A snuff you thought horrible and has remained horrible. I haven’t encountered one, but must say Poschl Packard Club was weird on first snuffing and has remained so. I found it’s like snuffing old spice aftershave :-/
I love Old Spice and use it exclusively. My association with Packards Club is “urinal cake”, and I don’t like that. My 12 tin assorted box of Wilsons of Sharrow was bad and about ten of those tins went into the rubbish. Talk about bad, there’s almost an entire brand I won’t ever consider buying. I know that in this forum it’s popular to like the more obscure brands and snuffs and everybody likes an underdog, but I’m actually very much a Pöschl fan with some exceptions.
I’m certainly not knocking Old Spice as an aftershave, but my analogy is that I quite like cabbage but don’t want a cabbage flavoured snuff…or do I. :-? Have you tried Wos Toasts? I have No 22 and it’s a good un.
Haha. With a fail quote of 10 out of 12 my resolve is to never buy WoS again (except for F&T, they’re alright).
There are several snuffs I detest. I still detest them because I ain’t trying them again. I know it’s just my nose as some of them are dearly loved around here. Dhalokia White for one example. I can’t get past the horrid bad fish smell.
I too am not a fan of Poschl Packards Club. Bad stuff. But then, I tend to abhor menthol in snuff overall and if there is more than a tiny tiny amount of menthol, the snuff is ruined for me. To me, Poschl is in the business of ruining perfectly good snuff. Menthol is wonderful for some but for me it is garbage and has no business ruining all that good snuff. If all non-menthol snuffs disappeared from the face of the earth, and all that was left was menthol snuffs, I would stop snuffing. But that’s just me. I know a lot of people would disagree and they have my sympathies. A notable exception is Nigel’s use of menthol in Dragun Menthol, which is a classic example of the proper use of menthol in a snuff–just barely noticeable (if at all) and what little menthol there is, is used to bring out the other flavors in the snuff. Beyond that menthol should not be used for human beings except, perhaps, to cool a person’s behind after eating too many chilis or killer hot sauces. But that’s just a guess. I would not know about such things…
Bohican.
Packard’s club is an unusual snuff. After letting it sit for a year I came back to it and now find it to be rather good.
A main scenting component of Packards Club Snuff is a type of geranium = awesome!
There were a lot of pipe tobaccos that I found pretty disgusting, but with snuff, it’s more a matter that I find some insipid and uninspiring. I could take them, but why bother? There are so many better ones. Except, as I said, Bohican. And I just don’t do menthol, with the sole exception of the Abraxas menthols – the exception that proves the rule, because they are so lightly mentholated.
Most Pöschls (snuffs, not schmalzlers) started as winners in my book and are now sitting in the deepest depths of my snuff container. They feel gritty in my nose, and their scents are artificial and candy-like. Alpina, for an example, was a great disappointment: I had read it was similar to Zweifacher and it was indeed similar, but overdone scent-wise and with a bad floor that made my nose hurt. Besides that, they’re GREATLY irregular: I’ve got three different batches of Pöschl Gawith Apricot and and one was quite dark, the other light and fine, the other dry and slightly lighter and grittier than the second… not to talk about their menthol/apricot balance. That’s something I don’t dig: if you have a recipe that sells as much as this stick to it with claw and tooth, or else people will select something a little more regular and of higher quality to invest their money…
Poschl…enough said
Agree with you there. I will never buy a Samuel Gawith snuff again in a tap box. The London brown i once bought was like small lead shot.
Never had a bad one yet - Famous last words !!! :))
There are some that I’ve thought are just horrible - Seville being the worst for me - but I would not call any of them “bad” snuffs, just ones I don’t get along with.
I have two snuffs I hate. Packards club which I would not take if it was the only snuff in the world. Then there is toque peanut butter which is consistently just gross to me (it’s just has something off) but which I would snuff if it’s all that is available. Then again most posch are not so good in my opinion. I tend to like snuffs that are dryer then how they come in bulk but the grossest thing I ever snuffed was some dried out over a year in a container much too big for a few pinches of my favorites poschel alpina. It was horrid. The base tobacco was all that was left and I understand why they scent their snuffs so strongly.
heavily, artificially, over-flavored snuffs like Wow Concord Grape and Dholakia Chocolate Rose. And one that I like but cannot tolerate, sadly, Bohica. Oh, and there was a Dean Swift one that I had to throw out because it smelled like burning tires.
Another vote for Poschl. They got me in to snuffing but I can’t stand them now. I gave a big bag of Poschls (new and part used) to a close friend recently and like a typical newbie he loves them and doesn’t like the higher quality brands like Toque, Wilsons of Sharrow, SG etc. I was just the same as a newbie. I’m waiting for his taste to improve so we can enjoy proper good snuffs together.
Woah. One second. Pöschl is rubbish and for noobs? I don’t think it has anything to do with higher or lower quality. It’s what you know. If I had to start off with super dry, super fine English snuffs (supposedly higher quality), I wouldn’t have stuck with it. At the end of the day it’s a combination of flavour and how easy it is to apply into the nose. A lot of your “higher quality” brands cause burn, throat drip and aren’t necessarily pleasant to consume. Fair enough if someone is a snuff snob and Pöschl basher but in all fairness, not everybody likes a super fine ground bit of English dust in the nose. It’s what you enjoy, not snobbism in “snuff evolution” from noob brands to proper “real snuff”.
I think on a thread like this, you have to expect people to diss the snuffs you might like. I just smiled when someone said they didn’t like Dholakia White - clearly one of the best snuffs ever made. So don’t take it to heart if someone doesn’t like yours, @Kiwi78.