Borkum Riff Ultra Light

This was the ulra light blend that I thought was the original. The tobacco was a ribbon cut that burned a little warm. The tobacco smelled and tasted more like a chocolate than being vanilla.I did enjoy it though and am eager about buying the original to compare if there has been any changes.

this tobacco is horrible, no nicotine no flavour nothing at all.
All borkum tobaccos are too dry and flat.
if u dont have other option as in egypt but drug store tobacco so stuck to the cap.

Recommended for those, like me, that doesn't like cigarette taste after smoking a bowl. The problem is that it is tasteless. It bites though. Be careful.

Beginners will enjoy it.

It's not a good tobacco. Probably someone like, but I never met anyone who decided by it. It bites too much and it burns hot. I do not recommend since you can find better options by the same price.

Only one word can describe this tobacco, cigarette. I bought one pouch at my local CVS, and it will be my last. I only got a few puffs in before I dumped the bowl, and smoked something better. If your a cigarette smoker, which I'm not, you'll probably like this blend

Ultra light indeed. This didn't satisfy me one bit. I don't see the point in smoking this.

After smoking a whole pouch of this thing, it was simply tasteless. You might wanna try mixing this with another blend e.g. Captain Black Cherry since both of them does not smoke that good.

Well, I had no intention of trying this tobacco, It was 8:45 at night, and I had classes the next day from 9-4, and I just smoked my last bowl of pipe tobacco, and the local smoke shop that has a decent tobacco selection closed, but it is right next door to a rite aide, so I walked in and saw what they had. They had either captain black royal, or cherry(I can not stand the ghost cherry aromatics leave in my pipe, it makes me gag every time, and captain black royal isnt much better in this regard), and borkum riff regular(as well as the usual bulk pound value bags of god knows what). I paid my price for the borkum riff(because it did have a captain blackish smell, and im a young pipe smoker so naturally I love bland and basic vanilla aromatics). The tobacco itself reminded me of a drier, burley/virginia captain black white. The vanilla creaminess was far less noticable, and it burned a bit on the hot side. The tobacco itself in the pouch was also reminiscent of plug cut chewing tobacco(it felt quite similiar to a brick of day o work if you've ever had the pleasure/displeasure). In terms of simple drugstore aromatics though, its not too bad. Having a pouch of borkum riff regular isnt too shabby if its the only tobacco you have on you, but next time im going to stick to the local tobaccionist times, and hope next school night when i run out I make it to the smoke shop. To conclude, if im in a decent smoke shop, ill pass on the borkum for something better, but if im in the drug store and its next to cherry, ill take the borkum regular, though if your cheap and at a drug store, try to find the prince albert soft vanilla for a similiar concept at half the price.

When I first began smoking a pipe, this was my favorite blend. Now, not so much. But it smelled good, had a decent taste, and was available for purchase at a local drug store. I've found that the quality varies greatly from pouch to pouch, I've purchased maybe 5 pouches total over the years & the first 2-3 were great, but every one since has been really amazingly horrible. I know it's not my palate evolving because I had 2 pouches open at once, one at home & one at work, and the work pouch was truly horrible while the home pouch was quite good.