Mine was gletcherprise.

Ozona President for me.

SG Black Rappee in 1982. Still one of my favorites

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v129/JSRupp/cokesnuff.jpg 1970 http://ermtony.pbworks.com/w/page/14871376/f/Levi\\_Garret\\_Snuff.jpg Later that same year

Hedges L260 sometime in the 70’s

It must have been Gletscher Prise, 2007

J&H Wilson S.P.No.1 some time around 1986 or 87.

Ozona President for me.

I believe it was Pöschl Red Bull once in high school then I had forgotten about snuff until I bought a box of Gletscher Prise about two and a half years ago and started snuffing.

Poschl Packard’s Club - I am one of those odd folks that actually LIKE their dispenser. Just saying…

don’t know specifically, some menthol white in a little tin back in 1967 that I bought in a head shop, oh and a raspberry tobacco one.

Dean Swift Jasmine back in 1982. Liked it then but can’t stand it now.

W.E. Garrett Scotch

Toque Quit and Abraxas Premium Club Coarse. I forget which one I tried first, but those two were my first purchase

SG B mentol

Maya (5g spin-tin in bottom right corner) Don’t remember the taste, since I snorted all of it probably past my sinuses and into the brain.

McChrystal’s O&G. Still one of my favorites.

Toque Vanilla

Some kind of schmalzler, likely from Bernard or Poschl, back in the late 70s, offered to me in a medieval-themed restaurant in Augsburg, Germany. There was a wooden snuff catapult that launches the tobacco up both nostrils. I thought it was pretty cool, though it was several decades before I took a serious interest in snuffing. The snuff machine: https://mrsnuff.com/product\\_info.php?products\\_id=1531

GH Cherry. found it delicious, even dried out. still like it.

Silver dollar blueberry

gallahers wit and wisdom

Count Murari was my very first snuff, done at the insistence of a friend and fellow pipe smoker with whom I worked in a tobacco shop at the time. It was also easily the most expensive snuff I have encountered, especially given that it was 7 dollars for 5 grams back in the early to mid 1980s. See the link below: http://www.snuffhouse.org/discussion/9080/count-murari-the-worlds-most-expensive-snuff#latest

Poschl - Gawith Apricot

I think it was Medicated No. 99 that my friend brought to a pub and forced me to try it.

SG Elmo’s Reserve, late last year =)

Far too many years ago to remember - it came from a colleague at work and I then went to F&T in the Haymarket and purchased a tin of Dr J R Justice. Coming back to snuff in 2012 I bought 4 tins of snuff locally and went through them in order - giving my nose a break in between. So it was Poschl Gawith Apricot, Toque SP Extra and Gawith English Rose. Unfortunately the fourth tin that was WoS Best Dark turned out to be rusted through so I never tried it.

I ordered a few tins I don’t remember which ones but one of them was F&T HDT and that is what made me fall in love with snuff

Mc chrystals s.snuff

Pöschls Gawith Apricot

Hedges L260 back in the 90’s

Navy Plain back in the late 80’s. Lasted 2 pinches, dumped the can. Next try was 2009. Toque Pomegranate. Still a favorite and I officially call that my first (real) snuff.

Royal George Oct 2010. Just decided this particular day I’d go and try to get some snuff. Went to local tobacconist, asked if he had some. He said yes and named a few WOS sorts. Picked royal george as it had an interesting name. Wasn’t too keen really. Didn’t stop me going back for rose and lemon toast though. The rest is history.

WE Garrett sweet

Brand new user here: First Snuff is Silver Dollar Cherry.

Dr. Rumney’s Mentholyptus in the those useless hinged half ounce tins. Around 1972. A few years later I went to Dean Swift Bezoar Fine Grind. A few years later it was G. Smith’s Cafe Royal and HDT.

I was gifted some SG Apricot to try by a friend on a pipe forum. I LOVED the stuff. That was then…I don’t much care for that particular snuff these days, but it was enough to get me to dive headfirst into a new rabbit hole!

W.E. Garrett scotch. It was like gunpowder, and I was hooked.

