I wanted to know if,just like me,some snuffs are associates in you to particulars mémories ? For example the jasmine evoke me the parfume of my mother and mémories associates,french carotte: womens I’d biblicaly known,Jockey club: horses,liberty … …And so on …

The smell of jasmine reminds me of the streets of Damascus …

Abraxas, or rather its original incarnation as Snuffsters Midnight, reminds me very strongly of my great grandpa and his house. Equally, GH’s Flurette reminds me of my Gran’s old house. WoS Honey Menthol reminds me of a camping holiday I took a couple of years ago, as it was the snuff I took for most of that fortnight.

Scientists said that odors and mémories are very close in our brains. Violet ,for example, remains me very old feels of family exteded security.

The sense of smell is one of the strongest known memory triggers.

Gawith Hoggarth Dry Orange always evokes vivid memories of visiting my grandmother’s house when I was a child. (No idea why, it’s not like there were loads of oranges there…!?) It’s reassuring to know that this happens to other people as well, and it’s not just me going a bit peculiar. Interesting to note that snuff seems to bring back old family related memories for some of us in particular…

Also worthy of note is that scent memory associations are somewhat changeable. i.e. You can create new ones and overwrite old ones (bad ones too). So stay positive my friends.

Funny thing is , I still rememebr the smell of electricity from the little bump cars in a fare !

The reason scent is so powerful in evoking emotion and memory is that the neurons in the nose connect directly to the limbic system, the most primitive part of the human brain. Scent triggers the instinctive, pre-rational human animal in us all.

@PipenSnusnSnuff - Interesting! I just hope that when snuffing releases the ‘instinctive, pre-rational animal’, it doesn’t make me start humping people’s legs or something!

Lmao @Sloth. You could teach my tortoise a thing or two, all he does is hump rocks. Poor little bugger wants a girlfriend, but I don’t want eggs, so I might get him a brick for Xmas lol. Stefan

OT @Lancsnuff, a fellow kart racer-not someone I expected to find on a snuff forum! What class did you race in? I raced in Jr TKM back in the early '90s and recently, after turning 30, decided to come back to it-it’s a lot harder work that I remembered! I’ve had to spend the last 8mths or so working constantly on my fitness, but I’m nearly there-I’ve got about 2sec to find at the track to be bang on the pace, but it’ll come. My engine has gone off a bit and needs a rebuild, so there’s probably 7/10ths to find there too. Back on-topic, I had the same experience with Two-Stroke engines for years-if a snuff company could capture the smell of racing castor oil exhaust smoke, I’m sure it’d sell by the caseload to petrolheads!

F&T High Dry Toast-the first 20g of my 25g tin reminded me with each pinch of a nearby event called the “Spirit of Vincennes Rendezvous”. It’s an American Revolutionary War event, with a generic battle re-enactment, tons of people in period attire, people selling period clothing/goods, and cooking over open wood fires. There are always a number of leather vendors and tons of canvas tents, and many of the smells of that place (wood smoke, leather, canvas, open-fire cooking, etc) seem to come through in HDT for me.

Latakia Ao 1860 reminds me of sitting in front of a campfire. Since I have done this often, sometimes I get a generalized “glow” while at other times I may get a flashback of a specific incident (there are many.)

The late stages of 6 Photo Special remind me of when I put too much incense into the censor while assisting the priest at church. I nearly smoked us both out of the sanctuary! It isn’t nearly as strong, but the incense probably used the same essence.

@Walrus1985 - Cheers! It’s not every day that I’m offered to teach someone’s pet tortoise to hump different stuff! @sleepinggecko - That was interesting to read, but why specifically just the first 20g of the 25g tin? Had it lost its flavour by then?

@Sloth for @sleepinggecko… probably for the reasons that I stated.

@Juxtaposer - That could certainly be another reason. To wander slightly off topic but not so much that the mods will be miffed, I guess it’s the same with music and “audial memory associations” - ? - I’ve found certain music can evoke certain memories which can then be ‘overwritten’.

Yes but we should not forget that there is a certain truth or essence that locks in the associations that will never be lost.

There is a spot on the side of the road where I stood waiting for my wife to exit a shop. I had a pinch of the infamous Spanish Jewel there. Now every time I drive past the memories of that divine experience come flooding back to me, including the scent. Oh how sweet life CAN be.

One early morning while on a backpacking trip in early spring (cool weather), just as the sun was just coming up I had a big pinch of Samuel Gawith Black Coffee. One of the best pinch I ever had. I return to that place in my mind every time I have that snuff.

@Pipensnunsnuff(I don’t really know how to do for do the link with the name,if somebody can show me…),so,it’s accepted now that the brain is used at only 90% by the man of our days.The sense of smell is really for us misused,by snuffers a litlle bit less,I think -)

Finaly that’s good for this explications (lol)

(the brain is used at 10% for some scientists,I made an error).

