Cult Blood Red Moon
(3.15)
This dark, decadent blend combines fire-cured cavendish, bright Virginias and burleys with the delicious aromas of natural Royal Ann cherry and dark chocolate. A bit sweet, extremely rich, and unquestionably smooth.
Details
| Brand | Cult |
| Blended By | |
| Manufactured By | Scandinavian Tobacco Company |
| Blend Type | Aromatic |
| Contents | Burley, Cavendish, Virginia |
| Flavoring | Cherry, Cocoa / Chocolate |
| Cut | Coarse Cut |
| Packaging | 50 grams tin |
| Country | United States |
| Production | Currently available |
Profile
Strength
Mild
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
Medium to Strong
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Very Pleasant
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Medium
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming
Average Rating
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3.15 / 4
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Reviews
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Displaying 21 - 30 of 125 Reviews
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| May 26, 2020 | Mild to Medium | Medium to Strong | Medium | Pleasant |
Once in a Blue (Red) Moon, I get the hankering for a Cherry blend. Over the years every time I would see this in catalogs, I would think to myself maybe I should try it. I finally bought a tin a few weeks ago. Cherry blends to me are an Enigma, I have tried some that bit like a rabid dog and others that are fairly decent. I opened this up last week and was blasted with a strong cherry smell that on first thought reminded me of Luden’s Cherry Cough Drops. Heck, as a kid I would buy them and eat them as candy. Guess we were poor, just kidding about the poor part. The description says it is flavored with Royal Ann Cherries which I had to look up. Also called Napoleon Cherries, a yellow sweet cherry. I am smoking this again today and my Claw Meerschaum still smells like Cherry so I would advise a dedicated pipe for this puppy. It smokes of a strong cherry with a little chocolate fading in and out. I was enjoying this with a Jarrito’s MCXN COLA and thought to myself, hum, I’m having a cherry coke. I find this a really pleasant blend, most of the tobacco in the tin was I presume black cavendish. I have noticed quite a few reviews complaining about medicinal cherry/artificial flavor of this blend and others of the cherry genre. I personally do not know if this flavoring is natural, artificial, or a combination of both. It is a strong-tasting cherry in the beginning but I find it tames itself down toward the end of the bowl. A second observation I have noticed is the complaints of people smoking an aromatic and not being able to taste the varietal of tobaccos in the blend. Sorry, but for me if I buy a cherry blend, I want to taste cherries, if I want to taste Virginias, etc. I will buy a blend accordingly. This took me a couple of years to get around to buying and I am glad I did. After this tin, I may not smoke a Cherry blend for a few more years but it is always a nice option to revisit from time to time.
Pipe Used:
A dedicated Meerschaum now.
Age When Smoked:
New
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 06, 2018 | Mild | Medium | Medium | Pleasant |
Cherry explosion! From the char light to the last sip there is cherry flavor. Chocolate is muted until toward the end of the bowl where it slowly creeps up on you. Other than the cherry / chocolate, I got nothing, no tobacco flavors.
Pipe Used:
various
PurchasedFrom:
Smoking Pipes
Age When Smoked:
1 month
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 2018 | Mild to Medium | Mild to Medium | Medium | Very Pleasant |
What a delightful smoke. Honestly I think Cult hit this one out of the park. The tin note is absolutely exquisite. "You can just sit that out and let it freshen the room" - Wifey. Wonderful scents of cherry and cocoa on opening that are not at all unpleasant. Smoking is the quintessential cherry pipe tobacco experience. The cherry and cocoa flavors are present and bring to mind a cherry covered in dark chocolate. But make no mistake it's not in a syrupy artificial way. There's a subtlety so there's no syrupy medicine taste to the top. There's also a hint of earthiness in the smoke. It packs well and needs minimal relights. The room note is the classic cherry pipe smoke smell that has please so many for so long. My wife loves when I smoke it in the house because it brings back memories of great grandpa who smoked a cherry blend.
Pipe Used:
Basket Bent Apple
PurchasedFrom:
Pipesandcigars.com
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Jun 24, 2017 | Mild | Strong | Medium | Overwhelming |
This has a strong cherry taste with a note of cocoa to it as promised. If you have been looking for PS-308 in a tin look no further, here it is with a gimmicky label!
Pipe Used:
peterson aran canadian
PurchasedFrom:
pipes and cigars
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Nov 12, 2016 | Mild | Strong | Overwhelming | Pleasant |
Had to try this due to all of the hipe and glad i did, now have a new favorite aromatic, velvety smooth with no bite at all, super sweet (smoke your desert rather than eat it), requires practically no relights, great room note, super tin aroma (maybe just a little heavy), smoked clean burning to nice grey ash even with minimal dry time, slightest of ghosting to pipe. best cherry blend I have ever had!!!
12/12/16 update- simply had to downgrade rating due to fact that this is "over the top" aromatic that gets tiresome and has a much higher "ghosting" affect than i originally thought. Be careful what you put it in! Go for the cobb or the pipe dedicated to aromatics.
