Lately all my snuffs are not as strong smelling as they once were. Sometimes I don’t smell them at all. I can still smell everything else very effectively, just not my snuff collection. Any ideas as to what is happening with my nose?
I use the neti pot and saline spray pretty regularly, and I find no difference if I do or don’t.
How do you handle it?
Are you pinching from the tin? Or transfer to a snuff box?
Scent fatigue. That’s all. Just try diffrent snuffs then your usuals. Any smell that you smell regularly your nose becomes less sensitive too. This is why when you go to the ocean for the first hour or two it smells like fish then it just gets normal. It is just how scent works. You’ve smelled the snuff so regularly you nose does not think it is important to pick up the smell. This is why complex blends smell diffrent at the end of the day then the begining. Which is also why it happens so your nose can pick up other scents after determining that the stronger scent is normal and note important. This is a reason to rotate snuffs regularly. When this happens to me I leave the snuffs I’am using down for a day or two then start snuffing them again and it’s like they’re brand new.
thanks @bob that makes perfect sense. I was using mostly absinthe and camphor & mild. I am going to take your advice and move on to rose and lavender with some samuel gawith kendels in rotation.
*update* I just opened my WoS Rose and sniffed some. The intensity is way more prevalent than the others. Thanks again @bob!
glad to help. I’ve been there and takeing anatomy classes really helped me on this issue. 
I had to give some a rest too. I went SP crazy when I first started and they started smelling less distinct, and some even strange. It was almost two months before I could smell the bergamot goodness again.
Well one by one each snuff is regaining its strength. I just wanted to know how one starts up a rotation. I have heard people on here talking about their rotation, and I have no clue what that is. (this might be a dumb question)
just our standard snuff useage. Like what we semi regularly use
Like say you wake up with grunt. And mid day you like to do schmalzers. and then after dinner you have some toast. And right before bed you like a night cap like whisky and honey.It could be just 2, it could be 10.
its just basically using different snuffs throughout the day. The habit you have created for yourself.
I will usually have 3-5 snuffs I rotate in the day and every few days I will swap out even that and mix it up again. Snuff is wonderful for that because you can enjoy so many different kinds in one day.
Or you can have longer periods on certain snuffs. My rotation has four or five snuffs, any one of which I might use exclusively for weeks; it just means your favourites that you use in turn.
Thanks guys! Now I understand it. I am glad I can always count on this forum for answers.