Went into a cigar bar recently to pick up some sticks for Christmas. It struck me that here I was in a shop where lots of folks smoke cigars on a regular basis and it smelled amazing. Whereas at home, I only smoke outdoors because I don’t like the way the room smells the next day.
What’s the difference? Hard, non-porous surfaces at the bar versus carpet and fabric at home?
By “amazing” I assume you mean, “Really good cigar smoke smell.” You might be smelling fresher smoke in the cigar bar since people are smoking in there all the time. If it has hard surfaces that might cut down on retained odors after the smoke is gone. Day-old smoke is nasty.
Yes, it smelled so good I hated to leave after making my purchase.
Oh, I thought you meant it smelled fresh, as in “No cigar smoke”.
That would be “amazing”.
Did you mean that, or “GOOD cigar smell”?
I’m going with proper ventilation. In the Las Vegas casinos you can be at the same table with a cigar smoker and not be bothered at all. At the Indian casinos, in So Cal anyway, they’re all smoked filled barrooms. Cigar emporiums tend to isolate their wonderful smelling uncooked products from the smoking room. But if you’re not smelling harsh air, it’s the ventilation.
BTW I smoked a pipe for a couple of years and used to love buying tobacco in the good tobacco shops because of the smells. (I have never liked cigars or the smell of cigar smoke.)
It depends on the cigar. My ex-wife (a non-smoker) never minded if I smoked a premium handrolled Havana (cost about $30+) in our living room, because the smell was gone the next day. Was it the curing/aging of the tobacco or the handrolling? Who knows? She could not smell it the next day, and so she was happy.
She did mind if I smoked a cheap, machine-made domestic cigar. It stunk, and I had to agree with her.
I meant that good cigar smell.
In my experience, cigars smell good and cigar butts smell awful.
That’s probably it. Old stale cigar smoke is vastly better than old stale cigarette smoke, but it’s still notso hotso. What a cigar bar / cigar store has going for it is pretty continuous renewal with fresh aroma to cover the stale stink.
Also another vote that nice cigars have a pleasant aroma and cheap stogies just stench. http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5749915 
It also has the smell of the unsmoked stock in the store. The joy of running a fresh new cigar under your nose, times 10,000 stacked in neat rows in nice boxes.