I was hoping some of the ‘snuff experts’ on this forum could tell me why snuff is flavoured? I know some brands are ‘natural’ and contain no flavouring but I was just wondering why snuff is usually flavoured in some way and yet not cigarettes or cigars?

Didn’t you answerer your own question when you went out of your way to purchase Gawith Cola and Bernard’s snuff?

You can get flavoured cigarette tobacco: Buccaneer Whisky, Excellent Lemon mint cigarettes, Excellent sweet plum cigarettes and many others. I tried flavoured cigarettes one times in my 28 years smoking career but ditnt like it. Flavouring works of course better with Snuff, because is not consumed by fire and for the nose only…

Yes in my pipe smocking days I smocked a good cherry and also coffee pipe tobacco, and also menthol cigarettes.

If you were never cigarette addicted, …for me the pure cigarette smoke arround my face was part of my addiction. If i smoked a mango cigarette for instance, i already felt that something was wrong Nowadays I still use smokey snuff for the evening: Bernards Jubiläums snuff is my smokey favourite …

“Didn’t you answerer your own question when you went out of your way to purchase Gawith Cola and Bernard’s snuff?” I don’t think so Snuffhead. The flavours are available so I like to try different ones but my point was if you buy two different brands of cigarette (say Marlboro and Benson & Hedges for example) they would taste similar but not so with snuffs…just wondered why they were flavoured at all in the first place since it wasn’t really done with other forums of tobacco. Thanks for your post didi, although flavoured cigarettes do exisit I have never met someone who uses them (perhaps its because I live in the UK)

You see, if you use snuff, you have a much greater freedom to enjoy flavours. As cigarette smoker you are mainly affected by your addiction.

Yeah and as you said in a previous post the flavours wouldn’t be as nice if the tobacco was burned…chocolate flavoured smoke doesn’t sound nice!

Lazarus…I haven’t smoked a cigarette for over 20 years. But I Can Tell You That Marlboro and Benson & Hadges are miles apart so shut up!

Wow, calm yourself big guy…fags taste all the same to me: vile

Then that answered your question again. Your getting up my nose!

i think of it like spicing food. variety. we all like variety. at least in germany menthol cigarettes are quite popular and rum flavoured cigarette tobacco sells well too. and “cognac-dipped” and vanilla flavoured cigars are also popular. pipe tobacco of the “danish” type comes in myriads of flavourings. from a like apple to z like zen… but it usually ends up as vanilla-something. dont really care for flavoured pipe baccys…

What is the matter with you snuffhead? Did you get out of bed on the wrong side this morning? If I am somehow annoying you over this issue why don’t you post elsewhere instead of giving me grief?

Thanks for your reply Betonente, it was interesting to read that flavoured cigarettes are popular in Germany, as I said in a previous post no-one really uses them in the UK.

Flavored cigarettes are often sold individually at gas stations as impulse buys in the the US. Cheap fruit flavored cigars are much more common (pretty nasty though imo). I think the different “flavors” of snuff translate better due to the method of consumption. A flavored tobacco product meant for smoking may smell like cherries or bannanas unlit, but after lighting up the smell is more of cheap tobacco and car air freshener. Quality pipe tobaccos probably being the exception. With snuff the flavor variety can almost be a substitute for the tobacco scent altogether.

It actually is an interesting question. I smoked exactly the same cigarettes for 30 years. The others do taste different, but it was Camel filters, and nothing else. With pipe tobacco, I’ve got one favorite English/Oriental, and one favorite Danish, and seldom smoke anything else. I’ve got one favorite cigar, and that’s it. But, all is not well with the world, unless I’ve got at least a dozen different snuffs at my disposal. I seldom even leave the house without 2. As soon as I get home, I swap them for 2 different ones. I wonder why that is, too. Cheers, Java

Lazarus with two nice ladies, I can’t get out of bed the wrong way. say a little prayer for me

An enjoyable scent in the nose can bring just as much & sometimes more satisfaction than the actual tobacco/nicotine. Having a nice scent in the nose can actually elevate ones mood. It was also helpful to mask the unsanitary conditions of times past & thought a pleasant scent could ward off disease. A lot of things are done just to make it more acceptable to a wider variety of people. Everyone has different tastes. If a product was just available in one type of scent, you would be missing out on a huge market of people who might not enjoy the 1 available scent. Just like there are people here who wouldn’t go a day without a plain snuff, there are people here who wouldn’t go a day without a heavy floral or heavy menthol snuff. Although I never smoked cigarettes I have & do smoke cigars & pipes. I can tell you that there are hundreds if not thousands of different scented cigars & pipe tobacco. Swisher Sweets has a whole line of flavored cigars as well as the flavored Backwoods cigars. One of my old favorites in pipe tobacco was one I use to order called ‘Grandma’s Apple Pie’. Just like there are a huge variety of different flavored oral tobacco’s. From a tequila flavored loose leaf chew to a grape flavored fine ground lip tobacco. Or just a plug tobacco cased with sweet molasses.

