Customer Reviews (21 Total)
Super-Enjoyable Blend!
December 29, 2016
Product: Cornell & Diehl King Cake 2oz
I found King Cake to be top-shelf excellent in every way. I'm always on the look-out for complex, mutlidimensional "aromatics"... ones that let true tobacco flavors and aromas shine as boldly or more so than other flavoring agents. King Ca... Read More
ke, to my tastes, let the Virginias and orientals really shine, aided and abetted by the precocious perique. To me, the cavendish was like a perfectly balanced light-handed frosting on the whole mix. And the whole was far greater than the sum of its parts! I doubt I'll be able to let it alone for the recommended peak years, 10 or 15 down the line! Read Less
Product: Cornell & Diehl King Cake 2oz
This blend is top notch and one of my new favorites! To start off, I love aromatics. I also love the Virginia/Perique blends or the "vapors". The vapor blends have a spicy and sort of leather like flavor which comes off as strong. My favori... Read More
te vapor blend is the Stokkebye Bullseye Flake. My favorite type of aromatic is the Lane 1Q vanilla. I feel like this King Cake is a perfect blend of my favorite two blends I just mentioned. This is hands down one of my new favorite blends and I will be buying more of it! Read Less
Laissez bon temps rouler
January 19, 2020
Product: Cornell & Diehl King Cake 2oz
I cracked a tin of King Cake at the start of Carnival Season this year. The tin note really does smell like king cake, so much so that it took me back to mardi gras past, eating some breakfast king cake from Sucre in my treme rental house on fat tues... Read More
day morning. The cut is ribbon with some darker chunks here and there pressed into an easy to break up crumble cake. Smokes cool and sweet, with a hazelnutty topping that tastes very much like the sweet pastry this blend is named after. Nice tang from the red virginias and a little spice from the perique rounds out this blend. I'm going to make this one a yearly tradition around this time of year. Read Less
Wish I could get it in bulk
May 07, 2019
Product: Cornell & Diehl King Cake 2oz
This is just a great tobacco. I really enjoyed smoking it and those around me loved the room note. I would call it a mild relaxing smoke full of interesting flavors that isn't overly sweet. I will be stocking my cellar with as many cans as possible ... Read More
so that I have some left when it reaches the recommended age. Only negative I can find is that I can't buy it in bulk. I would love to get this by the pound. Read Less
Good stuff
November 03, 2017
Product: Cornell & Diehl King Cake 2oz
I'm not a big aromatic smoker other than navy blends. This is similar to that with some extra flavorings. Quality tobacco. It's nice to find a milder C&D blend. Usually they hit you over the head with nicotine. This blend is mild but has substance. I... Read More
wish they would do more interesting mild blends. As I've grown as a pipe smoker I lean more toward milder relaxing blends. Read Less
Enjoyable
September 02, 2018
Product: Cornell & Diehl King Cake 2oz
King cake is a great blend, being a new pipe smoker I loved it hints of vanilla with nutty notes smooth smoke with a nice sweet room note. Wife approved
FANTASTICALLY DELICIOUS
April 29, 2021
Product: Cornell & Diehl King Cake 2oz
Look. This stuff is delicious. If you smoke a pipe and like great quality tasty tobacco than buy some. It’s delicious. I’m not doing the whole explanation of nuances in flavor here. This is an aromatic that doesn’t seem like an aromatic.... a VaPa Ar... Read More
omatic hybrid. If you don’t dig it. Then more for me lol Read Less
Middle of the Road
August 03, 2022
Product: Cornell & Diehl King Cake 2oz
This tobacco is ok. There are much better choices!
Product: Cornell & Diehl King Cake 2oz
Once again, an aromatic with zero flavor. Smells AMAZING! Tastes like nothing. Not much aromatic flavor and almost no tobacco flavor either. I need one or the other; pick one and give it to me.
Product: Cornell & Diehl King Cake 2oz
Can definitely taste the cinnamon spice of the perique. I wouldn't call it an aromatic because I didn't think it smelled all that good. Smelled better in the tin.
Updating my Review...
