I think this tastes like a cheesecake drizzled with honey wrapped into a mild dessert tobacco.
TFA Mild Black and TFA Black Honey were my first tobacco flavors besides ry4 double. When I first mixed those 2 up I thought they tasted like the Backwoods Sweet and Aromatic cigars that I used to really like. I immediately thought they would go together really well for a dessert cigar.
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TFA Black Honey 3%
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TFA Cheescake Graham Crust 3%
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TFA Graham Cracker Clear 2%
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DIYFS Holy Vanilla 2.5%
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TFA Mild Black 1%
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TFA Vanilla Swirl 1.5%
Tobacco
I wanted the 2 tobacco flavors to shine though with out being overwhelming. Honey black brings a very honey forward light tobacco and the mild black brings a darker deeper tobacco flavor. Neither of these flavors are in the realm of cigars you'd find in a humidor, more like ones you'd find in a gas stations but lend themselves well in this recipe. At these percentages each is able to come through while allowing the other flavors to come through.
Now I have always liked vanilla cigars but I knew the vanilla would need something to bind it to the tobacco flavors so I went with cheesecake.
Cheesecake
I don't think the cheesecake, graham cracker clear, vanilla swirl would make a good base for most recipes but in this it works without getting overly complicated as its still primarily a tobacco flavor.
Vanillas
This is the first recipe I used holy vanilla in and it really works well in here, especially paired with the vanilla swirl. The vanilla is there but plays in the background.
I started off going for a more tobacco forward eliquid. This ended up having a more subtle tobacco flavor and more of honey cheesecake with tobacco notes. I'm really happy with the way this turned out even thought it's not exactly what I started out for. But in the words of Bilbo who also liked a good toke "You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to"
Steep
Good after just a few days even though it's a tobacco, but give it 2 weeks to more fully develop.
Looks good. I don't have Black Honey or I'd mix some up for my dad.
Thanks! And I definitely know the feeling. Always seem to be missing atleast 1 flavor from every recipe. You could probably try bringing the mild black up to 3-4% but you would be missing the more honey like flavor
I know! Even with over 400 flavors, I still miss something... But I don't know. I end up usually having to tweak recipes anyway and usually have something similar. Do you think omitting the honey altogether would be bad? I do have several honey flavors that I could add a touch to. I was more concerned with which tobacco to mix in so there's 2 different types of that.
I would think it would still be good without the honey. I'd try it with just the mild black. Not really a true honey flavor more like the idea of it. Unfortunately until I get my orders in I'll only have those two tobaccos and ry4 dbl so I don't have any suggestions on which ones to sub for black honey. Ry4 dbl could probably blend well into the cheesecake and vanilla though.
Looks good but I can't do TFA Black Honey. So goddamn perfumey.
Got Black Honey tobac on my first ever DIY order. Never figured out what to do with it. Not a fan of the profile but if I knock it down to one percent I could see it playing really nicely with the cheesecake. Good call. Will have to try this. Missing Holy Van but can sub.
Is the Black Honey a bit too floral for you? If you are dropping the Black Honey to 1%, you might want to bump the Mild Black up a % or 2. INW Shisha Vanilla would probable make a good sub for the Holy Vanilla. Not too sure on the percentage though.
Ya a bit too floral and I get a cherry taste from it too iirc. But I mixed it at 5% so probably user error lol. That was one of the flavs I got on my first ever DIY order so I was a bit "ambitious" back then lol. Maybe time to revisit it.