I have both of them in bulk 500/250g drums and the classic 25g tins. They are not the same, they are clearly different. I am taking these snuffs almost daily for more than 6 months now, but apart from that, even non snuff takers can differentiate them by the smell only, (tried the blindfold testing with some), so theres no doubt about this. I can only imagine somebody mistaken about them if the snuffs would be very stale, dry or mold infested beyond recognition.
One short note aside, the word rape (pronounced hape) is still widely used for a sacred medicine in numerous indigineous cultures in the amazonian basin, and it usually is a wild tobacco base mixed with various wood/leaves/flowers ashes. Widely used in Brasil but I have also seen (and taken) it in Peru, Colombia, Ecuador. Not for the faint of heart, though…
For example here is a recent movie with many scenes of rape being blown up the nose ( sec 00:26 in this trailer):
Rustica with it’s harmine and harmaline alkaloids is used as a catalist for some types of phsycotropic ingredients I take it. So would yopo be called a rape’? Or is it only snuff with a tobacco base?
@elim I too love SWS Aged Border Rapee and have had my plastic tub arrive dry also on a few occasions. Still nice either way though I figured when its dry I dont have to store it in the fridge
@nicmizer I wouldnt classify Black Magic as a Rapee to me its more like a Kendal Brown of sorts.
@Hitsuzen I never knew this, my understanding that demi gros simply translated to wholesale price or wholesale trade (in french). Though it does make more sense that Gros is referring to the grind of the snuff in the way it is worded.
