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.
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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.