Olde Viking Spearmint

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Reviews for Olde Viking Spearmint

[chadizzy1]

My review


This was one that I've been really hesitant to review. For a few reasons. The return of the hockey puck snus can, which universally signifies bad snus. I can understand Gajane/GN Tobacco buying a factory and having a bazillion of these sitting around and wanting to use them, but I'm hoping that after they're gone they come out with something good looking like the cool design on Oden's. Something similar in a Viking-esque fashion. The other reason being that this snus is fermented, and that just doesn't appeal to me. All the Swedish Snus I love is pasteurized, and everytime I hear "fermented" associated with "tobacco", it's never in a positive way. So that got me a little hesitant, but apparently the way it's done with this snus is okay, because it still has to meet Swedish Food Standards to be sold, so I can't complain or say it's going to kill me. (not that I thought that, but y'know....).


Now, a little about this snus. One of the first things I was looking for when I bought this, was to see if a GN Tobacco logo would be on the back, or Gajane. Turn the can over - Gajane logo. I was figuring GN Tobacco would have a logo specifically for the Olde Viking line, but maybe that's with the next round. The next thing was, "Can you judge a book by it's cover?" So much bad mojo is associated with the ugly hockey puck snus can, I had to see if this was going to be the worst snus I have ever tasted. I had to see if Gajane had translated the sheer awesomeness of Oden's to this new brand, Olde Viking.


After opening up the can, a very familiar smell hit me. I wasn't sure if it was true, because I heard 2 other people say this about this brand now, and I didn't want to fall in line. I didn't want to believe it! I went to the bathroom, grabbed a comparison product, and sure enough, the smell was dead on, accurate. And what was that familiar smell, you may ask? Toothpaste. It smelled like my Mint Colgate toothpaste. Which is okay, I like the smell of toothpaste, but not in a snus. I mean, c'mon. Really? Next step - in the lip. This is where Olde Viking will get the only praise I am going to issue. This snus portion is by far the most comfortable snus portion I have EVER put in my mouth, and that's saying alot because I've tried about everything. It's the most soft, pillowy portion that I believe I will ever encounter, because I honestly can't imagine anything more comfortable than this. The flavor? Well, it's minty, and actually kinda tastes like a minty toothpaste, really artificial flavor, doesn't last very long, burns out rather quick into a funky aftertaste. Decent nic hit, nothing major. It's got a burn though, and that's a significant part of this snus. A little burn in the lip, and some burn in the throat too. Not like, fiery intense burn or anything, but it's moderate and noticable.

To sum it all up, it wasn't as terrible as I thought it was going to be. But it wasn't that great either. With other better tasting mint snus such as Thunder Frosted, Offroad Frosted, and the new larger portion of General Mini Mint coming soon, this isn't going to make it on a reorder list for me. It wasn't the worst thing I've ever had (the American mint "SNUS" is much worse....) but it wasn't good enough to warrant me wanting more than the half a can I went through to get a good feel for it. That was enough for me.

[Veganpunk]

That's disappointing. I still haven't gotten mine yet, but our mint tastes are usually about the same.

[Veganpunk]

Allright I got mine yesterday. I'm on my second portion right now. First impressions:

This snus does burn! It burns like a General Wintergreen. So all you old timers who miss the burn, pick up a can of this. It's also really salty. So much that it overpowers the spearmint. It does taste like what it is though. A spearmint flavored Swedish snus. The biggest issue is the strength of the spearmint isn't strong enough. It's there, just not enough. I would prefer the Discreet Emerald Ice (in a regular size) over this for a good spearmint snus.

[AtreyuKun]

It smells really good. The first minute or two tastes great as well. The spearmint is gonna so very quickly. I had to roll the thing in my mouth to get just a hint of flavor back.
On the plus side, the portion felt really nice. It was very soft, and fit comfortably.
But, I doubt I'll be buying anymore.

[desirexe]

Like many on here I was hesitant to try this snus out. I am a spearmint fan though and couldn't pass it up! On to my opinions: the can is ugly, no surprise there. It's big, chunky and my can is hard to open. I think there is plus to a hard-to-open can though and that is, these portions are MOIST, darn near dripping wet and very soft and cushiony! The flavor hit almost immediately and I was surprised that the portion actually wasn't very drippy in my mouth. Pretty good spearmint flavor and I have to agree with others here, there is a pretty decent burn! The negs: the spearmint flavor is too subtle and fades rather quickly.

[pris]

Nice spearmint flavour going on with a pleasant cooling feeling under the lip, good nic hit for regular strength snus.