Samuel Gawith - Elmo's Reserve

I love Elmo’s too. Rich and earthy sweet. I love it.

Not tried Elmo’s. I love Black Rappee, Scotch Black and the various Kendal Browns SG do. How does Elmo’s compare to those?

Not as dark, heavily scented with Tonquin. The scent is front and center and so well joined with the tobacco scent that it really doesn’t compare to the snuffs you mentioned.

@snuffysnuff its one of those that you have to order and try to understand. Descriptions and thoughts just don’t give you the full picture. I need to order another tin come to think of it.

@SnuffySnuff Elmo’s is literally ground up 1792 Flake, if you love 1792 you’ll love Elmo’s

@SnuffySnuff @Mouse not exactly, one can smell something between Black Rappee and Scotch Black as a tobacco base.

SG Elmo’s is tops… it’s a daily for me… from here to eternity :slight_smile:

Sounds like the snuff equivalent of Cob/1792 Flake, oops I guess it IS Cob Flake :">

I just got some Elmo’s. Really wonderful stuff! Just yummy! Hard to describe the scent but it is delicious and the nicotine builds and builds.

@OleFactoryHugh how would you compare this and Spanish Gem? They sound similar to me, and I am a huge fan of the Gem.

If you enjoy a pipe Elmo’s goes, IMHO, great with S. Gawith 1792 Flake.

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Hitsuzen, I can’t say because I haven’t had Spanish Gem yet.

I have read that Spanish Gem is very close to Spanish Brandy which I do have and I don’t think it is anything like Elmo’s Reserve, completely different grind moisture and scent. The Spanish Brandy has something in common with Toque Chocolate with an added whiff of liquor, it is dry and medium fine in grind.

St Elmo’s is quickly becoming one of my favorites…to me it smells like a more complex cased Cavendish pipe tobacco…the kind in the jars at the tobacco shop with names like “Captain Jack”…I guess it is the vanilla and dark tobacco at work…however, unlike the counter pipe tobaccos it has an nice low end note and just a touch of smokiness and old leather mustiness which keep it from becoming too sweet or one dimensional. Love it 5/5 stars

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The grind is like cake crumbs. I didn’t like it at first because of the associations I had with it on the first pinch, smelled like old leather boot + shoepolish, a true old peoples snuff. I remember my grandpa smoking pipes smelled kind of similar. After a while I came back to it and now love it, very cozy stuff in the evenings.

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I’ve seen tonquin described here as the scent that smells like vanilla that isn’t vanilla, and that sounds about right for what I got from my tin. I liked it, but didn’t find it as nice as SG Vanilla, which I love.

I just got in a small tap box of this snuff. 1792 Flake is my favorite pipe tobacco so my hopes were high for this snuff. 

It didn’t disappoint me. Oh, my, this is an excellent snuff. The humble tonquin bean adds some great flavor to tobaccos. Love it. 

I will be placing a larger order for this snuff in the future. 

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Ohhh absolutely brilliant This is a great snuff fresh dark coarse a bit wet It has the WOW factor Incredibly strong scent sweety vanilla style the base tobacco is very good and reminds me a bit of black rappee eith hearth and leather in background In the nose is delightful very rich and soothing lke having a good biscuit in the nostrils Very impressive and totally satisfied

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It seems you really like tonka, @schmalzlerfranzl :slight_smile: Try putting a tonka bean into the tin with some neftobak overnight. There’s a big chance you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

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@volunge so is it tonka in elmos reserve I Will buy tonka beans

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