Cult Blood Red Moon

I love aromatics, but I've been "burned" one too many times by cherry blends in the past (pun intended). I was a bit skeptical, but decided to give it a shot. I have always WANTED to like cherry blends. However, they have all tasted like cough medicine or gunked up my pipe. I opened this tin and was immediately greeted with the strong aroma of cherries and chocolate. It reminded me of cordial cherries. I loaded up one of my cheap briars dedicated to aromatics and gave it a good charring light. The initial taste was intense cherry zest. It was spicy, sweet, and not artificial in any way. As I smoked, I noted the taste of chocolate becoming more prevalent, along with creamy vanilla and a touch of liquor. I expected there to be a catch. It was too good to be true. Fortunately, the flavors lasted all the way to the bottom of the bowl, with the chocolate becoming the more dominate flavor during the last quarter. It burnt down to a thin, white ash. Overall, it's everything that most people have been wanting in an aromatic: wonderful room note, bold flavor, creamy smoke, and no mess! I'll definitely be keeping some around from now on.

One of my favorites. Best cherry smoke. Smooth and easy to stay light. I carry this one everytime I take pipe away from home. Good room note no bite in short to Churchwarden pipes

Although I predominantly smoke an English or VaPer, and typically smoke an aromatic around others as a courtesy; I am definitely impressed with BRM! Because this has been reviewed in excess and so much redundancy, I will stay with a simple bullet point review. This truly is bite free from the top to the bottom of the bowl. Even a novice pipe smoker couldn’t burn their tongue! As for the flavor, it really does in fact taste as its room notes depict; like a cherry and chocolate milk shake. My final thoughts are - if you don’t like an aromatic, definitely this isn't for you; but if you do, I would urge you to try a tin.

I don’t like aromatics, mostly because they are only that…AROMATIC. Zero flavor and the only enjoyment you get is sniffing expensive potpourri.

Not CBRM! It tastes like it smells, and I can count on one hand the aros that meet that standard. It is Cherry, but not like cough syrup, but more like a Cherry cordial. You have the Cherry, backed up by the chocolate, which gets rid of the bitterness and rounds out the flavor, and then you get an undertone of vanilla which borders on caramel for me. Think of a Cherry cordial (chocolate covered cherry) with a caramel/vanilla drizzle and you have Cult Blood Red Moon.

Honestly the best aromatic I have ever had, and I’ve had well over 100. Do yourself a favor and buy a tin, but dry it the best you can and smoke slow for maximal flavor.

I’ve been smoking pipes off and on for 25 years, and had yet to find a blend that made me want to hoard it. Cult BRM is the first. Cool burning, forgiving to pack, aromatic but not a sticky mess, no bite, light on nicotine. You can easily smoke this all day. I give it four stars, and four pipes in rotation.

At first I was so excited to try this because of all the great things I heard. I did and I thought it was just ok, I was honestly disappointed. What a shame…..But then I kept loading a few more bowls over the following weeks. Took it to the woods to forage and then to mountains to get firewood, damn it was tasty and satisfying. I kept opening my jar and inhaling, so good. Not sweet sticky cherry but a rich sour cherry. Then dark chocolate. Now I do love the flavor of cherry so if you don’t you might want to go with something else. But for me, sour cherry chocolate with a touch of nicotine? Yes please. This one lives up to the hype, the king of cherry aromatics.

Cult Blood Red Moon is a pretty legendary blend at this point and a great place to start if you're a new smoker. For the experienced smoker, it provides an exceptional and unique experience -- cherry with uncompromising tobacco flavor.

The tin note was of Hostess strawberry short cake snacks. I know, right? The moisture level was perfect and it stays rather fresh in the tin. I've had mine for over a week and it still tastes every bit as good as it did on arrival. It lights easily and burns well with no need for relighting. Tongue bite is minimal.

Black cavendish does the heavy lifting here, and it tastes strong and bold with light sweetness. Surrounding it is a light cherry casing reminiscent of, confusingly, strawberry shortcake. Blood Red Moon tastes dessert-like and avoids cherry Robitussin syndrome that alienates a lot of people away from cherry blends. On top of all that, the tobacco flavor punches through well. It's easy to see why this blend is so well-regarded.

I don't smoke aromatics all that much. If I go for one, I reach for something like MacBaren Vanilla, because they use good tobacco. These days I usually go for a good English or Balkan blend, or an alcohol infused Balkan like the SPC offerings... I smoke lots of Va and VaPer flake.

So, I wanted to see what the hubub was about with the BRM by CULT. It sells out a lot and the reviews are great, but I take reviews of aromatics with a grain of salt, knowing that usually you don't taste what you smell.

Well, Scandinavian Tobacco Group has a winner here because the tin note of chocolate cherry codial smells good enough to eat. My wife was amazed.

So, I'm thinking, man this smells great I'm sure as usual it can't possibly smell or TASTE like this when smoked.

Lit it up. Mind... BLOWN.

This stuff is amazeballs.

It smokes EXACTLY as it smells in the tin/jar.

Smoked great. NO BITE! If you are up for a dessert aromatic or to please the wife, THIS IS THE ONE.

The underlying tobacco isn't crap, either. I can taste good base tobacco in this.

I hope they never stop making it as they stopped several of the other Cult blends.

Delicious. Each bowl is a smokey cherry devils food cake. The casings are strong enough to be easily noticed with each puff, but not overwhelming. Stays cool enough when puffed...no tongue bite.