I picked up a tin of CAO Flavours Cherrybomb Minis sometime last year on c-bid, and never really got into them. I think I've smoked two of them, and my girlfriend has smoked most of them-she really likes the sweet tips.
Anyway, it's a still, frigid night here in Grand Rapids, and I was toying between either finishing a half-bowl of Samuel Gawith, or having one of these after finishing a 4,000 word take-home test from hell.After trying to light that half-bowl and keep it going, well, I went with the CAO.
I'm glad I did.
I don't know if it was the cold, or the fact that the humidity in my flavored cigar tupperdor was fairly low, or just the fact that I wanted to smoke something fruitier and sweet, but it was good. Really good, in fact-way better than I had remembered them to be.
I avoided the overly-sweetened tip as much as possible (blegh), and still picked up on hints of sour cherries and black currants, with a subtle vanilla/cream flavoring that went really well with the smooth mildness of the Cameroon wrapper. If I exhaled through my nose, I got a nice blast of gentle peppery tobacco smoke, followed by more currant aroma. Even when I wasn't smoking it, the little wafts of smoke smelled like a good cigar had met an orchard.
The flavor wasn't near as cloying as the tin smell reminded me of. In fact, it was pretty damned good, and lasted me the whole half-hour walk through the woods. The few times I actually did get a touch of the sweetened tip on my tongue, it complemented the flavors nicely, like when a hint of sugar brings out nuances in tea sometimes.
So, am I surprised that I'm even writing this little review right now? Yes. Would I smoke another? For sure-it was everything I was looking for in my pipe tobacco tonight, and couldn't find.
I guess I'm a cigar guy at heart.
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