Levi Garrett, from the little brown bottle that Grandpa kept on the top shelf of the big kitchen cabinet, to keep is kids out of it! Grandpa’s “Sunday bottle:”, he chewed all week long, but before Church on Sunday he’d slip the little brown bottle into his pocket on the way out the door. Regards,

W.E. Garret Sweet and Ozona Raspberry… I think, it was 1996 I could be wrong about the Ozona brand, but I clearly remember the Sweet (though I thought it was Levi Garret, but must be remembering it wrong) and a Raspberry tap box.

Dr Rumney’s Metholyptus 1985. Bought it at the mall at age 14

W.E. Garrett sweet. Still trying to finish my first can.

Actually 2nd. Was Dr. Rumney’s +Plus. That is the one I first liked and found in fresh form from smoke shop in London. 1984.

1st snuff was some Blue Note pipe tobacco I ground up. That was about 3 years ago. Still have some and enjoy it along with the other home grounds. 1st commercial snuff was Hedges Menthol (still a favorite).

JHW SP No 1, firstly when conned into it about 8 years old by a babysitter’s boyfriend, then again two years ago when I first decided to give snuff a try after 20 years of smoking

Smith’s Cafe Royal (of sainted memory).

First ever was a pinch of my father’s Hedges Menthol which I sneaked out of his tin when I was a child. Years later, it was Smith’s Golden Cardinal, taken just outside their fantastic shop, that started my snuff career proper! I was euphoric, and never looked back!!

McChrystal’s ‘Jip’ It gave me ‘jip’ as well; there was a whole lot of sneezing from a much younger MisterPaul that first time!!! :))

Poschl Apricot

Dunhill Menthus Plus. I wish it was still available.

NTSU Snuff. I was fifteen years old then it spun my world around

First Gletscherprise about 3 years ago, Ozona Cherry and Pöschl Südfrucht soon after that. I still love Südfrucht.

Poeschel Gletscherprise

Mine was Ozona President

WoS Chilli Chocolate.Start snuffing about a year ago. Still regret it till this day.

Wilsons of Sharrow Natural.

Sugandha Sagar Rose and NB Madras

My very first snuff was back in 2007, home made cigar snuff with a small amount of cocoa. My first real snuff was a couple years later, McChrystal’s Lemon flavor.

Rooster, G’Day

Samuel Gawith-Kendal Brown Original!

Still in my top 3 list!

First ever Snuff was McChrystals OG, at around the age of 14, still one of my favorites.

silver dollar original 

that poschl/gawith apricot one…in a black tapbox

WoS Dynamite. 

F and T Bordeaux, 6 months ago.

J & H Wilson SP no 1 in the 80’s. I used it to simulate a cold to get out of school.

Bernard’s Double Fermented. Delici-osis.

W.E. Garrett  & Levi Garrett.  I

Ozona Raspberry.

McChrystals O&G from Dublin. 

silver bullet medicated. instantly got me hooked had my friend pick me up like a starter kit thing that had like 6 different flavors. I enjoy minty flavors or like menthol. I also liked blueberry a lot. I completely stopped smoking while I had these. But I moved to a new town and could no longer find a close enough place that has snuff in stock. so that sucked pretty psyched I found this website though.

Ozona president when I was 15. But recently, when i start snuffing more seriously amd quit smoking my first was “Santa Caterina Red”, italian sligtly mentolated snuff with a final hint of tobacco.

Good old American sweet scotch “Peach” back in the mid 80’s.

Ozona Cherry

Ozona President

Ozona english type

My very first was Peach Sweet Snuff, a finely ground toasty sweet American snuff (with not a hint of peach) that I found at a grocery store in Chapel Hill, NC. I made my first online order quickly thereafter–Ozona President, Packard’s Club, and Wilson’s Tom Buck, if memory serves. That was approximately 12 years ago and that’s when I caught the bug. I especially enjoyed the Packard’s Club, but it seems to have gone out of production. Funny enough, just two days ago I was back home in NC looking through some of my old things and I found that container of President snuff. Suffice to say that it had lost all of its flavor.

silver dollar blueberry or apricot i cant remember which i tried first…

My first was Toque Coke. I was really looking forward to trying it first cuz I heard it was suppose to fizz in your nose, that didn’t happen but I enjoyed the scent.

