When you take it, see if you don’t pick up the smell those sickening sweet white flowers that bloom in the spring. It takes me back to campouts when I was a kid. Luckily its subtle, or my experience would be the opposite. If that scent was strong, I would not enjoy it at all…
Mark
I still don’t detect the floral, but I’ll make it my first snuff tomorrow so I have a fresher nose for it. If this is the flower I’m thinking of, I’m probably better off not smelling it, because I do like the snuff.
Well, don’t try too hard then. We don’t want to ruin it! :-)
Mark
I have a tin of this snuff, from the 1970’s. The tuberose scent is barely there, but it’s there. Its sweet, but not too sweet, and it has a very nice texture and throat drip. I like it and wish I could get the fresh stuff where I live. But no stores carry it this far west(Colorado).
I bought a box of it last time I was visiting my in laws down south, it’s the only sweet I really like, even though I normally use it as a mixer it’s great on it’s own too. The sugar content is toned down and it seems like a good portion of the sweet is from the scent itself, not just added sugars. Mine also does not list sweet anywhere on the box, just tube rose scotch snuff. While in the store I got some other sweets that seem to be nothing more than sweet. Even railroad mills sweet is really just a mono sweet, I was hoping for something more like their plain masterpiece, but it’s just bland and sugar. Tube rose on the other hand has a more mature, well thought out composition imo.
I was unfair to RR sweet, I spent the morning waiting for the truck to warm up sniffing 10 degree f RR sweet and decided I was hasty in that last remark about it bring bland. It’s pretty nice, I’ll get another box of it next time I’m down south. So sorry Helme!
So it’s been 5 days since I made that comment and the can is at the halfway mark I just noticed. Clearly I was unfair with that bland comment above, disregard it, apparently I really like this.
I just got some RR and a few other American scotches that are otherwise impossible for me to get without using eBay. Looking forward to trying them all, as the only one I have any experience with thus far is Honey Bee.
Tube Rose is great. Slightly sweet, slightly smoky. Pretty decent tobacco. It’s possible to do a lot of this without realizing it
@Tobe i just took a pinch of tube rose and I was very surprised in a good way. It’s a mild smokey , light sweet sent with a flower sent witch is very much like caramel. Nice !