I can’t get on with it. Nice smell from the tin, and then in the nose…nothing.
@Franknsnuff - Really? :-/ I have to say Old Paris is one of my all time favourites. I think that the overall scent profiel is probably best described as ‘shoe dirt’ but I have to admit that I love this, one of the most snuffable/allday snuffs from F&T in my book.
I agree with @Franknsnuff the smell is nice but nothing in the nose. Shouldn’t be like that. I fear that the recipe is good but the modern way Wilsons manufacture it doesn’t do any good to it. The Kralingse Snuffmills in Rotterdam would be better providers of the old F&T recipes instead is my opinion. Hope this can be arranged some time in the future!
I get a lot out of Old Paris. Someone here described it as the smell of recent rain on a road, which comes close, but there’s a gentle alcohol thing going on as well. I like it.
I love Old Paris. That and Santo Domingo are my favorite F&Ts. If you want to trade it off, let me know. 
a gentle alcohol thing going on as well. I like it.
@HR_pufnstuff - I believe this is down to a casing of Arrack, a spirit made from figs [if I recall corectly]. I think that this is also the same ingredient that is in both SWS Creme du Figue and Thrice Brewed. @mecompco - We must have similar tastes; probably my top two as well, can keep pinching both of these which isn’t the case for me with all F&T’s 
I love Old Paris. That and Santo Domingo are my favorite F&Ts. If you want to trade it off, let me know.
Cheers, but I’ll stick with it, and give it another review in a few months.
@HR_pufnstuff - I believe this is down to a casing of Arrack, a spirit made from figs [if I recall corectly]. I think that this is also the same ingredient that is in both SWS Creme du Figue and Thrice Brewed.
It’s Dates, old chap.
Dates indeed, old chap. It’s one of my favorite offerings from F&T.
I think that HR_PufnSnuff, maybe right here, at least according to contempary wisdom. However, Middle Eastern Arack has historically been made with figs, dates and dried grapes [raisins]. I think that it varies according to recipe and where it’s made.
Old Paris is my everyday snuff. I absolutely love it.
And in the interest of maintaining a high level of confusion there is Arak, a spirit with absolutely nothing in common with Arrack. The former is more of a pastis the latter almost a brandy in that it is distilled from fermented fruit rather than grain as in other spirits. Eau de Vie falls into the same grouping as does Grappa. I don’t really give a ____. They are all good in their own right and at the right time with the right company. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrack http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arak\_(drink)
After reading… I might just give O’ Paris a try!
I love Old Paris. That and Santo Domingo are my favorite F&Ts. If you want to trade it off, let me know.
Agree 100%!
Old Paris, Santo Domingo and High Dry Toast are tops for the F&T offerings
I’d have to say Bordeaux… Old Paris is a fine snuff I admit, but that Turkish Delight rosyness you get from Bordeaux will beat it every time.
what is Old Paris actually composed of, I can’t seem to place the scent…
Boozy dates. 
I heard (here, I think) that Wilson’s had to change supplier of Arrack and that had changed the scent a little, and I have to say the scent doesn’t seem as pronounced as before. Still nice though, and I’ve yet ti find a snuff that’s anything like it.
Interesting I recently started looking in to new snuff since I found red bull while I was in the UK . So as I started looking in too what I tried before I see I actually finished almost a whole can of old Paris. The funny thing is I don’t think I like it that much. I might have don’t it for the kick. Before I knew about the psochl. To me the first reaction was a leathery barn / farm smell.
My take for what it’s worth…and Old Paris is one of my top ten. That being said, and I parapharase something said by Tim Geeroing on a youtube video (I think it was he, perhaps yorkshire PipeAndSnuff…oops). Anyway, he describes as the smell from the tin as being like someone went down into the sewer, dredged up something, dried it, cured it and packed it into a tin. LOL My experience was quite different from that of the OP. When I opened the tin, it smelled of shoe dirt, perhaps of something even less pleasant. In the nose on the other hand… ah-h-h-h! Yes, boozy dates, but the tobacco emerges wearing a veil of something akin to apple blossoms or maybe violet. I am incredibly fickle and/or aaaaaaA.D.D. when it comes to snuffs and I will cycle through preferred snuffs from one week to the next, but when I’m concentrating on toasts, I do a lot of HDT. When I am concentrating on tobacco shop, old furniture, the scent of the fruit cellar…I take a lot of Old Paris. When I dream of visiting Cuba, I take a lot of Santo Domingo. So it goes.