My introduction was through Scotches … Dental, Superior, Bruton and Garrett.

Unidentified. A pinch, offered to me by a classmate somewhere about 1996. He got a few pinches from another guy who crooked some from his father who had brought a tin back as a souvenir from abroad. I got intrigued and started making my own snuff from cigarettes on the very same day.

poeschl gletscher prise
i was 11 years old and and smoking cigs like every bad kid in the 90s
somebody got one out and i tried to find it pleasant then got one for myself but forgot about it in a drawer after a few bumps

the gletscher prise now only tastes feintly like the old one (for me at least) 
subjective the tabacco aroma was a lot more dominant and it was less sweet in character and i dont remember the menthol as strong

   Desperately trying to quit cigarettes  4 months ago I ground up some America Spirit RYO tobacco and started snuffing that. 

    It was rough and not powdered enough but that was my intro to the wacky world of snuff.

First experience with nicotine was making tea of Rustica in college for the nose, part of a spiritual thing at the time. Gave that up after a year. Some of the green bundles had flowers. Had the crazy thought of grinding and sniffing (first time ever insufflating)… can’t believe how long ago that was, I can picture the scene perfectly. I was very interested in south American indigenous history at the time. I had no clue nasal tobacco (which I had long since forgotten about) existed outside library books on the Amazon until relatively recently. Now I’m weenning myself off ecigs to snuff after 8 years of vape

No clue what it was it was definitely menthol 8-10 years ago

J and H Wilsons Top Mill No 1, in the late 1960s.

I bought Silver Dollar Raspberry and a tin of McChrystal’s Original and Genuine at the same time as my first snuffs.

Poschl Red Bull. And yesterday was the first snuff EVER. I am hooked.

@Feernot I started this hobby probably less than 45 days ago and already have tried that many snuffs HANG ON TIGHT it’s an awesome ride!

@ar47 anything you found in 45 days I should know about FIRST?!

McChrystals O&G still a firm favourite

I think mine was WoS Best SP. No wonder I fell in love with the stuff.

Ozona English type, then Ozona President and the Poschl GletscherPrise All bought in several tobacconists.
Then I ordered SWS Mull of oa and Lundy Foot and wow ! The first time is like walking in a field of tobacco feeling the sun on your skin especially when you stopped smoking before Very pleasant experience.

@Snufferdemedicis how’s the Mull of Oa and Lundy Foot? Been curious to try both of them. I really like SWS snuff, so I’m sure they won’t dissapoint. I really love Field of Junipers, I can live off that snuff.

Mull of oa is coarse grind with a scent of islay whysky like Laphroag very nice and relaxing.
Lundy foot is the opposite, a scent of tobacco and very light scent of vanilla or something nice very dry and energizing, stronger than Field of Junipers.
The most relaxing snuff I tested is SWS Latakia Blend very strong wildfire scent but if you suffer from insomnia it does the thing.

Ok so it was about 27 years back when I was doing group study at a buddy’s house. His dad was an ardent snuff user. He used to leave half-empty containers of umbrella brand snuff around the house. We used to study as hard as we could and the snuff helped me stay awake and fresh throughout! It was mighty stimulating. I was lucky to have the dark umbrella variety, it’s mellow, mid ground and mild, so easy to take. This later led me to the finer Madras type snuffs like the TAS.

Hedges L260 when i accidently got into a tub my Grandad had left lying around, had it on my eyes, hair and everywhere and still haunts me to this day :))

Forgot to mention I was about five years old at the time!

gallahers wit and wisdom early 1980s

 Poschl GletscherPrise was my first snuff, love that stuff.

Sam Gawith Cola.

Toque Quit

Mine was one of the sweet scotches. Don’t remember which one. Honey Bee, I think. It was ok.

Gawith Original (Poschl)

Poschl red bull was the first one I tried and lowenprise was the first one I ordered, they ended up being my favorite from poschl, I still often buy this combo since they’re both better for different situations.

