When lighting a cigar, I smell the most compelling aroma of any emitted during the course of that cigar. Describing it, along with the often cited tastes of leather, cedar, wood, nuts, is beyond me.

Does anyone know why this should be so?
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I usually see folks talking about the the cedar, nuts, etc... in regards to the flavor of the cigar as they taste it, not the way it might smell to a passerby. I might not be understanding what you're asking though.
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weak_link said:

I usually see folks talking about the the cedar, nuts, etc... in regards to the flavor of the cigar as they taste it, not the way it might smell to a passerby. I might not be understanding what you're asking though.

Thanks for the reply!

What I mean by aroma is solely the aroma emitted when lighting a cigar with a torch. When I spoke of the cigar taste overtones of cedar, etc., I was stating that I never taste these; and similarly, that the aroma of the igniting foot I also could not describe.

Hope this helps!
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