Best Selling Bulk Pipe Tobaccos

...in social situations and for both beginning and advanced pipe smokers. I say socially, because 1-Q is the quintessential pipe smoke whose aroma non-pipe smokers remember with fondness. The room note is so pleasant that anyone who complains about it is just plain being a freakish, high-minded wood tick. Good for beginners because 1-Q doesn't take a lot of fuss to enjoy. It's a good one with which to learn to pack a pipe because I've always found it easy to light and also forgiving if I don't get the pack quite right, and we do tend to learn from our mistakes where packing a pipe is concerned. And, you'll get a good Virginia tobacco flavor along with the light sweetness of the casing. Good for advanced pipe smokers too because, having worked at a local tobacconist for a couple of years after college, this was far and away our best seller to young and old pipe smokers as well as our most common ingredient in blending. It's a smooth, lightly sweet flavored tobacco without being overpowering on the tongue. That light sweetness feels natural to the tobacco too, not heavy as with some other cased products like the cherry or whiskey flavored aromatics, nothing against them. An excellent choice with which to begin your pipe smoking odyssey, and you'll likely return to it again and again as well, as one does with an old and trusted friend. P.S. My own experience was that once I wanted to expand my palate and choices, a good place to go from Lane's 1-Q was to try McClelland 2010, followed by McClelland 2000. Read Less

They definitely hit the bull's-eye with this. Crumbled two coins and smoke away. Great flavours. Always love when the blenders find a balance. I did find I had to nurse it a bit, but nothing major. Smokey BBQ meets Brown sugar. If you get this, make sure you get plenty, cause you'll want more. Just sayin Read Less

It's an English blend, with all your usual suspects...excuse me, a Scottish blend of Burley, Latakia, Orientals, Perique, Virginia...like you've smoked in a hundred different blends, right?
This is different.
Someone left the Estrogen out of this one.
You might not like this.
Millennial's may be offended.
This blend doesn't care about you.
It's not going to hug you if you cry.
This is artistry.
Bold Perique forward, yet all the subtle nuances of the blend come through.
Truly sublime. Read Less

The SP description lays it out. Not for the faint of heart. If you're new to VA/Per's, don't go here. Go with a 10-15% perique. Also, the particular Perique that C&D uses is very intense. It's dark, oily, musty deliciousness. The VA's in the blend are excellent. Sweet, clean favor. The perique in this blend is above excellent. It's what perique should be. Hints of dark fermented fruit. Only slightly "peppery". A nice loose leaf blend. Packs and lights perfectly, smokes through with only the occasional re-light. No bite, no gurgle, only a small dottle left un-burnt. Yes, it's full and intense. Yes, it strengthens as the bowl progresses. This is not a "light" blend, and not meant to be. It's heady and them some. I cannot say enough about the perique used here. The VA's are good, but there are lots of good VA's out there. This perique is special - very special. It's full flavored and totally satisfying. I looked for years for "my" favourite VA/Per - this is it. Heads and shoulder above and C&D blend I've ever tried - I found most of theirs sorta bland. This - this is wonderful. I will be buying pounds of it. Read Less

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Dark Fired Kentucky
Smoking Pipes rated 4.4

This is the king of all blending components.

Dark, thick, blackish brown ribbons that are not oily, but look like they have a sheen to them. The aroma from the bag is smoke, smoke, smoke, and then right at the end of the spectrum just a little bit of smoke.

Sampled in a Missouri Pride.

Hell. Yes.

This is the smoke that I have been looking for - delicious but almost to the edge of charred oak and cinders.

I love the “in the face” full frontal nudity of this smoke. It’s unashamed and forces you to pay attention.

It used to be if I saw a blend had Latakia, it piqued my interest. These days that is Dark Fire Kentucky. I want it in every blend I smoke because it just adds that tough leather acrid biting element that I find delicious.

It is acrid – in a good way.
It is strong – in a good way.
It is meaty and rich – in a good way.

