The Casual Smoker’s Guide to Choosing a Travel Humidor – Benchmark Humidors

The Casual Smoker’s Guide to Choosing a Travel Humidor


If you’re like 95% of cigar smokers, you only smoke a few times a year. Clearly, you’re not alone…you represent the vast majority of the cigar smoking population. By virtue of the time span between cigars you enjoy, you need a small humidor…perhaps very small! Size is one of the major factors that defines a portable humidor. Just HOW small a humidor to buy can be easily defined by considering just a few things.

  1. When it comes to the cigars you choose, do you like to have options when your smoking occasions come around? How many? If your answer is yes, plan for a travel humidor that holds at least that many.
  2. Do you usually enjoy your cigars alone or with others? You might want to include a couple of options for others if this applies.
  3. Do you want a travel humidor that looks like it belongs with the caliber of cigars you enjoy?
  4. Regardless of your choice, be sure your selection includes adequate humidification for your number of cigar selections. I recommend using Boveda packs in any portable humidor you choose. It’s maintenance free, accurate, and the one that most cigar manufacturers choose to pack with their cigars when they ship them.

Your choice of travel humidors can also match your sense of style. Even if you only light up occasionally, make the occasion worth looking forward to. Have a travel humidor worth showing off…and we’re always here to help with that. ;-) Cheers!

—Danny Jackson