Phase 2: Woman's Guide
The Woman's Guide to Premium Cigars
The cigar book that has been missing. Not a 'pink' version of a men's book, the actual book for women who want to enter cigars on their own terms.
Author, The Woman's Guide to Premium Cigars
Liliana Solano
Tracker of Miguel's cigar spending. Manager of the Solano online presence. Author of the woman's guide nobody else was writing.
Liliana Solano married Miguel in 2008 and inherited his cigar habit as part of the package. She tolerated it for years, tracked his spending in a spreadsheet she still updates, and managed the family's online presence and social media as Miguel's career in the industry expanded. Around 2011 something shifted. She started smoking on her own terms. She discovered her own preferences (Dominicans over Nicaraguans, which surprised Miguel). She found her own community in a world that had not been designed for her. She wrote The Woman's Guide to Premium Cigars to give other women the book she wishes she had been handed fifteen years ago.
Smoking since: 2011
Location: South Florida
Books: 1
Voice and approach
Warm observerPracticalHonest about gender dynamicsRefuses pink-washed condescensionBuilder of community
Ask Liliana about
- Entering cigars as a woman
- Pairing cigars with wine and coffee
- Building a collection in a shared home
- Lounge gender dynamics
- Gifting cigars to other women