Mac Baren Amphora Full Aroma

Hey, I found this stuff!!!!

Old package in a old store. I'll make this one quick. This blend is similar to Skandinavik Full Aroma. Nice aromatic tobacco. The smoker is not swamped by some berry blast. Smooth and nice.

The tobacco was a little dry mainly due to the age of the pouch. Refer to my review of Skan Full Aroma as this is very very similar.

I got this unsolicited on a trade. Being an admitted drugstore-tobacco snob, I didn't smoke this for a while. On one of those what-the-heck days, I gave it a shot.

Hey, not bad. I didn't have the flavor descriptors, so I didn't know what to expect. I didn't pick out any particular flavorings, and I wouldn't have known that it WAS flavored except for the "aroma" in the name. Maybe this is because my sample was older and pretty dry. It smoked easily, pleasantly, with a decent flavor level. Not complex, but a comfortable, no-brainer smoke. I now keep the pouch in the trunk of my car in case I have a smoking opportunity.

one of the best aromatics but it's very mild,real good for beginners.

This tobacco can be summed up in one word - easy! Upon opening the pouch you have to have a good strong sniff to get the full aroma, which is fruity and very pleasant if quite mild. The texture is fine and very light brown in colour, not like your typical cavendish blend.

It lights very easy and is easy to keep going, you can puff away quite hard, yet it still burns cool. The flavouring is hard to pin down, the main flavour is definately fruity, I would say honeysuckle. However there are additional flavours which I can only describe as possibly herbal. However the odd thing I find about this tobacco is that the flavour wears off after approximately 1/3 of the bowl, after that it becomes quite flavourless but still very easy to smoke. It leaves a fine ash which doesn't flavour the pipe too much.

I would describe this as a geat beginners tobacco or maybe a good bedtime smoke, due to it's mild but pleasant flavouring. It is not an adventurous tobacco, so you could get bored with it if you smoked it too much. The quality of this tobacco belies it's mass produced manufacture.

For many years, Amphora Red was my standard working tobacco (that is, the tobacco I always smoked whenever I was working in circumstances that allowed me to smoke.) Although often mocked as a "drugstore" blend, Amphora Red is actually a very high quality Dutch cavendish with an excellent cut and wonderful smoking qualities. It is quite aromatic in both taste and smell, at least through the first half of the bowl, and tastes of both cherry and chocolate flavoring in a way that is not at all like the "cough syrup" taste of most drugstore aromatics. In the second half of the bowl, the blend loses most of its flavoring and reverts to a pleasant, mild tobacco taste. I stopped smoking this when it became unavailable in the States, but I used to smoke it by the pound, and would still smoke it, especially during the hot Texas summer, if it was easily available. All in all, this is by far the best "drugstore" blend I ever smoked, and a blend that compares well to any of the premium aromatics I've smoked.

Overview: Amphora Full Aromatic comes in red 50g pouch. A product of the Netherlands, Amphora blends are available everywhere I've traveled. Sight & Touch: Reddish to golden brown in color, this Cavendish has the coarse shred & small flakes typical of Amphora products. Occasionally, new pouches are a little moist, but a little airing and mixing dries it enough to meet my needs without impairing flavour or aroma. Smoking Characteristics: Amphora smokes well without rubbing, just as it comes from the pouch. It's a '1 match' blend that is easy to keep lit with slow, moderately paced draws of light strength. I like it in any pipe ? strait or bent -- and smoke it with equal enjoyment indoors or out.

Nose: Upon opening a new pouch, your nose is greeted with strong, fruity aromas that have faint traces of vanilla & licorice floating around. Although the aroma is strong, there is no ?cough drop? scent that plagues other blends. The initial room note is pleasantly fruity and of medium weight. Unfortunately, it descends too quickly into a staleness I associate with many Burley & Virginia blends.

Mouth: The initial flavour is fruity with pleasant undertones of natural tobacco. This changes a wee bit half way down the bowl into a stronger and darker flavor that is still moderately cool to the mouth and tongue.

Economics: In Canada this blend is low-priced and, coupled with its moderately slow rate of burn, is an economical smoke.

Last Words: Amphora Full Aroma is a wonderful change from Lane, Middleton & Sail products that festoon most corner stores. Out of the 'corner store' blends available to me, Amphora Full Aroma is my 2nd favourite. I rate it at 3 stars out of 5 and usually have it in my tobacco cabinet.

This is a great stand by if you are out of tobacco and in a crunch, you can get this everywhere. The pouch aroma is very sweet and quite pleasant.

It burned well but was a little too wet for me.

All in all I did enjoy it but it won't bee on my list untill I run out of my current tobacco.

Having so thoroughly enjoyed Amphora original, I was looking forward to trying this. As it turned out, I still enjoy the original, but wouldn't buy more of this one. I found it just kinda "blah." The blend is not very aromatic; however, a topping could be detected. I got fruits and floral, but what turned me off is I also got a bit of that Play Doh (that is Plasticine for those of you not in the states) essence that I really dislike.

I also found this to be quick to bite even while in the zone. That is not to say it did not have any good qualities. It lit and stayed lit quite easily and it was quite hardy for an aromatic. As the topping is light, there was abundant tobacco flavor that kept you from thinking that you were smoking candy flavored hot air.

Even with these good qualities, I did not enjoy this blend in the least. I am hanging two stars on it as it has its fans and not everyone will get that play doh type essence that I am so averse to.

good tobacco