It would be sound to stick to the manufacturers’ descriptions, when such are available, and to resist the temptation to graft on any “fluff”.

Most (if not all) British products, including artisanal SWS line, are already covered - WoS, McChrystal’s and Jaxons provide descriptions on their websites. Each manufacturer, including the foreign ones, would proudly present basic specifications of their products, if asked for.

This thread could be used for listing the spotted innacuracies in descriptions and groupings.

Let’s roll!

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This Singleton’s Original Super Menthol is made by Van Erkoms and should be grouped as South African snuff (currently mislisted as Wilsons). To distinguish it from WoS Singleton’s Super M, it can be listed as VE Singleton’s Super Menthol.

It’s base does not contain any rustica.

Official Singleton’s and Babaton descriptions can be found in Van Erkoms catalogue:

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Full catalogue: VAN ERKOMS CATALOGUE 2021 - Flip eBook Pages 1-13 | AnyFlip

All the descriptions for Taxi brand products mentions rustica:

“Made with a blend of Virginia and Rustica tobacco”.

There’s no rustica in Taxi. If manufacturer does not disclose the components of tobacco bill, restrain from guesswork.

Now Neffa Ifrikia is made from rustica (see Wayback Machine) and you can mention it in the description.

It is misgrouped within Makla brand, although the brand name of this snuff is Neffa Ifrikia. Only oral products fall under Makla brand.

So, please make a correction in the description. “Makla’s Neffa Ifrikia can be characterized as having the […]” - it’s not Makla’s Neffa Ifrikia, just Neffa Ifrikia (or Sifaco’s Neffa Ifrikia, if you prefer pointing the manufacturer’s name).

None of the Viking brand snuffs contains rustica. Check out the original descriptions on sharrowmills.com.

I’m of the same opinion. I don’t care how good anyone is, it’s not possible to know what tobaccos are blended into a scented or fermented snuff.

Don’t get me started on snuff descriptions outside the site , Even Sharrow and brand owners can’t describe their own snuff accurately sometimes .

According to Sharrow , Dr Rumney Brown has ‘a high nicotine content with the popular flavour of a toast snuff’ .
Except the nicotine level isn’t that high and it doesn’t taste much like a toast .

Much depends on what you dip your toast into…

Just as an exercise , I had a look at Sharrow at all my favourite snuffs . Really the only one that got a good write up was Grand Cairo . Detail was a bit sparse otherwise . Mostly accurate but hardly helpful .

Still, it would reasonable - at the very least - to provide the original description.

“From the manufacturer” section, where relevant.

Is that note about Dr Verey is still on the site? “Verey’s Plus is an homage to an outstanding individual who was a well-traveled doctor, teacher, entrepreneur and officeholder during the mid 19th century.” As a snuff historian, this has long irritated me.

Yup, it’s still there: Samuel Gawith Dr. Verey Plus – White Fox Me.

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SG/GH snuffs do not contain rustica!

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Bernard schmalzlers do not contain rustica.

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Pöschl schmalzlers do not contain rustica. They are slightly acidic and have low nicotine delivery capability.