Mint is a mandatory flavor for both the tobacco maker and the smoker. I have yet to find a brand that doesn’t have a mint flavor and there should be mint in every smoker’s collection…
Hookah has traditionally been the hobby of men and the women they invited to share in a smoke. It was an intimate experience that a woman needed an invitation to enjoy. Happily, we don’t live…
There are some truly terrible coffee flavors on the market with the worst of them tasting like a combination of artificial chocolate and sweetened popcorn rolled in dirt. I am happy to say that Othmani…
Sometimes you want a light and airy smoke that won’t knock you about the head with nicotine. This isn’t the tobacco for those times. This is Nirvana Super Shisha and it’s blended with an extra…
Cherry tobacco is pretty hit or miss because so many of them taste like cough syrup if they have even a slight chemical flavor. The ones that avoid this pitfall are few and far between…
There is nothing quite like Tangiers Blue Flower. You all know how I feel about floral flavors and this is some top tier tobacco. What is a blue flower? read on and find out. The…
Despite the name, Cold Sweat is a highly recommended blend produced in Kansas by Medwakh.com. For those of you who haven’t heard of Nirvana Super Shisha, it is a new concept blending shisha with another…
Who loves orange soda? About half the hookah community if you read the forums. A long time ago there was a rabid love of Tangiers Orange Soda that drove up demand and made the tobacco…
If you’ve been keeping up with the blog, you know my thoughts on floral flavors. They need to be realistic or they taste like soap scraped from the bottom of a hotel tub. I would…
Easily one of my favorite hookah tobaccos; this is Nakhla Lemon. It’s a part of the Fakhfakhina line and it is probably one of the most true to name tobaccos you will ever smoke. I…
There are very few tobaccos that I just outright suggest to everyone. Tangiers Lucid Mimon is one such tobacco and I think that if you snag yourself a pack and serve it up at your…
Delicious and nutritious… wait. That’s not right. Well at least it’s delicious. Watermelon tobacco will never be an accurate and natural flavor without being abysmally weak. If you keep this in mind when smoking them…
I’ve been revisiting Al Waha a lot recently and I’ve been pretty happy with the results. Al Waha Apricot is the latest tobacco on the menu and I’m not entirely disappointed. I know that this…
Coconut charcoal has become the standard by which we judge all other charcoal and this is the brand that really started the movement. These coals were brought to the market in 2005 and were first…
I’ll admit that I have not given Al Waha the time of day in the better part of 6 years. I had written off the brand as low quality and not worth trying, but they…
Oh how I love a good peach specially a Nakhla one. It always seemed like fresh peaches had a window of about an hour in which they were ripe. Any sooner and it was like…
Vanilla is a flavor that is often used to represent plainness and boredom, which is not what I’m looking for in my hookah sessions. You all know Nakhla and their reputation for natural flavors of high quality. So,…
Brandy is not my usual drink of choice, but I have been known to take up the snifter from time to time. A touch of brandy helps warm the winter nights… here in southern California.…
Mint is one of those flavors that seems to be mandatory for every brand and they all seem to have a different take on it. One tastes like fresh mint leaves from a garden where another might taste…