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Sherman Fantasias

Nat Sherman is a brand of natural "luxury cigarettes", packaged and marketed to a higher-class clientele than most cigarettes. The company, headquartered in New York City, also sells cigars, pipe tobacco, and accessories. Nat Sherman has been selling tobacco since 1930. Nat Sherman is also one of the most famous cigar manufacturers in the United States having provided cigars to gentlemen's clubs throughout New York City for 75 years. The boxes of the company note that the headquarters are located on Fifth Avenue, New York City, and currently include, as well as a retail section, a smoking lounge, and is stocked with various memorabilia relating to the company's history. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Unlit filtered cigarettes. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... For other uses, see Cigar (disambiguation). ... Shredded tobacco leaf for pipe smoking Tobacco can also be pressed into plugs and sliced into flakes Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the fresh leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. ... Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Cigar (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Cigar (disambiguation). ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ...

Varieties

• Nat Sherman Classic
• Nat Sherman Classic Mints
• Nat Sherman Classic Lights
• Nat Sherman "Specialties": (longer and thinner than the "Classics", these are "Queen Size", but with the same cigarette-grade tobacco as the "Classics".)
• Nat Sherman "Black and Gold" - colored black with gold leaf filters. These cigarettes also have charcoal in the filters, to provide extra filtration and smoothness.
• Nat Sherman "Fantasias" (the same cut as "Black and Golds", "Fantasias" have recently become popular with "alternative" life-style crowds due to their rainbow-colored paper wrappings.)
• Nat Sherman "New York Cuts", which are available in all the varieties of the "Classics", but are of the same length and width of most common American "premium" brands.
• Nat Sherman "MCD"'s, which are of the same cut as the "Specialties", but are made of cigar-grade tobacco, and come in:
  • MCD King - the same cut as Nat Sherman "Classics", but with MCD tobacco.
  • MCD's
  • MCD's Lights Brown
• Nat Sherman Naturals

(Nat Sherman "Classic" cigarettes in "Queen Size") Historically considered a masculine habit, the feminization of smoking occurred in tandem with the advent of fashion brands or premium brands of cigarettes specifically marketed toward ladies who see the use of these brands as a way to increase or enhance their sexual appeal. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Metal leaf. ...

• Nat Sherman Naturals Light - with a "unique filtration system."
• Nat Sherman Naturals Mint
• Nat Sherman Naturals Original - Nat Sherman "Classics" in a "Queen Size."
• Nat Sherman Originals (This brand is generally considered to be a MCD with various alterations/filters, though some do disagree and believe it also has a different quality of tobacco and/or paper from the MCD's.)
• Nat Sherman Non-Filter Cigaretellos Brown - Cigar-grade tobacco in a paper wrapping, without a filter.
• Nat Sherman "A Hint Of Mint" - Nat Sherman-specific mint filter
• Nat Sherman "A Touch of Clove" - The same design as "A Hint Of Mint", with clove-flavored crystals in the filter.
• Nat Sherman "Havana Ovals" - Cigar-grade tobacco without filter. They are oval shaped, and originally made with Havana tobacco.

Nat Sherman also carries cigarillos, cigars, and various smoking implements.

Popular culture

Nat Sherman "Havana Ovals" are mentioned in the Achewood cartoon strip of 4.15.2003, referencing an apparently fictitious 1956 movie, "The Devils of Monte Carlo," in which the cigarettes are used to smuggle concealed lockpicks into a prison - http://achewood.com/index.php?date=04152003

The character of Samantha Gregory in the 1988 film Tapeheads is shown smoking a blue Fantasia during the party at the Mart mansion. Tapeheads is a 1988 comedy film directed by Bill Fishman. ...

Joan Collins character in the 1980's soap Dynasty, Alexis Colby, was regularly seen smoking Nat Sherman cigarillos. Joan Henrietta Collins OBE (born May 23, 1933) is a Golden Globe Award winning English actress and bestselling author. ... // For other uses, see Dynasty (disambiguation). ... Dynasty was an American primetime television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 12, 1981 to May 10, 1989. ...

Nat Sherman MCD's are mentioned in "The Devil's picnic" by Taras Grescoe. It's the brand the author and narrator uses to "get back to smoking".

In the Peter Frampton song "Do You Feel Like We Do" there is a lyric "Champagne for breakfast, Nat Sherman in my hand". Peter Kenneth Frampton (born April 22, 1950 in Beckenham, Kent) is an English musician, best known today for his solo work in the mid-1970s and as one of the original members of the band Humble Pie. ...

In Bernardo Bertolucci's film "The Dreamers" the main characters smoke red Nat Sherman Fantasias. Bernardo Bertolucci (born March 16, 1940) is an Italian writer and Academy Award winning film director. ... The Dreamers is a 2003 British/French drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. ...

Reference

• Nat Sherman's a Passion for Cigars: Selecting, Preserving, Smoking, and Savoring One of Life's Greatest Pleasures ISBN 0-8362-2182-6

External links

• Official website