Taishan · Qingdao, Shandong · 6 mg slim capsule
Taishan Jasmine Slim (泰山(茉莉香韵细支))
Shandong’s ‘tea-into-tobacco’ slim — a white-and-gilt 97 mm stick with a crushable jasmine-and-green-tea bead in the filter, named after Mount Tai itself. Here is the straight version of how it tastes before and after you crack the capsule, who it suits, and how to spot a real one when it lands.
TAR6 mgNICOTINE0.6 mgCO5 mgLENGTH97 mm slimBARCODE6901028155960
The tea-capsule slim from the sacred mountain
Taishan is Shandong’s home-team cigarette — rolled in Qingdao by China Tobacco Shandong, a name the province has smoked for generations and one that traces back to a 1928 factory. For years its everyday face was the cheap, dependable White General. What makes the modern brand stand out is a lane it dug for itself: instead of out-muscling the big flavour houses, Shandong Tobacco went the other way and built a whole ‘tea-sweet’ style around brewing tea aromas into tobacco, billing itself the tobacco-and-tea fusion specialist.
This one is the slim, capsule tip of that idea. Snap the bead in the filter and, the maker says, out comes an essence drawn from early-spring green tea and jasmine blossom — the pack widely credited with taking a real tea-flavour capsule mainstream in China. It is named, of course, for Mount Tai: the eastern one of the country’s Five Sacred Mountains, the peak emperors once climbed to make their offerings, and a real place you can still walk up today.
By the numbers
Est. 1928Qingdao rootsTea-into-tobaccoShandong’s own laneJasmine + teain a crushable bead6 mg · 97 mmslim capsule
Taishan has been Shandong’s best-loved cigarette for generations — its White General is said to have led the province’s sales for the better part of forty years — and the brand’s tea-sweet category is its signature modern move, the thing that sets it apart from every strength-first rival.
What defines it — straight answer
The point of the whole thing is the bead in the filter. Give it a pinch and it bursts, and the maker’s story is that you are letting loose an essence blended from pre-Qingming spring tea and early-summer jasmine in a ‘golden ratio,’ extracted and folded into the smoke rather than painted on the tip. On a fresh, real stick it delivers: a cool jasmine thread over a tea-sweet tobacco base, finishing on a clean, faintly astringent tea note.
Two things we will not spin. The tea flavour is added, and smokers genuinely split on it — plenty love how clean and elegant it is, some find the jasmine too perfumed, a few call the smoke slightly scratchy; that is opinion, so judge it with your own mouth. And the brand’s line about tea ‘purifying’ the smoke and calming your throat? We are not selling that as healthier. This is a 6 mg slim, and low-tar numbers lean on tiny air holes in the filter your fingers cover in real life, so what you breathe in can run higher than the label. Light and tea-sweet describe the taste, not the risk.
How it smokes, start to finish
Un-cracked
Before you touch the bead it is a soft flue-cured slim — clean, light tobacco with a faint jasmine coolness already threaded through it.
First puffs
Very smooth and supple, next to no throat sting. Easy going down, which is the whole appeal of a 6 mg slim.
Crack the bead
Pinch it and the jasmine-green-tea note steps up; the smoke turns a touch oily and moist and reads properly ‘tea-and-tobacco’ — fuller, not heavier.
Mid-stick
This is its best stretch — aromatic and balanced, the tea and tobacco meeting cleanly without turning sweet or sickly.
The finish
A mild tea astringency on the tail, clean rather than harsh, with an obvious sweet return as it fades away.
Timing
Don’t crack the bead at light-up. Let the opening third burn plain, then crush it — go too soon and its tea character falls flat.
Strength
Genuinely light. Perfect if you want easy and aromatic; a letdown if you are after a proper hit.
Room note
Soft and faintly floral-sweet to people near you rather than acrid — an easy one to smoke around a table.
Palatability — what it’s really like
Choosing it for the flavour? Here is the fuller picture. Underneath, it is a flue-cured blend, so the tobacco reads bright and lightly grain-sweet rather than dark or roasted. The capsule lays a jasmine-and-green-tea note over that — floral and cool up front, tea-sweet through the middle, a little astringent at the very end. The whole thing is tuned for smoothness and aroma over punch, and the sweetness lives in the smoke and the aftertaste, not as a coating on your lips. Pleasant and easy by design, more a fragrant everyday slim than a deep, brooding smoke.
“The country’s first tea-flavour capsule — it stayed a hit for years and became the benchmark for the whole category.”
— a yanpk reviewer
“Faint jasmine drifting through, gentle smoke that doesn’t catch the throat, none of that heavy, sharp tobacco stink.”
