Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) Clan Aromatic (Original)

Very light coloured ribbon cut tobacco.

I loved the smell of this 20 years ago

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when other people smoked it.

I tried it....and....well........err. It was like smoking rancid toxic waste sediment. It absolutely lashed my tongue as if it were beating a ginger stepchild at the gates of hell..

Cheap, rank, crap... Couldn't smoke for a week after trying this due to the bite symptoms..

The money you'd spend on this would probably smoke and taste better if you shredded a few of the bank notes and put them in your pipe instead.

I am very new to pipe smoking after giving up a 30 a day cigarette habit. I wish I had changed years ago!! At least I still have all of the tobacco variations still to come 🙂

This is my first review on this great website and being new to pipe smoking I cant tell the differences between all of the different types.. yet.

I wanted to work my way through the various supermarket brands to find an everyday readily available smoke. Clan is NOT it!!

I tried this late last night but after having quite a few different tobaccos yesterday I put the tongue bite down to that. Today, having been up for a good few hours I thought I would sit back with a bowl of Clan and give it a proper taste. Taste wise, it is very mild with no real flavour to speak of, I was expecting more as it is labelled as Aromatic and a very subtle sweet smell coming from the pouch.

After a couple of puffs, my tongue was 'nipped' even though I was taking it slow and trying to get a good taste of it. After a few more puffs my tongue was bitten, so much so I put my pipe down to recover. After going back to it, and if I smoked it any more slower I would be relighting it tomorrow, I continued on and I am pleased I only filled half a bowl.

The roof of my mouth feels stripped of skin, my tongue is so bitten I cant taste my coffee and it moved me to sit down and write my first review.

In short, if you can get over the very HOT tongue bite the flavour is very mild, the room note is pretty much non existant and if anybody wants to buy the remains of a 25g pouch of this stuff then drop me a line.

EDIT 16th May: So I thought I would give this another try in case I was wrong first time around and loaded it into a corn cob. The tongue bite is so overwhelming you cant taste anything for ages afterwards. THIS TOBACCO IS EVIL & NASTY!!!

This was my first ever pipe tobacco. I had no idea how to smoke a pipe back then but I can remember that once I'd discovered flakes and whatnot they made this stuff seem really naff. I've no desire to ever return to it, not even for "old times" sake. Not even to try and give a balanced review. I know that this stuff is terrible. And yes - why is it so widely available. It's one of those really, really weird features of life on earth that this stuff is de rigeur in most cornerstores and supermarkets. I was in a shop the other day and I noticed that this was the ONLY pipe tobacco that they had and they had about 20 packs of it. The mind boggles. Stay away from it.

OK, I had to try this in my quest to try every blend I can before I die and this one always escaped me. I did not expect much, as the reviews and nasty comments about it are less than flattering along the lines of Mixture 79. But, I could actually like this one if they did not put napalm in it!

I love the packaging and name of this blend. The plaid backdrop on the roll up pouch has always intrigued me. The pouch I received was from a forum buddy in England who wanted to try 5 Bros, and it was very much on the dry side. I have experimented with it the last few weeks dry up to hydrated. It's in a shag cut not as fine as 5 Bros of all brown tobaccos. Upon first light, it tasted really, pretty good, kind of like a sour apple candy with a little chocolate backdrop. Not in your face aromatic but there. But after a few puffs, look out! Fire, Fire! This one must be smoked slow, slow, slow, or your tongue will look like beef jerky. I think it's the hottest tobacco I have ever tried. But, I liked the taste and have stuck with it. The room note is kinda sour and sweet and tolerable, not great though. It does light very easy, stays lit, and burns all the way down to a gray ash and no dottle. No moisture at the bottom of the pipe. I will smoke the rest of the pack slowly, but would not buy it again because it is so hot and you can't relax with it. But it's not near as bad as it's reviews and could be quite good if it was not so hot. I'm glad I tried it.

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The first tobacco I ever tried, so back then I didn't know that smoking wasn't meant to make your tongue feel like it had been sandpapered raw. This tobacco has a papery texture, springy and difficult to pack. Smokes very hot, however slowly you go. The smoke has little taste or aroma, so at least it won't upset your companions much. I re-visited Clan recently after a twenty year gap, and ended up chucking most of the packet. Never again!

Yuck! If this would have been my first pipe tobacco I would have never have started smoking a pipe. My local tobacco suplier sells loads of this stuff, so I just had to try this blend. I have never encountered a pipe tobacco as bad as this. I tried to smoke it twice, then I just gave up and threw it all away! I might just have had a bad pouch but I will certainly not buy one again... shivers...

I bought a pouche of this about twenty years ago, acouple of bowls later and the remainder was donated to the dustbin, I cannot bring myself to try this one again, not even for tobacco reviews.com, I think I would rather gouge my own eyeballs out with red hot needles first, so shall we say "Not Recommended" and one star ?

Update 25 March 2020 My sister sent me a pouch of this as a birthday present. My sister never did like me.

This was the second pipe smoke that I ever tried, & this review is being written from memory. What I can remember with 100% certainty is that this tobacco almost caused me to give up on pipes, I remember thinking 'if this is what smoking pipes is about, I'm going back to ciggies', hot burn, tongue bite, generally unpleansant taste (which I could taste when my tongue was not on fire), a thouroughly unpleasant experience. Luckily I persevered & discovered the delights of quality Tobaccos & Pipes, & discovered the world of Pipesmoking joy. My advice to all pipesmokers regarding Clan is very simple STAY AWAY. DO NOT TOUCH THIS VILE CONCOCTION BY ANY MEANS. I cannot possibly comment on a blend from long ago as it may be quite pleasant, the current clan on sale is however, a nauseating heresy of a tobacco, & is not something I have or would ever smoke again even if I was paid to.

A classic tobacco, sold since decades ago and which can be found almost anywhere in Italy... but also a quite universally despised one! It's not "bad", it simply is in the same mould of Amphora Green: tasteless and insignificant. If puffed EXTREMELY slowly it has some sweetness and toastiness... and you will have to smoke slowly not to fry your tongue! I don't find anything of interest in this blend, but you can do worse: at least it's not goopy and if you like the genre it's an OK tobacco to smoke when surrounded by non-smokers, due to its chocolatey smel