Category Archives: Cigar Preservation

Cigar preservation goes far beyond maintaining a fixed humidity percentage. It requires understanding the balance between wood, air, humidity and temperature, and how these elements interact to keep tobacco stable over time.

In this category, we explore cigar preservation from a technical and rigorous, yet accessible perspective, grounded in real physical principles and in our experience designing and crafting humidors. These articles focus not only on what to do, but on why it should be done, challenging common assumptions and providing clear criteria for proper cigar storage.

Our aim is to share lasting knowledge, helping to create environments that respect the nature and origin of tobacco, allowing each cigar to retain its integrity and fully express its character when the time comes to enjoy it.

Lacquered glass Presidente tabletop humidor
Cigar humidor: what it is and how to use it

A cigar humidor is a wooden box designed specifically to preserve cigars in optimal conditions, [...]

01
Mar
Humidifier generating humidity.
The Humidor as an Ecosystem

How cedar, humidity, air and cigars interact A humidor is not simply a container for [...]

04
Jan
70% humidity
Why should the humidity in a humidor be around 70%?

From the middle of the last century, when Zino Davidoff began importing tobacco into Switzerland, [...]

27
Jun