Hello, From now you can pay in our webshop with Visa and Mastercard. And whats more we have produced our first half pound of the St. Omer No. 1 a traditionaly manufactured Karotten snuff. It took us nearly two years to get this far. That half pound is not for sale and the production of enough snuff for the market will take more time. In the mean time I will allow 10 individuals to sample this historical product. The first 10 who sent an email to info@snuifmolens.nl with their postal address will receive a 5 gram sample. Jaap Bes.
Email sent. Are u.s.a customers able to buy from your webshop?
^Exactly what he said
@snuffmiller A very kind offer - email sent.
Nice! 
Great stuff Jaap, email sent!
Email Sent!
email sent! Exciting “snuff” 
I’ve got 10 requests so all is given out. No more mails please. Jaap Bes.
Missed by 10 minutes! :(( :))
Rats!
ditto
Bummer, but thanks anyway. Keep in mind for future releases.
Thanks for being a part of our snuff community, Jaap, we are all enriched by the participation of manufacturers! Can you describe what St. Omer No. 1 a traditionaly manufactured Karotten snuff is?
St. Omer has been in the works as long as I have been here, perhaps longer. Jaap has talked about it for a long time. I think it has the ambergris, that was the subject one of our past discussions.
The samples are all in the hands of TNTpost depending where you are it can take up toll a fortnight @ Mouse: St. Omer No. 1 is a snuff prepared from Virgina leaves. The leaves are first sauced with a sauce containing: Potash, Sal ammoniac, Tamarind, Yeast, Wine lees, Sugar sirup, Brazilian Rose wood oil and Ambergris (This last one is replaced by oil from the laurel-leaf cistus, because it is practical impossible te get ambergris these days) the fermentation is stopped by adding kitchen salt. After the fermentation the leaves are weight in about 2 kg portions and rolled tightly in a linnen cloth a rope is then thightly pulled around it. after a few weeks the cloth and rope are replaced by a string and stored fore at least 6 month. After that the string is removed and the Karot is chopped fine in the mill and sieved. Jaap Bes.
Thanks for describing the snuff, Jaap! Out of curiosity I went to a web site in New Zealand that sells ambergris tinctures and was quite surprised by how expensive it is. I was wondering how you were going to keep the cost affordable. Now I am curious about laurel-leaf cistus oil… “Labdanum Cistus ladaniferus (Cistaceae) The leaves of the rockrose Cistus ladaniferus are covered by glandular hairs exuding an odoriferous resin called labdanum. It has a warm, sweet-resinous, woody-ambery odour. It is one of perfumery’s classic ingredients. C. ladaniferus is typical of the dry-land vegetation (‘maki’) of the Mediterranean countries. In Cyprus, for example, there are large brushwoods of C. ladaniferus. Goats and sheep in the hills get their fur sticky with labdanum. Formerly the shepherds collected this material from their animals and sold it to buyers at the sea-ports. In ancient Egypt, the false goat-hair beards of the pharaohs were impregnated with labdanum to surround these men with an impressive aura of distinction. The Cypriotes mixed labdanum with styrax and calmus oil, thereby creating an early masterpiece of perfumery. The Crusaders, when they conquered the island, became so enthusiastic about the fragrance that they brought the recipe to the rest of Europe. Known as the ‘Chypre’-theme, it is still employed in modern perfumery. Cyprus, Crete, the Esterel Mountains in southern France, Spain and Portugal are the main production sites of labdanum. Today the crude Labdanum gum-resin is obtained by treating the cut plants with hot alkaline water to catch all the surface waxes, resinous matter and oily parts from the plants. Steam distillation of the gum yields about 2 % of labdanum oil, which is extensively used in perfumery. It has a powerful, diffusive and very substantive odour with strong notes of incense and ambergris. The oil is an extremely complex mixture of mainly oxygenated terpenoid compounds C10-20. Weyerstahl et al. detected more than 300 constituents in a sample of commercial labdanum oil, 186 of which were identified. The main compound was ledene (9 %). Among the constituents having an ambery odour, alpha-ambrinol, ambrox and drimenone were identified [62]. By using GC with sniffing, Ramalho et al. found that 2,2,6-trimethyl-2-cyclohexenone was an important woody-smelling constituent of labdanum oil from Portugal [63].”
What is the web shop Http
http://www.snuifmolenswebshop.nl I guess
Oh too slow, looking forward to hearing peoples thoughts on this one though.