Origin of Plume

[Texan in Mexico]

What a great start to my thread guys!

This is precisely what I am getting at!

Again, I am by no stretch of the imagination an expert nor do I pretend to have the answer as I do not but I would like to infer that perhaps what I have accepted as gospel is not true or may be a "half-truth" so to speak.

I would like to see what some of the FOGs say. Maybe this is the start to an experiment?

Travis

Originally Posted by md4958

Interesting post Travis.

So, could it be conceivable that plume could be achieved "artificially", that is by someone exposing cigars to these temp and humidity variations, and make a cigar appear older than it is?

Originally Posted by Footbag

I've always thought it was the crystallized tobacco oils reconstituting themselves on the outside of the wrapper. Which would imply that one may be able to fake it, or fool it into forming using extreme temperature/humidity swings.