WRAPPER: Cameroon/Connecticut Shade
BINDER: Dominican
FILLER: Mexican, Dominican
FORMAT: Petit Robusto (4.5x49) Barber-pole
ORIGIN: General Cigar Dominicana
INTENSITY: Mustard yellow
NOTES:
Copper coils | Brown aviator-shaped lenses | Valises
So I'm sitting here puffing my way through to the tune of a 1/2-inch of ash, thinking to myself that I guess not every cigar triggers my synesthesia... when suddenly... the wood side-paneling of an old station wagon. It's a hit & run type burst of an affair. A brown aviator lens shape settles in. Sepia. Copper coils. a tangled rat's nest of 'em. Not springy. Closed windows.
Snippets of Creedence Clearwater Revival are playing in my head. A dull chord or two from across their portfolio of songs I only sorta know not that well. I get a sense of a waxed canvas swatch awareness. Tan. Lots of tans... Khaki-forward. Goldenrod running stitches. Valise shapes. The smell of an old church. ::: very ::: indoors. No sensation of movement whatsoever. A prevailing sense of four decades ago.
Why am I experiencing scenes from The Muppets Take Manhattan? I much more grok the prominent and angularly odd geometric shapes of spicy mustard yellow complexions.
TASTE: Indoors
DRAW: CCR
BURN: Jim Henson
BUILD: 1978
FINAL GRADE: Shag carpet
A note. It's difficult for me to unknow what I know as to the age of this Anejo tobacco. I cannot be sure how much that knowledge influenced my overall experience here. In a previous Synesthesia review, I stated: "The thought of memory playing a role in synesthesia is cloyingly sweet."
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3. Review (Sherlock Holmes)
4. Review (Something quirky)
5. Review (Cigar Aficionado style)
6. Review (Limerick)
7. Review (Long-form)
8. Review (Flavor wheel)
9. Review (Kaplowitz Scale review)
10. Review (Synesthesia review)
11. Review (Primary tastes)
12. Overview
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