Cult Blood Red Moon

I'm impressed. Right off the bat this is the best cherry blend I've smoked and I'm not a big cherry blend lover. It's a blend all it's own. It gives me the impression of "old school" yet it's like a modern day twist. It's as if that blend your grandfather smoked was updated and brought into this century. Or something like steampunk, the old mixed with a futuristic twist on realilty. The only negative thing I find is in the tin there is a strange medicine like smell along with the cherry. However it doesnt carry over to the smoking experience. Although not much the bottom of the bowl was wet.

This blend is similar to Drew Estates "7th Ave. Blonde" in the since the fragrance packs a whallup and it's rich sweetness stays with you. The taste and fragrance? Imagine a rich cherry and chocolate flavor. It's as if they mixed 7th Ave Blonde with the chocolate of Central Park Stroll. It's good and holds a great flavor along with it's cherry profile in both taste and room note. I recommend this to any pipe smoker who likes aro's or use to smoke aro's and gave up on them. This is a good one to have around. I couldn't imagine a cherry blend getting better than this one.

I have tried aromatics in the past, and decided that other than an occasional smoke when the mood hits me; I would avoid them. Cult came as part of a sampler pack, and I knew nothing about the blend. I chose it out of curiosity from the name, and later learned it was a cherry blend. I decided to crack it open, and was quickly blasted with the smell of cherry cordials. The tobacco packed easy, lit easy, and burned all the way down to fine ash. There is a little goop left over, but it is very little compared to most aromatics. The room note is absolutely amazing, and unlike most aromatics I've smoked; you taste cherry and chocolate. I suggest this blend to anyone wanting to try an aromatic, and highly suggest this blend to aromatic smokers.

Cult - Blood Red Moon.

Like many, I first heard of this through the Dagners on YouTube, and as I've recently been enjoying more aromatics compared to usual (especially Lane's Dark Red) I thought I'd give this as bash.

There's no confusing what this is flavoured with: I always crack a fresh tin open over my waste paper bin and even at that distance my nose got a strong assault of cherries! It comes as no shock (with it smelling so strongly) that it's too damp, but as that's nothing out of the ordinary for a stronger aro I won't hold that against it.

On with the smoke: if a top end cherry aromatic is what you're looking for you've found it here. Although the cherries are the more formidable of the extra flavours the taste isn't bitter: the chocolate takes any harshness out of the scene and replaces it with a silky creaminess. Other than the Cavendish I can't really detect much flavour from the other two tobacco's, it's quite a gloopy/sticky taste: vanilla-Cav, chocolate, and cherry. The nicotine's exactly as you'd expect from a cherry aromatic: very mild, and the room-note is also to be expected: cherries!

I think everyone should try this at least once; the best cherry blend ever.

Highly recommended.

If anyone would have told me that after so many years of pipe smoking that I would be smoking a cherry blend, I would have told them they were nits. I have been a flake smoker for years and even the thought of smoking something not a flake was a reach, but then a cherry blend that was not a flake, forget it.

This stuff tastes great, I am not going to wax poetic about this flavor or a hint of boysenberry or such, the flavor is pronounced and it keeps getting better the longer you smoke it. The cherry flavor starts right off the bat and the chocolate shows a little later. The flavor lasts the entire bowl, no weak spots at all/ It burns very cool, there is no moisture left in the bowl and it burns to a fine ash. People around you really enjoy the room note. If you ever thought about trying an aromatic, this is the one. If you are an aromatic lover, grab some quick.

Pipe tobacco smokers seem to invariably fall into one of two camps: those who enjoy aromatics and those who don't. The reality is more complex. What it comes down to, I find, is that there is a very vocal anti-aromatic crowd who tend to view aromatics as somehow "impure."

Now I am one who enjoys a good straight Virginia,. I also enjoy Latakia blends, from Frog Morton's Cellar, original Frog Morton, Plum Pudding, etc., but I also enjoy a good aromatic.

Now, there are indeed many poor quality aromatics that leave one wanting, feeling like one has smoked a bowl of hot air that only has the effect of biting the tongue. But they aren't all like that. (I've also had some Latakia and other blends that have left me feeling like I have a sinus cold and a sore throat, but there too, they aren't all like that.)

Cult Blood Red Moon is an example of a really good aromatic. What's more, it's a good example of a good cherry flavoured aromatic. In fact, it was unbelievably good -- though with the caveat that it was only good for the first half of the bowl; after that it degrades.

It is worth noting that when I say "cherry" what I mean is sour cherry or possibly black cherry. There is a certain tart sweetness to it, both in terms of the room note and in terms of the flavour -- and yes, it absolutely translates into the flavour, at least for the first half of the bowl.

As for that room note, it's delightful. Pretty much that classic pipe smoke scent that most people think of with pipe tobacco.

It isn't easy to get tongue bite with it, so that's a plus -- and I can't say the same for MacBaren's cherry offering. Like I say though, you could porbably just pack half a bowl of this and that would be all you'd want, since after that, it loses it flavour and becomes a little ashy.

This is by all means one of the best cherry blends I have ever had. It packs a lot of flavor without being artificial in taste. No bite that I can detect. Mix it with some cube cut burley for some more nic and yes it's wonderful.

Just found out I have two favorite cherry blends, this lovely concoction as well as G&W Top Black Cherry. Two, from me, an English Lat lover, whaaat?! What amazes me is that Cult's Blood Red Moon delivers a light cherry subtly (deftly perhaps ) while TBC does by direct on your palate black cherry flavor.

Here BRM takes a well managed base of burley, tops their Cav with a fantastic cherry -cocoa topping and uses bright Vas to add character and longevity to the smoke. So here its volumes of a thinner, lighter smoke, where the flavor doesn't stay with you but briefly, demanding I partake in another draw.

It lights easy, requires little maintanence while fired up, and the only draw back in my case was the need to clean the stem on my meer poker after every bowl -due to moisture. No worries there, we'll worth the price of admission. I'm gonna get more of this, gonna try the whole line for that matter.

Even if you infrequently partake in aromatic blends (like myself) I'd highly suggest this Toby to yall. If your a seasoned Brother -or Sister of the Briar [insert meer/cob/clay pipe here] you'd likely find this a treat!

When I first got this, I did not like it. It wouldn't burn and puffing to keep it going produced a serious bite.

I set it aside and have let it dry quite a bit. Now I like it very much. Oddly, I don't get a lot of cherry in the flavor, but more of a spicy/incense taste. The room note is a hit with my wife. She thought it was incense. Produces thick clouds of smoke, nice flavor. I recommend to anyone who likes aromatics.

A lovely cherry-chocolate blend with some actual tobacco flavor too. For an aromatic it burnt easily straight from the tin. The flavor lasted throughout the bowl. Very similar to Sutliff's Black Cordial but only comes in a tin. Black Cordial is milder in tobacco strength/flavor.