The Best Fall Shisha Flavors of 2023

Fall is here everyone! Grab your sweater and get your hands on all the pumpkin flavored everything! This is easily one of our favorite times of year because not only does our flavor rotation change but we also get to experience some cooler weather down here in Texas (finally!). When the restaurants and local shops begin to switch everything to fall mode, it's hard to avoid even changing something about your diet during the season.

That way of thinking is often shown in the hookah community as well because we're usually inspired by our surroundings and what we’re eating and drinking. If you’ve never participated in a seasonal flavor rotation, we encourage you to use this list to add some flavors to your menu this fall.

Fumari Spiced Chai shows up on every top 10 list: Fall, winter, spring, summer, beginner favorites, etc.. Fumari Spiced Chai will continue to show up on these rankings because it’s that good whether you smoke it by itself or add it to a new mix. Once that unique sweet spice taste hits your tongue, you’ll be transcended into a new world of flavors and little cups of chai will dance around you as blow out huge flavorful clouds. Fumari is loved by novice and veteran smokers alike including those who don’t really like coffee inspired flavors.

Next up on the Fumari coffee menu is their Mochaccino. While Spiced Chai is a little more buttery, Fumari Mochaccino is more on the dessert side of things. Fresh roasted coffee beans are the backing for this blend, and it's topped off with hints of cocoa. It's like a coffee drink while having hot cocoa at the same time. 

Carrying on with coffee flavors, these two coffee flavors are ultra rich and deep in flavor that smoke great on their own or as punchy notes in fall mixes. Eternal Smoke is all about delivering an elevated shisha experience with their line of truly unique blends. You don’t have to wait in long lines to get a delicious shot of espresso with their Dark Bean flavor. This blonde leaf shisha is just like freshly brewed beans. It’s dark and earthy, rich, and has a nice creamy undertone on the exhale.

Turkish coffee is also a robust type of brew and it translates well into shisha. Whenever we have a Turkish coffee shisha in the building, many of us flock to it immediately! Othmani Turkish Coffee tastes just like a fresh cup of this delectable drink and is sweetened just perfectly. There is almost a caramel-y, creamy backend to this shisha that we just can’t get enough of. It’s amazing to smoke on its own but it can also be used in a mix to add sweet, buttery coffee tones.

This is a tough call right here if you had to choose between the two. Both of these blends are great and sit perfectly on our fall menu but it’s hard to choose just one. Luckily for us, we made this blog so we’re gonna break the unwritten rule and feature both flavors. Each of these blends come from Trifecta's Dark Leaf line, so they have more of a deeper, earthy tone to them since they are made with dark leaf tobacco leaves. 

Morning Glory is the equivalent of putting fresh coffee grounds in your bowl; add a slight dark leaf tobacco taste and minimal creamer, BOOM. If you’ve felt like coffee flavors in the past have been too light for you on flavoring, it’s because it wasn’t a bowl of Morning Glory. You can play around with several flavor profiles in combination with Morning Glory, but we really like sprinkling some TKO on top and that pretty much seals the deal on a great session.

Trifecta TKO goes out to the Nutella fans with an even blend of rich chocolate and hazelnut. If you don’t have a washable/dedicated hookah hose, we recommend looking into one before adding strong coffee flavors to your rotation. Al Fakher Disposable Hoses are great for this!

This is one strong cup of tea and we’ll have two cups, please. The Starbuzz Vintage flavor lineup has been very good to us, and their Delhi Tea sent us down a long rabbit hole of tea flavored shisha but very few compared to this. Your bowl of Delhi brings in a creamy black tea leaf taste intertwined with a Starbuzz secret blend of spices. We can easily pick out cardamom and anise but there’s something else that we can’t put our finger on. If you have an idea about the full flavor composition, be sure to leave it in a comment below. Even if you can’t figure it out, this will be a flavor you’ll remember.

If we had to pick one pumpkin flavored shisha to smoke this fall that packs a good buzz, it would have to be from the Tangiers flavor lineup. Their Pumpkin produces a strong aroma before you even get it loaded up, and within the first 10 minutes of the session you’ll know what we're talking about - plus the feeling of bliss. This blend does not include latte, cream, or any other typical spin on pumpkin flavors. Tangiers went straight to the point with their take and only added very subtle spices to accentuate the overall flavor. All of the Tangiers selection is high-nicotine, dark leaf tobacco and we recommend that experienced smokers add it to their rotation.

