Pencil Shavings...

[Adamsmokes]

Now don't laugh... does anyone else taste pencil shavings in a cigar. I've been picking it up more and more often lately. I know it's a bit weird, stranger still that I've never eaten a pencil! I guess it's a memory of chewing on a pencil at school- the wood and graphite/lead. I hate to be one of those cigar w@@@@@rs pulling out ridiculous flavours but there you go. Anyone else?

[PeeJay]

Now don't laugh... does anyone else taste pencil shavings in a cigar. I've been picking it up more and more often lately. I know it's a bit weird, stranger still that I've never eaten a pencil! I guess it's a memory of chewing on a pencil at school- the wood and graphite/lead. I hate to be one of those cigar w@@@@@rs pulling out ridiculous flavours but there you go. Anyone else?

Don't buy fakes, you never know what's gone into them!

[Adamsmokes]

That must be it!

[Simon Bolivar]

I prefer to keep my lead in my pencil..Boom, Boom Mr Derrick!

[Adamsmokes]

I prefer to keep my lead in my pencil..Boom, Boom Mr Derrick!

[Kickback]

You need to use a cigar cutter rather than one of these.
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[geoffbot]

Pencils are made of wood. I haven't tasted wood ever I don't think (ooh er) but I wood certainly describe a few cigars as tasting woody.

[ZomB]

Was it a very dried out cigar? That might explain it lol

[Adamsmokes]

Well I guess it's just me! I should have said in my original post that I don't find this an unpleasant taste at all. It does make me think that we cigar smokers often interpret the same characteristics in a cigar in different ways. I usually taste in quite broad strokes; sweet, tannic, peppery ect... It's unusual for me to have such a specific flavour come through. Anyhow, just wanted to see if I was alone... clearly I am.

[Alexw33]

I’ve never specifically noticed pencil shavings but I get what you mean because I sometimes have tastes that are related to the general point you are making. HU Connie A (one of my favourite cigars I should add) often reminds me of very sweet wood/sawdust which I obviously have never actually tasted, nor do I know if such a thing even exists actually. I’ve described cigars as forest floor in my notes, I’ve never licked a forest floor. Smells and tastes are very much linked and that must partly be where these odd flavours come from.

[Kickback]

Well I hope it's also true when people say something tastes like crap.

[Moley]

You sure this was a cigar and not mushrooms of the magic variety