Good evening, I hope I am posting in the correct place. I am currently working on setting up a new online shop based in the UK specialising in hard to get brands of Indian Snuff. The shop will be online in a few months time after I have finished sorted out the last of my suppliers and dealt with all the various paperwork. Currently I have suppliers for about a dozen different brands however if anyone would like to recommend any brands of Indian Snuff they are having a hard time getting hold of and would like me to try and stock it please let me know. When it is all up and running I will be posting a discount code on here to show my support for this forum. I look forward to hearing your suggestions for brands to stock. Merry Christmas and a happy new year to all.
Ooh, very good news! I love Indian snuffs. Itās great to have more merchants to choose from. Iām afraid I donāt have any suggestions outside the regulars, such as 6 Photo, 7 Photo and Dholakia.
I only know a half dozen or so that are available. So what ever you stock i will try eventually.You will ship to USA ?
I only know a half dozen or so that are available. So what ever you stock i will try eventually.You will ship to USA ?
I will be trying to ship to the USA however it depends on the restrictions on the card merchant. However iām sure off the books something could be sorted.
Looks like I have sorted out the final suppliers. I will be shortly letting everyone on here know what I will be stocking so if they are outside of EU they can message me and we can sort an order out. Cheers and everyone have a great new year
Canāt get enough Indian Snuff. IMHO
Right final list of what Iām going to be starting off stocking is the following. Hopefully some or a lot of the below snuffs will be new to you, which is the whole point of what Iām trying to achieve here. 6Photo - All 7Photo - All 41Photo - All V V Vartak - All TPS Madras - Black and Brown Dholakia - Chakali, Kamal,Ganga,Manjul,Taj Photo,Begum,Do-Kamal NB Madras Krushna Photo Brand Punjabi Sagandhsagar Rose Horse Brand Joshi Pooja Ke Phool Sugandhi Rose Swastika Queen & Loin Lion Black Bul Bul Panjabi NC Madras And hopefully the following if they ever get around replying to my order request. 5Photo - All Arora - All Uma - All Shivam (50Photo) - All Hopefully should be finalising the orders for all the above in the new year and hopefully get them all a month or so after that. As I mentioned before any Indian brands that are not on the list above and you want me to try and stock just let me know because Iām trying to offer every Indian snuff its possible to get. All the best
Iāve got six fairly obscure Indian snuffs that I picked up on travels in Tibet: 1. Umbrella Brand Madras Snuff 2. NC Super Special Snuff 3. 555 Sri Sastha Snuff 4. 5 Photo Super Himalaya Snuff 5. Sri Vijayalakshmi Tiger Snuff 6. Some white snuff in a long discarded packet, the cheapest and most basic snuff available. 
Iām not up to extensive reviews right now, but the Tiger Snuff is very good, a bit like Dholakia Sparrow, fine, dry and strong. The NC is extremely dark, oily, and strong. The Himalaya snuff smells like an Indian temple, with a bit of menthol thrown in. I donāt remember the 555, but it seemed like a good, straightforward, honest, unscented snuff. The white snuff is interesting, obviously a close relative of Dholakia White and the Elephant, but finer, if thatās possible. Itās a curiosity and occasionally finds itself in my rotation, but Iād have to say that I think the DW and WE are distinctly better. In Tibet, it cost something like a three cents per gram. Iām happy to have had the pleasure of a rare and obscure snuff, but I wouldnāt pay the price that make it worth someoneās while to export it overseas. Would I order any of these again? Maybe the Tiger. It was fun hunting them down and smuggling them into Indonesia through customs, I guess I bought around 500 grams in total. Iād recommend anyone to try any of them, just on general principles. None of them were really, really bad, although Iām not really fond of the Himalaya much. If you liked that kind of thing, it might be just your thing, though. Always good to have more variety on the market.
Iāve got six fairly obscure Indian snuffs that I picked up on travels in Tibet: 1. Umbrella Brand Madras Snuff 2. NC Super Special Snuff 3. 555 Sri Sastha Snuff 4. 5 Photo Super Himalaya Snuff 5. Sri Vijayalakshmi Tiger Snuff 6. Some white snuff in a long discarded packet, the cheapest and most basic snuff available. Iām not up to extensive reviews right now, but the Tiger Snuff is very good, a bit like Dholakia Sparrow, fine, dry and strong. The NC is extremely dark, oily, and strong. The Himalaya snuff smells like an Indian temple, with a bit of menthol thrown in. I donāt remember the 555, but it seemed like a good, straightforward, honest, unscented snuff. The white snuff is interesting, obviously a close relative of Dholakia White and the Elephant, but finer, if thatās possible. Itās a curiosity and occasionally finds itself in my rotation, but Iād have to say that I think the DW and WE are distinctly better. In Tibet, it cost something like a three cents per gram. Iām happy to have had the pleasure of a rare and obscure snuff, but I wouldnāt pay the price that make it worth someoneās while to export it overseas. Would I order any of these again? Maybe the Tiger. It was fun hunting them down and smuggling them into Indonesia through customs, I guess I bought around 500 grams in total. Iād recommend anyone to try any of them, just on general principles. None of them were really, really bad, although Iām not really fond of the Himalaya much. If you liked that kind of thing, it might be just your thing, though. Always good to have more variety on the market.