This is not one you can hide from the wife when you come from outside if you’re a closet smoker. This one is going to work its way into every fiber of every fabric within 20 feet of it and take residence.

To me, this is a 100% solid solo smoker. I love the tangy smoky assault on the senses and sometimes I will smoke this until my head swims.

My rating 5

This is the 84th of 101 C&D bulk blends I am reviewing for this project. Read Less

Great Tobacco. Smokes cold, smokes dry, does not itch the tongue, great aroma, great flavor and the best thing is that smokes so easy. In a small pipe of 1.2 in chamber depth you can smoke for about 40 minutes smoking pleasurably. This is my 4th Sutliff tobacco and none disappointed me, I can say that it is a house that gives great guarantee on the quality of their tobaccos. Read Less

I wasn't sure wuite what to expect with a blend claiming 50% Latakia. I mean, I like Latakia, but would I like it THAT much? The short answer is yes! THe Lat here is very well-behaved but definitely the star of the show. Turkish (Izmir?) backs up the campfire smokiness with a cooling, floral note, while the VA comes into play infrequently for me (though I suspect I'd notice if it wasn't there to sweeten things up slightly). Packed, lit and burned perfectly. First light is all Latakia, with the Turkish coming into play part way through the bowl. Aftertaste is surprisingly clean and short-lived, and the room note is lighter and cleaner than one might expect as well. My wife is not hot on the smell of Latakia blends, but my daughter loved this one in my beard afterwards. Read Less

Update: After trying GH Bob's Chocolate Flake, I find that Luxury Twist Flake has a topping that's quite similar - sans the Lakeland essence. This is a great flake with a beautiful presentation; LTF does not disappoint. On the other hand, it is probably not going to please Virginia purists with such a distinctive casing. The pouch/tin note smells like powdered hot cocoa mix and fresh-baked bread. Its room note is pleasant as well. Preparation is easy, and behavior is good. Whether you choose to rub it to ribbons or fold-&-stuff, it's hard to mess this one up. The smoke is creamy, with a flavor that's mildy sweet with hints of cocoa and brown sugar, and I find it to be almost entirely bite-free. Additionally, the nicotine level is very low—even a big pipe of this on an empty stomach wont make you dizzy or ill, making it a very agreeable flake. As for aging, blends that are good when fresh—especially Virginias—are a thing of greatness, and this is one of 'em. With that said, it absolutely gets better with age. Still, it's nice to buy fresh flakes and be able to enjoy them as is. LTF is a perfect blend for those who want a Virginia flake with a sweeter twist, and if you liked Luxury Navy Flake, it's likely you'll enjoy this as well. Read Less

First of all, I want to apologize for my behavior because next I start cursing people. I am from China. I apologize for the stupid behavior of my compatriot "蓝一斗". I also advise "蓝一斗", please don't come out to embarrass the Chinese people again. Read Less

I was looking for a "replacement" for 5100 (as a lot of us have had to do), and I do believe I've found my new daily puff. It has a very good flavor, with many of the old belt attributes ~ especially about half way down the bowl. A mellow, earthy flavor and aroma, with a decent nicotine content. This is a solid red virginia blend; so let's hope this isn't going to go "up in smoke" like so many other red virginias right now. Very tasty stuff. Read Less

Great flavor, smoky and rich. Should be great for blending or straight, it's a hardy smoke, strong and tasty. Room note is intense but so is the flavor. I love it.
UPDATE: I would discourage you to do what I just did...which is smoke a straight bowl of this Perique...unlike the straight Latakia which was smooth and glorious...a straight bowl of Perique was just too much of a good thing for my brain to handle...all the great flavor of Perique when mixed in a blend was more a punch in the face...but you know I had to try... Read Less

