I seem to disagree with many reviews. I actually base my purchases more on negative reviews than positive ones. I seem to like snuffs that a great majority dislike and vice versa. For example, I really love chocolate, everything about it! Eating it, baking with it, smelling it…so I decided to try the highly praised Dholakia Swiss Chocolate. After about ten pinches, I gave up, I will just never like this snuff! To me it smells fake and artificial and that fake scent lingers too long! It does not resemble any chocolate I use such as Godiva. The huge thing that makes me different from many here is that I am a woman, which has led me to a little research. I came across this site which states that women’s sense of smell is keener than mens, at least when it comes to detecting BO. (http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=868696ED-064D-BE60-4A49A261056EDFE8) I am not trying to imply anything negative here about men or women…I know we all have our different likes and dislikes here and sex has little to do with these opinions. However, I think a male vs. female snuff test would be interesting.
I think the other women on this forum like the Swiss Chocolate. So I don’t know if its a woman thing. I love chocolate myself, but to me Godiva is kids stuff. I can now pretty much only eat chocolate that is 75% or higher cacao content. I don’t like sweet chocolate much at all, and certainly none with milk in it. However, I do like the Dholakia Swiss Chocolate. Were it not a snuff, I probably wouldn’t eat a chocolate that tasted that way though. Do I make sense? I think I see them as two separate things. For example: I’ll snuff Toque Bourbon, but I don’t drink bourbon. Of course there are other chocolate snuffs. You may wish to try Toque which I find is almost liquer like, or Samuel Gawith which is quite pungent, or de Kralingse Chocosnuif. The only other chocolate one I have had is Wilson’s Chocolate Orange, which is nice, but not extremely chocolatey. Anyway, that is but one flavor. What other ones that are popular do you not like? Conversely, which are the snuffs that you like the most? Are those not popular?
Addendum: I despise Gawith Apricot and Magnet Peach, which for some reason reserved to providence are apparantly the most popular snuffs around.
I do quite a lot of reviews, some of the most positive ones are for snuffs that I actually would never use myself but I recognise and praise what I see as good points and qualities in the snuff, there are only a few that I really slate. I don’t know if other people take this approach. In any case a review is a very personal thing and in all honesty probably not worth that much!!
You have a point, recently having built up quite a collection of snuff i have been buying snuff that i had stayed away from due to negative reviews and i have found some real favourites amongst these Wilsons Rum & Blackberry being a good example. We are all individuals though with our own likes and dislikes and i certainly hope ladies don’t have a better sense of smell as my wife is convinced all snuff smells like a cat litter tray.
I like the De Kralingse Chocosnuif or the Chococream as the best chocolates around. I still have the Swiss Chocolate and I just don’t use it. Something in the background tobacco does not work for me in all their snuffs and that is why I traded off almost the whole assortment. I had and I bought all the new flavors when they came out. That is just me, my taste.
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Im not sure there is any difference in the way the sexes smell things. My wife loves a lot of the snuffs as a fragrance - she will happily have a sniff of any new snuff or blend without actually taking it. The thing that makes this difficult to pin down in any scientific way is that judging from the membership here we still only have a tiny minority of women snuff users. By the way, chocolate is a good example of good reviews Ive given for something I would never use. I think both the Toque and Dholakia are really well crafted but definitely not my thing.
I think snuff, snus, dip, and chew mostly appeals to men, and I think in our, well, American society that I know, these would be seen an mostly man type things.
I think if more women were brave enough to try snuff, they would love it! I know I did. 