The first third starts with an awesome milk chocolate and a wasabi-like pepper through the nose before transition to sweet nuts. There’s not much smoke, but it becomes a mixture of sweet cedar and cocoa with black pepper on the back — the Double Robusto more so than any other size really seems to capture the idea of the Opus X (filler) and a Cameroon wrapper going head to head. Before you know it (around six puffs in), the Double Robusto is putting out tons of rich, thick and heavy smoke with a great sweet cedar and barnyard aroma. The first two inches are rather distinct with tons of black and red pepper on the back of the throat. There’s honestly not too much up front, some of the peppers, cedar and a bit of aged tobacco with an underlying cocoa. Out of the gate the Double Robusto is always the strongest of Casa Fuentes for me, not just strength, but also body — both of which are full.