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limoric Offline
#1 Posted: Tue, Jun 10 2003, 8:56 AM EST
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I have some Fresh rolled wheels in the humi, they are the only smokes with no cello. When the wheels first arrived they had a strong smell. Since they've been in the humi for a while, they don't smell as strong and the flavour seems weaker. I've noticed this with many of my other smokes in the past. I have recently put together a coolador and I'm thinking I should seperate my smokes into individual cedar boxes for long term storage.

I know some say smokes don't mary and some say they do. what do you all think!
Fatshotbud Offline
#2 Posted: Tue, Jun 10 2003, 9:06 AM EST
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DO!
Fatshotbud Offline
#3 Posted: Tue, Jun 10 2003, 9:06 AM EST
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DON'T!!!
Fatshotbud Offline
#4 Posted: Tue, Jun 10 2003, 9:14 AM EST
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Limoric,
"Marrying" usually refers to a transfer or bleeding across of flavor/bouquet between cigars, not the leaching away of all inventory flavor/bouquet.
Not sure what could cause this unless they are getting real dry? Or you have a sinus problem which effects taste also?
Sorry not much help - BUD
puskarich Offline
#5 Posted: Tue, Jun 10 2003, 9:27 AM EST
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Mine have been known to elope.

Seriously though, IMHO I think they do. Put an Acid in with your regular gars and they will start to smell and taste the same. Not sure if some would consider that 'marrying', but its close enough for this newbie.
limoric Offline
#6 Posted: Tue, Jun 10 2003, 9:39 AM EST
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Fatshotbud - You know, I've had suspicions to whether my desktop humi has been doing the job it's supposed to. The humidity is pretty constant now that I have PG mixed in the credo, but I do live in a dry climate and I wonder how many times the humidity has to drop before the gars have been permanently effected. I'm to the point where I'm thinking about putting my desktop humi in the coolador.

Have read several times; the desktop is for short-term storage. I am going to organize my gars into separate boxes and store them in the coolly, I don't think it would hurt, but I would like to hear about other peoples perspectives


hoagie55 Offline
#7 Posted: Tue, Jun 10 2003, 10:12 AM EST
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limoric,

Buy some climax media and then you will only have to worry about filling it up every month or two. This stuff is the best out there.

Good luck!
Matt
Fatshotbud Offline
#8 Posted: Tue, Jun 10 2003, 10:17 AM EST
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Pusk;
That is not a fair analogy. You are talking about an "Aromatic" cigar. This is a regular cigar that has been imbued, or I prefer to say bombarded with scents/aromas in a room filled with herbs, oils, spices, etc. for an additional aging period.
The aromatic (scent/odor) will migrate through the air and be picked-up by permeable objects, including the interior of a wooden humidor. Natural or unscented cigars do have a bouquet when unlit but this is not the culprit in "marrying". It is referring to cigars that physically contact each other for a significant enough duration for the oils of the leaf to transfer from one to the other.
Just clarifying my friend and I might be totally wrong. Worth a little research?
Keep the cutters sharp - BUD
puskarich Offline
#9 Posted: Tue, Jun 10 2003, 10:39 AM EST
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Bud, you're probably right. I guess I've always taken a broader meaning of the term "marrying" to mean one cigar's ability to affect the taste or smell of another cigar through direct contact or close proximity. While I'm a big fan of Acids, they definitely have the ability to do this. However, after thinking about it, I believe your explanation of "transfer of oils" is more correct. My addition of "close proximity" is probably stretching the term a little.

Limoric, how long you had those wheels? Maybe your tastes are changing?
limoric Offline
#10 Posted: Tue, Jun 10 2003, 10:58 AM EST
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puskarich - "Limoric, how long you had those wheels? Maybe your tastes are changing?"

About 6 weeks. Maybe it was just a bad smoke, but I've noticed this to happen with a few other smokes over the year. Some just don't seam to be the same after a while. I lit up a Super Feurte the other day and it taste way different than when I first got them, 9 mo ago. I think they were better before. Maybe the age didn't benefit them, but I doubt it. It's also possible that my desktop humi just isn't cutting it and the smokes need a more consistent environment. I'll see what happens after 6 months of seperating them in individual boxes in the coolly.
arwings Offline
#11 Posted: Thu, Jun 12 2003, 6:59 PM EST
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Two cents worth: I haven't really had a situation that I feel causes one cigar to actually flavor another. However, I am very careful to avoid putting a "flavored cigar" next to a "straight tobacco" cigar. The reason is primarily aroma. I don't think the flavor transfers, but I do believe the aroma does. Interestingly enough, I think the aroma has more effect on how we perceive the taste of a cigar than the actual flavor does. For me, when I smell the aroma it influences the taste. Example, if you've ever taken a swig of what you thought was ice water after mowing the grass, but was actually Seven-Up it briefly tastes terrible until your gustatory/olfactory sensorium convinces your brain that you really haven't swallowed polluted water. I haven't said this very well, but bottom-line is, what you expect to taste/smell has to match up with your expectations of a flavored versus non-flavored cigar. If it doesn't, there is a disconnect between what you anticipate and what you actually experience.
rwestcot Offline
#12 Posted: Thu, Jun 12 2003, 11:46 PM EST
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Long term cigars should be segregated. No doubt about it. I keep lifers in solitary, while the ones that will make early parole can be around other inmates.
Little do they know that they will all get burned at the stake regardless!

No Cello BTW for the lifers. Parolees don't matter.
:)
rwestcot Offline
#13 Posted: Thu, Jun 12 2003, 11:49 PM EST
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Your plan for cedar boxes is the one to go with long term.
rwestcot Offline
#14 Posted: Thu, Jun 12 2003, 11:50 PM EST
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Some companies don't even carry Acids cause they mess up the other smokes

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