I smell sandalwood. Lovely room-note, that. Lettuce focus further on the combustion, then, of this MBombay offering. Burns even-stevens on a razor-line, from there grows burnt-offerings as stiffly and pale as any ol' Brit. Pace is maybe a tick quick. Construction has a light hand-feel but is rolled moderately firm and stays thatta-way from gate to wire. Seams are tight and back to hand-feel: velvety smoov. Draw is a loose-end medium and in the first-third a hair airy, but satiating and saturating to smoke-hole nonetheless. 2/3 and 3/3 firm up to medium-medium and smoothly-so.
- Pepper, white (peppercorn thru schnoz)
- Woods: cedar (buttery/sweet and sandalwood)
- Spices: allspice, cardamom, exotic melange
- Honey, orange blossom w/ malt attachment
- Floral, dandelion and chamomile teas
- Chocolate: milk & white
- Nuts: peanut and cashew, raw
- Coffee, blonde-roast
- Cream
- Sugar
- Citrus, lemon/orangeade
- Hay, sweet
- Salt, Himalayan (pink)
- Oats, pale
- Leather/suede
- Peat
- Earth
A white pepper and exotic spice piquancy are gentle and complex, particularly through the retro-hale. Nada acidity, a dash of pink Himalayan salt. A hearty blonde-roast java brings the bitter into balanced play. Cream checks the sweet box, a does honey and milk/white chocolate. Bupkis bite. Sour by way of citrus tidings. Always smooth as silk. In fact, silk would be appreciative of this MBombay's smoothness. A lightish-bodied but still rich thing, this -- with umami senses triggered by suede and well-worked leathers, some pale oats. Supremely balanced. Finish is a nice length a' sweet and sour maltiness which ends cleanly with some citrus-ade aid.
WRAPPER: Ecuadorian Connecticut
BINDER: Ecuadorian
FILLER: Peru, Dominican Republic & Nicaragua
STRENGTH: Mild-Medium
FORMAT: 652 Torpedo unfinished foot
ORIGIN: Tabacos de Costa Rica, Costa Rica
FINAL GRADE: A
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79 D 60-69 F 0-59
