Samuel Gawith Celtic Talisman

I don't know if I got a bad tin of this stuff or what, I didn't get it from the store with the freshest stock, but I cannot recommend at this point. I may come back to edit this at some point if I try more, but until then this is the experience. It's a straight-forward blend of potpourri. I mean, when I first popped the tin, it smelled like the bowl of flakes in my grandmothers bathroom when I was a kid. It didn't seem dry or moist. It burned okay, but just had a musty dry bitter old quality and room-note. No berries or cherries and zero vanilla, just a taste of perfume. I threw it in a jar, left it for a year, came back to it, same thing. I gave it to my buddy who loves aromatics, particularly cherry and vanilla, to try with full disclosure. He smoked a bowl and just handed it back. It sat for another year and I opened it recently and it actually smelled a bit better, more plum and a very light vanilla wisp. I'll brave it for one more bowl at some point, maybe, and see. The room-note is particularly putrid and musty. Like I said not sure if it's just a bad tin, so take this review with a grain of salt, but if not then this is one of the worse tasting anything that I've smoked. I cannot recommend unless potpourri is your bag, in which case look no further.

I love a load of Gawith house blends, i am a mostly non-aro smoker, but really consider some of the Kendall aromatics as a class of their own, sublime and unsurpassed.

Not this one.

The taste was chemical, acrid, cloying, and simultaneously bitter for me. Really did not like it at all, couldn’t finish a bowl.

I agree with fruktflugan's review below word-for-word. I'll only supplement it with three adjectives of my own: hot, harsh & chemical.

Maybe we got a bad batch, because it's difficult to believe SG would intentionally release a disaster like this.

Di buono ha solo il nome. Una vera fetecchia, un pasticcio di gusti nauseanti e stucchevoli. Mai più. Davvero pessimo...non saprei che altro aggiungere e mi stupisco che sia un SG.

I personally did not like this tobacco. Wishy washy sweet Hodge podge mix of chemical flavours. Quite sour at the bottom. It put me off Samuel gawith for a long time but st James plug is a masterpiece. I am not experienced with aromatics. So it could well be a good one.i shall not be buying anymore however.the room note is like josticks I used to disguise my smoking as a boy.