Probably most people are a bit of both but for myself I have settled into using 3 of my own blends for regualar daily use and I am really enjoying them. One of them started as Queens ES and went in a Rose biased direction. Another as Jasmine and went a sort of Grand Cairo, Bordeau way. The 3rd is my onionish Toast blend … and I can’t seem to stop thinking of other possible combinations for my other snuffs. I just don’t seem to be that interested in using them in their original form although I do try and use them intially pure to get a feel for them and can also continue to use some this way as an occasional change from my main blends. I think a good part of the reason I fell into this was having a lot of snuffs that I wasn’t very keen on in their pure form, so started trying to save them from the bin or indefinite storage. Others are very strong in scent like Wos Rose so I use this a lot as a blend ingredient. I think there is a lot to be said for concocting your own preferred blend provided it comes out right but it seems that if not then usually just another tweek or two can sort it out. So, do you all have any particular preference or practices?
Im definitely in the Purist Camp but I do appreciate there are benefits with blending. i only blend a snuff when I dont like it and hope that another snuff mixed in will enhance it. For instance, I love the SG Cob Dark tobacco but i think its lacking in flavour. But mixed with some SG Princes Dark, the result is great. i can see the attraction of making blending commercial snuffs a hobby, but im still at the stage where i want to know each snuff in its native state well first, 3 years in to snuffing. I wouldnt be surprised if mixing my own blends is something i become more interested in at a later date.
I’m pretty much a purist, most snuffs I like so much I would be scared to “waste snuff” with a mix that I might not like.
I start off taking all snuffs in their original form. My only main bland is a box that all the dregs go into and is very evolutionary. I haven’t been blending for the sake of blending really, although having just tried SG Apple I think this might be better off blended with something else. I need to try it again later to get a better perspective on it. Maybe I’ll add a little WoS Jasmine and try that
purist here … can’t pretend to blend it any better than the masters. Every now and again I take my stock Natural Toast and mix it with some fruit snuffs, but rarely, because I like Natural Toast so much. And am not that into fruits. 
I’m more inclined to blend. And my blends are much like your I_snuff_therefore___
With cooking I am the same. I take a ready made sauce and buck a load more stuff into it. Like today I had a chilli tomato sauce by Loyd Grossman, a perfectly nice sauce but I couldn’t help adding a few capers and stuffed olives and sweet red hot chillies and anchovies and more garlic and herbs. Think I overdid it a bit, ok a lot, but I just couldn’t seem to be able to leave it alone? I still preferred it to the basic sauce although in this case I think my snuff blends turned out better. I have just tried a small snuff of Asafoetida spice and it’s not to bad. So then I tried garlic granules since I like garlic, good burn and very sneezy but not recommended. Cleaned my nose but I can still smell the Asefotida, sort of like wild garlic. Might go well in my toast blend? I think my condition is worsening.
More often than not a purist but I experiment once in a while.
So far in my relatively-short snuffing career I have been about 50/50 - so a blend of approaches! There are definitely some snuffs that stand alone and are nice to enjoy as they are. Some may be great on their own and yet take on a whole new and equally good quality when combined, so it’s nice to have options. I have not generally been given to blending more than a couple of flavours as a rule though (with maybe one exception so far), as I do think that more than a couple of flavours can be somewhat unpredictable or confused.
If I have time I will blend ,but it is sporadic I will go months without mixing. Mostly when I revisit a snuff and it needs that something.
Like my character, a lot of little mixed batches, but a purist at heart and over all more common than not. Just love baccy. Plain and toast, before mint or rose, but never without because of those, TAD’z that have me by the nose. =P~
Usually a purist, but Ill blend once in a while, when a certain blend sounds good.
A little warning just incase anyone is thinking of trying Asafoetida in toast snuff. Probably best not. I did and I only added a tiny smidgen but boy did it take over the whole 10grams or so. I’m still going to use it rather than waste any but I’m airing the tin at the moment to see if the aroma will die down. I think this spice is know as Devils Dung in some countries but it’s just like very very strong wild garlic. Otherwise I’m still trying little blends in snuff bullets but no major discoveries at present. I will I think be sticking with my Lundy Foot and Coffee Cream as it’s very good and it means also that my Lundi foot will last twice as long!
I’m certainly a purist here. I don’t believe I have enough knowledge or experience yet with snuff to expend money on a custom snuff blend that doesn’t have much chance of being something worth using. Perhaps later down the road, but for now I’ll let my experiences be crafted by those who have much more time in.
I guess I’m a purist, I hate to waste the snuffs I like and mixing all the snuffs I don;t like seems to yield a snuff I don’t like. I do have a catch all for bottom of the can dreggs and that is pretty good.
I tend to refill my box from bulk, but I don’t always keep the same snuff in my box. So it will be SG Kendal Brown for days, then I might start topping it off with Viking Dark. Untill it’s mostly Viking Dark. When that starts to get old, I’ll top it off with GH Kendal Brown for a few days, until it’s mostly GH, etc. So it winds up being more like a rolling blend, from one to the next, with a period of a single snuff in between. I used to try more well thought out blends, but only occasionally did I come up with anything I liked better than the base snuffs. The only one I’d recommend these days is to add just a bit (a pinch or two) of O&G to a box that has floral snuff in it. It just seems to ‘freshen’ it up a bit. It doesn’t quite make it a menthol, but it’s not the same as it was, for sure.
It will be quite a while before I undertake any expiraments on my scraggely little snuff collection.
The only one I’d recommend these days is to add just a bit (a pinch or two) of O&G to a box that has floral snuff in it. It just seems to ‘freshen’ it up a bit. It doesn’t quite make it a menthol, but it’s not the same as it was, for sure.
Totally agree with this and have done exactly this with my two floral blends using O&G. I can’t really use the O&G on it’s own very well so I still get some menthol but at level that is good for me by using it in the blends but yes an essential ingredient I think. Just opened my Abraxas Dragun Menthol for a first try and find the menthol in that very subtle. A great snuff which I won’t be spoiling. If the Dragun is as good when I get that to try it then it’ll more likely be a bulkier order in future. Could even displace my toast blend as my regular.
I’m mostly a purist, but my blend which I call Atomic Camphor Bomb takes some beating, it’s 2 parts Camphor and Mild, 2 parts SG Zip, 1 part Dholakia Black, 1 part Dholakia White, 1/2 part 6 Photo Cheetah. Beautiful and strong, and v camphory ;-). Stefan
Occasionally I blend my Dholakia White with something else to reduce its mighty force. Other than that I tend to defer to the experts. After 30 years of smoking I don’t have a good enough nose to blend with any skill, even if it’s just for me.