Davidoff Signature No. 2 2020 (XNYRW5)

[sho671]

After the peppery Padron, this was a nice change of pace. It was started out with pleasant sweet tobacco. Intermittent notes of nuts in the first third that transitioned to a creaminess with some floral/tea notes. Construction was great but I did have a relight at the mid point of the cigar. The cigar also seemed to smoke faster than I expected, which may have been due to the smaller ring gauge.  

2-3/5

[B44]

Thanks for sharing these with us. I’ve noticed that almost all of your reviews are a 1-2 / 5. Begs the question what are your 4-5 cigars? Happy smoking 

[HawkI84]

I really liked the flavor and feel of this one - the creaminess you mention is what I remember most. I was less a fan of what you mentioned about it going fairly quickly, though - I should try a different vitola, but so far haven't pulled the trigger.

[sho671]

23 hours ago, B44 said:

Thanks for sharing these with us. I’ve noticed that almost all of your reviews are a 1-2 / 5. Begs the question what are your 4-5 cigars? Happy smoking 

I haven't found them yet. I started smoking cigars two to three years ago and only really started smoking them regularly about a year ago. I was initially scoring cigars with a binary 0/1 scale, where 0 would be something I didn't enjoy and 1 was something I did. I then switched over to the 0-5 scale based on some suggestions from a couple other users here on the forum and to me the 1-9 scale had to many options while the 0-100 scale isn't a good way to differentiate cigars if most cigars are never marked below ~85 points; meaning the best and worst cigars are only separated by ~15 points. I've been trying to smoke a wide variety of things but haven't really found anything "excellent," "outstanding" or "classic" that I want to buy boxes of and smoke over and over. I rated this Davidoff 2-3/5 and would say it was "very good," and is probably one of the higher rated cigars I smoked but the vitola and smoke time could have been better.

[B44]

19 minutes ago, sho671 said:

I haven't found them yet. I started smoking cigars two to three years ago and only really started smoking them regularly about a year ago. I was initially scoring cigars with a binary 0/1 scale, where 0 would be something I didn't enjoy and 1 was something I did. I then switched over to the 0-5 scale based on some suggestions from a couple other users here on the forum and to me the 1-9 scale had to many options while the 0-100 scale isn't a good way to differentiate cigars if most cigars are never marked below ~85 points; meaning the best and worst cigars are only separated by ~15 points. I've been trying to smoke a wide variety of things but haven't really found anything "excellent," "outstanding" or "classic" that I want to buy boxes of and smoke over and over. I rated this Davidoff 2-3/5 and would say it was "very good," and is probably one of the higher rated cigars I smoked but the vitola and smoke time could have been better.

The chart helps to clarify. I was thinking you meant 3/5 = 60% in the traditional sense. But it seems like you have your own methodology. Very interesting.

Really appreciate you putting this out here. 

[sho671]

23 hours ago, B44 said:

The chart helps to clarify. I was thinking you meant 3/5 = 60% in the traditional sense. But it seems like you have your own methodology. Very interesting.

Really appreciate you putting this out here. 

I can't take credit for the graphic or the scales depicted. I just find the 0-5 scale suits my preference; fairly effortless but more involved than my previous binary scale.