12/12/16 update- simply had to downgrade rating due to fact that this is "over the top" aromatic that gets tiresome and has a much higher "ghosting" affect than i originally thought. Be careful what you put it in! Go for the cobb or the pipe dedicated to aromatics.
Pipe Used:
Ascorti
PurchasedFrom:
Tobaccopipes.com
Age When Smoked:
Fresh
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 2016 | Mild to Medium | Medium to Strong | Medium to Full | Very Pleasant |
I begin this review with the following proclamation because me thinks an aromatic guy should more fairly judge aromatics & a natural tobacco guy is going to do the same for those blends which are low or lack casings & top notes. But when all is said and done .... personal tastes are well "personal". I've been a fairly dedicated aromatic pipe smoker for 35+ years (although I occasionally like a Vaper or mild Latakia blend for a change of pace). This aromatic is a very good one. Excellent Burley tobacco taste with a good cherry/chocolate casing. Burns well with consistent flavor to the bottom of the bowl. IMHO, me thinks this is one of the best (if not the very best) cherry blend on the market today. I will surely use this one in my rotation of aromatic blends.
Pipe Used:
Briars & Meerschaums
PurchasedFrom:
PipesandCigars.com
Age When Smoked:
Fresh from tin
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Dec 05, 2014 | Mild | Medium to Strong | Medium | Very Pleasant |
Not an expert but both feet are pretty "wet" at this point. I have tried some very interesting (and some NASTY) non aros and I am definitely an aro guy. I have had some very decent Cherry styles, some I would buy again some not so much. THIS is the blend I have been wanting but it took me wading through a bunch of others promising very cherry, mild, "no tongue bite" (man, you do get tired of hearing that, huh?), with that super pleasant room note. I gotta say that as much as I was awash with memories of my dad's pipe when I was a kid, the first time I fired up Peter Stokkebye 302, Cult - Blood Red Moon was that on steroids, in a very good way. The room note and taste was just SO over the top. I LOVE this stuff!
Pipe Used:
Bros with 9mm filter
PurchasedFrom:
Pipes and Cigars
Age When Smoked:
Freshly opened tin
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Mar 19, 2014 | Very Mild | Medium | Mild to Medium | Pleasant |
When the tin is first opened you get the feeling that this is going to be a sugary chocolate cherry mess. Smells like a box of cherry cordials. Lights easy and smokes easy, did not gum up my pipe as I thought it might. If you are looking for a good cherry blend this may well be your tobacco. I will most likely smoke it as a dessert.
Pipe Used:
Cob, Grabow bulldog
PurchasedFrom:
pipes and cigars
Age When Smoked:
just out of the tin
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Feb 24, 2021 | Mild | Very Strong | Overwhelming | Pleasant |
This is how you can make your own BRM. Get some straight Burley, spray it with Febreze, soak it in Robitussen or your favorite cherry medicine, sprinkle some cocoa powder and cherry candle wax and there you have it. This thing is so strong and overwhelming I don't understand how it got these great reviews that made me purchase it. I even mixed it with some strait burley and Virginia to make it taste less tense but it tastes the same even if you put a pinch in a straight tobacco. I had 2 bowls and gave the rest away, definitely not for me.
Pipe Used:
Corn cob
PurchasedFrom:
smoningpipes.com
Age When Smoked:
Out of the tin
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Dec 16, 2020 | Medium | Mild to Medium | Medium | Very Pleasant |
It is a good tobacco very smooth and Mild with a hint of cherry which is a natural Cherry not an artificial cherry flavor. The black Cavendish shows up with just a little bit of earthy Virginian. I would wish that the Cherry was a little stronger in flavor in my mouth however when you smell the smoke with your nose you can detect the Cherry.
I gave it is a low star rating because I wished the Cherry was stronger and more pronounced in my mouth. If left me wanting more and not in a good way. It left me wanting more cherry for those of you that like the taste of tobacco more so than an aromatic Cherry this is a good smoke that being said I would prefer the cherry flavor to be the hero of this and it was not the black Cavendish was the hero that stood out.
I might be in the minority on this site when it comes to my tastes, but I am an aromatic smoker and I prefer and enjoy the taste of a flavored tobacco when you can truly detect the flavoring of the tobacco.
I gave it is a low star rating because I wished the Cherry was stronger and more pronounced in my mouth. If left me wanting more and not in a good way. It left me wanting more cherry for those of you that like the taste of tobacco more so than an aromatic Cherry this is a good smoke that being said I would prefer the cherry flavor to be the hero of this and it was not the black Cavendish was the hero that stood out.
I might be in the minority on this site when it comes to my tastes, but I am an aromatic smoker and I prefer and enjoy the taste of a flavored tobacco when you can truly detect the flavoring of the tobacco.
Pipe Used:
Missouri meerschaum Legends corn cob
PurchasedFrom:
Pipes & Cigars
Age When Smoked:
Brand new
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