Your First Sniff

What was your first snuff you ever sniffed?

For me, it was Wilsons of Sharrow - Tom Buck.

@Transistor : I read that that was your first snuff too!  Damn good snuff.

If there is a duplicate topic somewhere that I over-looked, please feel free to close this bugger lol :-P

Debauchery

Molens Latakia AO 1860 - I still love that stuff to this day.

Slide

Garrett Scotch

Brewshooter

W.E. Garrett Sweet & Mild...only thing they had at the corner liquor store/smoke shop, but turned out that was okay.

Xander

Copenhagen, because I had no clue.  Well, it says "snuff" on it!

After that I think it was either Three Thistle or Railroad Mills.

Spam

Toque Original, then F&T Old Paris. I definitely got off to a running start.

tybalt

Levi Garrett, followed by Tom Buck

Prismaster

Gletscherprise

bigmick

 Navy in the mid 80's. Those two pinches lasted me 20+ years. Toque Pomegranate was the one that truly started me on this path.

theratroom

O&G

BigSnoot McSnuff

Mid 80's in the highschool lunchroom one day we laid out giant lines of Tube Rose across the table and had a contest to see who could take the most in a single snort....not the greatest of ideas but was my first ever.

Screwtape

O&G. A friend brought me over a tin from England. Though nice, the menthol felt like sacrilege and I quickly found one of the few places in Toronto that carries McC's SP. Eventually I was ordering from Wilsons (Sharrow). But I still keep a tin of O&G about and take a daily pinch.

transistor

@mikemoose TB was one of them but I think my VERY first was SG Raspberry to be honest- however that was from a sneeze box so I consider TB to be my first REAL experience ;)

dakotas

Navy Sweet. Certainly not the best for a first pinch.  Dental was my second.

Pennanngalan

Navy Plain.   Yeah...it hurt (I was somewhere between 8-10 years of age).  Luckily, it didn't scare me away forever.

Snuffster

About 1971. I got a Rumneys, a Hedges and a Top Mill No 1 and tried each plus one in a silver coloured plastic tin that must have been very space age for the time. I was seven.

Come to think of it: can any of the 'old masters' on the site remember a mentholated snuff that came in a metalised, silver coloured, plastic container the size of a small, round WoS tin?

ermtony

Sounds like Singleton's.

barredbenny

Molens Prins Regent.

Snuffster

It was very out of place with the rest - metalic/silver plastic was like something from Mars compared to dear old Doctor Rumney with his eyes, behind which was playing a mental soundtrack along the lines of 'I will kill and dismember you', and had been playing, soothingly as long as he had lived?

cstokes4

Buttercup

shikitohno

I'm with @Xander on the Cope mistake.  After that, It was WoS's Rum & Blackberry and McC's Clove that got me into proper snuff.

jbruckus

First snuffs I purchased were O&G, Toque Original, Spanish Gem, and Molens Latakia AO 1860 -  with O&G being the actual first one I tried.

Sloth

Mine was Poschl Lowen-Prise, about 5 or 6 years ago. I was offered some at a pub I used to go to. I never noticed anyone at the pub snuffing before or after that night, though - it seemed to be a one-off curiousity. I liked it though, asked where they got it from and bought a box of Lowen-Prise for myself.

However back then I only took it rarely as a novelty thing really, and it's only been since early this year, February 2011, that I've taken snuff on a more regular basis, and investigated various different types. I still really like Lowen-Prise though.

MikeMoose

@Snuffster : Honestly man that sounds like President by Poschl...  But I could be wrong...  Maybe a different one similar to it...?

collierboy

My first experience using snuff was back in the late 70's. Dr. Rhumneys Mentholyptus.

giaach

Poschl Gawith Apticot.
I bought it at a local cigar shop 2 years ago around this very time and for the next week I took pinch after pinch while playing video games and drinking beer haha. Then my nose got really stuffy from it so I moved on to better things.

I still come back for the occasional pinch though.

