Just Curious

 There are a lot of aromas associated with Christmas.  I was looking for tobacco that as an Aromatic might have a kind of Christmas-y aroma.  One might associate a pipe with Christmas aa uncle Bob always smoked his pipe at Christmas.  He probably smoked year round but you remember Christmas because you were always around him then.  I have smoked the last of my Christmas Spice tobacco, but wondered what others tobacco blends might be suitable for Christmas.

The aromas of Christmas are plentiful, like Hazelnuts, Cinnamon, pine, fresh baked cookies, Vanilla, and others.  I went through the list of tobaccos on Smoking Pipes and found a few tobaccos other than Christmas Spice with its Cimamon aroma.  I could create a list that I think are good seasonal tobaccos, but the problem is that they aren't just seasonal.  

One tobacco comes to mind.  It's Mac Baren's Vanilla Cream.  It has a very rich Vanilla flavor that is suitable the year round.  Then there are other creamy flavors like Peaches and Cream and Apples and Cream.  Anything with cream in the name is a good tobacco the year round.  But we tend to think of fruits like oranges at Christmas time.  It's just that while there are tobaccos that have citrus in them, one might not want citrus in a tobacco.  

There can be hints of citrus as there are in Tropical Export, but too there are hints of Coconut,Vanilla, and other flavors in Tropical Export.  There is one tobacco that has a kind of baked cookie aroma, but really, there are no tobaccos with a pine scent.  There are tobaccos with a hint of mint that could work.  Sutliff makes a Rum and Maple tobacco that could be a Christmas tobacco.

Another aroma of Christmas is mulled wine with Cinimamon and Clove, but again one would have to turn to alcohol imbued tobacco like Run, Whiskey, and Bourbon.  There is one tobacconist that creates a special blend for Christmas called Christmas Cookie blend.  But I never found it and Smoking Pipes doesn't carry it.  There is no question that regardless of what puts in it, a pipe is always special this time of year.  I'm smoking some Kentucky Select this morning we picked up at a smoke shop on our way back from the other coast of Florida, with my Nording Angel pipe. Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave