I’ve got a feeling I may be on my own here but I get no coffee scent at all with this. I got a tin yesterday and gave it a try expecting great things, having read various reviews. Not sure what smell I’m getting but it reminds me of a very sweet pipe tobacco that I can’t remember the name of. It’s not that the scent is unpleasant, just missing the vital coffee.
not on your own. i wasnt usually a fan of sweeter pipe tobaccos, so might explain why i cant stand the smell of sg coffee. though i have to ask, did you get tapbox or 25g tin?
25g tin. I keep on trying it but the more I try the less I like it.
it was the same for me, i was really looking forward to a coffee scent, it was quite a letdown.
In SG Black Coffee I feel rather plastic or silicon than coffee.
Must be a bad batch out there. Mine are about a year old and have a rich dark coffee scent. What I’ve had is the closest to cofee beans scent I’ve found.
In SG Black Coffee I feel rather plastic or silicon than coffee.
yes! i get that in there too!
I called My Smoking Shop where I got it from, they said send it back and they will replace it from a new box. Great customer service from them, couldn’t have been more helpful.
@Wanderer let us know if its any better. mine isnt worth sending back since it was a freebie anyway.
@Firestarter0 Ok mate, I will.
I just got some on my last order. I’m an avid pipe smoker as well as a newbie snuff taker, and when I opened the tin, I didn’t smell coffee, I smelled Latakia! Latakia is the wood-smoked tobacco used in english blends, to simplify things. Now, I do smell a bit of coffee in there, but I still mainly smell latakia. Not bad, but it’s not my preferred pipe tobacco “genre”, and I was really hoping for strong, black coffee instead.
@WWhermit I got no Latakia smell in there. The pipe tobacco it reminded me of was Peter Stokkebye Kentucky Nougat. Amazing how different people get so many different scents from the same product.
i didnt get latakia, latakia was a favourite of mine when i smoked the pipe. (reminds me, i should dig it out, maybe sell it for a small sum).
A lot of the SG rappee styles have a strong smokey character to them. Its more pronounced in the plain ones such as London Brown, Black Rappee and Scotch Black, but its definitely present in Coffee and many of the other “Dark” snuffs such as Elmo’s Reserve. I’m not sure how close it comes to Latakia. I never got the plastic scent some of you guys are talking about, but a few SG’s (and Jaxons) always left me with something of a medicinal scent (and I don’t mean menthol), but maybe we’re talking about the same thing.
i do remember a similar bad scent in jaxons. maybe we are talking about the same thing.
Yes, Black coffee is awful; I recommend everyone should send theirs to me,and I will dispose of it properly >:)
I just got some on my last order. I’m an avid pipe smoker as well as a newbie snuff taker, and when I opened the tin, I didn’t smell coffee, I smelled Latakia! Latakia is the wood-smoked tobacco used in english blends, to simplify things. Now, I do smell a bit of coffee in there, but I still mainly smell latakia. Not bad, but it’s not my preferred pipe tobacco “genre”, and I was really hoping for strong, black coffee instead.
Interesting–I always wondered what was in the rest of the aroma. My feeling with most coffee snuffs is that they recreate the scent rather than the taste of coffee, if that makes any sense.
I’m eking out my last few pinches of Black Coffee - my 10g tapbox is almost empty and has been fabulous throughout, full of delicious coffee scent! SnuffStore haven’t had any for months, so I’ve had to order Fubar Black Joe (Cafe 11 and Toque Espresso both being out of stock too), but I’ll be getting more S&G as soon as I can.
To me it is the ONLY coffee flavored snuff I have tried that really smells/tastes like coffee. Absolutely nothing sweet, just black coffee. Cafe 11 smells/tastes of coffee with cream and top shelf liquor, WOW Coffee bite tastes of coffee with cream and sugar and all of the others taste very similar, but cannot define what it is. I have drunk thousands of pots of coffee of all kinds and hang out in coffee shops as I can so have some idea of what coffee is/should smell/taste like and most suposedly coffee flavored snuffs are like way off base for me. Of course, we are all different.
@stogie it may be that heat is what is missing. You are welcome to test this theory, just don’t hurt yourself. “caution contents of pinch may be hot!”