The sweetness is a natural wafting across the palate compounded by notes of cream, wood, spice and some mustiness on the finish. The sweetness ties the whole profile together making it a superbly balanced and luxurious smoke. Overall, this Sweet Habano stogie remains in the mild to light medium in the strength category.

Maduro

All cards on the table; I love a Maduro wrapper. The dark toasty notes and stronger profile just does it for me. While I may not rank this maduro as one of my favs, I would say it put up a good fight. Factory Smokes Maduro offers a gentle surge in strength compared to the other Factory Smokes cigars. Chocolate, cedar, espresso and sparks of pepper carry the day flavor wise. As expected, the Maduro wrapper renders a tacit sweetness that stays through the finish. Overall, the strength never goes beyond medium.

• Sun-Grown

Indonesia grows a delectable Sun-Grown wrapper mostly because the strategic cloud cover allows the leaf to amass a darker flavor profile and mouth-watering sweetness.

Factory Smokes Sun-grown is a certified flavor bomb with notes ranging from cedar, earth, baker’s spice, sweet cocoa, and that pleasant cackling aroma of hay during summer. Notes of dark chocolate, leather, wet musty earth, and sweet tobacco develop later in the profile. You may even end up with some saltiness, light vanilla, and spice on the Retrohale. Overall, the Sun-grown is a mild to medium smoke that is super laid back. You will have a hard time putting it down.

Shade

Factory Smokes Shade fronts an oily Connecticut Shade wrapper. Generally, a Shade wrapper is lighter in color than a Sun grown and also thinner and more elastic. But more importantly, a shade wrapper makes a gorgeous cigar.

Flavor wise, this baby presents refreshing notes of cedar, spice, cream, natural tobacco, and a myriad of sweet woodsy nuances. A dash of black pepper and various other spices dominate the back of the palate and Retrohale. Overall, Factory Smokes Shade drags strength to the medium point but barely.