The decision is smaller than it looks: how many cigars you carry, and whether the cutter travels with them. A folding pocket case with the cutter built into the body is the whole kit for an evening out, and it is the right answer for most trips — one object, and nothing left on a hall table.
Leather travel humidors, which hold a Spanish cedar interior against a week of dry hotel air, are on order and will appear here as they arrive. For the desk rather than the suitcase, see Humidors.
Most of what is here is Essentials — Prestige Import Group, stocked because the ritual needs a case and these do the job, sold on function and value rather than on a maker’s name. Two pieces are Curated: the Xikar Sentinel, a zippered leather case that carries five cigars with the cutter, the lighter, cards and a pen, and the S.T. Dupont Ligne 2 lighter case.
Choose on the length of the trip, not the size of the collection, and you’ll rarely choose wrong.