I smoke it in a medium to large bowl. It produces plenty of smoke, and a good nicotine hit. I don't notice any artificial flavouring in this one - only pure tobacco. It is very well balanced and smokes easily.

Each bowl of this blend is an event for me (which is as it should be, considering the price). I find it refined and highly enjoyable.

One of my favourite English blends.

Easy does it, and you have good creamy smooth smoke for anytime of the day and the changing nature of the flavours keeps it very interesting - clearly, top grade tobaccos.

A must try!

I'm not sure if this is the blend I bought, mine came in a 50gr gold and white tin that said "royal" not royalty. The guy at the cigar shop said the tins have been sitting there since he started working at the place 3 years ago. (maybe the age made a difference?) Needless to say I bought the other tins, biting my lip paying 13.99 + tax for each little tin: and for that it only gets 3 stars.

As a comparison, Royalty makes Balkan Sasieni seem harsh, is stronger than Frog and less sweet, and has moved Squadron Leader and Skiff out of my rotation.

A tin of Royalty for an English and one of Wessex Sovereign for a vapor and you are covered for life.

The taste is sweet and kindof salty, rather than the peppery taste I get from other latakia blends. It's a nice summer outdoor smoke. The tobacco smokes cool and leave little dottle. The smoke is cool and creamy, which is probably due to the orientals. Not in my top 5, but defenitely worth a try

Other than that,...eh. A nice, mild English blend and that's about all you can say there, matey. I smoke it once in a blue moon while practicing my English accent and it gives my wife an excuse to have the draperies cleaned. Everyone's happy eh?

Royalty produces a satisfying lot of smoke. The taste in itself is not remarkable but I find myself picking Royalty surprisingly often in the course of a smoking day...

Roomnote is very pleasant to me and my pipesmoking friends, my girlfriends hates the smell of all my tobaccos so no point in asking her opinion anymore :)

Found it easy to pack but hard to keep lit, and I usually keep a pipe going after one light and a tamp. It tasted great, definitely like nothing I have had before. The virginias were lovely but that flavour escaped me untill 2/3 of the way down the bowl. Thrills chewing gum!!! You know, that purple chicklet kinda gum in the yellow package? It had exactly the same soapy flavour as that in my opinion.

Seeing as this is my first latakia experience, I will have to try more blends and compare, but I loved it!

3 stars untill I have some more to compare it with! A hunting I will go........

Definitely a classy blend and the roomnote is more than pleasant, it's gorgeous and doesn't smell stale the morning after, always a bonus. Burns evenly and cleanly to a fine powder and tastes great to the bttom of the bowl. I cant find anything bad to say about it, apart from the fact that none of my local shops sell it - but that gives me an excuse to go shopping in London, so clouds and silver linings etc.

"Sniper3" makes a good point. While I do suspect that this would be close to hit the 4-star mark with a bunch of years on it, there really is no obvious need to age it (as there indeed is with many other blends). It's very nice straight out of the tin.

It is more expensive than the competition, and part of the price tag is surely in the brand name alone. But since I don't buy this very often I'm not terribly concerned. Besides, the way things are going, there aren't many cheap tobaccos around anyway (certainly not in Europe). Might as well go with something you know will hit the spot as you'll be shelling out a rather significant portion of your dough anyway, instead of trying to save a few cents and get less quality as a result. That's how I see it anyway.