Appreciate the detailed description. For someone that isn’t in to tobaccos, you still do a good job of letting us know how it’s going to taste.
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Thanks a lot @RandomlyAssigned, I never know how my bacco reviews will be perceived !!!
Thank you.
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Kaya (CAP) 4% (7-18-26) – OK, I have never Kaya’d before, so I cannot do a flavor vs. real food comparison here, but I CAN tell you what it tasted like. Researching it, everything pointed to a “Coconut Jam” !!! It looked like the most common ingredients were coconut, egg, and sugar, with Pandan very often as well. It presented like a Coconut with smooth, almost custard like undertones. There was also a nice vanilla undertone throughout. Now, while Capella billed it as having “rich buttery notes”, and while I didn’t exactly get those, overall it had a nice “weight” to it, and a great, dense mouthfeel. Assuming DAAP, it was damned fine as it was.
At 4% it was very full, and the nice, almost thick-ish mouthfeel really gave it some weight. Sweetness was just below mid-level, and I could only pick up on one (kinda) off-note. There was a slight astringent dryness on the finish, but TBH, almost all coconuts have it, so keep that in mind. Not off-putting, not overbearing, but still there. All in, a very good coconut, which seemed to straddle shredded, and sweetened, with a creamy, dense mouthfeel, along with some very nice vanilla undertones. Not a coconut custard, not a creamed coconut, but the aforementioned. I could see a LOT of uses for this one, and with only the slight dryness to complain about, I left this one fairly high at a 9.2/10. Tasty, and unique enough to pick it up, even IF you already had a few coconuts.
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I’m a big fan of OOO Selai Kaya, so I may have to try this one
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Chocolate Dubai (CAP) 4% (7-19-26) – A slight delay in finishing this one due to the World Cup !!! Luckily for you guys I would live on Chocolate Dubai if I could. Having eaten quite a bit of it, I was really looking forward to seeing how Capella would pull this one off, because it was a complex profile to pull off. Out of the gate, the chocolate was almost perfectly suited for a CD with it’s creamy, and smooth texture. Not a dark chocolate, or a milk chocolate, but more of a smooth Belgian. No dryness or bitterness in this one. Next was the superbly delicious pistachio cream. I wish it atomized like it smelled in the bottle as it was more present when smelling, but in the mix, it sat below the chocolate, and added a very good extra layer of complexity. The pastry element was lowest in the mix, and while present and accurate, seemed like it was overshadowed a bit by the choco and pistaschio notes.
At 4% it was perfectly strong and at about a 9/10 on the strength scale, with sweetness being just below mid-level, which was accurate to the real thing. Zero off-notes, or complaints with the exception of wanting just a bit more of the shredded phyllo dough (pastry), but even that, was a small want. Increasing it, might have thrown off the delicate choco/pistachio balance. All in, a deliciously accurate Chocolate Dubai, that managed to pull off a complex profile with a smooth Belgian choco creamy pistachio, and light phyllo dough pastry, with only minor markdowns for a light(er) pastry note. Leaving this one at a higher 9.5/10.
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At the risk of sounding stupid, what is a CB?
Another great review btw!
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LOL, damned TYPO !!!
CD
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Oops soz 
I wasn’t nitpicking. Just assumed it was some vaping abbreviation I didn’t know yet.
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Hehe, no, not at all, I appreciate it. Glad you caught it before I deployed these reviews to ALL of the sites I post them on !!!
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I remember you talking about this one. I might have to try both. In the past I was huge into Coconut then that hankering faded. I think I’m ready for a coconut resurrection.
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Woah, I thought I was the only person alive who used the term hankering
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Cheesecake Graham Crust (CAP) 4% (7-22-26) – Alright, testing Cheesecake Graham Crust flavors it not exciting, BUT, hehe, I do it for you guys. Out of the gate I could tell Capella did use Gamma-octalactone in this flavor, which has a very distinctive creamy, coconut overtone, and it used in quite a few Graham Crust flavors. It was very similar to TPA’s CGC, with very light and slight Cheesecake notes, with much more predominant Graham Crust notes. No sour, or cheesy cheesecakes here, just hints of a creamy cheesecake. The graham crust profile was good, and accurate, and for my tastes, I’ve never really been a fan of the coconut notes, BUT, they’re more common than not in a lot of similar flavors.
At 4% it was about a 7/10 on the strength scale, and tasted good, with sweetness a few ticks below mid-level. There was a slight dryness on the finish, which could easily be covered up in mixes, so it was really a non-issue. My personal preferences may not be yours, but for mine, I knocked it down just a bit for the coconut notes, again, very common in graham crust llavors. All in a good accurate Graham Crust with light hints of a creamy cheesecake. If you really wanted a full on cheesecake and crust, you would have to step up the cheesecake profile. Leaving this one at a 8.25/10.
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We’re more united than we think 
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