Sobranie Russians are the grown up sister of
Sobranie Cocktails: slim, smooth
cigarettes with
matt black paper and shiny gold filters. They are not the bright party cigarettes of their brasher, prettier relation, but they cast a delicious tinge of seventies
glamour in the mind of their smoker conjuring images of
black satin sheets,
shag pile carpets and
gold medallions.
I can't remember what they taste like, but they look
fabulous.