Peter Stokkebye PS 306 English Oriental Pipe Tobacco

I enjoy the English blends for their medium body and general palate.

I've been trying several English blends lately. All were interesting and good, but I keep coming back to Oriental Supreme. That spice from the Oriental tobacco has me enthralled. Not spice as hot or peppery like Perique but like the spice Isle of a store. A hint of burley nuttiness comes out every so often. It's smokey, nutty, slightly sweet and just a pleasure. Easily a tobacco that can be smoked all day.

PS306 has all day enjoyment qualities. A great morning smoke. Not over powering and take little effort to acquire its subtleties. I’ll keep ordering in the future.

I like this delightful blend. Just enough Latkia to make it interesting. Goes well with a scotch or bourbon.

A very enjoyable smoke. A light English that is sweet and cool. I enjoy this blend very much as an all-day smoke.

It's best compare with Dunhill Early morning.

Very nice flavor but not good for ryo. It gets soapy tasting after the first few puffs. Propylene glycol I suppose, the wetting agent.

Unlike most English blends I’ve tried, this blend includes Burley, whose distinctive sweet note is very noticeable and adds a nice depth or dimension to what would otherwise I think to be a fairly typical orientals-forward English blend. Compared to my other favorites: Dunhill My Mixture 965: this blend is milder, the Latakia note is more subdued, and of course it’s much sweeter. Davidoff Royalty: this blend is softer and sweeter and of similar strength and smokiness. Frog Morton: this blend is very comparable but not nearly so strong. The thick plumes, the layered complexity, the sweet and the spicy, are all very comparable, except that here the sweetness has the unmistakable burley note, and while the Frog satisfies me after a single bowl, I find myself going back for more and more, maybe I smoke too much of it!

Just to add to my previous review; this is a really smooth blend. I've since bought a pound of Izmir Turkish & realize that despite its name, the latakia is more forward than the Oriental. Not a lat-bomb by any means but it does scratch the latakia itch. English Oriental is not only really good straight, but it's also really good as a blender to lift other blends. It's so good that I bought another half pound. 4.5 stars.