Review Notes: Someone I thought was a friend gave me one of these. It looks nice, and has a smooth leathery feel, soft sheen, on the firm side without any soft or hard spots. Appears to be a fairly well made cigar. The scent of the unlit cigar made me sneeze, that should have been enough for me to trash it but I figured it can't be that bad. Coffee, cola and scotch have not been able to get the nasty taste of that thing out of my mouth. The fetid aroma of the burning stick has contaminated my home with an odor something like a fire in a Tibetan incense factory. The ash fell off before it got to be 1/2" long and putting it the ash tray to go out wasn't fast enough. I only wish flushing it down the toilet could have taken the stink and the after taste away as well. I started smoking cigars i.e. La Corona whiffs, Dutch Monsters and El Producto in the mid 70's. While over seas in the 80's I was introduced to cigars like Punch, Montecristo (#2 being my favorite & #1 a close second) and Romeo Y Julieta (thus ending my days of enjoying machine made cigars). In the 90's, Hoya de Nicaragua became my all time favorite non-cuban cigar here in the states. The point of this you wonder? ~ In 30+ years of smoking cigars, this is without a doubt the worst cigar I have ever lit. It may have just been this one cigar, I'll never know.