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.
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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.
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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!!!