Melon tobacco is one of the most popular favors in the hookah world. Sweet melon is considered to be a classic flavor that many people enjoy. the question I have is this. What is a sweet melon? Each brand seems to choose a different image to use on their packaging but the two most common are honeydew and cantaloupe. Safari Melon Dew by Starbuzz uses the image of a honeydew melon and that’s not exactly what you get. But that’s not a bad thing.
Just to get it out of the way, this is Starbuzz. The clouds are great and the smoke is nice and smooth. I have not found a Starbuzz tobacco yet that fails in these two areas.
Regarding the flavor, it’s definitely a melon blend. It does not taste like honeydew melon, which is a bit sad as I love honeydew. It must be a very hard flavor to replicate though and thus most melon flavored tobacco are more like cantaloupe. This one is like a combination of the two. Cantaloupe is the dominant flavor but it’s not overly sweet and sickening like many other melon tobaccos. That dominant flavor is mellowed out by and supported by a secondary flavor that is a bit more like honeydew. This may just be the way I am interpreting the “cleaness” of this flavor. As stated before, I find melon tobacco to often be very syrupy and cloying. This flavor is clean and refreshing.
I give this one a solid 8 out of 10. It’s a great melon flavor and it’s one of the better melon tobaccos I have had. It’s not the most complex melon flavor yyou are going to find but it’s sweet and simple. I wish that it was a bit more of a honeydew melon but I am not sure if that is a plausible request. The flavor is smooth and clean. The clouds are big and puffy and the smoke is smooth. If you like melon flavored tobacco then this is worth a shot.