Dark Leaf Tobacco vs. Blonde Leaf Tobacco

Dark leaf tobacco, which is also called "black leaf," hasn't been washed and has been cured with sugar. It has a higher level of nicotine because the leaves are not washed or cleaned. Golden leaf, which is another name for blonde leaf tobacco, is washed or rinsed after it is picked and then treated with honey. When blonde leaf tobacco is washed or rinsed, the amount of nicotine in it goes down. There are a few other changes that are directly caused by the different ways they are made or processed.

Nicotine is something that tobacco plants have on their own. In fact, tobacco is just a popular name for the genus Nicotiana plant. The amount of nicotine that comes naturally in each type of tobacco plant varies. Local environmental factors, the way plants are grown, and other things also have an effect.

Before any kind of tobacco is mixed with tastes or extracts for shishas, it goes through two different steps. The first step is to clean. The second step is getting better. Since dark leaf isn't washed, the step to rinse it isn't needed. Since molasses is used to cure dark leaf, it has a unique taste. Because blonde leaf is cured with honey, it has its own unique taste.

Dark leaf tobacco is generally strong and has a noticeable richness. The smoke is usually thicker, and the kick is stronger because it has more nicotine. Blonde leaf tobacco, on the other hand, is lighter, not as thick, and has a milder kick. Because of this difference, most expert smokers choose dark leaf and new smokers choose blonde leaf.

Since the amount of nicotine in these two types of tobacco leaves is very different, a user has to change how they pack a bowl with shisha when they switch from one to the other.

With funnel-shaped cups, dark leaf tobacco works better. People who smoke want big, thick clouds that hit them hard with nicotine. A bowl in the shape of a tube lets heat slowly move down through more tobacco. This makes clouds that are thick, full, and full of flavor. The effect of tobacco is pretty strong.

Normal bowls, which tend to have a wider base and not much depth, work better with blonde leaf tobacco. This shape lets heat spread evenly through most of the packed tobacco without burning it. The smoke has a smooth nicotine hit that is made better by the flavors that were added to the leaves after they were cured.

Every beginner gets to a point where single flavors don't work the same magic they used to. This is the main reason why brands choose mixes even within a single pack. Still, most smokers would try two or more flavors of shisha at some point, even if each of them only had one taste.

When one shisha taste has dark leaf tobacco and the other has blonde leaf tobacco, this works well. Blonde leaf tobacco is lighter than dark leaf tobacco, which has more nicotine and is more flavorful.

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