I remember the orange camels. I bought them because they were buy one get one free at the time. I think for most people who inhale and exhale pretty much every toke on a cigarette the extra flavor is just added unnecessary harshness maybe… but puffing on a cigar or pipe is a different kind of experience.

Snuff was the original aromatherapy. As a suggestion: If you can find some REAL ambergris; not an oil or perfume, but an actual little chunk of whale vomit; store it with some unscented snuff very briefly and you will have a snuff that will send chills down your spine. Too much and you’ll feel nauseated.

I smoked for years; I just wanted strong plain tobacco - flavouring would have got in the way somehow. Laz - it’s just simple variety I guess; the same way they don’t just make plain crisps (Chips to US members) Variety is the spice of life, just that I suppose. Some snuff blender in the early days just started adding flavourings and it caught on. Relax Snuffhead, the guy just asked a simple question.

The best tobaccos can be served plain. The rest get flavored.

badbusinessman: Whale vomit? Are you serious??

Yes he is, it really is a secretion from whales. One of the most expensive of all perfumes and all but unobtainable. Something pirates used to die for.

Oh yeah i’d heard of ambergris before (any futurama fans here? ;o) just never imagined anyone would flavour snuff with it…

Just take a bit of Solani Va/Per. the best natural tobacco out there.(take it easy!) i make snuff out of it quite a bit. @ Laz re: Futurama: “that acting was so bad I think you just gave me cancer!”

If I remember right, Jaap Bes (snuffmiller) was working on a snuff containing ambergis using an old recipe called St. Omer Karotten snuff.

No, it’s not illegal. It’s just wicked expensive. You can find it on the beach if you know what you’re looking for and get really lucky. Look it up on Google. Some people have made hundreds of thousands of dollars finding big pieces of it. Weird story where I got it, but an ex-girlfriend of mine in college (long time ago) had an ex-boyfriend who’s dad was the personal doctor of some prince in the United Arab Emirates. He gave the dad a gift of a tiny little box full of ambergris, who gave it to his son, who gave it to my ex, from which I took a little. Most unbelievable scent ever. There’s a passage in Moby Dick that gives an account of sailors at work processing the ambergris for storage and basically feeling high and almost amorous toward one another.

Hello Troutstoker, Indeed we are still planning to produce St. Omer, but it takes quit a lot of preparation. In the meantine we are preparing another historical snuff called Dutch Bolongero which is fermenting now and takes a couple weeks more to prepare. We are also preparing a tobaccofree “health” snuff, which was used to induce sneezing, based on flowers and spices. When we are ready to sell, i’ll let you know. Jaap Bes.

I remember Passing Cloud … they were oval in cross section, a little like you have sat on the packet! They were made with Turkish tobacco, which had a fragrance very different from virginia. My father always referred to them as “Pashas”.

Looking forward to them Jaap! I take it the tobacco free snuff will also be free of menthol? It sounds like the sort of thing I would buy to offer to people who won’t take snuff because of the tobacco, no excuses now!

Great news, Jaap. I love your Latakia.

Which were the ones in the beautiful packet with a little scene on it? I used to smoke them but can’t for the life of me remember the name.

In my last two trips to Turkey (latest one this past spring) I went to some trouble to see if I could track down some ciggies made with proper Turkish tobacco - sadly, even there, it is all Marlboro and Camel. The only Passing Clouds were those in the sky!

Roderick - kasbek sound like the Russian ones, with the long tube. There was a reason for that being there, but my ecer decreasing memory fails me again…

Ah, no it doesn’t! The tube was so that the cigarettes could by smoked by labourers outdoors in mittened hands - the original Russian poor bloke’s smoke.

I smoked Texan Plain for many, many, many years, would not touch anything else! Maybe flavoured snuff is better, more enjoyable, than other tobacco products is because ones does not need to burn it in order to use it. I smoked some cherry flavoured cigars once. It smelled so good, I almost wanted to eat it…untill I lit it. The taste on my tongue was very different from the taste in my nose. I also smoked a lot of flavoured pipe tobacco with the same result. I’m so glad I quit smoking; I’m delighted that I started snuffing!!!

Me too. I smoked Black Cherry pipe tobacco for a long while, it always smelled fantastic in the pouch, and in fact was a nice smoke, but smoked it was nothing like the unlit tobacco. That’s one thing I miss about smoking, the delightful smell of a new tin of pipe tobacco or brand new hand rolling baccy. Musn’t get too sentimental though, it was damn near killing me…

Snuffster, did you ever smoke Three Nuns pipe tobacco? Whenever I opened a tin of that syuff, I felt like eating some of it. Smoked it in a Petersen clay pipe, very good indeed. But, I’ve had enough !!

I did indeed and smoked in a Petersen as well, though not a clay; a meerschaum bent. My tobaccos of choice were: Forrestal Black Cherry, Borkum Rif, Tam O’Shanter, Gold Flake, Condor, Erinmore, Clan and Mellow Virginia and Gallaher’s pigtail. MY everyday smokes Condor and Mellow Virginia. When I read about people using tobacco flavoured with this that and the other I always think ‘your not a pipe smoker’. Maybe a snobby attitude but there you have it!