I do not have a lot of desktop humidors. It’s the nature of what happens when you smoke (and write about) cigars for a living, and your office houses gigantic cabinets full of premium tobacco. I do have some though, which means I’ve had to replace the normally terrible included black plastic and floral foam devices that come with these products. The good news is, lots of companies are making alternative humidification devices, one of which is Cigar Oasis. For the most part, that name is attached to a series of consumer-oriented humidification process ranging from the Cigar Oasis Ultra, a battery-powered device similar in size to the floral foam units, to the company’s larger Magna line, which can hold a gallon of water. Today’s review is of the Excel ($120), a unit that embodies the image I think of when I hear the word Cigar Oasis. It measures six inches long, two inches wide and three and a half inches high—roughly about the size of four sticks of butter stacked on top of one another. There’s a refillable reservoir of water at the bottom, with fans and a control unit on top. The fans blow the humidified air that sits on ...
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