i will not talk about snuff making but the scents you use. Mine favourite at the moment is 1x vanilla (base note) 2x rose (middle note) and 1x rum (top note) What are yours?

my favorite scents are bergamot, tangerine, and citrus flower

Tonka, fig, licorice root, vanilla bean, nutmeg, coriander, woodruff, honey, Perique juice, and rum are a few off the top of my head. Lately a snuff made with a mixture of tobaccos including some fire cured laced with Perique juice topped with a tonka bean has finally matured into something very special.

I like spearmint & honey. I am working on trying orange & lime

rose, jasmin and some citrus. Rose and jasmin have gone and something like sweat like raspberry with a hint of citrus came.

Inspired by “Behind The Bow Windows” description of Asthoroth I have created a mix of Penzanze and WOS Jasmine. My first thoughts are “outstanding”, “superb”, and “amazing”. I am surprised at how much the character of the Latakia has changed with such a simple addition of scent. I was doubtful that I would ever finish my small tin of Jasmine but now certain I will not have enough.Considering how wonderful Jasmine works with Latakia I would imagine other powerful florals like Rose or Violet, perhaps even Neroli would make a good companion for Latakia. I have also been pondering making a Latakia scented snuff. This would be a smoke particle free snuff scented with mastic essential oil or mastic gum. Myrtle and stone pine essential oils may also be involved as a scent ingredient at 4% each with mastic covering 90% the remainder should be cypress. I believe the mastic alone will be enough but this remains to be seen. This idea was brought about by reading threads at Fairtradetobacco regarding Latakia and the woods it is fired with. This recipe would be for Syrian Latakia. The Cyprian Latakia also has carob and oak involved as well. Though the main difference between the two is the special fermentation after smoke curing that the Syrian Latakia goes through that the Cyprian does not.

how do you disolve mastic?

@linguist As far as I know, resins like that require some sort of solvent like alcohol. I use rubbing alcohol to dissolve frankincense, myrrh or copal.

urk, doesn’t rubbing alcohol have a nausea-inducing agent added to it???

If one is using mastic essential oil the dissolving has already been done.

I would want that it give me a mastic headache. @Mouse using isopropyl alcohol triggers cancer cell to activate. SO all the hand sanitize-rs and the wipes at the super market for the cart handles and rubbing alcohol will expose people to risk worse then the common cold . Favorite scenting roasted coffee

Toque Apricot + HDT. Smokey, buttery…it reminds me of the pork rosts I used to smoke with apricot wood we trimmed the year before. It and sugar-maple always gave such a mellow flavor if the smoke was kept cool. It’s the only kind of smoking I refuse to give up.

I think the mastic gum can simply be used whole. Put a piece in a tin with some snuff and wait for the scent to transfer. I do not have any and it may be some time before I do so perhaps you @linguist would like to be the first to experiment.

mastic gum is sold almost everywhere here. I will try. I want to ask you a question about the safety of the scents. You know they are synthetic and diluted to safety limits (4%-12%). Do you think they are safe to use whole day?

This discussion has got me interested in mastic as well. I read everything they have on it in wikipedia. Who knew its where “masticate” came from? I wish I knew about it when I was in Izmir years ago, I would have tried to visit the place the article mentions. Now i’m quite curious, but maybe my local co-op carries it. They were able to get me tonka beans and most other odd things I thiink of. Is it’s flavor like incense? Or like pine?

Just to be clear, the percentages I discussed were percentages of the total scenting “liquid”. This mixed scented “liquid” would then be used to scent the tobacco. @Xander Mastic is said to have a resinous type of scent. I suspect it may have enough pineyness to it to be able to forsake the other scents for a Latakia type scent. I personally do not know. @linguist Generally speaking most essential oils are risky to have in direct contact with the skin, but some are quite safe. The indirect method of scenting is recommended where only the scent components are transferred as opposed to the chemical compounds in their entirety. Fresh mastic I believe is safe enough, after all it has been consumed orally for centuries.

I’d never heard of mastic before so I googled it. It gave me the idea to maybe give pine gum a try. I just have to walk into my back yard to get some. I can see the possibility of it being overpowering but it might work out if done lightly. Now I have to add a plain snuff to my shopping cart.

mastic smells like plain chewing gum but stronger of course. The safety i am talking about is for the loungs not for the skin so i think there is no problem because the snuffs i made are the most easiest ones on my nose. I livd in Cappadocia in Turkey and i am looking for tonka beans but i couldn’t find any. Xander you were in Izmir maybe you heard of Altin Damla (golden drop) fragrance which was invented in Izmir on 1920. mostly known and sold as cologne because of the cheaper price than its essential oil. Now i use it for snuff scenting as well as i use it as my daily parfume.

