What's Wrong With Me (I Don't Like Esoterica)

[jpmcwjr]

OBB = Balkan Sobranie = (Margate)

I don't find Margate like either the old or new Balkan Sobranie.

 

[sablebrush52]

Margate = Balkan Sobranie Original Smoking Mixture

Exotique = Sobranie 759
Having smoked all of them I'm confident they're different blends. But the Germain's products may have been created as matches, though not very successful matches. Or, all that "equivalency" stuff is just another story from the big city. From what Greg shared, these were blends that Germain's had created that were either "dormant" or for their private label business.

 

[hawky454]

Pardon the confusion. When I use the "=" sign I mean it more as, it was their answer to those blends rather than it was a copy of those blends.

 

[virginialover]

I had a bag of And So to Bed, it tasted like Juicy Fruit chewing gum with some Latakia. I gave it to a fellow pipe smoker and he said the same thing.
An aged tin of Penzance that was overwhelmed by the casing/topping with a menthol taste and an horrible feeling of heaviness.
A bag of Margate that started very nice but then a lighter menthol flavor showed up, months after I started smoking it, with a lighter cloying heaviness than Penzance.
Margate is nothing like Balkan Sobranie Original Smoking Mixture.

 

[sablebrush52]

Exotique is a very good blend, but 759 it is not.