Davidoff Royalty

Looks like they blended some good quality tobacco here; burns nicely down to a fine grey ash and won't leave your pipe goopy. It'll run a little hot at first loading of the pipe, but gets milder on the first re-light and it will smoke easily and gently through the rest of the bowl.

Other than that,...eh. A nice, mild English blend and that's about all you can say there, matey. I smoke it once in a blue moon while practicing my English accent and it gives my wife an excuse to have the draperies cleaned. Everyone's happy eh?

This is one of the few good quality tobaccos that are freely available where I live, so I use it now and then even though it is not a first choice with me. I find it too light overall. But is does find a place when I'm in the mood for a lighter smoke very late at night. I find that it burns well and is always well-behaved, if not startling in any of its qualities. I have found that it smokes best in a large, tall pipe; I often use an Ashton LX oversized Lovat, and they combine well. I recommend the Frank (or 'German') method for filling large pipes with tobaccos such as this. I agree with other reviewers that the Latakia element is present but not strong. I'd sum it up as a lighter VA with a little oriental spice. Certainly worth the try.

If it was reasonably priced, reviews about royalty would double and I would probably be single by now. Yes, "wife rating" equals to "wife hating" with this one.

so far may favorite pipe tobacco. a top quality leafs of virgina, oriental and small amount of latakia will provide a great smoking pleasure if you love english blends. great burn to the end of the bowl. very special taste and a bit $$...

It's well balanced giving a cool, salty smoke to the bottom of the bowl.

One of my all-day faves together with the much harder to find Early Morning Pipe. Presentation of the tobacco in the tin is nice but not as good as Dunhill's. Tinnote is just a bit too sugary IMO.

Royalty produces a satisfying lot of smoke. The taste in itself is not remarkable but I find myself picking Royalty surprisingly often in the course of a smoking day...

Roomnote is very pleasant to me and my pipesmoking friends, my girlfriends hates the smell of all my tobaccos so no point in asking her opinion anymore 🙂

Never trying anything with latakia in it made me very anxious to try this! Looked great in the can, had something in the tin note i couldnt identify (maybe the latakia?) Definitely had me interested!

Found it easy to pack but hard to keep lit, and I usually keep a pipe going after one light and a tamp. It tasted great, definitely like nothing I have had before. The virginias were lovely but that flavour escaped me untill 2/3 of the way down the bowl. Thrills chewing gum!!! You know, that purple chicklet kinda gum in the yellow package? It had exactly the same soapy flavour as that in my opinion.

Seeing as this is my first latakia experience, I will have to try more blends and compare, but I loved it!

3 stars untill I have some more to compare it with! A hunting I will go........

I couldn't find a tobacco I really liked, most of them were either too fierce or too cloying, and I was about to give up until those helpful people in Davidoff suggested I tried this blend. I'm completely hooked on the complex mix of flavours and the smoothness.

Definitely a classy blend and the roomnote is more than pleasant, it's gorgeous and doesn't smell stale the morning after, always a bonus. Burns evenly and cleanly to a fine powder and tastes great to the bttom of the bowl. I cant find anything bad to say about it, apart from the fact that none of my local shops sell it - but that gives me an excuse to go shopping in London, so clouds and silver linings etc.

Nothing exciting. A well done nutty oriental mixture, but nothing else.