— a yanpk commenter
“Honestly the tobacco taste isn’t anything special, and it caught my throat a bit — a slightly harsh, scratchy note.”
— a critical yanpk commenter
A few practical notes. Freshness counts double here — a slim with a flavour bead fades faster than a fat rod, so keep unopened packs cool and sealed and work through them rather than leaving one open for weeks; a fresh stick’s jasmine is clearly livelier. And the tea note shows best on a clean palate — the first of the morning, or one after a meal — and all but disappears if you chain it through a long, smoky night.
It pairs, unsurprisingly, with tea. The jasmine-and-green-tea capsule was built to sit alongside a cup, and that is where it makes most sense — after a meal, on a balcony, with a pot of something light — rather than against a strong espresso or a whisky, which tends to flatten it. Some smokers also feel it runs a little dear for an all-day rod and treat it as more of an occasional, savour-it cigarette than a chain-smoked one.
The details
Aroma
Flue-cured, with a jasmine-tea aroma note
Filter
25 mm acetate, with a jasmine-and-green-tea flavour capsule
Contents
20/pack · 10 packs (200)/carton
Made by
China Tobacco Shandong Industrial (Qingdao Cigarette Factory)
Who loves it, and who won’t
You will love it if you are a light or social smoker after something gentle, easy on the throat and a bit out of the ordinary. It is made for people who enjoy flavoured and capsule sticks and lean floral or tea over fruit and mint; for anyone who likes a cigarette with their tea; and for smokers who care that a pack looks clean and understated rather than loud.
You will not if you are a heavy, pack-a-day smoker on strong regulars — a 6 mg slim will feel weak, ‘like nothing there.’ If you cannot stand added flavour and want pure leaf, the jasmine-tea thing is not for you, and a few smokers find it faintly scratchy or the jasmine too perfumed. Better to know now than order a carton of the wrong thing.
How it stacks up
vs Taishan’s plain Chaxiang and Rufeng: those carry a softer, non-capsule tea aroma — this is the one with the crushable jasmine-green-tea bead. vs the usual fruit-capsule slims (mint, blueberry, grape): quieter and more grown-up, a floral tea note instead of a candy blast. vs a menthol: no cold hit at all — the bead warms and rounds the smoke rather than chilling it. In its own niche, reviewers rate it one of the better tea-capsule slims going.
When it lands: spotting a fake
It is a wanted pack, so fakes turn up — a quick check when yours arrives. On a real one the carton stays a crisp, snowy white with sharp green and gilt-lotus print (fakes dull the white or blur the gold); every stick measures a genuine 97 mm, the filter a full 25 mm, with a single unbroken bead that rolls under a soft squeeze; and a real one’s jasmine-tea scent is natural and long-lived, while a raw, fleeting or plasticky ‘jasmine’ should worry you — though smell alone is not proof. Match barcode 6901028155960 (carton 6901028155977), steel stamp and Chinese warning intact, and scan the code with Shandong Tobacco if you are unsure.
If customs holds it
Your parcel goes out in plain, unmarked packaging with full tracking — nothing on it names the brand, product, origin or quantity. We dispatch within 1–3 business days and most orders land in about 7–15 days; our typical customs-clearance rate runs around 95%. Tobacco is a controlled import almost everywhere, so duty and personal limits are on you and vary by country — no honest seller can promise a parcel is never checked. What we promise is bounded: should your first parcel to a destination be seized, notify us within 14 days with the official notice and you get one free reship — our
shipping & customs terms spell out what’s covered. You pay one clear price up front, with no surprise ‘insurance’ or ‘clearance’ fees.
Good to know
Is 6 mg too light for me?
If you smoke strong regulars, probably — it is a gentle slim and heavy smokers tend to find it soft. If you smoke socially or want low irritation and aroma over strength, that lightness is exactly the point.
When do I crush the capsule?
Not right away. Let it burn as an ordinary slim for the opening third or so, then pinch the bead — snap it too soon and the tea flavour comes through thin. That timing is the tip regular smokers repeat most.
Is it a fruit capsule?
Neither fruit nor mint — the bead is a jasmine and green-tea note, floral and tea-sweet rather than a candy or cooling blast. It is Shandong Taishan’s signature ‘tea-into-tobacco’ style.
How do I know it is real?
Match barcode 6901028155960, check the pure-white box with crisp gilt-lotus print, the full 97 mm rod and 25 mm filter with an intact bead, and scan the pack code with Shandong Tobacco — full checklist under ‘spotting a fake’ above.
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