Color:	slaty (dark grayish blue)
Surface:	splotchy whey-faced schlub; divets & pebbled backing w/ a cliché inscription "Inspire the People Around You" (if only Vosges would be inspired to produce good work)
Temper:	dull
Snap:	powerfully strong envelope; excellent

portentious: stale coffee grounds & paraffin overlay corn, cocoa, & copra; wood beneath

Texture:	creeping chitinous things
Melt:	rough 'n coming

ADSR
Attack - goes for the throat w/ old dried-out coffee
Decay - dead cocoa -> fecal refuse (the aroma is the speculum) takes on everything - the dog w/ the fleas
Sustain - inedible scrap heap / strewn garbage -> nibs further aggravate, creating a choke point... stalls & stretches
Release - aggressively dirty tannins flatten everything at the back -> coffee grinds stuck in the throat for days

Brooding melancholy thanks to inferior ingredients. Vosges really scraping the bottom of the toilet under the ethos 'any old crap will do'. Confirming once again it's all in the packaging & messaging for them. "Creole", "New Orleans style", & "chicory" appear on the label as marketing seductors (pseudo-exoticism for quasi-eroticism), the last having little to do in the flavor scheme other than to make what's already murky all the more blurry. A farcical Bayou jamboree.