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- Components: Virginia, Burley
- Family: Virginia
- Cut: Ribbon
About This Pipe Tobacco
While, Peterson's Sherlock Holmes pipe series is among the Irish marque's most collectible and celebrated, the Sherlock Holmes pipe tobacco boasts a much longer history, dating to a recipe from 1889 — just two years after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first publication, A Study in Scarlet. As a blend, it comprises Virginia and Burley tobaccos with a light citrus topping to highlight the Virginias' natural sweetness. A historic, vintage blend, Sherlock Holmes is a contemporary mixture of Doyle and Holmes' time period — the perfect commemoration.
Customer Reviews
My First Non-aromatic
July 14, 2026
By:
William M.
Product: Peterson Sherlock Holmes 50g
This certainly is in my top 5 or 6 rotation. Being the first non-aromatic, it remains in a special place in my heart all this time. Perhaps my fondness is nostalgic, but it stands up over time. Lovely tobacco!
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A perfect, very sweet, pleasant blend
June 23, 2026
By:
Patrick H.
Product: Peterson Sherlock Holmes 50g
this blend is very sweet, not like an aromatic blend, but a natural sweetness found in the Virginias it contains.
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Nothing special Watson
July 20, 2026
By:
Bryan L.
Product: Peterson Sherlock Holmes 50g
Truly just average with taste, and room note. I was glad when I finished the tin, know no more Sherlock!
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The Case of the Tart and Tangy Blend
May 04, 2026
By:
Tony P.
Product: Peterson Sherlock Holmes 50g
he matter with equal parts enthusiasm and curiosity.
Imagine, then, my surprise upon first breaking the seal.
For where I had expected the “strong, dark shag” so often favored by Holmes in the Baker Street sitting room, I instead encountered a mixture of far lighter character — strands of blonde and toasted brown leaf, accompanied by a tin note redolent of citrus peel and damp hay after a summer rain. It was, I confess, not at all what I had been led to anticipate.
Holmes himself, were he present, might have arched an eyebrow at such a discrepancy.
Nevertheless, I resolved to proceed.
Even after a patient half-hour of drying, the tobacco retained a notable moisture, requiring a certain persistence of flame to maintain. Upon lighting, I was struck first by a tartness that was sharp and insistent, akin to grapefruit, before it gave way, deeper into the bowl, to a curious sourness not unlike unripe mango. This progression, while intriguing, remained largely consistent over several weeks of repeated trials, though time did succeed in softening some of its more abrasive edges.
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data,” Holmes has once remarked. And so I gathered mine diligently.
My conclusion, however, is a nuanced one. The blend is by no means unpleasant — indeed, there are moments where it proves quite agreeable, particularly when smoked in a pipe of larger bowl (a stout volcano, in my case), which seems to encourage a more measured and balanced expression of its character.
And yet…
It fails, in some ineffable way, to summon the spirit of the man whose name it bears.
One does not, while smoking it, feel transported to the familiar comforts of 221B Baker Street… no glow of the hearth, no low murmur of Victorian London traffic beyond the window, no sense that Holmes himself might, in a moment of abstraction, reach for the tobacco tin. The illusion does not hold.
I cannot help but think the blend might have been more aptly named for its creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle than its inspiration. It’s interesting, certainly, but lacking that singular, incisive character one associates with Holmes himself.
Would I procure it again? Quite possibly. But I should, I think, follow a more patient course, cellaring it for a time, allowing it to mature and perhaps reveal qualities not immediately apparent.
For as in all matters of investigation, it is often the passage of time that brings the clearest understanding....Read More
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If you start me up ... I'll never stop. !!!
May 10, 2026
By:
Saleh A.
Product: Peterson Sherlock Holmes 50g
This blend got me running hot after it for a loooong time , now,Don't let them confuse you about it, it's one of the most pleasing tobaccos ever smoked, the taste is sweet good, smells outstanding, it's cheaper than it values, jus puff it on.
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