Hello all ! As I was browing through many reviews of many snuffs out there, I noticed that many refer to the snuff as “tasting” , or being “flavoured”. When we use snuff, we get a scent that we smell. Could someone clarify this ? Thanks !

I use both, they’re pretty much the same in describing the experience in using snuff.

"_ Can you taste by smelling? _

Your sense of smell is very closely related to your sense of taste.

To see how this works, think of a chocolate ice cream cone at your lips. You taste the sweetness of the chocolate with the taste buds at the tip of your tongue. But the smell of the chocolate is a job for your nose. The chocolate releases tiny particles of vapor into the air and they reach the nerve cells inside your nose.

So while your tongue is telling your brain that you’re eating something sweet, the nerve cells in your nose are also reporting to your brain that it’s something chocolate. Your brain puts this information together and tells you it’s chocolate ice cream.

If you were blindfolded and your nose stopped up so you couldn’t smell, you would have trouble identifying different foods just by taste. This has been proven with apples and potatoes, as well as with coffee and red wine, when they are both at the same temperature.

This is also why when you have a cold and mucus blocks your nasal passages, air cannot carry smells to your brain. So, it is almost impossible for you to taste food."

Your tongue can only really taste four things sweet, salty, sour and bitter which are sugars, salts, acids and bases respectfuly. All other “taste” happens in the nose.

Generally I think of smelling as something outside my nose and tasting as the change that happens once its inside.

Yes, contact matters. And you don’t get the burn from the scent itself.

This brings up a wonderful world to explore, namely the pairing of snuffs with: drinks, cigars, pipe tobaccos etc.

Taste and smell are twins who work on the same job, if either is missing you get a different experience. Both intertwined, both essential. 

Haven’t you noticed that sometimes when your nose is stuffed you can still “taste” your snuff?
I like both. 

I tend to use the word scent or smell when describing snuff. It’s not fair to ignore an entire sense and just refer to everything as flavour. You have a nose, it detects scents, your tongue detects flavour.   I understand the two are intimately connected but I like to use the word scent or smell when describing snuff aromas.

although I have been using snuff for 40 years I never put up reviews because that would mislead others. During a interrogation in the military they shot a blank cartridge into my nose and after that my smell sense was affected. So what’s nice for me might not agree with other peoples noses. I might be missing out on some fine sensations during snuffing but hey I still enjoy it.