Benjamin Meyer

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Joined2019-11
Last Visited2023-05
LocationParis, France

Disclaimer: I'm using this account as a personal log of what I've smoked and what I think about it. Form might be a bit sketchy but it's what suits me.

Now a bit about me: I started smoking a pipe as a student around 2008. I knew about the pipe world since there are many pipe smokers in my family: My father used to smoke one (along with cigars and unfiltered cigarettes) his sister (my aunt) and his mother (my grandmother). I was attracted by it because I had always enjoyed the stronger tastes in tobacco, even as a first time cig smoker in high school. Although I've never been a heavy cigarette smoker, I wanted to go deeper in the pleasures of smoking.

I was born and raised in Paris. I bought my first pipe in a lovely pipe shop in the Palais Royal near the Louvre. The woman in the shop gave me the first secrets of the trade and pointed a good tobacconist to go to. Until around 2017, I only smoked that one pipe, an LMB lovat, and whatever tobacco I could find in local shops. You must know that here in France, it is very hard to find good tobacco. OTCs are very few and, for the most part, quite bad.

I stopped smoking for about 5 years. No particular reason. I guess I just got bored with it.

Summer of 2017, I decided to stop smoking cigarettes entirely. It wasn't hard. I knew I wasn't addicted to nicotine, but I soon got nostalgic for that thick smoke... So, one evening, after my newborn baby had gone to sleep, I got my old pipe out of it's almost forgotten box and the dried out pouch of Kentucky Bird tobacco that was with it... and lit up. Of course, the tobacco was bad and the pipe had been stored dirty but it was enough to get my interest sparked again!

I spent the whole 2018 summer browsing reddit, reading rebornpipes' restauration posts, buying underrated estate treasures and starting a cellar of fine tobaccos. I'm now deep in PAD and TAD.

Favorites

Date Blend Reviews Avg Rating
2020-07-15 Mac Baren - HH Old Dark Fired 242 ★★★★ 3.6
2022-09-28 Samuel Gawith - Full Virginia Flake 602 ★★★★ 3.5
2022-09-28 Samuel Gawith - Full Virginia Plug 27 ★★★★ 3.8
2021-04-28 Samuel Gawith - Kendal Plug 53 ★★★★ 3.4
2019-12-02 Samuel Gawith - Best Brown Flake 291 ★★★★ 3.4
2021-10-24 Tabac Manil - La Brumeuse (Pure Semois) 78 ★★★★ 3.3

Wishlist

Date Blend Reviews Avg Rating
2021-02-12 D & R Tobacco - Windsail Silver Blend (Windsail) 4 ★★★★ 3.8
2020-11-15 Dan Tobacco - Old Ironsides (American History Mixtures) 122 ★★★★ 3.3
2020-11-15 Dan Tobacco - Limerick (Treasures of Ireland) 52 ★★★☆ 3.0
2020-11-15 Dan Tobacco - Bill Bailey's Balkan Blend 92 ★★★☆ 3.1
2022-02-01 Dan Tobacco - Roper's Roundels 14 ★★★★ 3.4
2020-11-15 Dan Tobacco - Tordenskjold Virginia Slices 55 ★★★★ 3.1
2020-11-17 Dan Tobacco - Elwood Flake No. 2 (Elwood of London) 4 ★★★★ 3.0
2020-03-21 Gawith, Hoggarth & Co. - Brown Irish X 66 ★★★★ 3.3
2020-03-03 Gawith, Hoggarth & Co. - Brown Irish Twist 12 ★★★★ 3.4
2020-03-21 Gawith, Hoggarth & Co. - Blonde Bogie 2 ★★★★ 3.0
2020-03-21 Gawith, Hoggarth & Co. - Happy (Brown) Bogie Unsliced 78 ★★★★ 3.3
2022-08-06 Gawith, Hoggarth & Co. - Brown Twist Sweet Maple 6 ★★★★ 4.0
2022-08-06 Gawith, Hoggarth & Co. - Coniston Cut Plug 80 ★★★★ 3.2
2020-11-23 Joseph Martin - Old Bohan 2 ★★★★ 3.5
2022-10-06 Kohlhase, Kopp und Co. KG - No. 88: Virginia Flake (Meistermischung) 5 ★★★★ 3.6
2020-05-06 Mac Baren - Symphony 76 ★★★☆ 2.7
2020-05-06 Mac Baren - Dark Twist Roll Cake 213 ★★★☆ 3.0
2021-09-09 Peter Stokkebye - Perique (311) 3 ★★★☆ 3.0
2022-10-06 Pfeifen Huber - Virginia Golden Flake 8 ★★★★ 3.9
2022-03-04 Samuel Gawith - Big Ben 1 3.0
2020-03-21 Samuel Gawith - Brown No. 4 140 ★★★★ 3.2
2020-10-29 Savinelli - Brunello Flake 33 ★★★☆ 3.3
2020-11-15 Torben Dansk - Blue Note 218 ★★★☆ 2.7