Ok, one bowl of RLP-6 was enough to make me a fan of this blend! I know I'll need more time with it to get to really know it, but my first impressions are very favorable. Many of the other reviews of this blend mention flavors like vanilla, nougat, chocolate, and various fruit. I guess I could taste some of these things, like the vanilla, but more than anything I was tasting caramel, something rather creamy, some nuttiness, and banana. Especially banana! No kidding. Banana! I didn't see any other reviews here or elsewhere mention a banana flavor. Maybe it's just me. Banana... Hmmmm... Anyway, don't get me wrong: I LOVE banana! And I love this blend. Also, there was plenty of real tobacco flavor in the mix, especially nuttiness from the burley. Great stuff, huh? I guess for me at least, RLP-6 drives me bananas AND nuts! Cheers. Read Less

I am actually a cigarette smoker. A lady friend suggested I get away from chemical saturated pre-rolls that were costing about $200 a month and try just strait Virginia tobacco. I roll my own cowboy style now and this is the best and most smooth cigarettes I've ever had. Additionally she says I no longer stink like an ashtray and I am truly a satisfied customer going this route. Read Less

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Apricots and Cream
Smoking Pipes Rated (unfathomly) 4.0

This black bag of oil suspended aromatic ribbon is comprised of black cavendish and regret. Its aromas are a bald lie to the senses , prompting one to think of apricot and prunes, cola , cake icing vanilla and the good old green antifreeze from the 90s.

It was sampled in a MM Missouri Pride, who had done nothing wrong but was punished anyway.

Ok. This blend is inspiring.

For example, it inspires me to build a Time Machine , and go back to three days after this blend was invented , get a job with the blender , and fire them for thier sin.

Then I’m inspired to go to the day before when they are still employed , hide in the parking lot and key thier car.

It’s berries and cream 2.0. If you were waiting for anything better than that, you may as well be waiting for GTA 6.

It’s wet - oily - look at the bag - and it sizzles and pops like bacon in the cob. Worse yet it’s the first blend of 53 sampled to make the pipe gurgle - twice - in two different cobs. It’s swamp grass and disappointment.

It was during the second (read that as final) bowl that I hit on something - the elusive “what is that flavor that I can’t describe?” question was answered :

Remember when you were a kid and you had a birthday party and when the candles were blown out you got one and planned to lick the frosting off but for some reason instead you took a bite out of the damn thing ? That’s the taste. Frosting and wax.

(To be fair - some folks like that and grow up to eat crayons. Semper Fi and thanks for your service if you suddenly feel seen.)

I couldn’t take a third bowl. I may be a machine powering through all these blends but when the sun sets each day I am but just a man , and no man should be forced to endure three bowls of this in a day. Or week. Maybe a lifetime.

I’d like to take a moment to apologize if I offended any marines with the crayon comment. Given the revolting taste of this blend I don’t even want to joke that you’d enjoy it on purpose.

Someone owes me $3.72 and an hour of my life back.

Also - I’d like to take a moment and apologize to any fans of Cult BRM. For many years I have shamed your blend as the worst tobacco commercially produced. I’m sorry. It’s the second worst. Enjoy the small victory.

My rating : 1 (and that’s charity)

This is the 53rd blend of 101 I am reviewing for this project and if I can name a positive of the experience it is that I will never - never ever - never ever ever - try this again.

I say boy, I say - it’s hot garbage. Read Less

Package says, "Sweet Black Cherry Twist" vice "Black Cherry Twist", also has a package note of light cherries, mild fermented fruit and mildly smoky. The wet, three shades of brown, 25/32-inch (20 mm) fat rope needs slicing into thin coins (with a razor or thin sharp knife) and rubbed out to get the fastest drying time. Burn is slow and requires numerous relights. The strength is medium to strong and nic is mild-medium. Flavoring is mild with a faint note sweet cherries. Taste is medium to full and mostly consistent, with notes of earth, smoky wood, simi-sweet dark fruit, mild lemon grass, mildly floral, cigar, and a very spicy retro. It's like Dark fired Virginia is wrapped around more Dark fired Virginia and a small amount of dark air cured Indian burley, lightly flavored with inverted sugars and black cherry, spun into a rope, rolled up, and cold-pressed overnight. Room note is tolerable, and aftertaste is good. Read Less

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Nutty Irishman
Smoking Pipes rated 4.5

This aromatic is made of Virginia and Burley and smells of caramel , hazelnut, coffee, honey, cake frosting and cream. Chocolate brown and black ribbons are just barely perceived as moist. Very fragrant.

