Gauloises cigarettes, a brand of cigarette by French manufacturer that has achieved iconic status. Gauloises cigarettes are produced by the Altadis company. Gauloises cigarettes were Traditionally short, wide, unfiltered and made with dark tobaccos from Syria and Turkey which gave the Gauloises cigarette a strong and distinctive smell. Some non-smokers compared the scent of Gauloises to burning tar or the smoke of what King James I of England, in A Counterblast to Tobacco, called "that pit which is bottomless".