Borkum Riff Orange & Honey

I really wanted to like this stuff, but as hard as I try I can't make it work for me. Opening the pouch it smells sweet and tasty and upon lighting the taste transfers to the smoke but it burns extremley hot. I smoked this stuff as slow as possible and it still bit me like a rabid dog. The flavor is great almost like an orange marmalade but you just can't smoke it and not blister your tongue. I say leave it alone its not worth the suffering there's so much more out there. If it was all I could get I'd do without smoking.

I have one other review on here and it was a "one star" for Borkum Riff whiskey. I saw this advertised and thought it sounded good. Not big on infused tobaccos, but honey and orange sounded tasty. Boy was I wrong. One word: Blechhhhh! Smelled bad in the package and smoked even worse. Tasted no honey OR orange. Left a nasty film in my mouth. I took the package and dumped it in a bell jar and was going to set a shot of Grand Marnier in with it. Then I figured it was a waste of Grand Marnier. I dumped the tobacco in the trash and then drank the shot to get rid of the taste in my mouth. What a disapointment.

Smells great in the pouch. In the pipe it is bland and itchy on the tongue, regardless of the cadence with which it is smoked. End of review.

Terrible tobacco, couldn't even finish the pouch. No flavor, no taste, nothing but a horrible bite sensation even when trying too slow down the smoking pace. Not recommended!!!

A (very) bad tobacco experience. I thought of stopping here but...

I would like to add also that you have to stay away from this blend if you want to keep your tonque healthy, your pipe in good condition and your hard earned money in your pocket or spent them to a better blend(which is very easy, because whatever you are going to buy will be better for sure).

I don't know with what to begin... 1) Taste: Buy some fresh oranges cut them and throw them in your garbage bin. Revisit your bin after 3 days, stick your nose in there and take some big breaths/puffs whatever... If you like that go immediately and buy BR orange and ?????. 2)Smell of the smoke:Exactly like the taste +setting your bin on fire. Smell of the pouch is like glugogehoneish acid. 3)Medium to strong tobacco. after 5 puffs made me dizzy and nauseous.

I don't think that I have to add anything else at this point.

Bleccch! Horrible! Don't! Neither oranges nor honey taste like this. Hot, cheap and nasty. Yet another gruesome clunker from Borkum Riff. Obviously there's a market for this kind of confectionery, but I can't imagine why. I wouldn't smoke a bowl of it again for a million dollars. (That probably isn't quite true, but you know what I mean ...).

I feel a fool for even admitting that I bought a packet of this stuff. This tobacco is syrupy and sweet as molasses. I detected no honey, and very little orange. Orange in the sense of orange-flavoured cough syrup, not freshly cut orange. The same goes for the aftertaste.

Not wanting to waste a single gram of tobacco, I blended this with an equal amount of pure Southern African burley. The result is something which is passable for smoking at a barbeque, or similar outdoors event where discrimination is not required.

On the plus side, this tobacco burns easily, so could be worthwhile for someone new to pipe smoking who is still learning how to do it, but it will surely spoil the pipe. Not recommended at all.

it's awful, too sweet, may be good for people who love sweet. won't buy this blend again, and thinking if i should throw it away or not.

The only lenience one would have towards such mixture would be excused due one's past relation to such a cheap aromatic (romantic post-adolescent experimentation that is).

As I found myself, outside this Romantisised context to test this tobacco, I must protest against its vulgar casing, its biting qualities and its tangy-bitter attack it undertakes on one's throat. My advice would be to pursue elsewhere for aromatics.