O-M-Geee have you had this flavor before? Haze does amazing work with decadent flavors. We love using Haze tobacco because it handles heat very well and the flavor strength leaves little room to ask for anything more. Upon first inhale, Pumpkin Pleasure delivers the closest thing to a fresh slice of pumpkin pie with a touch of creamy vanilla custard. At the peak of this flavor you're pulling in sweet spices that give the smoke profile bonus points in the texture category, and then you think about pie. Pumpkin Pleasure can easily be enjoyed by itself but you can mix it with several other flavors like Pacoca (Peanut Butter) or Ohhchata (Horchata).

WARNING: This shisha aroma may cause hunger.

This one may have started it all when it comes to the pumpkin flavored shisha craze. If you’re reading this, get some now if you want to try it because it goes fast in the fall! Right after you open a tin you get a kick of true spiced pumpkin, and you might even quickly turn around to double check if one is coming out of the oven.

Starbuzz Pumpkin Pie delivers a truly spot on pumpkin flavor with a blend of spices and hints of clove on the understone. You’ll want to smoke this one on its own first, and then you can get creative with plenty of fall inspired mixes with flavors like chocolate, coffee, or caramels. It’s your pie, add what you want because you’ve got a delicious classical pumpkin base. And yes, this flavor is just as sweet. 

What else comes more along more often during the fall season? Sweet treats! And ohhh boy, Eternal Smoke Milkin’ Cookies is just that. You know that smell when you open the oven before you pull out a fresh batch of warm cookies? That’s what this Eternal Smoke flavor will give you. It’s sweet and buttery but also creamy to create silky smooth clouds. Talk about mixers…try using this instead of vanilla and you won’t regret it. 

Cinnamon is an underutilized shisha. Honestly. Adding cinnamon to your favorite blend can bring a pleasantly welcomed sweet spice. Al Fakher Cinnamon is incredible at this. For a more fall treat style cinnamon go with Social Smoke Cinnamon Roll. It provides not only your cinnamon but also a nice buttery cream to your smoke. Although it’s great solo, we like to blend it with flavors like Social Smoke Bananas Foster, Fumari French Vanilla, and any coffee flavored shisha. 

Even if you don’t like Pistachio, continue reading.

There were a few of us here that couldn’t get down with having a pistachio flavor in our hookah session and then someone packed a bowl of Social Smoke Pistachio Breeze. Everything changed. Social Smoke pinpoints a sweet nutty profile but leaves enough room for minty exhale. This and a touch of cream blends up just like a scoop of ice cream…the green kind. This flavor doesn’t need to be mixed with anything else as it’s ready to go out of the jar and can be utilized in any style of bowl. Social Smoke recommends a sprinkle pack method when you prepare your bowls, but lately we’ve been adding a little more with great results.

If we’re talking pistachio here, then we also need to mention Eternal Smoke’s version. Pistachio Kiss is creamy, nutty, rich, and sweet. Another true pistachio flavor, Eternal Smoke Pistachio Kiss smokes like a champ when it’s by itself, but it can be used as an excellent mixer to add a smooth buttery-ness to any flavor. You’d be surprised at how versatile it can be. When mixing, Pistachio Kiss will initially deliver that creaminess to your blend but on your exhale you’ll get a pleasant kiss of pistachio.

We’ve updated the label to better represent what you’ll receive in this mixture because there’s a decent amount of banana (banana bread spice) waiting to be unleashed. This is one of the more complex flavors in the original Starbuzz lineup with the use of multiple spices, a touch of cinnamon, and anise. As you start to break down the unique fruit taste you're only steps away from sliding into the earthy aspect of flavor. We enjoy the red apple touch because it brightens the ginger snap taste and really sets this flavor apart from the others. TLDR: It smells like an expensive fall candle and it’s one of our favorite flavors from the Starbuzz collection.

IS THAT IT? Is that all the fall shisha…? 

Nope! We barely scratched the surface with this list of fall flavors, so don't let your shisha exploration stop here. There are tons of great coffee, tea, spice, and dessert shisha flavors out there that smoke amazingly on their own as well as perfect mixers to create the ultimate fall inspired shisha blends. 

What fall shisha flavors or mixes are your go-to favorites that carry you into winter? Comment below. 

If you enjoy any of these fall flavors in October there's a strong chance you’ll dig into them when you need to change up your bowls throughout the year, as the calendar is just paper with numbers anyway.