it's something that i'd smoke once in a while, but i'd go for the others...

The pouch aroma is a mix between cherry flavoured Kool-Aid and Life-Savers. Once lit, it changes into a warm, sweet cherry pie baking in the oven. A warm dough smell enfolds the sweet cherry note to produce a comforting confectionary aroma.

The room note is strong. After lighting your pipe, it won't be long before people from 50 feet away turn their heads. Don't smoke this if you are shy or dislike attention!

I was pleasantly surprised by the taste. This tobacco does not have the same flat, hot air qualities of many other aromatics. The tobacco is of medium strength and the taste is full, not only as a result of the cherry flavouring but also due to the tobacco strength. The tobacco used is mainly burley and the leaf is of average quality. Once properly lit, it burns well although not quite as easily as say a Pipeworks & Wilke aromatic. It will heat up if you puff like a train, but that is hardly necessary as a result of the full flavour and above average (for an aromatic) tobacco strength. I have not experienced any bite from this tobacco, but I smoke slowly - I prefer to purposefully let my pipe go out a few times. Sometimes a medium sized bowl lasts me two hours.

I smoke this tobacco only about once every three months. If you approach this tobacco correctly and appreciate it for what it tries to be, you can have great fun with it.

This is an extremely chemical-sweet cavendish. It's cloying, goopy, and heavy tasting. It will render your pipes useless, unless the idea is to devote a particular briar to heavy tasting cherry blends.

If you don't mind an aromatic smoke once in a while, but heavily cased tobaccos are not your thing, steer clear from this one. It might have gotten better under the Danish blending techniques, but I wouldn't risk it.

Not as bad as other cherry blends but not good either, I guess I just don't like cherry. I only keep one or two aromatics handy in small amounts because I like Balkans but now and then I enjoy a change of pace. I have pretty much narrowed down the one or two aromatics I might buy once in a blue moon but I like to try new ones now and then.

This blend isn't all that bad but I found the flavor chemical and, after a few bowls, it tastes like lipstick.

If you are a fan of cherry give it a try because it isn't as sickening as other cherry blends. Not for me.

When I decided to start smoking a pipe seriously it was the tobacco I choose again, mainly because I had no idea what I was doing, hehe. Now that I have moved beyond this tobacco and have slightly more refined tastes, I still find myself occasionally buying a pouch of it, more out of nostalgia than anything else.

The room note of this tobacco is very strong and very cherry and people remark on how good it smells quite often. On opening the pouch for the first time, the cherry smell is quite pronounced and although this mellows somewhat over time it remains quite consistent for a long time after the pouch has been opened. Whenever I have given the pouch over for someone to smell the tobacco itself they have always remarked on how good it smells. The feel of the tobacco itself is somewhere between medium and high grade with occasional stems to be found and picked out.

The smoke is very sweet and a strong flavor of cherry comes through. If that were all I would highly recommend it for the times you would like something quite sweet or as a "dessert" tobacco but I found that in comparison with some other similarly priced aromatic blends available it has a strong bite if smoked for any length of time.

If you are careful and smoke very slowly though and like sweet and like cherry it can be a pleasurable smoke. The cherry taste and pleasant aroma last throughout the bowl but a good bit of dottle develops and it can become a wet smoke at the end. This can be somewhat offset by drying the tobacco out a bit but I have found that even quite dry you should still be wary of the bite. Another alternative to offset some of the drawbacks would be to smoke it in a very small bowled pipe.

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Bottom Line: Very sweet smoke, very cherry taste with a hint of vanilla, extremely pleasant in room note and smell of the tobacco itself, vicious bite to be looked out for by smoking slowly or only for a short time.

It's entirely possible that I'm just a spoiled brat, but I'm pretty sure that this is one of the worst tobaccos on earth. It's cherry-very-cherry in the pouch but curiously mouth-drying when smoked. The leaf--a mix of yellow and black Cavendish ribbons--looks and feels second-tier. I managed to get through half a bowl at standard Virginia-smoking pace (which is pretty slow) before I had to head to the freezer for a bowl of ice cream. For me, that's reason enough to avoid it: Borkum Riff will make me fat.

If you smoke exclusively for those around you (and if you do, you are a fool) then go ahead and have at it. If price is an issue, I recommend that you smoke half as much and buy better tobacco.

I would buy it again in the same situation. That guy really looked down and downer. But I sure wouldn't smoke it.

Edit:-I have tried many other tobaccos since writing my review of this one, some of those tobacco's came with very high recommendations indeed. I have found all I have tried so far to be dismal in comparison to BR Cherry Cavindish. I will be ensuring I always have a pouch of this on hand whenever I decide to try something new. I will always be prepared for another let down and the pain of it will be almost non existant for having it.

And I will not be so absolute because for some period, our choices in my country were very limited (CLAN, CAPTAIN BLACK, AMPHORA, BORKUM RIFF WHISKY). I was asking from friends to bring to me from abroad CHERRY CAVENDISH in order to smoke something different.

It has a quite interesting perfume, the smell of cheap cherry is very strong till the end of bowl, nice perfume in the room, but it burns the tongue.

Surely I wouldn?t return to him anymore but because of my hard efforts to find him in the past, I give him 2 stars.