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fantasia- over priced/too chemicaly
tonic- over priced/ weak smoke not great flavor
soex- no taste/headaches
hookah freak- BESIDES atomic fire ball (which is unfourtantly somewhat weak) their flavors are just dry and weak
layina- weak smoke, weak flavor just don't like it
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Nakhla - Unaccurate Flavour, After Taste, Serious Buzz
Al-Waha- Unaccurate Flavour, After Taste.

Side note: Why headaches? I believe you're smoking in an enclose area such as in a room or something? Without proper airflow? Cause only that would make get headaches due to lack of oxygen. Only Nakhla, that would seriously makes my heart pumping, casued by the niccotine level.
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i stay away from al fahker because im terified of bad batches

starbuzz is on the no list because its prices are no were near the quality

i smoke alot of hookah-hookah/freak since they revamped it a couple months ago. the new ones have a longer lasting flavor produce bigger clouds and the shisha itself last longer due to more glycerin and honey . but it still fairly easy burn, but not as bad as it was. its pretty good now it dont have the cigarete esk taste to it.
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this is hilarious....all the brands everyone hates i like...i love fantasia i get awesome smoke and flavor out of it everytime along with the AF flavors i have but yea AF is only good for certain flavors.....i like layalinas becuase their fruit flavors are good...but like everyone said they arent to storng an yea i dont buzz of it at all....

Hate: Tangiers....sorry i want to smoke not wait a day
Nakhla.....yea ill smoke it...its ok but to me there flavor is weak and most of the time i get a stomach and a headache...but have had like a few good smokes off it

Starbuzz: so expensive for it.....but my friends bought some and yea it was good goin to give one flavor a try...prob the only thing of starbuzz ill ever buy unless im picking up in AZ from Cafe istanbul because its like 9 buck for 250g tin which is INSANE
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Maybe it's the setups. Coals, pipes, hoses, packing, heat management, all those things have to be taken into account when trying a shisha. Everyone's set up is different. Maybe out of a Mya, or a Khalil Mammoon AF smokes really good or really bad, and out of a cheap or brandless pipe they smoke really bad or good. Who knows. AF used to smoke pretty good out of a mini hookah I had, but out of my bigger one it's horrible stuff.

Though I really blame my Golden Quicklights for a lot of the nasty flavor I get. And the rusted hose I was using. Edited by JDHarding
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QUOTE (Nikon1323 @ Feb 6 2009, 08:13 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
this is hilarious....all the brands everyone hates i like...i love fantasia i get awesome smoke and flavor out of it everytime along with the AF flavors i have but yea AF is only good for certain flavors.....i like layalinas becuase their fruit flavors are good...but like everyone said they arent to storng an yea i dont buzz of it at all....

Hate: Tangiers....sorry i want to smoke not wait a day
Nakhla.....yea ill smoke it...its ok but to me there flavor is weak and most of the time i get a stomach and a headache...but have had like a few good smokes off it

Starbuzz: so expensive for it.....but my friends bought some and yea it was good goin to give one flavor a try...prob the only thing of starbuzz ill ever buy unless im picking up in AZ from Cafe istanbul because its like 9 buck for 250g tin which is INSANE

havent acclimated tangiers in over a year..
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QUOTE (Canon @ Feb 5 2009, 06:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
QUOTE (Nikon1323 @ Feb 6 2009, 08:13 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
this is hilarious....all the brands everyone hates i like...i love fantasia i get awesome smoke and flavor out of it everytime along with the AF flavors i have but yea AF is only good for certain flavors.....i like layalinas becuase their fruit flavors are good...but like everyone said they arent to storng an yea i dont buzz of it at all....

Hate: Tangiers....sorry i want to smoke not wait a day
Nakhla.....yea ill smoke it...its ok but to me there flavor is weak and most of the time i get a stomach and a headache...but have had like a few good smokes off it

Starbuzz: so expensive for it.....but my friends bought some and yea it was good goin to give one flavor a try...prob the only thing of starbuzz ill ever buy unless im picking up in AZ from Cafe istanbul because its like 9 buck for 250g tin which is INSANE

havent acclimated tangiers in over a year..


