Gallaher Limited Condor Ready Rubbed (Green)

I tried this in 2001 or '02 and still can't shake the memories of this tobacco. It came as a gift from a friend in Ireland who wanted me to try a "TRUE" pipe tobacco.

Well this Yank was not able to smoke this, as much as I wanted to enjoy this tobacco I could not get past the taste. To me it tasted like someone added way too much cardamon to an Indian dinner.

I know this is a very popular tobacco but I just can't bring myself to ever trying this again,it is just not my kind of tobacco.

Recommended for those that enjoy Lakeland tobaccos, run and hide from this if you dont like Lakeland tobaccos.

Pouch aroma reminds me of my Aunt Shirley with her Rose and Sandalwood perfume.

I'm sorry, but I just can't do it. I smoked about a half a bowl of this and it absolutely incinerated the back of my throat. It's not tongue bite, it's a chemical type burning. Although pouch moisture was spot on, it smokes dry and acrid. I've been a career firefighter for 16 years, and I have never had any smoke burn my throat the way this has, and I've been in some nasty fires. I enjoy Lakeland florals tremendously but not this. Sorry!

Is this named after the Condor Legion? That would be appropriate, as English-made aromatics often do bring mass-murder to mind. Thick, fruity, syrupy, this blend, which, like many hard-to-get imports, had a positive vogue a few years back, might be pleasing to a fruit-sucking bat in some tropical setting, but not to this super-liberal, cold-loving, snow-frisking, my-only-homeland-is-the-Winter New Yorker. This smells like a swamp on fire.

If you must smoke Nivea creme, try ST BRUNO instead. IT tastes like tobacco, not bat droppings.

I know many people who love this, but I can't pretend to be one of them. Many years ago, I had an uncle who loved this too and it still carries the nostalgia that makes me want to keep trying to like it. I find that no matter how many times I return to it, the taste profile upsets my stomach, assaults my taste buds with soapiness, and reminds me of the nausea I have occasionally felt on open water in a small boat. I can't pretend that this is a balanced review, as too many experiences in bowls of varying sizes and different woods have spoiled my ability to be dispassionate or objective.

I don't believe that I will ever try this again, and if the draconian masters of tobacco deletion leave this tobacco on the shelves alone and freely available, I would hang up my pipes and vape. If you love this, I salute you and view you with respect for the diversity that accompanies a hobby such as ours, but I cannot share your enthusiasm.

I think my review is necessary to remind me never to have another go at this. It won't sway the inexperienced explorer, as so many rate this so well, but it may serve as a caveat for those who believe that the years may alter taste buds so much as to make valuable that which is essentially unpalatable.

If you love it, keep on! If you are unsure, give it a go! If you don't like it, find it a new home that will appreciate this, sooner rather than later. It isn't going to improve.

I tried this (as my first tobacco) with my first ever pipe. (I ordered Condor Blended but recieved the Original variety.

It truly is a wonder I am still alive, let alone remain a regular pipe smoker!

This is HIGHLY POTENT, okay it's not going to blow your man-bits off, (it'll try, it'll try well at that) but it is very strong and I would not try this again (for a long, long time) for fear of getting the shivers (and nausea) like that ever again, almost as bad as the food poisoning I once recieved so gratefully.

That said I will never throw away any of my old pouches/tins -- I may one day return when my palate is far more experienced and able to tolerate a lot more.

I was a cad and a pillock to think I would get away with this as my first tobacco.

I am very sure that it's a decent smoke -- when you are accustomed to it.

I am sure it was the Nicotine rather than the taste that did it.

Overall: One to be wary of.

Approach with caution, armed and deadly!

I bought this tobacco on a lark in Spain, before I got a chance to research it on Tobacco Reviews. I commend men like Pipestud who try the tobaccos (especially the nasty ones) so I think twice about it. I had no such tobacco gardian angel in this case. I was alone with my pipe, this tobacco and what ever chemicals the boys at Condor R&D decided would be good for their company's bottom line to put into this tobacco. Condor is the only collection of substances that has made me sick thus far after putting it in my pipe and smoking it. After less than a quarter bowl in a small briar, I was dumbstruck. And I definately don't think it was only the nicotine. There is an artificial chemical quality to this product that gives off every signal of being extremely unheathy in every way you could think of a pipe tobacco being unhealthy. After I smoked it my wife said I turned white like I had seen a ghost. I told her it wasn't a ghost, it was the tobacco. I still was feeling it the next morning.

This is a contemplative blend. I seriously contemplated quiting pipe smoking after my Condor Experience.

Let me preface by saying that I enjoy trying old-timey blends and hey, I even got through a couple bowls of Mixture 79. Thus, I kept an open mind when I tried Condor. It's economical -- only about 3 euros where I spotted it in Spain. There, the praise stops. It tastes like soap. That's it, brudda. Soap. Not a tobacco-taste molecule in the bowl. Tainted a perfectly good yard pipe too. Am I really to believe this is an old standby? As my friends in the U.K. say, there are horses for courses. But, really, I can't think of a steed noble enough to like Condor. No cheers.

When I was young, I cursed my mother, and my father washed out my mouth with soap. It only took once to learn my lesson. Never again.

Now, as an adult, I smoked Condor, and my mouth was filled with an even more foul taste of soap. It only took once to learn my lesson. Never again.

The most potent supermarket tobacco availble in England. A real powerhouse of virginia flake at its most voodoo. Strong when first puffed and keeps getting stronger. But thats not the whole story as it tastes of soap. Not a little bit, but like a sample of washing powder had been thrown in the flake press for good measure. Hay maybe they could use it in an advertising promotion. Cleans you pipe as it smoked!. The bar version is also availble for those requiring greater strength.( this has been known to make young women faint/swoon/callapse. Honestly. Pretty unbeatable in the room note stakes also.Hopefully unavailble outside UK, they would'nt dare.