Origin of Plume

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Originally Posted by Texan in Mexico

On one of the Forums I recently started reading through there is an explanation that plume really has nothing to do with the "age" of a stick but rather is a result of extreme changes in the temp or humidity and appear when the oils come back to their previous state. Doesn't mean the stick is bad because the extreme change occurrs briefly and is not prolonged so as to affect the stick.

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?

Seeing as how Plume/Bloom is a crystallization of oils on the wrapper of the cigar, I'd be curious to know how it can be done "artificially".

That aside, when you find Plume on a cigar, you are supposed to snort it and then smoke the cigar.