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February 3rd, 2010

Layalina Pomegranate Flavored Hookah Tobacco

Pomegranate is a nice little offering from Layalina that isn’t amazing but isn’t bad by any means.

I was smoking this flavor with my friends recently.  I was using my Khalil Mamoon double trimetal and smoking out of a vortex bowl.  The smoke was nicely textured and fairly thick.  There are no complaints from me in regards to the smoke quality.  The place that this blend is lacking is the flavor.  It tasted mildly of grenadine, which is a sweet syrup used in the mixing of alcoholic drinks that is flavored with pomegranate, but it is far too lite.

What flavor can be picked out is pretty nice.  It’s sweet.  As I stated earlier it tastes like grenadine.  It does not taste like an accurate representation of pomegranate, which lost it some points.  If you like pomegranate and want to try a tobacco that is flavored like the fruit… well… good luck.  I haven’t found one yet.  This isn’t a bad tobacco. But it’s not quite pomegranate.

5 out of 10.  Mediocre.  It’s flavor is not accurate but it is tasty.  It’s like a very candied and somewhat muted pomegranate, which translates into grenadine because that is the way I would describe the syrup.  It smokes nicely and produces some good clouds but it’s not very impressive.  Personally I would pass this one over.

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November 11th, 2009

Romman Double Apple Flavored Hookah Tobacco

Brand and flavor:  Romman Double Apple

This is a classic flavor that the majority of hookah tobacco companies have replicated.  It is one of the most smoked flavors in the world and considered to be one of the most classic flavors.  The Romman version of this flavor is… ok.  I hadvaried results with it.  When I first bought this flavor it tasted like straight licorice.  I hated it and left it sitting in my hookah closet in a sealed tupperware container for many months.  eventually i got the courage to try it again and the flavor had mellowed out into something nice a enjoyable.  Romman is a brand that varies quite a bit.  From batch to batch the flavors I have experienced from them can change quite a bit so I am unsure if the current double apple they are selling is exactly the same but the batch I got needed to be aired out for a while to make it worth smoking.  If you like double apple you can find better blends that do not require waiting for the flavor to mellow out.

I would give this flavor a 5.  Once the flavor mellowed out and became smokeable it was good.  When I first bought it the licorice flavor was all that I could taste.  Firstly, the licorice flavor should be more of a natural anise flavor.  Secondly the flavor should not require so much extra time to be enjoyable.

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October 26th, 2009

Al Fakher Pipe flavored hookah tobacco

Brand and Flavor: Al Fakher Pipe

Shisha Tobacco Cut:  Shredded and very drippy. It’s soaked.

Hookah Type: KM double trimetal.  Nammor hose

Duration: 35 minutes

Bowl: Vortex bowl

Foil / Screen: Regular foil

Coal / Amount:  3 CH QL coals/ 2 CH QL coals depending on heat needed.

Smoke:  Awesome smoke.  Very thick and dense. A strong mouth feel and often unpleasant sensation in the lungs.

Buzz:  Light buzz.  It can creep up on you if you are not careful.

Smell / Flavor:  It smells like chocolate and tastes like chocolate with a slightly smokey and bitter after taste.

Rating (1 to 10):  5 I enjoy a good western pipe now and again.  I am also a cigar smoker.  When I first heard about this blend I was excited.  Sadly the flavor that is implied by the name is nothing close to what you can expect.  I am docking this one for inaccurate flavor and for it’s issues with the now infamous throat tickle associated with the new Al Fakher.  Not entirely unpleasant regarding flavor but it works better as a mixer to avoid the heat management issues that it has and to add a little chcolate flavor to a blend.  Alone it’s a bit too cloying at times.  This blend was improved by a little acclimation but not to the point of raising the score.

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October 21st, 2009

Al Amir Cherry flavored hookah tobacco

Brand and Flavor: Al Amir cherry.

Shisha Tobacco Cut:  Dripping wet.  Chopped up and paste like.

Hookah Type: KM double trimetal.  Nammor hose

Duration: 45 minutes

Bowl: Vortex bowl

Foil / Screen: Regular foil

Coal / Amount:  3 CH QL coals

Smoke:  Ok smoke.  Nothing amazing but not too bad.

Buzz:  Light buzz

Smell / Flavor:  Smells like cough syrup, which is about what I expect from a cherry hookah tobacco.  The flavor is lacking and does not taste like cherry.  It barely tasted like cough syrup.

Rating (1 to 10):  5 I give this one a middle of the road rating.  The flavor was not like a real cherry, which would be a deduction on it’s own, nor did it taste like artificial cherry.  So that brings it down to about a six all on it’s own.  Then there is the matter of the smoke.  I have been spoiled by tobacco that produces good flavor and large clouds.  The smoke from this was medium and not all that impressive.  That’s the last point that drops it to a five.  So there you have it.  If you want a cherry flavor there are lots of other options.  Check it out if you want to here but there are much better cherry flavors out there.

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