in this poll...

Work with me 

for the purposes of the exercise, cream and salt are flavours......if one can taste it...it is a flavour ...or close enough

[joeypots]

I have the palette of a billy goat and have long been flummoxed by the descriptions of cigar flavors people here can discern.  That word twang works for me. Put it in a smooth, potent cigar with a little chocolate and leather and I’m all in. 

[ayepatz]

I’m many light-years from being any sort of super-taster, but I love the gamey meatiness you see in Bolis and some SLRs, the creaminess I’ve often found in well aged Upmann Mag 46s, but, above all, the saltiness of SP. Furthermore, ‘driftwood’ is still my favourite tasting note to date, @El Presidente. Perfectly sums up that seaside feeling I always get from SP!

[Cayman17]

For some reason I am delighted when I detect wine/cherries in a cigar.  Same goes for a distinct chocolate/cocoa flavor. 

[Wilzc]

I agree, cream is more mouthfeel rather than a taste for me. Normally has todo with combustion and smoke output as well.

[ayepatz]

24 minutes ago, Wilzc said:

I agree, cream is more mouthfeel rather than a taste for me. Normally has todo with combustion and smoke output as well.

It’s brilliant how we’re all wired differently. I get cream as a very distinct flavour on the retrohale, but I never get Bell pepper/capsicum. Weirdly that one’s more of a mouthfeel for me. 

[backbone]

Whatever is in a Monte 4!

I always go back to that profile as a favorite!

RG, and LGC also have a similar profile to me.

[earthson]

There's a note I call "musky." It doesn't refer to a cologne-type/Egyptian musk or the must I get in extremely aged tobacco. I have tried to define it using other notes and just cannot. I assume it is, in reality, a complex combination of many more-familiar notes as listed above.

That wasn't on the list, but I would have chosen it hands-down if it were.

[NSXCIGAR]

So a cigar with a core of cream, sweet spices with a touch of chocolate/cocoa would be the most popular blend...let's get someone on this! 

[El Presidente]

9 minutes ago, NSXCIGAR said:

So a cigar with a core of cream, sweet spices with a touch of chocolate/cocoa would be the most popular blend...let's get someone on this! 

That's the point. 

That is what Habanos is making.  

If someone wants "old school" earth, leather, savoury spice.....good luck getting one out of HSA right now. Why would they make one?

[Fugu]

On 9.5.2018 at 8:05 PM, ayepatz said:

It’s brilliant how we’re all wired differently. I get cream as a very distinct flavour on the retrohale, but I never get Bell pepper/capsicum. Weirdly that one’s more of a mouthfeel for me. 

Sweet paprica can be nice. But green bell pepper/capsicum for me is the taste of young, unready (or even underfermented) tobacco. Your typical solanaceous note. Not after it at all. Likewise, I am looking the least for chocolate in a cigar (rare exceptions, for a change). My preferred LEs are those with the least expressed or totally lacking chocolate note.

21 hours ago, El Presidente said:

That's the point. 

That is what Habanos is making.  

If someone wants "old school" earth, leather, savoury spice.....good luck getting one out of HSA right now. Why would they make one?

Yep, a shame...

Very tricky aspect, which is why I find it hard to vote. You wouldn't necessarily want a combo of any top voting three in one cigar. E.g. a citrusy / lemon grass note can be extremely nice, complementing the "profile" in combination with particular other flavours (e.g. with the "beaniness" of a young Cohiba, vanilla, honey, coffee). However, combined with the stonefruit (dried apricot/peach) of SLR (DC), which I also love, I wouldn't find it to be a highly attractive addition. With the earthiness of Bolívar or a Party 898, I wouldn't want caramel. A hypothetical combo of the final three top votes might end up in a quite disgusting chimaera of a cigar, or - at best - in a universal mainstream profile (the latter seems to be the case, with a majority favouring the sweetish-creamy-chocolaty side of things). Couldn't work that way. At least I wouldn't be a strong proponent of such an approach.

I am missing the option for floral and herbal-spice notes in the poll, such as could be found in aged LGC MdO or VRC.

[aj60s]

It´s hard to choose because I really enjoy them all sometimes. Today it was fruit, sweet spices and cream for me. I think the closest thing I have would be SLR Pacificos.

[El Presidente]

55 minutes ago, Fugu said:

I am missing the option for floral and herbal-spice notes in the poll, such as could be found in aged LGC MdO or VRC.

In my personal top 5 cigars are the Partagas 898 and Upmann Magnum 46.  You won't find much chocolate cream there 

I could have put in the option for floral/herbal  and I suspect it would have finished stone motherless last.  That in no way diminishes your taste preferences  (or anyone else's).  

59 minutes ago, Fugu said:

Sweet paprica can be nice. But green bell pepper/capsicum for me is the taste of young, unready (or even underfermented) tobacco

Capsicum/bell peppers that I refer to are those that are roasted on the  BBQ coals. That smoky sweetness with an ever so slight vegetal note. I find it in spades in D4.  poorly explained on my behalf. 

 

The problem is that we are dealing with the worst of both worlds in a JV featuring a multinational corporation and a broke supplier.  There is no room for "boutique" at this time. 

[OllyBond]

On 5/8/2018 at 9:45 PM, cookj1 said:

...love me some Cuban twang.  

I guess that is the flavor you get that makes you say yep this is a cuban. I started my cigar smoking hobby with cigars like Rocky Patel and Alec Bradley, which ultimately ended with smoking mostly padron anniversary maduros. When I had my first real cuban, a flavor I never tasted before hit me and man did I love it. I can taste it in a JLP, the only thing i actually liked about, but just to state my point. Normally, I don't really think about different flavors when smoking besides mmm good aged tobacco, I either like it, really like it, or don't. But, the other night I lit a bolivar RC and i said to myself, lets see what flavors we can find. It was fun. It had the twang which was great, it had a funky taste like rotten dirt from the earth( which I guess would fall in the category of earthy and peat) mixed with like a burnt aged steak, it had a wonderful thick creamy texture to the smoke(my favorite texture).  Then around the halfway point a pretty drastic change in flavors happened.  It was that twang with a mix of a very noticable black licorice flavor and not so noticable sweet spices.  In conclusion, I always thought cigar reviews were wierd, now i see that it can really enhance the smoking experience.