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Kensington 2oz Pipe Tobacco

Name: Kensington 2oz
Brand: G. L. Pease
SKU: 003-029-0026
Price: 14.875 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.14 (11 reviews)

Product Number: 003-029-0026

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Kensington 8oz

Details

Strength:

3/5

Room Note:

3/5

Taste:

3/5

Components: Virginia, Latakia, Orientals
Family: English
Cut: Ribbon

About This Pipe Tobacco

Kensington is a Balkan style blend with restraint from G. L. Pease. Bright and Red Virginia tobaccos are combined with richly flavored leaf from the orient, and Cyprian Latakia in perfect measure for a wonderfully balanced smoke.

Customer Reviews

Overall Rating:

4.4

11 reviews

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The Perfect Middle Ground English

September 06, 2026

By: Teddy

Product: G. L. Pease Kensington 2oz

G.L. Pease Kensington is a beautifully balanced English mixture that gives me a little more of the richness I look for in this style. Compared with Piccadilly, I find the Latakia more noticeable here, bringing additional smoke and earthiness. While the Orientals bring a fragrant, slightly spicy and incense like character. The Virginias provide a touch of natural sweetness to hold everything together. It’s not a heavy Latakia mixture by any means, but for my tastes Kensington has a little more depth and character while remaining smooth and approachable. I enjoy it when I want something between a lighter morning English and one of the fuller English or Balkan blends I normally gravitate toward. Well balanced, satisfying for me....Read More

G. L. Pease Kensington: A Good Low Nicotine Tobacco

October 19, 2025

By: Toytruck

Product: G. L. Pease Kensington 2oz

For those of us with an aversion to nicotine, finding a tobacco that both tastes good and does not have the negative effects of too much nicotine can be a difficult search. Frog Morton original and On the Town had been my go to tobaccos, but since McClelland went out of business this is no longer an option. Another good option was Hearth & Home Daybreak, but it was discontinued. I have some tins of FM stockpiled but I know they won’t last forever, so I’ve been searching for something to replace it. I tried some of Peterson’s English mixtures, but they all caused me the telltale signs of too much nicotine: mild nausea and dizziness and elevated heartrate. I came across the G.L. Pease English mixtures and tried several of them when they were on sale. Many of them seem quite low in nicotine and do not have the negative effects of nausea and dizziness I get with most tobaccos. Although Charing Cross is my personal favorite, Kensington is also a very good low nicotine blend. It is a bit stronger flavor, more of a medium English blend. It does not seem to me to have toppings or other flavorings added, but just the flavors from the oriental and latakia tobaccos. If you’re searching for a low nicotine English tobacco blend with a medium to strong flavor I highly recommend you give Kensington a try....Read More

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October 23, 2024

By: Pretentious Pedantry

Product: G. L. Pease Kensington 2oz

**Please stop deleting honest reviews.** My first review was removed, so I am giving it again. I did not like Kensington because it tastes as if it has some kind of boozy apple pie casing in it. Another reviewer has described it as "obvious fruit flavor." A third reviewer has praised the fruit flavors. I don't like them in this blend. My tin smells like apples and cinnamon which, in my opinion, do not belong in a Balkan. *Update: I no longer believe the apple pie aromas to be a "topping" or "casing". I have learned their source. They are a result of volatile fermentation products interacting with the antimicrobial treatment that *all* the Laudisi tobacco companies use. These have been shown to produce fruity aromas and even flavors in the presence of fermenting organic material such as tobacco. Thus, we have our answer. But this does not change the fact of my experience. I experienced heavy aromas of apples, cinnamon, and baking spices in the tin and jar every time I opened it, which I did not enjoy. Reviews should never be deleted merely because Smokingpipes is not best pleased with them....Read More

FEELS LIKE HOME

August 09, 2023

By: Bryan A.

Product: G. L. Pease Kensington 2oz

Look, I've dated plenty of tobacco blends—some fancy, some exotic, some that promised the world and delivered disappointment. But somehow, I always come crawling back to Kensington. It's like my comfy bluejeans of pipe tobaccos—reliable, cozy, and never judging me for wearing dress shoes. Honestly, Kensington is the standard by which I now side-eye every other English blend. I don't even know what special magic it's working, but smoking it feels annoyingly like coming home. Ugh, fine Kensington—you win. Happy now?"...Read More

awesome!

November 24, 2022

By: JassonWB

Product: G. L. Pease Kensington 2oz

Tin note of smoky, sweet fruit, and tart wine. The ribbon cut tobacco is brown, light brown and a small amount of black. tobacco is dry, no prep needed. Burns moderate with few relights. The strength is mild to medium and nic is mild. No flavoring detected. Taste is medium and consistent, with notes of earth, lemon grass, tangy spices, mild sweet dark fruit, smoky, bitter dry wood, floral, and a moderately spicy retro. Virginias is leading with Orientals supporting. Latakia is supporting from afar. Room note is pleasant to tolerable, and aftertaste is good....Read More