The variety of King cigarettes has seven independent lines and about thirty varieties. The cigarettes of today’s review, The King Original Red, belong to the most numerous lines of six varieties, where Red is the strongest. Red King cigarettes are presented in a modern cardboard box with rounded edges, in a bright but simple design. The design is really simple, but quite informative and perfectly memorable.
King cigarettes are produced by the Bulgarian company KT International SA (formerly King’s Tobacco). The company was founded in 2008 (KTI was renamed in 2016) on the basis of tobacco production of the Bulgarian factory in Plovdiv, leading its history since 1872. And the brand The King “was born” in 2009 and is now the flagship of the range.
When you open the pack, an inscription explaining what freshpak technology is becomes visible, the visual designation of which is also available on the outer surfaces of the pack. So, freshpak is, according to the manufacturer’s idea, a particularly dense packing of cigarettes that ensures the preservation of flavor. However, cigarettes are packed in traditional foil paper and there is nothing unusual in this. Let’s say in a pack of modern Marlboro, this technology is more successfully applied.
The pack contains twenty Red King cigarettes with a conventional acetate filter. There are no questions about the quality of the sleeves and stuffing them with a cigarette mixture. The design of cigarettes is simple, no frills – “cork” camouflage filter paper, silver separating tape and brand name.
The taste of the smoke is bitter, typically cigarette, the background feels a certain mineral, rather even a chalk note and a slight shade resembling oak bark. These are no longer traditional Bulgarian cigarettes known to many, orientals here, if there are, then there are very few of them. Smoke to the mucous membrane is loyal and generally quite mild. And in terms of strength, we would rate them more as “average” than “strong”. On the other hand, smoke still gives satiety.