Elie Bleu’s Year of the Dragon Collection Coming in October

It’s the Year of the Dragon, and more than a dozen cigar companies have released special cigars to commemorate the occasion. At last month’s 2024 PCA Convention & Trade Show, Elie Bleu—a French accessory company— showed off its Year of the Dragon collection.

This is Elie Bleu, so it’s no surprise that a humidor is the headlining item. The Elie Bleu Year of the Dragon 2024 humidor uses red sycamore, bubinga and mother of pearl. It’s rated for 250 cigars and measures 23.11 inches x 12.91 inches x 5.91 inches.

The MSRP is set at $11,000 per humidor and production is limited to up to 888 units.

For those looking for a more portable cigar storage situation, there are new colorways for the company’s leather cigar cases. The two-cigar case is priced at $580 and the three-cigar case is priced at $720. Both cases can store cigars up to 64-ring gauge.

There are three different Year of the Dragon Ashtrays, all of which are made of porcelain in Limoges, France.

The least expensive is $760 and measures 7.8 inches x 6.34 inches x 1.42 inches. It’s designed to hold two cigars and comes with Elie Bleu’s gold bridge cigar holders, which aren’t pictured.

There’s a larger four-cigar ashtray that measures 8.86 inches x 8.86 inches x 1.5 inches. It’s priced at $950 and is limited to 88 pieces.

The highest-end option is priced at $1,900. It’s a two-cigar ashtray, the same size as the $760 ashtray, but is handpainted. It too is limited to 88 pieces.

Elie Bleu is offering its J-15 torch lighter and C-4 Cutter in Year of the Dragon paint schemes. Both models are priced at $240 and are limited to 888 pieces.

Finally, the company has created a leather-wrapped version of its table lighter. It’s priced at $1,025 and is limited to 888 pieces.

According to Rëyns International, Elie Bleu’s U.S. distributor, all of the items will begin shipping to U.S. stores in October.

Charlie Minato

I am an editor and co-founder of halfwheel.com/Rueda Media, LLC. I previously co-founded and published TheCigarFeed, one of the two predecessors of halfwheel. I have written about the cigar industry for more than a decade, covering everything from product launches to regulation to M&A. In addition, I handle a lot of the behind-the-scenes stuff here at halfwheel. I enjoy playing tennis, watching boxing, falling asleep to the Le Mans 24, wearing sweatshirts year-round and eating gyros. echte liebe.