Brandasaur

First pinch was Wow Coffee Bite

jpsks

gallahers wit n wisdom

furious

First pinch was about twenty years ago from a brick red plastic tap box. Can't remember the brand as it was not mine, but i remember that it was heavily metholated and not to my liking as an ignorant teenager. Didn't have another pinch for over a decade but so glad that I did.

MikeMoose

Right on!  So cool to see different variations of first pinches!  I am glad I started this one :-P 

DivinusSalviarum

Pöschl Ozona Menthol or Cherry, one or the other, can't remember exactly which was first.

They were the only snuffs available at the local tabaccheria.

ourlastdefeat

My first snuff was one of the american scotches but I didn't particularly like them a few years ago so my first snuff that I actually liked taking was WoS Prime Minister.

gandalf

It was the more common by there I think, Poscl /Président.

Juxtaposer

My first pinch was nutmeg powder. 

Gax1985

Athersons' Jasmine :)

MikeMoose

@Juxtaposer : Really?  :-P .  I guess to be HONEST, my first pinch was hot chocolate mix...

...

WHAT?

I was testing out the method and feeling....  Had to get some sort of bearings before I sniffed actual snuff...

Sly3904

Ozona cherry, only fruity snuff I've tried. I didn't really care for it after sniffing vanilla toque that also came with my first order. I wouldn't turn away a pinch though.

Jackpot

My first sniff was Toque Peanut Butter I think, which I'd ordered alongside Toque Coke.  I liked the Peanut Butter at the time, but after a while I became far more fond of the coke and I could really take or leave the Peanut Butter these days.

OscarWabbit

When I was a kid it was J & H Wilsons Top Mills.

As an adult it was Poschl Ozona Raspberry.

doctorbeat

Hedges L260. Nearly put me off for life.
I don't care for menthol...

transistor

I hope people got their starter info from someone that actually knows what they're talking about....my "tobacconist" obviously didn't. LOL!
My guy told me ALL nasal snuff had menthol in it and the second he told me that I CRAVED a snuff without menthol (JUST MY OPINION) ruining it.  And then I found Tom Buck and a new SNUFFER with TAD was formed.
I love snuff!!!

Appleby

Probably ETTAN or some other Swedish snus, some twenty years ago. I know of an old gentleman here in Sweden who took ETTAN mainly in the normal way under the lip but also a few pinches in his nose... 

snuffbrant

Wilson's Coffee Cream .... luckily, I continued using snuff ... 

Mr. Nose

@snuffbrant: Absolutely Laughing Out Loud at that one!

mustangii

Poschl Gletcher Prise

 

edm

snuffbrant

funny as it is, @Mr. Nose ... i kind of developed a strange liking to the Coffee Cream ... not to be ordered again, mind you, but it grew on me.  Luckily, in the realm of coffee snuff ... Wow Coffee Bite is a winner!

Mr. Nose

@snuffbrant:  G&H Tia Maria was the first snuff I encountered that had the kind of coffee flavor I wanted.  Unfortunately, I didn't always want the floral undertones that come with it; I like the floral aspect, but not all the time.  SG Black Coffee has been my go to for coffee snuff ever since, though I do have QWS Irish Coffee on my list to try; now I will add Coffee Bite as well.  Both of Wilson's coffee offerings seem rather dull and flat to my nose.  Thanks goodness Wilson's makes lots to choose from.

joesnuffer

My punk A$% of a friend let me try his dholakia white and didn't tell me to sniff lightly and after I sniffed too hard I felt like my eyeballs were going to melt out of my face while he fell down laughing so hard.  Then I tried poschl apricot and now I'm happily addicted to nasal snuff!  I avoided dholakia white for a year after that and finally broke down and bought some a few months ago and now I really enjoy it.

ThGrTi43

Ozona President and more recently F&T Old Paris

snuffbrant

@Mr. Nose ... there is also Toque Espresso ... 

SG Black Coffee's grind is too coarse for me ... Wow Coffee Bite's grind is a fluffy light grind ... settles well.  

MikeMoose

@joesnuffer : LOL quite the trauma for a first sniff :-P .  Glad you've returned to it!  I've never had D White, but I hear it's a menace :-P