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Djarum·Indonesia
Djarum Black
The definitive kretek: clove, sweet paper, and a crackle you can hear across a room.
20 mg tar · 84 mmNot rated yet
Sampoerna A Mild
The kretek made approachable, and the reason the light-clove category exists at all.
In production since 1989
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Our notes
A Mild invented the low-tar kretek in 1989 and remains the best executed version of it. The clove is dialled back to a warm spice note rather than the main event, the smoke is far lighter than any traditional kretek, and it costs almost nothing at source.
If you want to understand kretek without committing to 26mg, start here.
What works
- Clove as spice rather than spectacle
- Remarkable value
- The most approachable kretek in production
What does not
- Traditionalists find it watered down
- Still 14mg tar despite the "mild" name
Specifications
14 mg
Tar
1 mg
Nicotine
84 mm
Length
16
Pack
Medium
Strength
Clove
Flavour
King size
Format
Filtered
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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