About a decade ago, I designed a personal pipe tobacco blend. It used a lot of dark fired Kentucky Burley, layered Virginias favoring the blonde variant, mucho dark burley, a pinch of cigar leaf, and a dusting of Latakia.
In this way, my mixing anticipated the current trend, which is to mix everything together in idiosyncratic ratios so that you get a flavor which is a kaleidoscope of distractions, except that this blend has more focus.
Instead, this blend moderates the dark fired Kentucky Burley with Virginia sweetness, and then twists that to be more depth of flavor than intensity of flavor. The result is balanced but irrational, like the winds of mayhem.
