scent recipes

i will not talk about snuff making but the scents you use. Mine favourite at the moment is 1x vanilla (base note) 2x rose (middle note) and 1x rum (top note) What are yours?

my favorite scents are bergamot, tangerine, and citrus flower

Tonka, fig, licorice root, vanilla bean, nutmeg, coriander, woodruff, honey, Perique juice, and rum are a few off the top of my head. Lately a snuff made with a mixture of tobaccos including some fire cured laced with Perique juice topped with a tonka bean has finally matured into something very special.

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I like spearmint & honey. I am working on trying orange & lime

rose, jasmin and some citrus. Rose and jasmin have gone and something like sweat like raspberry with a hint of citrus came.

Inspired by “Behind The Bow Windows” description of Asthoroth I have created a mix of Penzanze and WOS Jasmine. My first thoughts are “outstanding”, “superb”, and “amazing”. I am surprised at how much the character of the Latakia has changed with such a simple addition of scent. I was doubtful that I would ever finish my small tin of Jasmine but now certain I will not have enough.Considering how wonderful Jasmine works with Latakia I would imagine other powerful florals like Rose or Violet, perhaps even Neroli would make a good companion for Latakia. I have also been pondering making a Latakia scented snuff. This would be a smoke particle free snuff scented with mastic essential oil or mastic gum. Myrtle and stone pine essential oils may also be involved as a scent ingredient at 4% each with mastic covering 90% the remainder should be cypress. I believe the mastic alone will be enough but this remains to be seen. This idea was brought about by reading threads at Fairtradetobacco regarding Latakia and the woods it is fired with. This recipe would be for Syrian Latakia. The Cyprian Latakia also has carob and oak involved as well. Though the main difference between the two is the special fermentation after smoke curing that the Syrian Latakia goes through that the Cyprian does not.

how do you disolve mastic?

@linguist As far as I know, resins like that require some sort of solvent like alcohol. I use rubbing alcohol to dissolve frankincense, myrrh or copal.

urk, doesn’t rubbing alcohol have a nausea-inducing agent added to it???

If one is using mastic essential oil the dissolving has already been done.

I would want that it give me a mastic headache. @Mouse using isopropyl alcohol triggers cancer cell to activate. SO all the hand sanitize-rs and the wipes at the super market for the cart handles and rubbing alcohol will expose people to risk worse then the common cold . Favorite scenting roasted coffee

Toque Apricot + HDT. Smokey, buttery…it reminds me of the pork rosts I used to smoke with apricot wood we trimmed the year before. It and sugar-maple always gave such a mellow flavor if the smoke was kept cool. It’s the only kind of smoking I refuse to give up.

I think the mastic gum can simply be used whole. Put a piece in a tin with some snuff and wait for the scent to transfer. I do not have any and it may be some time before I do so perhaps you @linguist would like to be the first to experiment.

mastic gum is sold almost everywhere here. I will try. I want to ask you a question about the safety of the scents. You know they are synthetic and diluted to safety limits (4%-12%). Do you think they are safe to use whole day?

This discussion has got me interested in mastic as well. I read everything they have on it in wikipedia. Who knew its where “masticate” came from? I wish I knew about it when I was in Izmir years ago, I would have tried to visit the place the article mentions. Now i’m quite curious, but maybe my local co-op carries it. They were able to get me tonka beans and most other odd things I thiink of. Is it’s flavor like incense? Or like pine?

Just to be clear, the percentages I discussed were percentages of the total scenting “liquid”. This mixed scented “liquid” would then be used to scent the tobacco. @Xander Mastic is said to have a resinous type of scent. I suspect it may have enough pineyness to it to be able to forsake the other scents for a Latakia type scent. I personally do not know. @linguist Generally speaking most essential oils are risky to have in direct contact with the skin, but some are quite safe. The indirect method of scenting is recommended where only the scent components are transferred as opposed to the chemical compounds in their entirety. Fresh mastic I believe is safe enough, after all it has been consumed orally for centuries.

I’d never heard of mastic before so I googled it. It gave me the idea to maybe give pine gum a try. I just have to walk into my back yard to get some. I can see the possibility of it being overpowering but it might work out if done lightly. Now I have to add a plain snuff to my shopping cart.

mastic smells like plain chewing gum but stronger of course. The safety i am talking about is for the loungs not for the skin so i think there is no problem because the snuffs i made are the most easiest ones on my nose. I livd in Cappadocia in Turkey and i am looking for tonka beans but i couldn’t find any. Xander you were in Izmir maybe you heard of Altin Damla (golden drop) fragrance which was invented in Izmir on 1920. mostly known and sold as cologne because of the cheaper price than its essential oil. Now i use it for snuff scenting as well as i use it as my daily parfume.

@linguist I hadn’t heard of Altin Damla, but I will look into it. Its been about 20 years since I was over there and I did not have the same interests then as I do now. Tonka beans I don’t think you will find them easily, but you can order some from here: http://www.mountainroseherbs.com/ I assume they will ship to Turkey. Maybe you will find a closer place in Europe or somewhere.

Scenting may become important if the law makers decide you can’t buy scented tobacco. While it is available I will support the manufactures. Making my own has it satisfaction. but snuff is inexpensive I don’t plan on getting in business. I prefer natural scenting over synthetic by osmosis. Fresh fruit rinds, fresh roasted coffee beans,roasted nuts, liquid smoke , liquor, Altoids, If it give off a scent I enjoy I can use it to scent snuff and or hydrate at the same time.