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Strength
Medium
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
None Detected
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Tolerable
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Medium
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming
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| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Feb 06, 2021 | Medium to Strong | None Detected | Medium | Tolerable |
Decent French tradition tobacco. The cut, though advertised as "Coupe Large", is too thin: I'd say hardly distinguishable from cigarette rolling tobacco. This makes the tobacco burn a bit fast and hot (and the combustion seems irregular as well), burying its flavours. Tin (pouch) aroma is natural and subdued. Packaging is really nice old school, but not very practical. The tobacco is apparently one of the very few still entirely made in (SW) France by an ethical cooperative founded quite recently (2008), leaf being provided by local planters. It's cut in Belguim since it seems impossible to find cutting equipment in France nowadays! Ordered 5x40g at my local tobacconist in Paris, otherwise not easy to find here.
Pipe Used:
Peterson Deluxe 1s
PurchasedFrom:
Tobacconist in Paris (on order)
Age When Smoked:
New
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| May 14, 2017 | Medium | None Detected | Medium to Full | Tolerable |
This tobacco is produced close to the place i live, here is the reason why i tested first. Smoking it right from the package, it's a little too dry. Burns easily, even easily too hot. So used, it's a little harsh, and if nuo tongue bite has been noticed, it produces a nic burning feeling in the throat. But once remoisted, all is changing. 3 days ago i tried remoust it in a tin using a ''mini zeppeling", and a big piece of ''rave celery'', and add aproxymately 40 percent of "cornell 'n' diehl'' latakia. 3 days in the tin with the celery, and letting it dry 15 minutes on a sheet, just to get the perfect moist containt before packing in the pipe. The taste is close to a "not too bad" english blend. The spicy roughness of the "brown tobacco" replacing to me the need of oriental tobacco. Leaving a pretty nice and salty after taste. A tobacco i recomend as a base for blending. Edit for the straight using: Slightly remoisted the easy hot burning is calmed down. The nicotine bit in the throat deems to be vanished too... Finaly a very smokable tobacco as it is... Even if the nic content is maybe a lot head turning if you try to inhale.
Pipe Used:
Courrieu(cogolin)n°34 Lacroix egg 683 (droite)
PurchasedFrom:
Local tobacco supplier
Age When Smoked:
Right from the shop
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Nov 29, 2020 | Medium | None Detected | Medium | Tolerable |
The pouch (more of a packet really) is very stylish, looks like old pouch of "Le gris", the most ancient pipe/RYO tobacco in France. I really enjoy opening it, and wished I could use it like I use a classic tobacco pouch, but unfortunately I am afraid it will rip apart in my pocket.
Very dry from the pouch, I rehydrated it to a medium humidity level. It smells like tobacco, but sweeter. Packing my pipe quite tight, it needed 3 lights to get it going. The taste is very tobacco-y, but again, sweeter and oscillating in a way. While it is technically a brown ("brun", french blend if you like) tobacco, it doesn't really have this typical taste, like Saint-Claude, or Le gris might have. I really enjoyed my bowl, not tongue bite at all. I was afraid it would burn really hot and fast since the cut is very thin (a millimeter or less), but it didn't and my pipe was actually cool at the end. Somehow the last third lasted as long as the two first
Very dry from the pouch, I rehydrated it to a medium humidity level. It smells like tobacco, but sweeter. Packing my pipe quite tight, it needed 3 lights to get it going. The taste is very tobacco-y, but again, sweeter and oscillating in a way. While it is technically a brown ("brun", french blend if you like) tobacco, it doesn't really have this typical taste, like Saint-Claude, or Le gris might have. I really enjoyed my bowl, not tongue bite at all. I was afraid it would burn really hot and fast since the cut is very thin (a millimeter or less), but it didn't and my pipe was actually cool at the end. Somehow the last third lasted as long as the two first
Pipe Used:
Saint-Claude straight medium bowl
PurchasedFrom:
Le Maryland (Lyon, France)
Age When Smoked:
A few days from the shop
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