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    Hi Everyone, as mentioned in my introduction post, BOTL needs quite a bit of updating, patching and whatever else I might come across. Over time BOTL may be unreachable on occasion as I do migrations or updates, etc. Just be patient - we'll be back! I'll generally try to keep these maintenances until later in the evenings.

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I've always had a problem rating a cigar other than great, good, ok, bad...until 2 weeks ago I was sick, picked up some dristan spray and then I realized I could smell and taste so much more than I have in LOOONG time. I decided to apply it to our favorite hobby see what resulted. I can definitely pick up a few notes that I haven't before. So far I have detected, earthy, peppery tones with an occasional tinge of vanilla. The stick in question is an RP Decade. I'm still in the first third (this is my first smoke in a month, just haven't had time). I'm anxious to see what happens in an inch or two....

EDIT: I used the regular, not the mentholated....
 

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Part of you picking up more tastes in the cigar could be that it's your first cigar in a month too. Your buds have come back to life.
 

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I've never been able to pick up anything except for heavy vanilla in some cohibas I have (CC) other than that, nothin ever
Checkout the thread: Refining Yer Palatein the NC Guides section as well as try this:
Read a review of a cigar ye have. Takeout the cigar and, if the review says coffee, get coffee beans and smell them. Now smell the cigar. Found it? And so on.
 

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I can't get the picture of the Dristan herf out of my head. People sitting around with a cigar in one hand and a bottle of Dristan shoved up their nose with the other. Debating if it's better to Spray, Puff, Puff or Puff, Spray, Puff. Somebody has converted one of those beer drinking hats so it has a tube comeing down from two quart bottles of Dristan and is shoved up each nostral. Someone defending their nose running onto their cigar as a bonus.

Can't see this ending well.
 

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Checkout the thread: Refining Yer Palatein the NC Guides section as well as try this:
Read a review of a cigar ye have. Takeout the cigar and, if the review says coffee, get coffee beans and smell them. Now smell the cigar. Found it? And so on.
I read that a few weeks ago, excellent article

I can't get the picture of the Dristan herf out of my head. People sitting around with a cigar in one hand and a bottle of Dristan shoved up their nose with the other. Debating if it's better to Spray, Puff, Puff or Puff, Spray, Puff. Somebody has converted one of those beer drinking hats so it has a tube comeing down from two quart bottles of Dristan and is shoved up each nostral. Someone defending their nose running onto their cigar as a bonus.

Can't see this ending well.
LOL, Mitch, mitch, your technique is all wrong...its spray, spray, puff, puff, spray
 

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Highly, highly addictive. Take care. Like any drug after a whiel it stops working so well so you do more, and more etc.
 
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