Well you are lucky my friend because almost every batch i got smelt terrible and never smelt right, even after weeks of acclimation. Blueberry for one smelt like dirt, i let it acc for about ... 2 weeks ... and still horrible, only flavor i got to smell yummy was probably k-peach and k-cherry, and i tried about 10 diff flavors. Must be climates causing different issues for different people.
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QUOTE (Stuie @ Feb 3 2009, 06:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
QUOTE (NIGHTS OF BAGHDAD @ Feb 3 2009, 03:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
QUOTE (Stuie @ Feb 3 2009, 02:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
King - Makes Me Nauseous
Al Amir - Headaches, and Dye
Soex - Headaches and Nauseous
High-Life - Headaches and Nauseous
Mabruk - Disgusting (think they are gone now)
Al Fakher - Too Candyish and Dye
Fantasia - Too Chemically for me now
Layalina - Just weak
Baja - There's better
Starbuzz - Not Great, Price
Al Waha - Just weak
Cleopatra - Disgusting and Headaches
Epic - Weak
Havana - Weak
Hookah Freak - Disgusting
Hookah Hookah - Most aren't great (few select flavors tolerable)
Jewels - Disgusting
Pharaoh's - Make me nauseous and headaches
Rosetta - Just plain nasty
Saet Safa - Absolutely Horrible
Sahara - Headaches
Salloum - Weak
lmfao, then what the hell do you smoke you've listed everything out there..



I smoke:
Romman
Nakhla
Tangiers
Abed Elkader
Al Ouns
Fumari
Fusion
JM Hookah
Mouj Al Bahr
Skyzzz
Tonic
Afzal
Al Ajamy
Al Masah
Crystal (only the mint and lemon are good)
Hennawy
Petra
Potion
Prince
Sinbad
Saalaam Herbal
Hookah Hookah Black Label (Mostly cause have some friends that don't like tobacco)


Waiting to Try:
Jawaher
Serbetli
Ali Baba
Arabica
Bison
Cuzzins
El Baz
Janet El Fawakeh
Java
Orient
Shams El Asil
Sidi Mansour
Sultan (different than Al Sultan)
Taru
Tembo
Wazir
Hydro Herbal (should be here shortly)


See... that's not everything out there

Want more petra?

As for my avoidances.
AW- (except mint, rose,) Goes harsh fast.
Fusion-Every one that I have had tastes like nothing.
Pharaoh's-Nausea every time.
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ive been smoking the new fusion here and there and honestly i couldnt tell the difference, it was still kinda bland in flavor. pretty much the only brands i smoke are layalina, tangiers, and home made tombak. so i cant really down any other brands.
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Watermelon was nasty, same with peach, papaya rasp was ok for m, i have heard irish cream is amazing, mango i didn't care for, and cinamon was ok, man you gotta try some of these :

Cactus pear
Pear
Clove
Guava
Guava raspberry
Sour apple
Passion fruit
Raspberry
Grapefruit
Champagne Grape

I agree w/ you that the ones you tried are eh at best ...

back on topic ... boo HH and HF heh
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QUOTE (mattarios2 @ Feb 6 2009, 08:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Watermelon was nasty, same with peach, papaya rasp was ok for m, i have heard irish cream is amazing, mango i didn't care for, and cinamon was ok, man you gotta try some of these :

Cactus pear
Pear
Clove
Guava
Guava raspberry
Sour apple
Passion fruit
Raspberry
Grapefruit
Champagne Grape

I agree w/ you that the ones you tried are eh at best ...

back on topic ... boo HH and HF heh



See I tried the pear. On the inhale it didnt really taste like much (Maybe cooking oil smoke) But I figured out that if I take half a lung worth of a hit and the rest air I will taste it in the exhale. Even then it was ok at best. Edited by indian_villager
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hmm odd, i love the pear, stuff is damn tasty.

But for fusion all the inhales just taste sweet to me, I get the flavor on the exhale always.

Clove is spectacular same with CG same for all of them on that damn list !!!

my pallet just loves it what can I say
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irish cream tastes like a mixture of buttered popcorn and vanilla ice cream
cactus pear is very good, ill agree with you. and im gonna try some of the other ones you mentioned and see if i can get a good experience.
starbuzz irish cream is my favorite.
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I don't really avoid any brand, I just don't smoke Hookah-Hookah unless it's a flavor only they have like Butterscotch. Starbuzz is my fav, Fantasia #2, Tie with Tangiers and Romman for #3
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