(06-24-2023, 02:54 AM)Bouki Wrote: Tobacco (Eufros) tobaccolaAgreed. When I tried it, I didn’t detect any tobacco scent not even a sweet pipe tobacco. All I smelled was cherry cola.
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Along with Gerry Durrell’s autobiography, I’ll be reading all of Sherlock Holmes’ mysteries this summer. Seems like I should have a a soap that smells something like the sleuth. So what did Holmes smell like? He probably smelled strongly of tobacco. He smoked a lot while he meditated on the solutions to his cases. His cigarettes were custom made by a London tobacconist, his cigars were high-end Cuban, and his pipe tobacco – kept in the toe end of a Persian slipper hanging from his mantelpiece – was common black shag. This is usually a blend of Virginia and Kentucky flue-cured tobaccos, sweet and smokey, and not very refined. So how did today’s Eufros Tobacco measure up? Well, it’s a very sweet and smooth take on tobacco with lots of spicy side notes. It’s certainly not Virginian, and I don’t smell much smoke at all. I do, however, smell a bit of Coca-Cola. How that got there is a real mystery.
I just finished watching the Granada/PBS adaptations of the Holmes adventures, with Jeremy Brett portraying Sherlock. He’s still the most accurate and entertaining Holmes ever. But HighSpeed, I did not watch the PBS adaptation of My Family and Other Animals, although my wife did. Unfortunately she became disenchanted after three episodes, disappointed that the TV series did not closely follow the books. She was annoyed that the screenwriters made the mother into a romantic lead, something that apparently never happened in the books or in real life. Well, these things happen, I suppose.
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