Tube rose was my first, only 8 months ago. From there i tried several American snuffs that are available locally. Superior, square, navy sweet, society, and still my favorite dental scotch. 3 months ago I bought a pipe from someone on another forum and he threw in some snuff for me. Thors Hammer, McChrystals sunset, special M, and toqe coffee. All wonderfully to me. Few months after that I introduced a friend to snuff. He immediately wanted to order some online so we did together. And here we are today…

Just over a year ago, late one night I raced to the nearest place selling snuff. I made my way through the crowd of tourists and low lying fog, sweating after my 90mph sprint along a dark stretch of Highway 1 and excited as hell about the one type of tobacco product I had never tried. It was quite fun, what with all the atmosphere and reckless driving making my heart race. Thankfully, I found the shop moments before they shut the door. My life would be changed soon after. I bought a tin of Silver Dollar Original. Back at the car, my first taste went too far back but the burn was not unpleasant. I instantly realized I was a fool for not buying more. I still love that snuff. Hopefully next time I order from Toque I can talk Roderick into selling me a bunch in bulk. If not, then maybe a bespoke order will work.

J.H. Wilson’s Medicated 99, New Year’s Eve 2009 I think. My father-in-law at the time went to buy some cigars and came out with snuff as well, on a whim. I was the only one that liked it! At the time I was smoking cigarettes, it took until 2012 for me to buy some more snuff and then I was hooked for a couple of years

No idea what sort it was.  We always had a couple of snuff boxes in the house with some in, presumably from when my grandfather used it.  I took the occasional pinch as a child.  My grandfather died shortly before my third birthday, so, by the time I got around to it, it can’t have been terribly fresh.  My mother always used the expression “throwing something around like snuff at a wake,” suggesting extravagance.

W.E. Garrett some ten years ago.  Major fail.  Didn’t learn to properly deal with American Scotches until several years later.

McChrystals O&G about 12 years ago. Made my eyes water, nose run and gave me a head rush! 8-}

41P Himtaj Golden. I had ordered from 41 Photo, 6 Photo and Dholakia on the same day and it was the 41P order which was the first one to arrive. Himtaj Golden still is among my favourites.

WoS Royal George in 2013. 

First ever was either fubar grunt or toque spanish gem. Got it from a member at snuson named whalen who also happens to be a member here

Before I ordered from MrSnuff.com the only available snuff i could actually find here in California where i live was W.E Garrett and sons scotch and sweet and only 3 types of Silver dollar the blueberry being my first snuff followed by a quick pinch of the W.E sweet for that extra nic!

I believe it was the WoS version of Dr Rumney about 5 years ago. Might have been Garrett Scotch.

Toque chocolate. Just about a week ago. Really enjoying it.

Some unidentified snuff about 25 years ago. I think it was an sp and something tells me it could have been jh wilsons sp 1. But I’m not sure.

W.E. Garrett Sweet. Was the only thing available locally…

Probably Fribourg & Treyer Bordeaux and/or Princes: courtesy of an inveterate snuff-taking uncle whose snuffbox was on offer every time we met.
But J&H Wilsons S.P No.1 was my first snuff purchase in 1964 or 1965 and from when I date the start of my snuffing career. I still remember the sheepish feeling when asking the proprietor of the local corner shop if he stocked snuff and the feeling of utter surprise when I was actually left clutching a little blue box. Crikey!
The decision to make a purchase was ultimately prompted by reading ‘Captain of Dragoons’ by Ronald Welch in which the protagonist, Charles, has a bitter-sweet relationship with snuff.
Later I discovered the House of Bewlay from which you could buy a ¼ ounce of snuff from their wide range of 2lb canisters served in little paper packets, or a small bottle of Smiths or a tin. Oh, the joy of discovery - equal to that experienced by Columbus, Magellan and Captain Cook on their global travels to distant and unexplored lands.

WoS sample pack, 20 tap tins of varying flavors. Some i enjoyed, other not so much.

Mine was Fribourg & Treyer’s Dr. James Robertson Justice’s Mixture. 44 years ago. A firm favourite even now.

