theFreshScent » Brown Sugar http://thefreshscent.com Screening the Breeze of Counter-Culture Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:06:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Brown Sugar: Strawberry http://thefreshscent.com/2006/11/22/brown-sugar-strawberry/ http://thefreshscent.com/2006/11/22/brown-sugar-strawberry/#comments Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:05:28 +0000 Alex http://thefreshscent.com/2006/11/22/brown-sugar-strawberry/ Brown Sugar: Strawberry

Sporting a new cover design compared to first generation packaging, Brown Sugar is back. They’ve also released some new (and unsurprisingly common) flavors for our smoking pleasure.

theFreshScent Product Recap
Category Papers
Company ZenSmoke
Made In Spain
Pros Strong glue
Cons Very common flavor
Price $1.50
tFS Rating 7.0/10

By now, tFS has logged a couple of strawberry-flavored reviews. I’m not saying our reviews taste like strawberries, but I am saying we’ve got expertise in this area. Brown Sugar Strawberry measure 1¼” and pack 20 leaves per package. The papers that most resemble them are Golden Wrap Stawberry. Both have thicker leaves than normal, both have rough textures to them and both give off similar aromas.

Unfortunately, you can tell the little things have been done that make Golden Wrap leaves stick out from the pack, while the Brown Sugar just kind of blends in with the background. They aren’t as uber-infused with a strawberry essence as other brands.

As more manufacturers enter the game, we’re going to see very similar products. Even ZenSmoke, which has multiple lines underneath its brand name, puts out similar shit compared to other papers in their own product line. The strawberry papers from Brown Sugar are good. They won’t blow your socks off, but won’t disappoint either.

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Zen Smoke is green-lighting all tropical flavors right now, so here’s their latest product from the Brown Sugar line – Island Blend.

These 1 1/4″ papers don’t quite stick out as much as previous flavors have. The leaves themselves are still coarser & slightly thicker than other Zen Smoke offerings like Juicy Jay’s, Chills or Elements. The smell is weird – it’s basically a combination between a scratch and sniff sticker & some cinnamon. Not what I would instantly associate with the tropics.

When smoked, Island Blend fades into the noise – no flavor added to any aspect of the leaf. Still, these papers are solid. They burn well and add some texture to your smoke. Not everything needs to get the job done with style.

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