I originally posted this in the wrongest thread possible for it- the heavy, in your face tobacco thread, when I had intended to post it here, so forgive me for the redundancy if you read it there too- it does not belong there, lol. This is a very gentle, graceful, pacifist juice that wouldn't get in your face if you insulted its mama.
Disclaimer- I don't usually vape tobaccos. My first vaping experience was with Cowboy, which I assumed I would like, being a Marlboro Lights girl, but no. Cowboy, to me, was kinda like... licking a cowboy. And not one of those cute rodeo/drugstore cowboys- a real cowboy, on branding day. Sweaty, sour, dusty, grumpy and tired.
So I quickly moved on to foodie flavors, which I love, and I love to experiment with odd combinations of fruity and bakery and savories and aromatics and spices, but I've stayed away from tobacco vapes for the most part, because I just frankly disliked every "cigalike" sample I tried, and I really don't know a thing about real tobacco at all.
However... I've always loved the smell of good pipe tobacco. My uncle used to smoke a pipe when I was a kid, and I was always fascinated with the beauty of a pipe- someday I'm getting a jazz pipe to vape with whether I can afford it or not. They're just too gorgeous.
But anyway- just so you know- I'm an absolute beginner here. /disclaimer
Some very kind and generous tobacconist vaper here on ECF happened to offer me a taste of Gandalf from Heather's Heavenly Vapes, and I was intrigued enough by the descriptions of it to pounce on the opportunity to try it. It's been a real challenge waiting all day til I could give it my full undivided attention, but I figured it would be worth it to wait, and boy did I figure right.
I'm dripping it on an Innokin itaste, 3.0 ohm atty, and I'm still messing around with it, but I think I'm liking it best at 4.2 v.
I'm not even sure where to start trying to describe it, it's so different and elusive to me, but after about five minutes of it, all I wanted to do was fill my lungs with it and breathe. It just makes me want to inhale forever. It's got a rich and round sort of gentle body to it, a lovely sort of light earthy walk in the woods at twilight taste. It's soft in your mouth, creamy, almost a pleasantly oily luxurious kind of mouth feel, but that's just sort of a cradling undertone, a place for everything else to rest. There's a hint of sweet smokiness, almost like a whiff of burning leaves in the fall. I think that's where I'm tasting a little something caramel, which I don't usually like, but am enjoying here very much. It isn't sweet to me, though- in fact, I'm loving how little sugaryness there is in it. It's mellow and rich and somehow very golden tasting to me. If this is natural tobacco, I'm sold.
If you'll forgive the abstraction, it really put me in mind of Robert Frost's Nothing Gold Can Stay.
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
I have to say, I'm completely smitten. If I ever do get that jazz pipe, this is the juice that will christen it.
And now I want to cry, because it's going to be gone way too soon, so Heather will be getting a visit from my Visa tonight.
Disclaimer- I don't usually vape tobaccos. My first vaping experience was with Cowboy, which I assumed I would like, being a Marlboro Lights girl, but no. Cowboy, to me, was kinda like... licking a cowboy. And not one of those cute rodeo/drugstore cowboys- a real cowboy, on branding day. Sweaty, sour, dusty, grumpy and tired.
So I quickly moved on to foodie flavors, which I love, and I love to experiment with odd combinations of fruity and bakery and savories and aromatics and spices, but I've stayed away from tobacco vapes for the most part, because I just frankly disliked every "cigalike" sample I tried, and I really don't know a thing about real tobacco at all.
However... I've always loved the smell of good pipe tobacco. My uncle used to smoke a pipe when I was a kid, and I was always fascinated with the beauty of a pipe- someday I'm getting a jazz pipe to vape with whether I can afford it or not. They're just too gorgeous.
But anyway- just so you know- I'm an absolute beginner here. /disclaimer
Some very kind and generous tobacconist vaper here on ECF happened to offer me a taste of Gandalf from Heather's Heavenly Vapes, and I was intrigued enough by the descriptions of it to pounce on the opportunity to try it. It's been a real challenge waiting all day til I could give it my full undivided attention, but I figured it would be worth it to wait, and boy did I figure right.
I'm dripping it on an Innokin itaste, 3.0 ohm atty, and I'm still messing around with it, but I think I'm liking it best at 4.2 v.
I'm not even sure where to start trying to describe it, it's so different and elusive to me, but after about five minutes of it, all I wanted to do was fill my lungs with it and breathe. It just makes me want to inhale forever. It's got a rich and round sort of gentle body to it, a lovely sort of light earthy walk in the woods at twilight taste. It's soft in your mouth, creamy, almost a pleasantly oily luxurious kind of mouth feel, but that's just sort of a cradling undertone, a place for everything else to rest. There's a hint of sweet smokiness, almost like a whiff of burning leaves in the fall. I think that's where I'm tasting a little something caramel, which I don't usually like, but am enjoying here very much. It isn't sweet to me, though- in fact, I'm loving how little sugaryness there is in it. It's mellow and rich and somehow very golden tasting to me. If this is natural tobacco, I'm sold.
If you'll forgive the abstraction, it really put me in mind of Robert Frost's Nothing Gold Can Stay.
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
I have to say, I'm completely smitten. If I ever do get that jazz pipe, this is the juice that will christen it.
And now I want to cry, because it's going to be gone way too soon, so Heather will be getting a visit from my Visa tonight.
I am so happy I got a chance to like your post twice!
