Asylum Shipping 9 by 90 Cigar For April Fool’s
If you find robustos, double coronas or even grandes too small for your taste, Asylum has a cigar for you: April Fool’s 90X9. The cigars are massive, 9 inches long with a ring gauge of 90—nearly an inch and a half thick.
“It started as an April Fool’s joke post on Instagram a few years ago that turned into something fun and interesting,” says Christian Eiroa, owner of CLE Cigars, the company that owns the Asylum brand. “This year we are actually launching it before April first.”
The 90X9 cigar dates back to 2021, and Asylum has shipped them each year since, usually pegging the smokes to the Chinese zodiac calendar. This year’s release celebrates the Year of the Snake, and each box is printed with the date of April 1, 2025.
The gargantuan cigars are made from Honduran tobaccos (a lot of Honduran tobaccos) on the inside, with Ecuadoran wrappers. They are rolled in Honduras, but rolling such a non-conventional shape has its difficulties.
“Making the molds was hard,” says Eiroa, talking about the hardware that handmade cigars sit in, to give them a uniform, rounded shape. Typically they hold 10 cigars, but with these massive smokes, a mold can only fit three. The weight of each 90X9, says Eiroa, is 2.4 ounces. "Roughly the same as six robustos."
The Asylum April Fool’s 90X9 comes in six-count boxes with a suggested retail price of $45 per cigar. The box can also be used as an ashtray.
“It has become a fun collectible cigar over the years,” says Eiroa.
