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Please share all your Peretti experiences and recommendations here. I recently received and sampled Cuban Mixture, Boston Slices and Park Square and am looking forward to placing another order. I enjoyed all of them but Park Square was my favorite although Cuban Mixture gave me a pleasant heady high, I have to give Boston Slices another try to formulate more of an opinion. Does anyone have anything to recommend regarding their aromatics?
 

Ctbill

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Peretti has some great, original blends!
I’m partial to Royal and Tashkent - I really like their Balkans & Oriental blends. Give them a try, as I see you have some Burley, VaPer, and Va‘s covered...
 

jzbdano

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Peretti makes some good blends. Pride of Loch Lomond, Royal and Taskent are good English blends. They used to use McClelland tobaccos in some of their blends. McClelland even made some of the flakes for them. I haven't tried any of the Virginia blends since the switch but if they are anything like the old blends I'm sure they're good.
 
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Well, I ordered online and receive it within a week without anything fishy happening, didn’t know of the past issues when I did so.
 

oldguyoldpipes

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Please share all your Peretti experiences and recommendations here. I recently received and sampled Cuban Mixture, Boston Slices and Park Square and am looking forward to placing another order. I enjoyed all of them but Park Square was my favorite although Cuban Mixture gave me a pleasant heady high, I have to give Boston Slices another try to formulate more of an opinion. Does anyone have anything to recommend regarding their aromatics?

Love LJ Peretti. Almost everything of theirs I try, I like. If I don't initially like it, I come back to it a few times in different pipes and I usually end up liking. This happened with Tashkent. I have attached a photo of my Peretti Thoughts on Excel. I place phone orders only with them. If you know the blend and quantity you want and are straight to the point, they are all business. Hopefully the Massachusetts govt restrictions that are coming down the pike won't wipe them out. There blends are the best.LJ Peretti Excel.png
 
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jerry

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I‘ve smoked their blends for years. Lived in Boston in the 70’s, used to smoke an aro named Lexington, which had grape notes (I seem to remember). I think Tashkent is amazing, and I am also a fan of Thanksgiving Day -- two very different examples.
 
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Love LJ Peretti. Almost everything of theirs I try, I like. If I don't initially like it, I come back to it a few times in different pipes and I usually end up liking. This happened with Tashkent. I have attached a photo of my Peretti Thoughts on Excel. I place phone orders only with them. If you know the blend and quantity you want and are straight to the point, they are all business. Hopefully the Massachusetts govt restrictions that are coming down the pike won't wipe them out. There blends are the best.View attachment 22745

Thanks for the list, was thinking of ordering Black Virginia and Tashkent, not sure all those blends are still available but will look into it.
 
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oldguyoldpipes

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Thanks for the list, was thinking of ordering Black Virginia and Tashkent, not sure all those blends are still available but will look into it.

Their website shows which blends are currently available. In my experience, I only do telephone orders with them. It is very simple and quick. My only suggestion would be to decide the blend(s) and quantities of each before calling. That way, when they answer, you can very clearly give them that information and the contact will be polite, but businesslike. Once you provide them with your shipping address and credit card info, the reorders are even more simple. I had a bad experience with an on line order with them last year that compromised my cc, but I have ordered via telephone several times since with no problems. I almost gave up on them after the online problems, but I am glad I didn't. Their blends are hands down my favorites. I know it is personal preference, but I really have found something to like from almost every blend I have tried as you can see by my comments in my Excel notes. Hopefully you too will find a blend that you like. We need businesses like this to survive. Next month I plan to place an order for several 8oz or 16oz quantities to cellar. Good Luck and Good Smoking.
 
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Their website shows which blends are currently available. In my experience, I only do telephone orders with them. It is very simple and quick. My only suggestion would be to decide the blend(s) and quantities of each before calling. That way, when they answer, you can very clearly give them that information and the contact will be polite, but businesslike. Once you provide them with your shipping address and credit card info, the reorders are even more simple. I had a bad experience with an on line order with them last year that compromised my cc, but I have ordered via telephone several times since with no problems. I almost gave up on them after the online problems, but I am glad I didn't. Their blends are hands down my favorites. I know it is personal preference, but I really have found something to like from almost every blend I have tried as you can see by my comments in my Excel notes. Hopefully you too will find a blend that you like. We need businesses like this to survive. Next month I plan to place an order for several 8oz or 16oz quantities to cellar. Good Luck and Good Smoking.

Yes I agree and am happy to give them my business. Will place my order by phone next time, had no issues with my last online order but any scammer would be rather sad anyway so to see what my available balance is.
 
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FYI, I contacted Peretti regarding future orders and covid19 and they just advised me to order ASAP in order to avoid any disruption this shit show might cause.
 
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Love LJ Peretti. Almost everything of theirs I try, I like. If I don't initially like it, I come back to it a few times in different pipes and I usually end up liking. This happened with Tashkent. I have attached a photo of my Peretti Thoughts on Excel. I place phone orders only with them. If you know the blend and quantity you want and are straight to the point, they are all business. Hopefully the Massachusetts govt restrictions that are coming down the pike won't wipe them out. There blends are the best.View attachment 22745

I don’t see number 8 slice on your sheet OGOP, have you tried it?
 

oldguyoldpipes

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I don’t see number 8 slice on your sheet OGOP, have you tried it?
No. It was on my short list to try based on other recommendations, but never got to order it prior to the Covid19 shutdown. I have a bulk order waiting to be placed via telephone when the shop opens back up. I think Massachusetts ordered businesses to close until today according to the LJ Peretti website.
 
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No. It was on my short list to try based on other recommendations, but never got to order it prior to the Covid19 shutdown. I have a bulk order waiting to be placed via telephone when the shop opens back up. I think Massachusetts ordered businesses to close until today according to the LJ Peretti website.

Well, storefronts but they can still ship although I don’t know if it’s only via their website.
 
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