Sampled in a Missouri Pride.

So this is gonna be one of those reviews that doesn’t match the format. There’s no way for me to even act as if I’m reviewing this product from any point of discovery as this has been one of my favorite blends for many years now.

Sweet and chocolatey and coffee and hazelnuts The blend hold a place in my heart for a couple of reasons.

First - when my wife (married 32 years) and I were dating - my coffee date drink was coffee , Bailey’s and hazelnut syrup. This blend , in the bag , spot on replicates the aroma.

Later I life I love to mix :
6 oz cold brew coffee
1 oz Frangelico
1 oz 5 County Irish Cream
2 oz Jameson (either original or Black Barrel)

Shake over large cubes, pour strained on top of pint glass of crushed ice.

Again - this blend is all over the top of that drink as well.

There’s something magical about hazelnut, sweet cream, coffee and Irish whiskey - and this blend captures that.

I have - and will continue to - kept a sizable reserve of this blend in hand and smoke it almost every Saturday morning with a cup of coffee or cocoa.

My (very sentimental) rating : 5

This is the 89th of 101 C&D bulk blends being reviewed for this project. Read Less

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Oriental Silk
Smoking Pipes rating : 3.0

This Virginia (Vaper?) Is Irregularly cut and almost a homogeneous brown shade. The aroma is very strong of hay , a hint of leather (shoe, not ball glove) and my favorite - it smells like the old stick tobacco barns on our farm. What I don’t smell and expected was a little of that tang I associate with my favorite virginias , so I’m guessing this is from the lower part of the stalk, but, I could be wrong.

Sampled in a conditioned MM Missouri Pride.

This one is good.

It’s bready and spicy , but not too wild.
Virgina + Perique = Good
Virginia + Perique + Orientals = Gooder

It’s bone simple , straightforward and honest. As good as it is , I’d really like to have it as a flake. The orientals shift the softness away if you push it - so don’t - this simple smooth blend deserves to be savored , not rushed.

The smoke is cottony and thin.

To me this would be / is a great “assent minded “ blend - pack, and go do some shit in the yard. Fill a bowl, and start fishing.

I bet it’s killer with a tall glass of sweet tea.

Even simple as it is, for me, I’m deeming this one “cellar worthy”.

My rating : 5- this is great - I’m getting a pound minimum next pay day.

This is the 14th C&D bulk blend I have reviewed, as I work my way through thier 101 blend catalog. Using Smoking Pipes as of April 3, 2025, I am smoking them from the lowest rated to the highest. Read Less

I am usually kind of skiddish about bulk tobacco instead of tinned. Despite the obvious advantage of price, bulk i have found is often plauged by dryness and lower quality with things like stems and less uniform cut. In this case I took a gamble and got a whole pound of Mountain Camp since I liked the tinned offering so much. The gamble paid off, in a blind test I would not be able to tell the difference between the bulk and a fresh tin. I will definetly be ordering Mountain Camp in bulk from now on. Read Less

There’s a website called Tobacco Reviews and if you track down Pegasus, Runowski talks at length about this blend…his creation. He goes so far as to suggest a deep narrow bowl as the ideal for smoking it. I’d tried it in the past with mixed feelings but after hearing what he had to say, I started all over. I grabbed a favorite Savinelli Spring 614 and loaded up using conventional packing technique and lit up…a charring light that I let die before a light swirling tamp and relight. I spent over an hour smoking it to the bottom and relit several times as I didn’t feel like hurrying through this delicious Burley blend. I concluded that I’d hit on the right combination and enjoyed several relights, each tastier than the last. I’ve been trying to find something that beat some old favorites like PA of which there are no substitutes…I’ve been a pipe smoker for over 50 years and have smoked more different blends than I can recall but always lean towards Burleys as I enjoy the depth of flavor and ease of smoking them…if you do it right, they don’t bite thus, Take your time…Pegasus showcases Runowskis knowledge of building a good blend and how to smoke it for best effect. A rich flavorful taste with depth and jus the right strength to satisfy. At 78 I suppose I’m a true codger but good Burley blends are good smoking and worth your time so Take your time and enjoy this one. Read Less

