You know what is offensive is this constant brown stuff running out of my nose. How do you guys do it? I am trying to use nasal only to quit dipping but my nose is runny and always raw from wiping it
It gets better with time, Kincaidc. Your nose will get used to the snuff and will run less, and toughen up and not be so raw, or mine did. Using a soft hankie or even nice tissues is also preferable to, say, TP or paper towels, as they aren’t as rough on the nose. Edit: with the risk of being put on the out of context quote page, I will also mention to blow when you feel you must.
@kincaidc try a different snuff (seriously) I have found some make me run like crazy (usually strong moist coarse ones) where drier finer ones are more likely to leave my nose quite dry. Some people intentionally use this to adjust so stuff doesn’t just sit up there being too dry or being too runny (they’ll use a bit of one followed by the other to get a desired level)
This strikes me as similar to pipe tobacco preferences; when I started out I liked the Dutch/Danish-style “candy” smelling tobaccos, then graduated to the stronger-smelling English and Balkan types like Three Nuns and Balkan Sobranie (of which my dad always compares the latter to ‘a Balkan woman’s armpits,’ but he absolutely LOVES the stuff). Kind of like when you were a kid, if you could get away with eating sweets and cakes all day, you would; but as you get older, you begin craving “good” food, even food which strikes an untutored palate as being gross (like Stilton cheese, the Gods’ greatest gift to all cheese lovers). I, too, appreciate the “bucolic” smell of such snuffs as Five Photo Raja #5, and the ammonia-smell of NTSU and Taxi. There is a related phenomenon, which I thought the thread was about before reading it: the fact that, in snuff as well as in pipe tobacco, there are some tobaccos which smell foul until actually used. There are pipe tobaccos that smell hideous until you actually light up, and there are snuffs which smell hideous until you actually snuff them. I got a sample in a smashbox from Tom (at NicotineRush) awhile back and it smelled like fish. Fish! And for the longest time I thought, “eeww, fish snuff!” and didn’t try it. But one day, feeling bold, I decided to snuff some; and it was absolutely wonderful in the nose. I have to look at my emails and see what that snuff was, but it is amazing.
wilsons vanilla has a terrible tin aroma wonderfull nose smell however. To a less extent toque vanilla has a not so nice tin aroma.