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Gitanes Brunes
Dark air-cured tobacco, unfiltered, and the most distinctive smoke in this catalogue.
In production since 1910
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Our notes
Gitanes Brunes tastes of something no other cigarette here approaches: a dense, earthy, almost cellar-like dark tobacco with a peppery finish that lingers for several minutes. It is a difficult cigarette and it is meant to be.
The dark-tobacco category is disappearing from European shelves, which makes this worth documenting while it exists.
We are scoring character. The intensity is not a recommendation.
What works
- Earthy dark-tobacco character with no equivalent in production
- Long peppery finish
- A genuine survivor of a vanishing category
What does not
- Unfiltered at 18mg
- Room odour is severe and persistent
- Actively unpleasant to the uninitiated
Specifications
18 mg
Tar
1.3 mg
Nicotine
70 mm
Length
20
Pack
Full
Strength
Regular
Flavour
Shorts
Format
Unfiltered
Filter
Tar and nicotine are the manufacturer or market-label declarations, measured by machine under ISO conditions. They do not describe what any individual smoker inhales.
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