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Never have, never will.

I bought one la traviata on vacation two years ago and that's the only cao Ive ever bought.

Most here rate them poorly after they were bought out. Guess they used to be good, that was before I started taking cigars seriously.

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This is the answer to all my prayers.

I enjoy it from time to time... nothing special. I prefer the America.

The only good thing I remember about CAO cigars was the heavy duty tubes they came in. I would get a few and give away the cigars and use the tubes for better cigars. Anything pumpkin spice is crap; let alone a cigar. WTF, I say, WTF?

Back when the Ozgener family owned and ran CAO they put out some good cigars. I think their mistake was going from boutique style operation to larger production. What goes out under the name now is nothing like the Nashville operation Cano A. Ozgener started during the latter part of the boom first put out.

They're general crap IMO anymore, pun intended
I don't know why old man Cano sold ( other than the payday ) but we have General buying his company to thank for Crowned Heads

One great one was the Odyssey, I still have 7 or 8 in the coffin boxes.

Pumpkin spice = trendy crapola. There has to be a first for everything I guess, but it's not necessarily good to be THE first at something. Turd is still a turd, pumpkin spice or not.

Pretty girly cigar, sit down and have a smoke with her!

Now, buying them will be like going and buying tampons/Kotex at the store, won't it?

Yep. That will do it.

Because the kids couldn't keep the plates spinning and the jig was up. Everyone that knew a good cigar from a crummy one knew CAO had been drinking their own kool-aid. In order to make boatloads of cash off of the backs of rubes they diminished the name brand and watered down the product. The overall product from one line to another suffered as they're busy hyping the next product, greasing hands and patting themselves on the back so fan bois don't have to!

If CAO didn't have a new cigar line every month then the spotlight was shining on the old lines and how lackluster they had all become. The sham even went so far as to rebrand the older lines to make the fan bois happy. I can only guess that they were cigar band collectors and not cigar smokers because if they actually took the time to smoke more than one their own tastebuds wouldn't lie to them.

If you thought the CAO game was a one time game...I give you the same operators over at Crowned Heads. They too can only make a 1st run production home run. After that it's construction issues and taste profiles that aren't even close.

Sometimes the "emperor" isn't wearing any "clothes" and someone needs to tell "him".

I just don't buy the hype and now...nor the product.

Seems like Padron, Fuente and Perdomo are the only ones that aren't willing to compromise their name brand for a quick buck.

My wife will smoke the occasional infused cigar with me when Im outside writing my weekly review. She is a "Basic" pumpkin spice loving white girl, and she already enjoys the CAO Flavors.... so looks like I'll actually be picking these up from the shop for her.

Cept' Acids smell and taste like hippies, whereas the Flavours are actually flavored. (That being said, Wife doesn't mind the Java's and Tabaks. )

I never figured out why this bothered other guys. So what you have to pick up necessities for your lady. Doesn't make you less of a man. I mean Im not out having a party when I'm asked to do it when im out and about, but its never been embarrassing to me.

Shes home with the kids all day and we have one car, its easier most of the time for me to just pick em up when Im passing the store. At least I have someone to go home to. That's the way I look at it. Plenty of my friends are single, lonely and miserable. I'll gladly deal with picking up pads once a month when Im at the store anyway.

I knew it was a reason I thought Acids tasted like fish .

If it smells like cologne, leave it alone.