Over the years I've probably smoked all the main brands of rolling tobacco. but my favourite was always Drum, until a couple of years ago I discovered Old Holborn. I'd run out of tobacco while at work one day, and cadged some for a roll-up, from a colleague at work. It was Old Holborn. I was aware of the brand and knew the name but had never tried it - none of my mates smoked it. On about the second or third drag I thought - oh my god. It was like I had never smoked before. The taste was so rich, and the nicotine hit was so strong - it almost made my eyes water! I was light-headed. But it was the most satisfying cigarette I'd ever smoked. I bought a ...  Read the complete review

Excellent and very accurate review, Zombietheo. I am a newbie to the old 'Holborn, having being more or less forced to find a new tobacco after Imperial Tobacco destroyed Drum (read my review here - http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/tobacco/drum/1288202/). A friend recommended trying out Old Holborn, as it's very rich in flavour and has a more than satisfying nicotine delivery. So, I went and bought a pouch of Old Holborn and was pleasantly surprised!! The first roll up out of it actually felt like my first real smoke in months, and I got a nicotine hit so strong off it I started sweating! Really nice flavour to it with an almost Vanilla-ish character to it, I find.. I ...  Read the complete review

mm, the smell of pipe tobacco and ground angels. This is perhaps the best of all tobacco's ever made or smoked, from the outset you know you're in for a treat with it's shiny, ever so shiny packaging - that .jpg doesn't do the the shinyness of the midnight blue packaging justice and that awesome elephant on the front or back. It reeks of history (Richard Llyod & Son having established the firm in 1932) and excellent taste; on opening the packet you may be lucky to have some flashback to christmas days with plum pudding and the old grandfather smoking his pipe...or just the smell of rich, sweet tobacco goodness. It smells very good to me, but ...  Read the complete review

I guess, to many people, it is a bit strange and taboo to write a positive review about smoking tobacco, for obvious health reasons, but I am a smoker and my preferred choice of tobacco is Old Holborn. The reason I like to smoke Old Holborn (I smoke it rolled in Rizla papers with filter tips) is because it has a flavour which I can only describe as a rich aromatic and almost perfumy taste. The tobacco is also cut rougher than other tobaccos and I like this because more air circulates through the tobacco while inhaling from my preferred smoking vessel, which is tailored to my own preferences using the materials I have put in brackets at the beginning of this ...  Read the complete review