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Smoking a new Nudie, and it got me thinking. I've always had my best cigar moments indoor smoking,  with incredibly aromatic cigars, just enjoying a great cigar as the foot smoke hangs in the air. Obviously you wouldn't want to be without any aspect of cigar smoking, but what part of cigar smoking is your favourite in order?  Mine is

1, Foot smoke

2, Retro

3, Palate smoke

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Foot,retro,palate

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3 minutes ago, KCCubano said:

100% indoors these days. 

Do you find you are able to pick up and discern flavours more distinctly/accurately with you palate, or is in more of a sensation type thing. i.e. mouthfeel

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Let me just chime in that the aroma from these Canonazos is fantastic. Rob was not blowing smoke. No pun! Some NC cigars have unpleasant aromas. Hamlet did masterful blending on these. 

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2 minutes ago, SCgarman said:

Let me just chime in that the aroma from these Canonazos is fantastic. Rob was not blowing smoke. No pun! Some NC cigars have unpleasant aromas. Hamlet did masterful blending on these. 

This is what got me thinking. Assessing the performance currently (which is incredibly unfair), the foot smoke is first class,  the palate is quite robust in comparison to the retro, which is very mild mannered. It's like understanding cigars all a fresh, it doesn't quite make sense......in a good way

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22 minutes ago, 99call said:

Do you find you are able to pick up and discern flavours more distinctly/accurately with you palate, or is in more of a sensation type thing. i.e. mouthfeel

Absolutely more accurately through palate. My sense of smell has gone way down the older I have become!

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8 minutes ago, KCCubano said:

Absolutely more accurately through palate. My sense of smell has gone way down the older I have become!

thank you very interesting. Sorry to hear, but wisdom is a great consolation!

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I’ve come to realize just in the last couple years that it’s really the aroma, or foot smoke, that I find most pleasing. Everything else is mainly to keep the cigar gently smoldering along, producing it’s heavenly aromas. I also find that occasionally purging a cigar really enhances that aroma for a bit.

Now my latest theory may be blowing smoke, but it’s occurred to me recently that while I do pick up a handful of flavors in the aroma, I’m actually associating what I smell with the taste of something, i.e. cream, toasted hazelnut, cocoa, etc. This seems pretty unique as olfactory sensations go, kind of a hybrid of the senses.

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2 minutes ago, Islandboy said:

This seems pretty unique as olfactory sensations go, kind of a hybrid of the senses.

No doubt they all mesh together to form the whole, but I think it all boils down to what someone might consider to be 'aromatic' in it's appeal,  or a more generalised description of 'flavour' which I feel is enjoyed on the palate and in the retro.  This is where a feel the foot smoke is unique in a way

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I’ll modify the list to 4 items for me

foot, retro, taste of the actual tobacco on the tongue, and palate

im a big fan of cigars that taste good before I light them

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2 minutes ago, Chibearsv said:

taste of the actual tobacco on the tongue

thank you for that, yes I does really open your eyes to how wide a sensory experience it is

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I’ve long preferred to smoke indoors. Preferred, not would only. Inside I can catch the full output of the cigar from the head to the foot and the smoke in the room. I remember a Bolivar Gold Medal from like 2008 that gave me the OMG experience of having all of the smoke envelope me in a cloud of deliciousness. So I’m going to say retro-palette-foot. And I’m not going to get too analytical about this, mostly the cigar is a cigar, some better than others and once in a while something very good shows up and I try to pay attention to it when it does. 

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12 minutes ago, joeypots said:

having all of the smoke envelope me in a cloud of deliciousness. So I’m going to say retro-palette-foot. And I’m not going to get to analytical about this,

This was sort of the point of the thread. I get what you are saying. but when you are sat with a great cigar, and it's just in your hand, and that blue oily smoke off the foot is just wafting around and catching your nose. does it never cross you mind, "hmm!? is the aroma of a cigar thats just burning by itself actually more pleasurable than drawing on a cigar?" My core intrigue is that I believe (for me) that no 1 joy I get from a cigar, is when I'm not actually smoking it.   Thats not to say that I don't massively enjoy everything else. but foot smoke to me is the most unique and beautiful. 

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Retro, palate, then foot. However, foot is not far behind palate. Even though I smoke outside, the aroma and foot of the cigar is something very important to me, almost as important as the palate. Smell is my favorite sensory perception, and so retro is absolutely my top. I retrohale probably a 3rd of the smoke from every single puff. Except Padron Anniversaries. With those, the palate and the retro hold entirely different flavors, to me, and I like to experience both distinctly. So with those, I probably retrohale about a 3rd of every other puff, I’d estimate.

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Hamlet has certainly enforced/taught me the value of aroma in a cigar. You can see it/absorb it,  in everything we do together. 

Palate, retrohale (which I love) and finish/aftertaste is exquisite to me. Those three factos need to be in balance. 

It is the whole package. :cigar:

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I love the smell of an unlit cuban cigar. 

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Aroma - unlit then lit followed by taste. 

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I'm with @Chibearsv and @Ford2112, the unlit aroma and the taste of the tobacco are important starters for me. Not unlike nosing a good wine or spirit before drinking. It may sound odd, but I actually enjoy the flavour from tasting the cap after cutting; gives me a sense of the unlit tobacco.

To your original question, the order for me after putting fire to the stick is... palate, retro and aroma. I get so much more flavour and enjopyment from retro, but doing it too often during smoking overwhelms the olfactory sense. So, I've placed it second to palate.

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For me it is retro, palate, then foot. Some cigars have a retrohale so amazing it that I want to retro every single puff. Even if I don’t get a ton of flavor on the palate the retrohale always reveals those small or hidden notes you don’t get on the palate. I prefer smoking outside so aroma off the foot is not something I take note of a lot, even though some cigars have an amazing aroma when I do concentrate on it.


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