Pipe 'baccy but cigar smell/taste?

SWMBO (and me too TBH) really like the smell of a great Cuban cigar. Is there a pipe tobacco that has a similar taste/smell?

Also, when shopping online for pipes I see a lot of listings that reference 6mm. What is it referring to? Draw hole?

Lastly, for you gents that clench the pipe in your teeth, how do you keep from getting tooth marks in the mouthpiece, or does it matter?

Sorry for all the Q's, still very much the newb as you can see.

Pipe tobacco and cigars are completely different beasts. The closest thing you'll find is Semois, but even still that's nothing like a Cuban cigar.

6mm refers to the filter that the pipe takes. 9mm is the other filter size, while most pipes don't have any filter.

One way is by using rubber "softy bits," the other way is to not clench hard.

I just picked up a tin of this. Haven't cracked it open yet though so I have no idea what its like yet.

http://www.tobaccoreviews.com/blend/767/mcclelland-dominican-glory-maduro

Boro62 said:

I just picked up a tin of this. Haven't cracked it open yet though so I have no idea what its like yet.

http://www.tobaccoreviews.com/blend/767/mcclelland-dominican-glory-maduro

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That's a great smoke! Hangten gave me a sample of that, which resulted in 3 cellared tins. My cigar experience is very limited, so I can't say it will satisfy a cigar hankerin', but I love that blend.

I've always found that the blends with cigar leaf in it taste nothing like cigars.

Some of the C&D VaBurPers give off a Connecticut wrapper sensation to my taste buds. Old Joe Krantz, Burley Flake #3 and I can't remember the third, remind me of a cigar. But they are very heavy on the Vitamin N.

Senshi said:

I've always found that the blends with cigar leaf in it taste nothing like cigars.

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Agreed! The most cigar-like smoke I've had is Semois. Peretti Cuban blend is probably next in line.

There is also a couple C&D blends that use cigar leaf in the blend specifically. You can select just cigar as the component on the website and it will list all the blends they have that use it. http://cornellanddiehl.com/tobaccos.cfm

I have a broken cigar that I plan to break up and put in a pipe. If I have a cigar roach that didn't start getting icky at the end I'd finish it in a pipe.

More practically speaking, probably nothing in a pipe is going to do the job when what you really want is a cigar, but for those times where you're flexible perhaps a decently strong English blend like Dunhill My Mixture 965 could work.

I had some McClelland 5100 and thought it was pretty cigar-ish

Also, check out this thread for the clenching question

http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthread.php/454030-Softie-bits

Thanks everyone!