Customer Reviews (6 Total)
Product: Germain Royal Jersey: Original Latakia Mixture 50g
Go to when I can find it, which I rarely do
Just plain GOOD!!
November 21, 2017
Product: Germain Royal Jersey: Original Latakia Mixture 50g
Excellent complex and satisfying blend...
JUST ONE WORD:BEST
April 09, 2022
Product: Germain Royal Jersey: Original Latakia Mixture 50g
I have to say, it is the best experience
Unique, Rich, and Smokey
March 05, 2022
Product: Germain Royal Jersey: Original Latakia Mixture 50g
Cut like a fine, long shag. Smells and tastes like a smokey scotch. More of a Balkan to me due to the incense-like Orientals that play prominently.
A Mountain of Dung, Syria and Cyprus
March 30, 2013
Product: Germain Royal Jersey: Original Latakia Mixture 50g
By: Tusker
In the 40's through the 50's, 28th and Main in Fort Worth, Texas was the off-loading point for a sea of cattle and sheep that swept through chutes going south to Swift & Armour. The net of the off-loading was a mountain of south end c... Read More
attle and sheep product that combusted spontaneously. Driving through the smoke was a singular experience. Latakia, presumed to be produced in Cyprus and Syria (busily wiping themselves out currently both as a country and fiscally), has been tagged by wags as being smoked not with cattle and sheep southern product, but camel dung. Well, this has been relegated to myth, the truth being said tobacco smoke processing listed in learned quarters as: oak, pine and juniper. Right.
Having said all this, Latakia is an infectious tobacco blending element, camel dung not withstanding, and Germain's Royal Jersey "Original Latakia Mixture" is the absolute best of the blends. The lingering taste is something of a dry Star Anise, Caradmon and Rosemary. It burns beautifully and should be smoked in a large bowl pipe, slowly, to enjoy the sweet/dry addictive aroma.
Royal Jersey OLM is bolder, more assertive, than all other Latakia blends. Blue Mountain is marvelous, but slightly less intense but at the same time edgy and sweet, while all of the incredible G.L. Pease blends create more subtle smoking events. The Dunhill Standard Mixture, where I found Latakia originally sniffing an empty can at an estate sale where I bought a magnificent Ben Wade bent "free style", is a favorite for a smooth, lighter Latakia experience.
The mark of a truly great tobacco is how it leaves the bowl. Royal Jersey OLM's perfume is sweet, delicate and mysterious.
RJ OLM is the 20-year-old Talisker single malt scotch of Latakia tobacco blends; my absolute favorite, particularly on a Texas blue bird day with the temperature around 50, sitting in the garden's rocker considering who will take over production of Latakia if Syria and Cyprus drop off our civil/fiscal maps.
I wonder how much it costs to import a camel or two to Virginia? Read Less
ROYAL MIX
January 10, 2013
Product: Germain Royal Jersey: Original Latakia Mixture 50g
Fine ribbon cut,Stays lit very well.Needs to be dried out though.Very fine mellow flavor it's to bad the supply is so limited.