Ronald Welch. What a wonderful children’s author. I read every one

I’d very much like to read them all again to rekindle fond memories. The only Ronald Welch book I still possess is ‘For the King’ - a first edition civil war drama borrowed from my school library. I located it today and checked the yellowed library label: it was due for return in Michaelmas Term 1963.

Nice! He was a remarkable writer. He really brought history to life. Bowman of Crecy was my favourite. When i was a small boy in short trousers I wrote to him, as I did to many authors, and he replied. A very nice letter.

I wonder if any children read him today?

Best wishes,

Graeme

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Yes, Graeme - I noticed that reissue collection going for £278. It’s a tempting purchase - especially as the original hardcover books cost around that much each. I read as far as ‘Captain of Foot’.

Because his books have not been reprinted it’s unlikely that youngsters have read any which is a shame as the stories are embedded in historical fact. They are as informative as they are entertaining, not to mention descriptions of snuff and snuff-taking in three of them. By ‘Captain of Foot’ snuff has been supplanted by cigars as I recall.

Anyway, last night I started on my overdue library book ‘For the King’ : Cambridge, 1642 …

My first snuff was Smith’s Garden Mint, I think. I usually go for plain or mentholated snuffs these days, but I still have a soft spot for anything minty.

Gletcherprise. It’s a nice introduction but I have no interest in having any more of it. “When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But, when I became a man, I put away the things of a child.”

Nowadays I prefer Gold Label, Amostrinha, or most anything from Rosinski.

Red Bull from Greens of Leeds, I think. “Are you 18?”, they asked, “Yes” I lied.

Nice to hear! @Spam

Lowenprise was the snuff that popped my nose cherry 3 months ago. First time is the special you know?

Back in '96 I have no idea what band it was some kid brought it to school. I remember it was non menthol and bone dry semi sweet. Never could find it anywhere for years until I looked online and found Mr Snuff. My first order was Janta Cafe, Jip, Redbull, SNUV Snow, Poschl Go with Original, and McChrystals OnG. Been full speed ahead ever since.

I was trying to quit cigarettes and read about snuff so I took some of my RYO American Spirit cigarette tobacco and pulverized it in a coffee grinder. After my first sniff I was a fan.

Never went to Greens but buy from Smoke-king and they’re amazing.

I absolutely loved your story! So, what is your everyday snuff now?

Greens was so good. I used to look at the website then pop in with a handwritten list of 5 or 6 snuffs I wanted to try. They’d disappear somewhere round the back for a while whilst I waited, breathing in the wonderful smell and watching the old blokes buying pipe tobacco and young lads buying “your cheapest cigarettes”.

Once I decided to buy some twist tobacco to chew, complete unaware I needed to spit and proceeded to be quite unwell in an alley just off brigate.

Mine was McChrystal’s O&G, so good. I miss it, hard to get in my country

mine was 6photo kalish regular not super and my second was lowen prise got to say loved both just bought my pack of lowen and a full 28g of kalish for 1.78 for the kalish boyah

Kailash must rank among more unusual first snuff choices!

A fellow pipe smoker shared McCrystal’s Original and Genuine. I went out and bought that. I enjoy mentholated snuff.

My first snuff was a true curiosity that I bought in the famous Keflavik airport in Iceland. It was some 10 years ago. It was a 10g plastic tin which stated that the product was manufactured in Denmark (strange enough, since snuff is not used in Denmark as far as I know).
The stuff smelled like dung. It brought to me childhood memories of visiting stables. It made me think if it was… worth the effort. Of course I sneezed like it was real dung! But in the end I liked that smell.
At some point I wrongly thought that the snuff had gone stale and I threw it out. However, today I tried something that reminded me precisely of that legendary first snuff of mine:

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Welcome back, dung-like smell. My nose salutes you.

My 1st snuff, not even knowing nasal snuff was a thing, was probably 35 years ago. Tube Rose sweet snuff, with no idea how to use it. Tried pinching and using it like oral “snuff” that was a disaster. Rubbing on my gums, not much better. Then i gave it a toot, well that set off a sneezing fit like id never had before it was a long (LONG) time until i tried again.