A cigar cutting apparatus has a circular body with a front housing and a rear housing, a left cutting blade assembly, a right cutting blade assembly, a blade opening actuator. A scissors mechanism communicates between the actuator and the blade assemblies and is adapted to retain the blade assemblies in the closed state and to selectably allow the blade assemblies to move to the open state. The front housing has a cigar-receiving through-hole and the rear housing has a cigar-impeding closed back wall.