I am an “earl grey” fiend.  After the recent revelation that Roderick and company entertain custom orders… I have two ideas that my mind keeps coming back to.  Before I plunk down the cash for a custom order, I was wondering if I could enlist some critical thinking from the community.

1. SP Toast - Natural Toast base with SP Extra’s scent.  Similar to Lime Toast, but with a big hit of bergamot instead of lime.  (I can only imagine a proper SP Toast would already be available if it worked well… So what am I missing?)

2. Toque Quit SP - Quit base with bergamot.  Seems like it would be rich and velvety.  Mmmm

For one I think a SP toast would be pretty awesome and as for a Quit SP it already exists its called SP Extra

I’ve always thought that SP Extra is an SP on the quit base… they look identical and I get the same nicotine from both. As for a toasted SP that would be WoS IHT #20.

Haha, ok, glad I asked about Quit SP before embarrassing myself. :">

Could be my ignorance again, but WoS IHT #20 doesn’t strike me as a toast. I really love it, but the grind and nose feel are very similar to WoS’s other SPs.  I just don’t get the toasty buttery nutty smoky essence from the base tobacco that I want.  I’m picturing the SP Toast as a mirror of Lime Toast… so toasty, but still holds a strong citrus scent.

SP Extra, but with a good portion of Rustica, and maybe just a barely detectable nuance of some spice or florals (or black tea?)

SP Extra Special A strong bergamot with lime would be nice, possibly a slight touch of orange or grapefruit. Loaded with Rustica is always nice. I’m not sure how much you want to change it, though it would be nice to have a darker scent which would pronounce the bergamot and lime.

I add a little rose to SP extra and it’s nice. A Toque Morlaix (WoS style not F&T) would be a hit for me.

The good thing with Toque’s snuffs being so simple in design, is that they open themselves up to mixing to suit your own tastes. There’s nothing to stop you experimenting mixing Lime Toast with SP Extra, or SP Extra with St Clements, or Natural Toast with Grapefruit, and then adding in Rustica to suit your own needs. I mix a lot of snuffs at home, just one snuffbox at a time to suit my mood that day. There’s no need to pursue a custom batch when it’s something you can produce yourself from the ingredients already available. The reason I pounced on the custom Spanish Gem was the coarser grind. This is one modification you cannot do at home.

Orange and Rosemary (Neroli might work better than a standard orange). Aside from that, if Sharrow Mills have decided to bow out of doing the Frederick Tranters range, and the Mullins and Westley range… :-"

How about Toque Tonquin on the Berwick Brown base. In fact I would love to know if I could get that custom @Roderick.

@Sandwhichlsles If I may be able to get in on that custom with a measly 50g that would be awesome, I’m just limited due to my location. Tonquin does sound a very nice blend, first time trying Elmos Reserve the other day and very quickly became one of my favorites. I have not tried Berwick Brown yet though it has been on my list for awhile, I may just have to bump it up a few. I wonder if Roderick can alter the drip taste, that could be interesting.

@Aamon, if I can get it made I’ll contact you.

@SandwhichIsles that sounds good. I had no idea that toque has a tonquin blend.

They don’t, I’m thinking of seeng if they can make a custom one.

Correct me if I’m wrong. SG2 has some in its course grind complexity.

I don’t know, haven’t tried SG2 but SGO seems to have tonquin to me.

I’m not convinced chaps. I find the tonquin in Elmo’s offputting, but I don’t get that from Spanish Gem

Tonquin is one of those love hate flavours. I didn’t truly appreciate Elmo’s until I started smoking 1792. I’d be tempted by a toque snuff with that

Tonqin is love/hate. I love it, 1792 is one of my favorite pipe tobaccos and Elmo’s was my all day every day snuff for a long time. I believe the vanilla-esque scent in SGO is tonquin unless roderick tells me otherwise and would love a toque snuff (on the regular or coarse grind) with a huge tonquin blast like elmo’s.

I like Elmo’s… but sadly my nose doesn’t. It irritates, I can’t stop sneezing and in the end it stuffs me up something fierce.

@Sandwhichlsles are you thinking about adding any Rustica to up the Nicotine level?

Canadiansnuffer I do not smoke pipe tobaccos, so read your post as you started smoking in 1792 a pipe tobacco makes more sense.

No, i don’t like rustica. I don’t use high nicotine snuff I just use more snuff.