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Tim Ozgener Expands Pi Synesthesia Line

Oct 18, 2024 | By David Savona
Tim Ozgener Expands Pi Synesthesia Line
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Pi Synesthesia, the creative line of smokes from Tim Ozgener made to capture a mathematical expression of color, is being expanded with its third blend: Brown. The new cigar will make its debut next week at the Tobacconists’ Association of America meeting in Aruba.

Brown is an oft-used color in the cigar industry, as the majority of handmade cigars sold around the world wear some form of brown wrapper leaf, but the particular wrapper used in Pi Synesthesia Brown—Mexican San Andrés—often appears much closer to black.

The wrapper is not harvested from high on the plant. “It’s a low to mid-priming leaf,” says Ozgener, the owner of OZ Family Cigars. “We tinkered with the wrapper quite a lot. It has more of a milk chocolate look.”

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The other components of the cigar consist of Honduran binder (grown from Corojo ’99 seed), and the filler is entirely Nicaraguan. Ozgener describes the power of the cigar as medium. “The idea is for it to be reminiscent of the brown flavors that coat the palate more, like chocolate, cocoa, coffee.” 

The cigar comes in one size, 6 inches by 52 ring gauge, is packed 12 to the box and has a suggested retail price of $15.50. It’s made in the Dominican Republic by Ernesto Perez-Carrillo at his Casa Carrillo factory. 

Pi Synesthesia was inspired by Tim’s father Cano, a cigarmaker and artist who was fascinated with the infinity of the number Pi. In 2015, three years before he died, Cano created a painting meant to give colors to various numbers. Pi Synesthesia Red followed last year. 

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