Fruit Salad Well as my Malibu Grunt was running low (see above) I started streching it with some GH Fleurette. Then a new order arrived and I added some GH English Rose. Then my Patrick Collins snuffbox arrived, so I transferred this mixture to there from an Altoid tin. Just now, it looked kind of sparse, so I added 3 pinches of WOS Rum and Blackberry, 2 pinches of Toque Grapefruit, a salt spoonful of Honey Bee, half spoon of Smith’s Lemon, a few more pinches of both Grunt and Shot of Rum, and a wee bit of QWS Apricot. I have it nice and mixed now. I will leave it alone overnight and some to marry. I doubt it will taste like anything particular, but fruit salad tends to do that. Hopefully I haven’t tainted my new snuffbox!
my new mix that i can’t get out of my nose is Dholakia swiss chocolate with a decent sized dose of Crumbs of Comfort. It’s delicious the chocolate tones the spearmint way down and the CoC cuts the chocolate so it’s not too sweet to take i’ve been using it constantly since i made it.
A few days ago I mixed up another custom blend. I’m not really sure anymore how much of each is in there as I just added a bit here and there to taste. McChrystal’s Clove Samuel Gawith Golden Glow Hedges L260 Dholakia Ganga I have taken a few pinches of it every day, and it gets better every time. I’ve got about 10g of this one, and so far it’s my best blend to date.
Earl Grey: 50/50 F&T HDT & Toque W&H Also, my version of BigSnoot’s Parisian Toast (HDT & Old Paris) has a bit of W&H in.
Hey toffee, you’re in London right? Do you ever get around to G. Smith’s?
Yes, I am. I’ve been a few times, back in the '80s it was fabulous, but now it’s not really as good, not much of a range of snuffs and they’re expensive compared to buying online. Have you been?
I agree Smith’s have gone down the tube. I’m in East Yorkshire, but visited and lived in London for a time and visited Smith’s in the days of the Gentleman named Vivian Rose who ran the shop. I also used Fribourg & Treyer in the Haymarket too. Here is a shot of my first purchase from Smith’s the pre STD phone number dates it.
Very cool, Snuff Head. What year is that from?
Not really sure on the date but STD (subscriber trunk dialling) started here in the mid sixties. Their phone number remains the same:- 0171 836 7422
@ toffeenose: You’ve been snuffing since the 80s? Wow, your’re so cool! No, I have not been there. I was last in London in 1993 and I had only tried two American Scotches by that time in my life and was not into snuff. I tried again in 1995 and bought the one below in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. I tried it a few times then and again gave up until early this year. It was sitting in a drawer only getting used once in a blue moon until then. As you can see the bulk of it is now gone. Still good after all this time.
I know that times have changed and everyone says they are not what they used to be, but I would still love to get more, and add some of their varieties to my collection. I’m really kind of miffed its so hard to get online. Well, at least they have a phone, so I guess they’re not completley stuck in the Victorian age!
“Ham Sandwich” = HDT, Sparrow, Toque Peanut Butter, & fat-finger pinch of Ozona Raspberry. This is good.
@ squarefiend: That combo tastes like ham? I only have Sparrow Cool, I don’t know if I can replicate this.
Xander, To me. The HDT is a taste I’ve found to be like salted butter, Sparrrow like unsalted butter, and Peanut Butter was just a nice filler. The pinch of Ozona gave it the acidic balance. I made about 2-3 gms and it just reminded me of a ham sandwich. This doesn’t really help anyone without the exact snuffs doesn’t it?
What I mean is I have all those snuffs except Sparrow. I have Sparrow Cool, which I could sub, but its menthol.
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@ NickKick - No, Red Bull and Chief Bull are definitely not the same beast. The Red Bull is almost completely menthol, with maybe a hint of some sort of fruit flavor. Chief Bull is almost completely fruit, with a bit of menthol. I prefer the Chief Bull, but the Red Bull is good when you want a menthol that’s a little different.
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Cheif bull is very similar to Ozona Rasberry, but at the same time it’s very different. The “fruit” flavor is rasberry but theres something else there that makes it better maybe a different amount of menthol or some other flavor mixed in.
Here is a nice chocolate one, I call it “chocolate mare’s foot in my head”. Sound good? Even parts of Dholakia Swiss Chocolate Stoker’s plain Garrett Sweet It takes something away from the perfect flavor of the DSC, but it comes together as a tasty, powerful waker upper!