I took the remainder of the Yedi-Turkish blend last night, whipped up a mixture of sucanat (cane sugar), vanilla and cocoa in a spray bottle, applied liberally, baked in the oven for 10 minutes to dry, sprayed again, mixed in a plastic bag, then let dry before putting it back in the mason jar. Interesting effect, seems to have increased the body of the smoke noticeably so, bumped up the flavor a few notches, and smoothed it out. Experimenting is fun indeed. If I could engineer any characteristics moving forward with my whole leaf, it would be to mellow out the impact/throat hit a little, and create a more consistent nic delivery verses a spike. From reading forum advice, I understand most everything can be improved with proper blending.
I appreciate all the insight. After understanding the success many of you have experienced with your blending, my next purchase will be some VA red, Maryland and some Prilep for starters. I was going to try another one of Don's blends, but this forum's given me some confidence to jump right into the individual leaf types.