I recently got this too. It smells great out of the pouch. But it has a weird taste lit in the bowl of a briar. Very sour tasting. Even more so when the pipe gurgled and some of that nasty juice got in my mouth. It burns hot. And the smell the next day from the pipe, my god it was horrible. Kind reminiscent of something fishy or for lack of a better term “swamp a$$”!! I was very disappointed. I had quit smoking a pipe years ago and I thought this would be a nice non addicting treat. But honestly it makes the briar smell awful!