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.
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@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.