Humidor Ivan's Box

Overall this is one of my favorite cuban cigars, though cubans are to strong for my taste. However, the last one is not burning well, neither is rolled well, hard to smoke - maybe will not finish it, as losing patience. For this price range, better behaviour is expected.

Quite satisfactory cigar - the taste is perfect maduro, medium to strong, yet very well balanced, so well, that the aroma is gentle... perfect! 2 remarks on the quality - first, the ash was falling on flakes, not very strong, one have to remove it more often and second, the second band, where 'Le Bijou' is written was glued to the wrapper and hard to remove, even when warm - I took it with a piece of the wrapper, which spoiled a bit the smoking experience in the last third. Overall would gladly taste again, the aroma is very fine.

Another good cigar from Alec Bradley. The taste is a bit strong for me, and not exactly my type, but the cigar was burning well and proving quite enjoyable experience - I smoked this one until it started burning my fingers. Outstanding for the price.

4 years ago a friend gave me a bundle of Domaine de Lavalette blue band corona cigars and they were quite decent, I shared some with friends and the cigars were overall well accepted... I took cigarworld.de page from the band and last year started ordering from the site on a regular base - the price of the cigars is same like in Bulgaria, but there is much more choice... in the first order I ordered some Domaine with red label (Nicaragua) and they were quite good, especially the robusto. I wanted to try the 660 from the maduro, since I like maduro wrappers, but it was missing for some time, meanwhile took a free sample of the 460... and the cigar is quite a no-go for me. It looks decent, but when squeezed between fingers, there are gaps, the cigar is overall lightly rolled, not enough tobacco for such a format. I lit the cigar, it was burning inconsistently, more from one side, less from the other, then cracked in the middle from the heat... the ash was falling on flakes... too much smoke, also coming from the front of the cigar, and not the typical white-blue smoke, but milky white and yellow, like chemistry... like the smokes we used to make from nitrate and newspapers to throw at the neighborhood football games. Taste was a bit of cream or chocolate, but hidden behind some bitter and sour front-taste... at 15 min smoking I felt nausea and left the cigar down... for me, this is a cigar I personally cannot smoke...

Interesting cigar, overall I liked it, though expected more based on ratings and reviews. Visually very good, nice oily maduro wrapper, looking very nobly. However, on touch not very strong rolled, even light for such cigar - the filler is probably 10% less than it should be for such caliber and this is making the quality issue - the cigar burns faster inside, while the wrapper remains, and thus it is hard to sense the wrapper taste, which is 50% of the cigar taste and in this cigar actually tastes very nice and balanced, very pleasant. After the 2nd inch (in the 2nd third of the cigar), the burning normalized a bit, probably also the tar on the leaves helped for the consistency, and I was able to enjoy the taste better. And the taste remained good till the end of the 2nd third of the cigar (which is how much I usually smoke from the cigars), so taste wise very good. I think if they had put a bit more filler or used this tobacco for 52-54 ring cigar, it would have been the perfect experience... have few more to try, so if difference, will update the comment, but meanwhile, 6,30 Euro for such caliber and taste is already very good price, despite of the quality glitch. Edit 16.02.2014 - the second one was better, still maybe needs some more tobacco inside, but burning and tasting very good.

Very good cigar, smooth, woody and earthy taste, with some sweet creamy taste and a bit of leather. The maduro one is more sweet and leathery than this one, but the natural is kind of better balanced. The only thing is that ended for 50 min, which is not so satisfactory for churchill (and I have not overburn it)... not sure why, will try few more.

Very good cigar, not too strong, smooth taste, smooth and equal burning, very very good construction for perfecto - no issues at all. The only thing I did not like is that ended for merely an hour... want more.

Very good cigar, strongly recommended to try - the whole gamma of aroma, but nothing too strong, too dominating or unpleasant, and in a very well produced body... the only thing I kind of not like in it is the box pressing, since the cigar stays a bit awkward in the hand.

Very good cigar, good body and structure, easy to light due to the shape, burning consistently and producing nice smoke with nice aroma, a bit stronger at the end, but very satisfactory.

Very good cutter - does the job precisely, much better than times more expensive cutters - if it was steel and not plastic would have been perfect. But with this price, you can afford getting new every year or often...

So far working very good... for that money one simply cannot want more.

The cigar started very well, not too strong and quite pleasant. But there was a straw inside and in the middle of the cigar there was tar dripping on big nasty brown drops from the cut - this is the first time I see this - was not able to finish the cigar.

I am a Macanudo fan... not just because of the consistent production quality, but also due to the taste - I like maduro wrappers, but with Macanudo, all of the types have good, valuable taste... recently I am monitoring the same with Torano - no matter the type, all are good quality and good, interesting taste, even the light, natural wrapper ones... recently had 5 or 6 different and none was a miss... this particular one, with the Cameroon wrapper, is super, I had 80 min of a great time, very tasty cigar though not maduro, it really managed to remove the pressure and take the focus on its taste and the smoking experience, perfect! I will for sure try it again, as well as other Toranos...

One of my favorite cigars - mild to medium, great taste and aftertaste, perfect with cognac, good caliber for my draw, burns very good and consistent.