I know you are supposed to mix it. I mixed mine 50/50. Latakia/latakia. My buddy (Awesome guy) brought this over to try. I filled up my biggest bowl (Missouri Meerschaum General) and smoked it. This was smooth, smokey, silky, and sultry. I am hard-pressed to understand the need to mix it with other stuff, unless you are trying to make it last longer (best guess?). This was a great smoke. I am trying to figure what blends that good use some extra help to use it on... or maybe another straight indulgence. Read Less

Billy Budd reminded me, briefly, of McClelland's Coyote Classic Full, which is one of my all-time favorites, but the resemblance was ephemeral, as the unique qualities of Billy Budd came to bear, such as Burley and Cigar Leaf which Coyote Classic does not have. Conversely, Billy Budd does not contain Oriental/Turkish leaf that distinguishes Coyote Classic. Billy Budd has a rounded flavor, no sharp notes. It is Latakia forward, which is perhaps the quality that first invited my comparison with Coyote Classic, as well as the fact that the tobaccos used are premium in every respect, no inferior Burley leaf as a cost saver here. It was a little slow to stay lit, but once it was lit, it stayed lit to the bottom of a large bowl. The nicotine is, I would say, past medium bordering on strong. The Cigar Leaf is evident without giving the impression of a cigar. It is a cool smoke with no chance of a tongue bite. The room note is strong but not offensive, although some who are sensitive may disagree. It burns to a fine gray ash, with no dottle, and no moisture. Read Less

I've been pipe-smoking for 45+ years and "grew up" with the OLD Balkan Sobranie, Dunhill 965 and Standard Full, Rattray's Red Rapp and Black Mallory as well as Bengal Slices, State Express, etc. While I have found nothing like these old blends, some of todays are very smoke-able. This, however, raises the bar to another level. If you have been lamenting the old/good stuff, this is worthy of your attention! I wanted to give it 5 stars, but somehow the website wouldn't allow it. Give it a try, you won't regret it! Read Less

As i'm typing this review, i'm clenching the fifth bowl of this broken flake virginia. Consecutively, from bowl after bowl my impression to this tobacco goes from good to better. I have had no tongue bite or maybe just a light bite and i would easily forget it by sipping my cup of hot coffee with milk, i've once smoked this while drinking a can of chilled beer and .... just fine, the slightly bite will be "gone with the drinks". It has a very natural tobacco aroma and just like anyone would describe a natural virginia: bready, fresh baked muffin, hay, grass, honey, citrus etc. this tobacco has all of those characteristics and very easy to recognize right out from the bag, dive your nose into the bag and you'll notice all those aromas, you need to be a perfumer to identify them. The taste is light sweet, very light, you need to smoke slow to taste it. A fast smoker will throw this bag away right after the very first bowl, and also a heavy cigarette smoker would do the same because its strength is on the mild side. For those who are able to clench your pipe while working daily and those who are able to spend an hour and a half for a group 3 bowl, this tobacco is for you. For the "home blender" this is perfection. If you're not one of those, don't bother buy this. Read Less

I can smoke this one all day with no break and never get tired of it. It has a satisfying amount of nicotine and never disappoints in flavor. I've smoked this in literally every size of bowl and never had a problem. Luckily, it never seems to be out of stock, and it might be time to order another pound. Read Less

Lane did it again! Very pleasant room note and taste. Burns very well if you leave it out to dry for about 15 min. Sit back and enjoy the aroma, what you smell coming out of the bag is exactly what you get in your room. No bite what so ever. I had bought 4oz. When I tried this I immediately bought 1lb. Read Less