I'll be honest I am starting this more for myself than anything and I doubt it is unique but I wanted to chronicle my tastes and preferences as I plan to try 100 snuses (is that the correct plural form or is it like deer…means the same single or plural).

For a period of time my job was as a flavor chemist so the taste profiles of foods and beverages are familiar to me. I have flavored all kinds of things and I have noticed that like most people, my tastes change. As a kid I hated tomatoes but now love them; I used to drink draft beer all the time a number of years back but now I'll pass.

So a little while back as I was introduced to snus and learned more about it (a lot of it right here on this site) it dawned on me that my cigarette habit didn't follow the trend. I have smoked the same exact brand for I can't remember how long. The lack of variety for this product has never been an issue but as I read reviews from members here and digested the descriptions from the various retailers it made me think. Why not play the trifecta; take the step like many have here to pull away some from cigarettes, continue to get my nicotine, and revisit the world of flavors through this thing called snus?

So the plan is to buy (SnusOn Shop now open…how convenient) and try 100 different brands/styles over the course of however long and rate them from my most preferred to least preferred and mark any changes in favored status along the way. One thing I have noticed right off the bat is that some I don't really enjoy at first but they grow on me...some start out great but soon loose their luster. This is common based upon what many here have told me so I intend to track all 100 of them on this blog as they are added. To give them due diligence, I plan to try a brand/style at least three times before committing it to the list.

If you have any suggestions on versions to try (or not) feel free to let me know. I’ll admit I am a newbie and a portion man but as some have said the differences between the los and portion version of any brand can make or break its appeal…

The first list will be very simple since I have just started and have only 5 versions sampled.

List #1 is as follows:

1 General Mint White Portion
2 Jakobsson's Mint Strong Portion
3 General White Portion
4 Oden's Kanel
5 General Wintergreen White Portion

Another order of five versions is planned for tonight

Thanks for reading!