@linguist I hadn’t heard of Altin Damla, but I will look into it. Its been about 20 years since I was over there and I did not have the same interests then as I do now. Tonka beans I don’t think you will find them easily, but you can order some from here: http://www.mountainroseherbs.com/ I assume they will ship to Turkey. Maybe you will find a closer place in Europe or somewhere.

Scenting may become important if the law makers decide you can’t buy scented tobacco. While it is available I will support the manufactures. Making my own has it satisfaction. but snuff is inexpensive I don’t plan on getting in business. I prefer natural scenting over synthetic by osmosis. Fresh fruit rinds, fresh roasted coffee beans,roasted nuts, liquid smoke , liquor, Altoids, If it give off a scent I enjoy I can use it to scent snuff and or hydrate at the same time.

^^ which is why I recommend rehydrating dry tonka beans first. When you put a juicy bean in your box you transfer both its scent and moisture to the snuff.

Scenting may become important if the law makers decide you can’t buy scented tobacco. While it is available I will support the manufactures. Making my own has it satisfaction. but snuff is inexpensive I don’t plan on getting in business. I prefer natural scenting over synthetic by osmosis. Fresh fruit rinds, fresh roasted coffee beans,roasted nuts, liquid smoke , liquor, Altoids, If it give off a scent I enjoy I can use it to scent snuff and or hydrate at the same time.

I agree. Snuff is cheaper than my homemade snuffs but ordering them makes me stressed sometimes because of the customs regulations. Anyway i grind and scent them as a hobby beside the commercial snuff consumption.

my last snuff has just matured. Linguist’ peach. Wonderful single scented snuff. A friend of mine will send me some pure fragrance: sandalwood chedar pinus vetiver melon banana raspberry and artificial tonka comaroun (something like that) i will try them share the results here.

I have been experimenting with american scotches but haven’t thought about using oils. I think it would develop into a whole different process of drying without losing anything. I do think that experimenting gives you a better blend. I also haven’t seen a list of ingredients on flavored snuff to say if they are natural or not. Does make me wonder

only Toque claims that they use only natural flavors i think. Of course every manufacturer has used only naturel ingredients before the synthetic scents were invented in 1888.

I would almost think that artificial flavors would have you absorbing something not so… I’m searching for the right word because I do not want to say its bad because I honestly would not know. I do know from my experience so far that natural ingredients allow you to collect some of the benefits they provide

@linguist I feel for you ,customs are an annoyance. One time I had got some 80 + year old cigarettes that were in original tins of fifty and they opened one tin. I was steaming mad but there is no fighting with them, So I smoked them and share with my friends I am half tempted to open the last tin they were outstandingly good. I may try my hand at home grown rustica ,this coming season and thinking of spray curing with Italian dark roasted coffee while the plants are hanging. And separating stems and leaf stock then toasting before grinding then mix and sit for a long fermenting period

When I was a kid I used to buy Spruce Gum to chew, haven’t seen it in decades.

i received the samples and tried them last week. Parchuli is wonderful. Also cedarwood sandalwood and vetiver are awesome. Pinus is like de kralinsge A/P i feel like i am in a pine forest. Fruity once smell lighter but i can not dedect any banana, melon or raspberry. I mixed the snuffs which i don’t like altogather added some water and re-dried in microwave oven. Most of the scent has gone. I will use it after i scent it with other oils.

i found this on internet: Chemical content It contains 3.5 g tobacco, making up 63% of its weight, 19% is moisture, 11% paraffin as moisturiser, 4% potassium carbonate to regulate pH, and 3% flavour. And below link you can see at the bottom of the page some european snuff contents. smokeless.org.nz/nasalsnuff_analyses.htm

today i bought one pound/0,5kilogram loose tobacco. I dried and ground it. This time i only added natural scent: 100% pure natural rose water. It has only 1% natural rose oil. But the scent of the snuff is wonderful. This encouraged me to use other kind of natural waters like eucalyptus, lavender and some others which i saw at the attar shop.

thanks to snuffhouse for the idea of pentyhouse sieve! I gained lots of time. It is very fresh at the moment but tested it. The smell is very light but it is absolutely there. Sweety, delicious.

