Explore our collection on the Shop Humidors page, select your preferred style and finish, and complete your purchase online. Each Hornman & Co. humidor is made to order, with an approximate processing time of 8–10 weeks. Once your order ships, you’ll receive an email with tracking information.

We ship throughout the United States and internationally. Complimentary shipping is included, and because each humidor is made to order, please allow approximately 8–10 weeks for processing—so plan ahead!

Once your order ships, you’ll receive an email with tracking information.

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ecause each Hornman & Co. humidor is made to order, all sales are final, and we do not accept returns or exchanges for changes of mind or finish preferences. If your order arrives damaged or has a manufacturing or material defect, please contact us within 5 days of delivery so we can assist you. For complete details and exclusions, please review our Returns & Exchanges Page.

Every Hornman & Co. humidor is crafted from materials chosen for how they perform, not just how they look. The wood varies by piece, drawing on several fine hardwoods including cherry, rift white oak, walnut, and tiger maple, and, on the interior, Spanish cedar for its moisture regulating properties and aroma. 

Other materials to choose from include full grain genuine leathers, along with select exotic skins for our limited, custom pieces. Premium hardware and fittings are chosen to complement the wood and leather.

Every humidor we sell is handcrafted in the Hudson Valley of New York State, by a small group of local artisans and machinists who build each piece individually rather than on an assembly line. That means the grain, the joinery, and the finish on your humidor are the result of a person's hands and no two pieces are perfectly identical.

A humidor is a living object made from  living material, and it rewards a small amount of regular attention. The sections below walk through everything from the moment your humidor arrives through years of use: seasoning it for the first time, keeping the humidity where it belongs, and knowing when to change out your humidification packet.

Seasoning is the process of bringing the interior of a brand new humidor up to the correct humidity level before it ever holds a cigar. Freshly finished wood, particularly the Spanish cedar lining, starts out completely dry. If cigars were placed inside right away, the dry wood would pull moisture out of them instead of protecting them, and the Spanish cedar itself could destabilize if humidity is absorbed unevenly or too quickly.. 

At Hornman & Co., we season every humidor with a Boveda 84 percent relative humidity/60 gram cartridge for 2 weeks. Then, after those two weeks pass, we then install a 72 percent, 60 gram cartridge that maintains a consistent humidity for several months of use. Should you want to increase or decrease the relative humidity level to suit your preference, Boveda offers cartridge options that come in a variety of humidity levels, and you can easily swap out one cartridge for another to suit your preference.

If your Hornman & Co. piece goes an unusually long time without a Boveda humidification cartridge, you would simply repeat the seasoning process with an 84 percent/60 gram cartridge. 

One method you may see recommended online is wiping the interior walls with a damp sponge or cloth to speed this along. We strongly discourage this. Wood is porous and reactive, and direct contact with liquid water can cause it to warp or swell unevenly, which over time can loosen joints or distort the fit of the lid. Let humidity reach the wood through the air, the way it is meant to, and never through direct moisture.

Your humidor uses a two way humidification packet to hold the interior at a steady humidity level without you having to add or remove moisture by hand. These packets have a working life, and replacing them on schedule is the single easiest thing you can do to protect your cigars.

As a general rule, plan to replace the packet in your wooden humidor roughly every two to three months (This timeframe can be much longer, depending on the ambient conditions where you store the humidor). You will also notice physical signs that it is time sooner than that: a fresh packet feels soft and pliable throughout, and as it nears the end of its life it develops hard, crystallized patches, usually starting at the corners. Once it feels rigid all the way through, it has stopped working and should be replaced immediately. Watching your hygrometer is the other reliable signal. If the reading drifts below your desired humidity level, and does not recover within a day or two, the packet is depleted.

You can order official replacement packets directly from Boveda here.

A hygrometer is the round gauge, mounted inside the lid of your humidor that reads the relative humidity of the air inside. It is the only way to know, at a glance, whether your humidor is actually doing its job.

It matters because cigars are unforgiving in both directions. Too little humidity and they dry out, burn hot and fast, and lose the flavor the tobacco was aged to develop. Too much and they are prone to mold and to an infestation of tobacco beetles, whose eggs can survive dormant in tobacco leaf until conditions turn favorable. A hygrometer is what lets you catch a problem while it is still a two minute fix, a fresh humidification packet, rather than after it has already affected your cigars.

Over years of use, a hygrometer can drift out of calibration, so it is worth checking periodically. To recalibrate, seal the hygrometer inside a resealable bag with a Boveda 72 percent packet for three days. If it does not read 72 percent afterward, most analog hygrometers have a small adjustment screw on the back that lets you correct the needle to match. If your hygrometer needs to be replaced entirely, it can be easily removed by rotating it out from its mounting position in the lid.

Spanish cedar is not a decorative choice, it is the reason a wooden humidor works at all. The wood is naturally porous in a way that lets it absorb excess moisture from the air when humidity rises and release it back when humidity drops, which smooths out small fluctuations and keeps the interior far more stable than the wood casing alone would allow.

It also contains natural oils that tobacco beetles find unwelcoming, which is a meaningful line of defense for a material, cigar tobacco, that is genuinely vulnerable to them. And unlike a liner that is purely functional, Spanish cedar contributes something to the cigars themselves over time: a faint, warm, slightly spicy character that collectors consider part of a well aged cigar's development. It is a material that has been the standard for this purpose for well over a century, for the simple reason that nothing else does the job as well.

Cigars, in something close to their modern form, trace back to the Mayans of Central America, who were rolling tobacco leaves for smoking as early as the 10th century. When Columbus reached the Caribbean in 1492, the practice was already well established among native populations, and European sailors carried tobacco back home, where it spread quickly across the continent.

Cuba's reputation as the center of the cigar world took hold in 1762, when a brief British occupation of Havana during the Seven Years' War exposed a wider audience to Cuban tobacco, and the island's cigars have carried an outsized reputation ever since. American production grew alongside it through the 1800s and into the early 1900s, before the industry shifted again after 1959, when trade changes with Cuba pushed much of the world's cigar making to the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and Nicaragua, where a great deal of it remains today.

Storage evolved alongside the cigar itself. Early smokers relied on cedar boxes, clay jars, and simple cellars, all imperfect. By the 1800s, cedar lined wooden humidors had become the standard, though collectors were still managing humidity by hand with damp sponges and, later, analog hygrometers that needed constant attention. It was not until 1997, with the introduction of two way humidity control packets, that humidors gained the ability to hold a precise level automatically, without a person checking in every day. That innovation is the direct ancestor of the packet sitting inside your Hornman & Co. humidor right now, a piece of engineering built on a piece of craftsmanship that is centuries older.

We are happy to help with anything from a care question to a custom order. Reach us at hornmanandco@gmail.com or through our Contact Page, and we will get back to you as soon as we can.