I’ve been snuffing Toque T & M today and I think it’s a wonderful toast, but I can’t detect any orange at all. No matter how hard I try, I get no marmalade whatsoever. It smells exactly like the Natural Toast. Should the orange aroma be pronounced? Is my nose broken? Could this be a case of a mislabeled tin?
I really like T&M. The orange should be obviouse without being candy-ish
I got a 10g tin of T&M that was open in the bag. The bag contained all the snuff, but it seemed to be a plain toast also. Maybe exposure to the air dissipates the orange scent.
I have a 25g tin of it and the orange isn’t real strong but its there.
I found the orange to be very pronounced. It was very different from my Toque Natural Toast. On the other hand, I got a tin of Grapefruit awhile back in which I had trouble detecting the Grapefruit.
Those citrus scents fade with aging and exposure to air. Such is the cost of natural scentings. Get a fresh tin.
I think it’s more an orange blossom scent, rather than orange juice or zest scent. I light bouquet…(did I say THAT !). Probably the same stuff that they use in St. Clements.
Yeah its very slight, at least in the tin I have of it. Its there but you have to really look for it.
so it’s orange?? Sounds good then.
Thanks for your comments. My tin must have been from older stock.
I think I’ve discovered exactly how to ‘re-orange’ a tin of toast and marmalade. I have a little bottle of Loranne Gormet Orange Oil, natural, Contents: Natural Orange Oil. (this stuff is extremely potent – use caution!) I have approximately 1/2 a 25g tin of Toque Toast and Marmalade that has become less orange-y so I took my small flat-head screwdriver I sometimes use as an alternate sniffing tool (its really small, good for really difficult snuffs like Dholakia White or I just really want a minuscule sniff of anything else) and I made sure it was clear of any snuff, dipped its tip right in the little tiny bottle of orange oil then dipped it in the Toque tin and stirred around a while, making sure to knock all the snuff back in the tin and stirring some more, then I closed the tin up and gave it a few good shakes and I’m going to leave it sit a while, it already seems to have helped a lot though. This orange oil smells so exactly like the orange that is in the T&M and St Clements that I have to wonder if this might even be the very exact natural flavoring that Roderick uses for it.
I have several 25gm tins of Roderick’s flavored toasts, all with faded scents yet quite distinguishable from one another. The Toast and Marmalade is pale and sharp while the Bourbon is dark brown and smooth. The Whiskey Honey is medium brown and still sweet with honey that I don’t think will ever fade. The fourth tin in this special set which I keep in a beautiful wood box is the Spanish Gem. Fade as they will, I will not be messing with these masterpieces but for a little pinch now and again. I see this set lasting forever unless I start favoring toasts a little more.
Also, Toque snuffs are notoriously delicate because Roderick uses 100% natural ingredients. I find that unless I decant the bulk and just fill a snuff box on a daily basis that the aroma goes less and less with repeated opening of the tin.
I think the snuff that actually benefits from a little scent degrading is Lime Toast. If it fades a little, it taste superb!
Lime Toast tastes like green lifesavers.
I’m fortunate to have 4 citrus trees in my back yard ( 2 orange, 1 grapefruit, 1 tangerine) which are just now starting to bloom. So I can take a blossom, and stick it into a snuff tin to add a little extra to any snuff having a citrus note. These trees smell so good when in bloom, I often just position my hammock between two of them in the evening and drift off into olfactory nirvana.
that sounds wonderfull to me.
Although blossom and zest are two different things.
I, too, feel that the Lime Toast benefits from some airing. Didn’t like it that much at first, but now it’s growing on me. Same thing happened with Pomegranate.
I wanted to like this one for I heard great things about T&M. At first it didn’t seem too bad, rather a mix of natural/candy orange aroma. After spending a couple of days with this, I decided I just couldn’t get myself to enjoy it. Lime Toast is very good, but this flavor isn’t in the same league. Sadly, I won’t be buying this again. Good try though.