I’ve only been snuffing for around a month and I wasn’t a tobacco consumer prior to discovering the delicious stuff (I haven’t smoked cigarettes for many years and though I used to mix tobacco with my herbs I’ve found an alternative and cut that out two years ago). I’m mindful not to build up a strong nicotine addiction and I seem to be doing very well - I typically snuff late in the evening and some nights not at all. I’ve noticed something quite fascinating and very cunning on the part of my brain. Yes, my brain, see every now and then I will ‘smell’ one of my favourite snuffs even though it’s not there. It’s difficult to describe the experience because I quickly realise that it’s just a trick of the mind but it’s really quite uncanny! If one tries to recall a scent, it can only be partially imagined but when this occurs it’s the full scent just…hollow, if you will. Clearly this is my brain saying “hey, don’t you fancy a pinch of HD Toast right now?” and I find it amusing that the brain is capable of doing this. It’s quite tantalising when it does this but I still don’t give in because I don’t like being…led by the nose. I apologise, that was not planned - that’s another thing the brain does, it makes puns when you’re stringing sentences together. Anyhow, has anybody else experienced this? It’s really quite cheeky. -Ric
Also your sense of smell is highily neurological it takes a lot of short cuts. Fills in a lot of gaps. It’s possible some other scent has enough similar aspects to your favorite snuff that your brain says hey must be that snuff.
Sometimes I get a scent (out of “nowhere”) that’s a cross of mellow peppermint and a somehow not unpleasant ammonia. Then again I’ve had auditory illusions back in the day… 
it could be a case of bits of snuff left in your nose somewhere. ive noticed long after a scent has gone, if i blow my nose (or it gets disturbed in any way) i often get some snuff aroma back. also, agree with bob.
rose chocolate do I need to say more. once was enough
Hmm. It’s possible, I have been sitting at my desk every time it’s happened. It really does feel imagined though, it’s different to the actual sensing of a smell but unfortunately I can’t translate the difference into words - I can’t even accurately recall the experience now either. By the way bob, your post seemed to suggest that something before it was missing. Perhaps you were just following on from my post though.
Hulucinations are Much_ more common, but no one wants to like say they have them. @runningbird , this happens to me with some frequency when I have snuff on the brain. I have learned that because I’m blind in one eye, hallucinations are way more likely to happen. I paid attention and noticed they are more likely to happen when I’m concentraiting very little. Also, it can sometimes if not often be better than the actual snuff smell. Too bad you can’t command it to happen.
This is what addiction smells like!
'Tis not too uncommon to light a ciggie and smell “something different” that’s definitely not coming from the ciggie…
All last week everytime I let the Dog out and the cold air hit me I would think someone in the neighborhood had a fire going. I realized it was the Toque Bourbon I was using. since then I’ve noticed the cold air can bring back scents from what I had snuffed as much as a half hour ago.
It’s happened to me to. I assumed it was vestiges of snuff left in my nose (caught in nasal hair). Visual hallucinations are supposedly symptomatic of nothing (nothing being mental aberrations), sound is linked with schizophrenia. There is a rare but not singularly rare situation where other sensory inputs translate differently. One may see colors and hear them. Forgot the name of the condition. Or it could be simple association of another sensory input triggering the memory. Smell is the only “pure sense” in that it is the only one that does not travel through the amygdala (located in the brain stem) which is the first responder to stimuli. For example if one saw a rope on a wooded path the amygdala is most likely to release adrenalin in the belief you are seeing a snake. When the higher brain (the frontal lobes) kick in you realize it was not a rope. More than you ever wanted to know. But think of how much money you would save if you could just trigger the response at will (not the snake but smelling the snuff).
@asieg33 - the condition is called synasthesia, I think. I read somewhere that a fellow who can recite Pi to something like a million places sees all the numbers in his brain having different colours and textures and that’s how he remembers them.
Toffeenose - right you are. The other night I had done some F&T Morlaix followed immediately by a Wilson’s Lavender. I had an aroma of blue cheese. Could be illusion, delusion, or brain lesion but I am hoping that someone might know a combination that would give me the aroma of a Carr’s sweet wafer to enjoy with it. Actually grinding and snuffing a real wafer would probably lead to a massive sinus infection.
Amber? cashmere wood? Guaiac wood? …