Reviews

25 reviews
33 helpful votes 		4 star:
9 Strongly Recommended
3 star:
11 Recommended
2 star:
5 Somewhat Recommended
1 star:
0 Not Recommended

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Date Blend Reviews Helpful Rating Avg Rating
2023-01-06 HU Tobacco - Cervantes (Gran Reserva Limitada 2 Años) 4 0 ★★★☆ 3.0
2022-11-09 McClelland - Blackwoods Flake (Personal Reserve) 232 0 ★★★★ ★★★★ 3.5
2022-10-06 Peter Heinrichs - Chateau Henri No. 44 3 1 ★★★★ ★★★☆ 3.3
2022-10-04 Gawith, Hoggarth & Co. - Bob's Chocolate Flake 256 0 ★★★☆ ★★★★ 3.0
2022-09-28 Ken Byron Ventures - The Dread Planet (2019) (Hellstar) 2 2 ★★★☆ 3.0
2022-09-28 House of Calabash - Lord Craven's Cigar Blend #3 (Reserve Pipe Tobaccos) 2 1 ★★☆☆ ★★★★ 3.0
2022-06-14 G. L. Pease - Bohemian Scandal (Heirloom Collection) 40 2 ★★★★ ★★★★ 3.4
2022-02-28 Planta - Cellini Classico 42 0 ★★☆☆ ★★★☆ 2.6
2022-02-01 Erik Stokkebye - Evening Flake (4th Generation) 15 1 ★★★☆ 3.3
2022-01-31 Astley's - No.109 Medium Flake 74 2 ★★★☆ ★★★★ 3.2
2021-10-19 Samuel Gawith - Kendal Plug 53 2 ★★★★ ★★★★ 3.4
2021-07-17 J. F. Germain & Son - Balkan Sobranie 86 1 ★★★☆ ★★★★ 3.3
2021-06-23 Mac Baren - Scaferlati Caporal Bleu (Scaferlati Blends) 2 1 ★★★★ ★★★☆ 3.5
2021-04-12 Peter Stokkebye - English Luxury (No.17) 78 0 ★★☆☆ ★★★☆ 3.1
2021-03-11 Watch City Cigar - Watch City Slices 20 0 ★★★★ ★★★★ 3.7
2021-02-12 Hearth & Home - WhiteKnight (Marquee Series) 87 2 ★★☆☆ ★★★★ 3.4
2021-01-22 John Middleton, Inc - Carter Hall 444 4 ★★★☆ ★★★☆ 3.0
2021-01-14 Esoterica Tobacciana - Pembroke 102 5 ★★★★ ★★★★ 3.0
2020-12-10 Robert McConnell - Scottish Cake 120 1 ★★★☆ ★★★★ 3.3
2020-12-07 Brebbia - Balkan (Mixture No. 10) 34 0 ★★★★ ★★★★ 3.4
2020-12-02 Gallaher Limited - Condor Long Cut (Brown) 79 0 ★★★★ ★★★★ 3.3
2020-11-25 Robert McConnell - Original Oriental 103 2 ★★★☆ ★★★★ 3.3
2020-10-21 Chacom - #4 11 2 ★★☆☆ 3.6
2020-09-04 Wessex - Gold Virginia Flake 26 1 ★★★☆ ★★★☆ 3.1
2020-01-08 Samuel Gawith - Cannon Plug 48 3 ★★★☆ ★★★☆ 2.7