September 23, 2019
Product: Cornell & Diehl King Cake 2oz
Maybe I had a bad experience at first. Maybe the planets were misaligned. Who knows! But, while I originally didn't like this stuff, I'm coming back to say, it's pretty good. Smokes hot and can get bitter fast, but the flavor is good & sweet and evoc... Read More
ative enough of the crunchy sugar of the inspiration to be worth picking up. Read Less
Product: Cornell & Diehl King Cake 2oz
Tin note of Nutella, rum and fig newtons. Tobacco cut is Krumble Kake, the chunks of tobacco are marbled light brown, medium browns and a little dark brown. Tobacco breaks apart easily and rubs out fairly easy, it is also a bit moist and probably cou... Read More
ld use some drying. Burns moderate with normal amount of relights. The strength is mild-medium and nic is mild. Flavoring is mild, with background notes of spiced rum, overly ripe plums, and sweet nuts. Taste is medium and mostly consistent, with notes of tangerines, ripe fermented fruit, lemon grass, pumpkin spice, dry earth, stewed Rasins, maple, mild cedar and moderately peppery retro. Virginias are leading with Izmir supporting. Cavendish is keeping pace but remains in the back. Perique is all over the place. Room note is pleasant, and aftertaste is great. Read Less
Product: Cornell & Diehl King Cake 2oz
I'm from Montréal and know very little about the new Orlean tradition of the king cake. what I do know on the other hand is that I bought 4 tin and will need to buy WAY more! the flavours and aroma remind me of my grand mother " pudding chomeur&... Read More
quot; or " sucre a la creme aux noix" its a real treat. the room note will attract people. the taste is a sweet round creamy nutty. I enjoyed it in a crowded sidewalk sale, had lots of compliments Read Less
Frankenberry?
February 22, 2021
Product: Cornell & Diehl King Cake 2oz
Never had New Orleans King Cake before, so I wasn't sure what to expect. The notes I get are strawberry, possibly Frankenberry cereal. Good mechanics, easy smoke, very pleasant.
Give it a chance, and time
October 07, 2020
Product: Cornell & Diehl King Cake 2oz
Originally, I didn't care for it. But the more I dried it out, it really grew on me. There is a definite note of sweet raisin, but it's not overpowering. It's barely an aromatic, I mean, its an aromatic for non-aromatic smokers. The flavors are rich ... Read More
and deep. Drying this out properly is an absolute must. Read Less
Over the top
July 16, 2020
Product: Cornell & Diehl King Cake 2oz
I was gifted this by a good friend and I appreciate the gift wholeheartedly. However, this tobacco won't be made a permanent member of my rotation. I like a good topped tobacco and most "aromatic" blends that contain full tobaccos without t... Read More
he bane of goopy black cavendish. This blend, though, is in no way goopy or even have a constituent of a majority black cav, but C&D was a bit too overly zealous with the flavorings. I have to disagree respectfully with JimInks who noted that the hazelnut was not as apparent in the smoke as the rum and plum. Hazelnut was all I tasted for over half the bowl. The next night I broke some up and left it on the dresser overnight to air out. This helped the blend immensely and toned down the hazelnut flavor to a tolerable level. It was actually enjoyable after some of the casing had dissipated. The Virginias, Perique, and Turkish are wonderful in this blend and work together quite well.
I know this seems like a negative review and there are problems I do have with this blend. However, it is really good for a change of pace from my usual VAs, VaPers, and Burleys. I do think the casing is overdone in my opinion. I also wonder why they included a blend with such a low percentage of Virginias in a series that consists of tobaccos formulated to aged. Oh, well. I do like it, but it's over the top for me. Read Less
don't expect sweetness
May 19, 2020
Product: Cornell & Diehl King Cake 2oz
The blend adds perique and orientals that don't allow the sweetness of the cavendish to come out
Too much strong.
March 21, 2020
Product: Cornell & Diehl King Cake 2oz
I think is more strong than other reviewers says. Probably, more Perique than necesary...
I go to celar a few years.
Product: Cornell & Diehl King Cake 2oz
This stuff is amazing, just enough topping to let the tobacco's shine through. Not overly sweet but it's there, all tobacco's play well together with the topping. Gets a lot of compliments on the room note. Going to cellar deep.
Product: Cornell & Diehl King Cake 2oz
Being from Louisiana i think i may have held my expectations a little higher than normal but overall a very enjoyable blend.
Great smoke
April 11, 2017
Product: Cornell & Diehl King Cake 2oz
Ok, I know C&D says this will peak between 10&15 years. I still had to open and try it. King Cake is very good now but I think I will jar this cake for a while and order a second one for 2027.
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