When I first started snuffing, it was with really simple homemade cigar snuffs, followed shortly thereafter by pipe tobacco snuff. Now that I’m hooked on professional snuff, I thought it would be fun to follow Juxtaposer’s great and simple recipefor making homemade snuff from whole leaf tobacco. I thought I’d go ahead and share the progress so far: I used equal parts of aged dark air cured ct broadleaf and oriental tobacco. The dark air cured CT has a nice chocolatey note, and the oriental tobacco has that nice sweet tobacco note that you smell in an unlit turkish cigarette. After initially drying, grinding and sieving the whole leaf tobacco (I got it from leafonly - they’re great), the tobacco had a wild, strong grassy note. After adding the water, salt and sodium carbonate solution, which I scaled up to the amount of tobacco flour I had, the tobacco took on the consistency of more or less wet sand. Within a day or two, most of the raw tobacco grassy scent had gone away, and the delightful reek of ammonia started to show. I let this sit for about a little over a week, and added a mixture of sweet orange, a touch of sandlewood, a hint of patchouli, jasmine, and lavender. The result is a nice woodsy milk chocolate/orange, and an exotic [what I’d imagine] opium den type aroma. It’s quite lovely, surprinsingly. I just put the snuff in the oven at a really low temperature for about 10 minutes to lightly dry it to a more sniffable consistency, as well as to mute the scenting a bit I then sieved it again through a really fine chinoise. Now it’s a really light and fluffy snuff, a bit like some McChrystals I’ve had (ie mild lemon). I’m going to let it do it’s thing, sealed up for another few weeks to see what happens - but as it stands it’s really quie nice - and a great experiement! At the moment, there is a fairly noticable initial burn that subsides after 30 seconds of so, which most likely is from the sodium chloride - I’d probably use a bit less next time around. The scent lingers nicely for about an hour - so no complaints here 
It’s great to know that should the powers that be put a stop to overseas mail order snuff, it can be done well at home for pennies! I love this snuffing hobby! Cheers for the technique, Juxtaposer!
Thanks for the report and congratulations on your success. A few questions: what did you use to grind the leaf? How fine was it before you added the water? Did you use heat during the fermentation or just at room temperature? Any problem with mold? Did you use the stems and veins? And, finally, how did you apply the scent? Sorry for all the questions but I’ve got some homegrown leaf and spent a lot of time for the amount of snuff I got, using a mortar and pestle, and I didn’t go through the fermentation steps; I will next time though.
Hi Mouse! I used a coffee grinder, having made my first few homemade snuffs with a mortar and pestle, and like you having discovered that it was a lot of work (!) The coffee grinder works like a charm. I managed to get it to a pretty fine consistency, and it wasn’t any work. I did remove the stems, and in the case of the CT broadleaf, I did remove the larger veins as well. The turkish tobacco leaf is so small that I only stripped the center stem on those. As far as the fermentation, I didn’t use any heat, I just let it happen at room temperature, but in a warmer part of my house. I may consider using a crock pot next time on a low setting. I didn’t have any problems with mold (knock on wood), but we’ll see what happens in the long term. As far as the scent, I mixed essential oils to a scent I liked, and then added that directly to the snuff, mixing it in, which seemed to work pretty well. I’m impressed by the homegrown leaf! Cheers!
@Willymac Very cool! Keep us posted. Let me know when you start looking for outside testers. 
Nicely done! Congrats! The feeling of independence is amazing… I just harvested my plants tonight. With this year’s harvest of seeds, I should be set for life. B-)
Wooo - the burn is strong with this one, by thankfully so is the scent, so all you need is a smidge. I’d be happy to share some with a few folks in the US, funds allowing, but there really is a burn that is quite wicked on this one. I think I’d probably scale back on the sodium chloride, but at least it subsides within 30 seconds or so. Otherwise, really nice!
@Willymac Good job! I’m glad you are happy with your end product. Now you have a baseline to start from on your next batch. This is very exciting. You never know you might be on to a new hobby/business here. Now the fun part is coming up with a name for your snuff.