Personally i have the 5 photo super Himalaya I very much enjoy the scents of India. Tried to get my hands on the umbrella snuff however their emails where just bouncing back, shame as I have heard good stuff about them. The tiger snuff looks like a good lead I have sent an enquiry off to my suppliers to see if he can get hold of it. I doubt I will be able to offer it at 3 cent a gram (wish I could lol) but prices will be around $4-5 for a 50 gram tub of snuff. Thank you for the leads my friend.
To make things more exciting if anyone brings any new Indian brands of snuff to my attention that I am unaware off I shall send them 50grams of 7Photo Swami Snuff free of charge as a thank you. The 7Photo snuff is sealed manufactured in Nov 2013 so its as fresh as its going to get. Cheers
Pitamberdas Amandji Mehta has a lot more than just Sagandhsagar Rose for instance. http:// edit: thereās a virus on their website. Besides that there are a lot of different companies that make snuff in India and most of the unknown ones can be found, as you might already know, on indiamart.com, for example Bombay Snuff Pvt. Ltd
Yeah been contacting various people of indiamart thatās where most of my contacts have come from. Problem is most of the actual companies donāt really want to do anything with exporting their products as has they have enough business in India. So Iām usually dealing with 3rd party exporters. Yeah already contacted bombay snuff and just like most of them, they havenāt bothered replying.
@indiansnuff: Are you aware of āMandiā snuff? I got a tin as a souvenir from Rajastan some time ago. I donāt have the tin anymore, but I remember it had a picture of a cow on it and the colors were green and yellow (and maybe redā¦) EDIT: It was āNandiā, not āMandiā: http://www.21food.com/products/nandi-snuff-424629.html
@indiansnuff: Are you aware of āMandiā snuff? I got a tin as a souvenir from Rajastan some time ago. I donāt have the tin anymore, but I remember it had a picture of a cow on it and the colors were green and yellow (and maybe redā¦) EDIT: It was āNandiā, not āMandiā: Security testing
Yeh itās on the of Arora snuffs which Iām still waiting for them to reply back. How was it?
Yeh itās on the of Arora snuffs which Iām still waiting for them to reply back. How was it?
Damn, I thought I had a chance of winningā¦ I must say I donāt quite remember how was it. Could have been fine natural snuff, but may be mistaking it for something else, too. Sorry I canāt be more helpful.
@indiansnuff, what about āD.S Madrasā from Dhanavilas Madras Snuff & Company?
@indiansnuff, what about āD.S Madrasā from Dhanavilas Madras Snuff & Company?
@filek new one in me. Pm me your details for your tin. Probably wonāt stock it straight away have plenty of other madras style ones planned but itās one for the future
Another one that you might not know is Dentobac Snuff Powder from Goran Pharma. http://www.creampaste.com/products.htm
A small amount of TPS Madras black/brown will be arriving on Friday so if anyone wants a tin of that instead of the 7Photo for the āfind an Indian snuff supplier i donāt know about challengeā they are more than welcome to it. @Filek another new one on me. Donāt get too greedy with all the free tins 
Here is a list of bookmarks I have of Indian snuff makers: http://www.aroraproduct.com/snufftobacco.html http://www.snuff.co.in/index.html http://www.snuffindia.com/index.html http://www.sixphotosnuff.com/cgi-bin/getPage.pl?lang=en&id=1501 http://www.snuffwork.com/home.htm http://www.indiamart.com/pachaasphotosnuff/ http://www.snuffking.com/index.htm http://www.vartak-snuff.com/ http://www.umasnuff.com/index.html http://www.umbrellasnuff.com/ http://www.indiamart.com/saraswati-udyog-jaipur/ http://www.indiamart.com/41photosnuff/tabacco-snuff.html#himtaj-golden http://www.snuffofindia.com/ I assume you have all these already, and Iām not after any prize, but if any of that is helpful, I am glad to help.