DADS, GRADS, GROOMS GIFT GUIDE NO. 4: DANIEL MARSHALL 24 KARAT CIGAR

When it comes to men and gifts it basically comes down to three times a year: the year-end Holidays, the far more personal birthday celebration, and what we call the ‘Dads, Grads, Grooms Season’ — Father’s Day, graduation and weddings (from the groom to his groomsmen; or from the bride to the groom). 

We at MoS have curated ten brilliant gift ideas, in addition to ideal (and all-new) Girard-Perregaux timepieces with which to celebrate the season. — The Editors

ALL THAT GLITTERS is gold, including . . . a cigar? It’s true: You can indeed be the man with the golden cigar.

Daniel Marshall (the company and the man behind it) is so well known for its exotic wood desktop and travel humidors that it’s easy to forget that its “DM” cigar line has been a satisfying smoker for nearly two decades.

Earlier this year, to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the classic Al Pacino film Scarface,Universal Studios commissioned Marshall to create an “over-the-top” humidor in a very limited edition of 20 pieces. The result was a box encrusted with ruby Swarovski crystals that surrounded a bronze medallion of the movie’s iconic intertwined “TM” initials, for Tony Montana. Still more Swarovski crystals spelled out Montana’s credo, “The World Is Yours.” (A far simpler version of the humidor, sans crystals, was issued in a much wider release alongside the anniversary DVD.) While working on the project, Mr. Marshall says, he thought “An over-the-top humidor deserves an over-the-top cigar.” And thus the DM 24-Karat Golden Torpedo was born.

The cigar itself begins life as a Nicaraguan puro that’s aged a minimum of one year after rolling. Then it’s ready for the Midas touch: Each cigar’s wrapper leaf is lightly sanded, and Florentine gold from world-renowned gold-beater Giusto Manetti Battiloro is applied leaf by leaf. In the end, 25 sheets of 24-karat pure edible Italian gold insulates each elegant cigar.

As you might guess, lighting up the Gold Torpedo is a rather significant departure from the typical cigar experience. But then again — you’re smoking pure gold, remember — that’s exactly the point.