Interesting mix

i so want to try a pine snuff now. as well as the desire for amaretto/Jack daniels/coke (toque bourbon/almond dont cut it, havent tried coke) that led me to this thread. would i be able to get 25g tins of natural snuff and add a few drops of the ingredients i want and leave them awhile? im expecting amaretto/coke to be too sticky. any ideas?

@Firestarter0 Isn’t amaretto scent like having a almond/cherry mix?

id say similar, more almond, but sweetened. i have never scented a snuff before, but the lack of flavours i really want (that are pulled off well enough/how i want them) makes me want to try it.

i want to eat my snuffs I make my snuff with distiled rose water around 50% then cook it in microwave. I stir it in mortar with pastel and cook/stir cook/stir until the moisture lwvel decreases. Dr. Oetker aromas are awesome. I add a few drops stir again and finally dry tobacco powder. Mixture is very good and edible.

i made a curry snuff. Nice burn and the scent is awesome when mixed with tobacco.

can you use after shave to scent with

@jeffcraft1 I don’t see why not. I’m sure some will proclaim it to be a bad idea given non food grade items being used in aftershave. I’m not really hung up on that. Virtually all countries have proclaimed Tonka to be non-food safe. Also, I don’t know many people who eat geraniums and other intersting non foodstuffs even though many are included in F&T recipies. Heck, there are some F&T recipes that ARE aftershaves (I’m looking at you Kendal Brown).

If you are going to use something like an aftershave I would not apply it directly.

I’ve tried a few snuffs that remind me of a certain cologne and have had the same idea. 

Still raving about tonka beens. I use dry unpeeled beens (for scenting only). I put one in a small tin full of dark Gekachelter Virginie earlier today.
Some drops of rose hydrolate is another easy way to add subtle scent and moisturise your old dried-up snuffs or blends.
Another straightforward dual-purpose method I had tried was orange zest method. This works really fast for flavouring and moisturising coarse snuff. I revived some bone-dry Icelandic neftobak in just two hours by simply spreading it over the large piece of orange peel (the soft side up). For extra flavour mix the coarse snuff with chopped zest, leave it for an hour or two, then discard the zest. In case of overmoisturising just add some dry snuff and mix properly.

I try to include my recipes in the “what’s in your nose?” thread, but I found that if you want to combine snuff scents, the best way to do it is to put it through a fine steel sieve/mesh. Measure it out into the sieve with a container underneath, and just push it through with a metal spoon. If one of your snuffs is coarse and one is fine, putting it through the sieve with even things out while also blending scents very evenly, but I guess this will only work if you like fine/medium grind snuffs.

Any tips to make chocolate flavored snuff from plain dry tobacco snuffs?

Any tips to make chocolate flavored snuff from plain dry tobacco snuffs?

maybe some kind of chocolate liquor or extract ? i have chocamine which is a coca extract (works like coffeine a bit but a tablespoon can be deadly just like caffeine) the chocamine still has a lot of cocoa smell and taste to it but i wouldnt really recommend that without any further research.

chocolate liquor is concentrated liquid chocolate which would need to be dehydrated somehow.
there are some tricks to boost chocolate aroma like potassium carbonate (already in most snuffs) and piperine (found in peppers)

would it be possible to take a perfume and douse it onto some kind of mesh cloth, keeping it out of direct contact in a closed tin with a plain snuff and effectively scent it?  I’d absolutely love a snuff that smelled like Shalimar perfume has notes of bergamot, lemon, iris, jasmine, rose, patchouli, vetiver, opopanax, tonka bean, frankincense, sandalwood, musk, civet, ambergris, leather and vanilla.  

You can douse something and tape it to the inside of the lid. Lots of things can work: blotter paper, cotton, a cigarette filter, even a paper towel. Open the tin and stir things around occasionally, and you’ll be set.

I used DHOLAKIA ROSE as a flavoring agent for my breakfast this morning, I had Janta Naswar’s Indian Rustica. I don’t know what ratio becouse I used two homemade spoons, for the Indian Rustica a larger wooden spoon that’s still smaller than a table utensil, imagine a dolls spoon. And a small copper spoon, for the rose snuff. I cold forged and filed it from a 0 AWG solid copper wire.

I could see used pantyhose adding a scent of their own, hopefully most ppls use the new ones. I suppose it could sieve different sizes depending on how tight it is stretched. I bet those frames used to stretch fabric for embroidery could be used as a pantyhose sieve.

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thanks to pentyhouse sieve! I gained lots of time. It is very fresh at the moment but tested it. The smell is very light but it is absolutely there. Sweety, delicious.
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Yikes, sweaty and delicious, eh?