Richmond cigarette tasting.

All the cigarettes of this brand are produced in cooperation with and under the control of the British company Richmond Tobacco Co. Funny enough, but in the CIS they are positioned as “super premium”, but in Britain they occupy the lower price segment. Anyway, let’s try the four main varieties today.

Richmond Klan. This variety is positioned by the manufacturer as unflavored. Cigarettes are packaged in a spectacular, yellow pack with metallic embossing. A solid 5 for the design!

The pack contains twenty king size cigarettes. The design of the cigarettes is just as spectacular as the packaging. White pearl filter paper with the name of the brand and a wide separation ribbon “in silver”. Getting ahead of the curve, I will say that the differences of the brand varieties are indicated just by the external design and varieties are difficult to confuse with each other.

Klan’s filter is a double, acetate-carbon filter. The charcoal half is medium-saturated with crumbs. Both filters are dense.

The inside of the cigarette is quite a contrasting bag with colors ranging from light yellow to dark brown. The aroma from the pack and the cigarette reminded me of Halfzware tobaccos, kind of average. And not as dense.

Richmond Gentleman. These cigarettes are so positioned by the manufacturer as unflavored. Let’s see further. The pack is no less spectacular, made in white and blue colors with an abundance of volumetric details.

The cigarettes are still twenty, in king size format. The design of the cigarettes is very similar to the previous variety, but in a different color scheme — the dominant color is blue-gray, and the decorative stripes are “in gold”.

The bag of cigarettes is faintly contrasting, mostly dark yellow. In this variety, the slicing is more familiar and cigarette-like — both narrow strips and pieces of tobacco leaf of various sizes are present. Surrogate leaf present here as well, in moderate quantities. TTX: 6 mg resin, 0.7 mg nicotine, 8 mg CO.

Richmond Black Edition. Here we get to the “classic” from Richmond — cherry flavored cigarettes, so beloved by the brand. The pack is spectacular and elegant, although in some places it is a bit too measured. On the packet is a proud statement: “100% Natural Tobacco Leaf”. Well, let’s check it out.)

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