@sleeping gecko thats so cool kyou mentioned the spirit of vincennes rendevous. thats where i first tried snuff. We call it battle krank in the german unit im in

I want to try Elmo’s. I bought a jar of snuff from Smiths in the Charing Cross Rd years ago. I’ve never been able to get anything like it. It might just be tonka…love it or hate or love it and hate it the same time.

@gandalf: Sorry for the delay in replying to you. I hadn’t read this thread in a while. When neuroscientists talk about “only using 10%” of the brain, they are speaking merely of the portion of human brain that processes rational thought, or at least what most people consider rational thought. It’s part of the conceit we all have that we are somehow superior to other animals, simply because we have the capacity to occasionally think rationally. But we delude ourselves into thinking we are much more rational than we truly are. Most of the brain is given over to memory, emotion, and animal instinct. In reality, we are little more than talking monkeys with delusions of grandeur.

You may be a monkey, but I’m sure not.

I’m no monkey either, but I’m definitely an ape. Back in England, I used to have pet snakes. Snakes only have the instinct part of the brain (in fact, it is sometimes referred to as the ‘reptile brain’) It’s fascinating to observe an animal that lives purely on instinct, with no capacity for reason or emotion. It’s also fascinating to observe how competent this type of brain can be- snakes have some very sophisticated behavior patterns, and it’s easy to fool yourself into believing that they think and feel. We also have ‘reptile brains’ with ‘mammal brains’ stacked on top, and it’s wise to remember this. Back on topic, I have never experienced it with snuff unfortunately, but I have definitely experienced smell driven memories. I smelled a smell a few weeks ago, and it drove me nuts all day until I finally placed it- my first teacher’s perfume. I say I’ve never experienced it with snuff, but that’s not strictly true; SP reminds me of something, but I just can’t quite put my finger on it. Maybe it will come to me on a flash one of these days.

@Mark W: Denial is the first symptom of delusion.

@doctorbeat, SP reminds me of Earl Grey tea since they are both flavored with bergamot. Could that be it?

Everytime I take a snuff of SD raspberry or Ozona Raspberry it takes me directly back to the first time I snuffed. I have always noticed scent being a very powerful memory tool. Pipensnusnsnuff indeed.

Mod note: edited to remove religious proselytizing. Please no discussions of religion here.

Like @Mark W , I recently had a pinch from a new tin of Toques Original. It was the first snuff I had ever tried, about 3 or 4 yrs ago, and I hadn’t had that particular snuff since then. The smell totally brought me back to that cold winter night when I curiously opened my first package of snuff, had a toot, and walked with the wife to the ice castle at my village’s winter carnival, enjoying the scent and my newly found method of enjoying tobacco…good times I even got my wife to try a little bit of McC O&G that night, but it was her first and last time…hahah

@Sloth  Sorry about the delay, haven’t been online in a while.

At the time of that post, I had about 5g left, that’s the main reason I said the first 20g.

Also, with about 3g left, I mixed in a bunch of Bruton in an attempt to stretch what was left until I could order some more.  Not too bad.  The Bruton has little enough flavor that the HDT came through rather well, but it wasn’t as strong (of course), flavor wise.  The mixing did not make it significantly more difficult to snuff, but it was a little easier to oversnuff (you could say the HDT toned down the Bruton in that regard).

Slightly off topic, but has anyone else noticed a hightened awareness of smells? Since I started taking snuff (quite recently I must add), I’ve been much more aware of what a smelly world we live in, and how much better snuff makes it!

@Talljim:  Yes, I’ve noticed that too.  It’s more than just the restored sense of smell that you get when you are no longer wreathed in cigarette smoke.  I first noticed an increased awareness of all scents, pleasant or unpleasant, a few months after taking up snuff.  Could be explained by entrainment – the brain remains much more aware of stimuli that are consistently reinforced.

@Talljim Now that I don’t smoke as much, I can tell when my friends have just had a cigarette. Never fully realised how much my clothes stunk from smoking.

There is nothing quite like going on a walk in the evening when it’s cold out, and having a few pinches of snuff. Makes the autumn air seem that much more crisp. 

@dokotas I agree, I love a pinch of something rich like F&T’s Santo Domingo or Princes before taking the dogs on an evening stroll.

Santo Domingo is great on a walk in the woods. Try it sometime.

F&T French Carrotte reminds me of my long gone aunt’s perfume. F&T Kendall Brown remind me of the Old Spice my father used to bathe in.

Also, perhaps slightly off-topic, this is one of my favorite silly little things to do occasionaly. When at a shop that sells essential oils, it’s good to see if they have a (for lack of a better term) scent testing station like where they have a bunch of the little bottles without seals. So you can just stand there and sniff one after another after another, and wouldn’t you know it I usually get at least a mild sense memory, or mild deja vu type experience. And it’s free…

Toque Absinth reminds me of my Godmothers pitzel cookies she would bake at Christmas.