Cult Blood Red Moon

Well done in all aspects IMHO. Balanced and quite tasty. Will not remain in "constant" rotation but will visit often enough. Great aro to enjoy in between all the English that I smoke.

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.

Curiosity and cool tin art finally got the best of me. Tin note is cloying cherry cough syrup. Thankfully, this doesn't translate to the smoke itself. I got a lot of cherry, not so much chocolate, although I searched hard for it. Tobacco is way, way in the background. Honestly, it's not horrible for this non-aromatic smoker. But I find it hard to get through a bowl, as I just grow tired of the sweetness and lack of depth to the blend. The most unpleasant part is cleaning a pipe after smoking this, the chemical smell just overwhelms. This will ghost so use a cheap cob or dedicated pipe. I'd give it one star but it earns an extra because as these super sweet aromatics go, it's well done. Just not for me.

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.

A little too artificial. A strong scent of marzipan and cherry welcome you when opening the tin. Very moist dark flakes that need some drying. Strong flavour of artificial cherry that makes it no a favourite of mine