General Los/ Skruf Stark Los smell

[TetraHydroCannabinol]

The General and the Skruf have a pretty strong ammonia smell to them, Also, I cant really taste either of them.
Is that normal at first, I just got my order yesterday?

[Grim]

I remember when i was in high school and dyed my hair the smell of the ammonia almost made me sick.

When i opne cans of snus i smell no ammonia.

In General i smell tobacco with slight darker undertones to it. Skruf just smells like tobacco.

A lot of other people on this forum also compare certain snus to ammonia or cat pee smells.

Hmmmm.....it would be an interesting topic to talk about though,, and im sure a lot of people will agree with you on your smell analisys

[KarlvB]

I found that when I first started using snus I sometimes detected a whiff of ammonia, but these days I only smell the brand and the flavour.

I've also come to associate brands with other smells. For example when I now smell a cup of Earl Grey in the office I think of "General" or "Göteborgs Rapé" when drinking gin....

Despite this whenever I open a can of snus near one of my friends they go "That is a pretty funky smell" and I just stare at them uncomprehendingly.

Must be the way your taste and sense of smell adjust after using snus for a while..

[mel16]

OH MY GOD!

FINALLY!

I have that problem with all los. I thought I was crazy!

Now that I've been using it for a few days, I don't notice it as much as I used to. I think it's because they add things (probably NOT ammonia, though) to bring the pH up, because nicotine crosses the mucous membranes more easily in a basic environment. I remember reading about it; they do that a lot with American dip.

It definitely smells just like ammonia to me, very strongly, but only los for some reason. I even smell it in Ettan, which is supposedly only tobacco, water, and salt.

I found that when I first started using snus I sometimes detected a whiff of ammonia, but these days I only smell the brand and the flavour.

I've also come to associate brands with other smells. For example when I now smell a cup of Earl Grey in the office I think of "General" or "Göteborgs Rapé" when drinking gin....

That's reassuring. As the days go by, I find the smell getting less and less strong. Also, the first time I smelled General portion I thought someone had replaced my order with Earl Grey tea as a joke :lol:

I can only hope that in time, my Goteborgs Rape will taste like gin. My tastes are changing as I grow up, and I find I rather like gin, even though when I was younger I wouldn't touch it.

[RobsanX]

I offered some Ettan to a couple of friends, and they both said it smelled like cat pee, but I don't sense it at all...

[holnrew]

Maybe somebody did a wee in your snus?

And I don't smell ammonia at all.

[Starcadia]

I just took a few whiffs of my Skruf (probably shouldn't say that in public), pretending I'd never smelled it before. I can understand how people would interpret the same smell differently, and how the tang of the scent could seem like ammonia. My mother things snus smells like old sweaty socks. I think it smells like tobacco.

[Grim]

holnrew Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 1:37 am Post subject:

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Maybe somebody did a wee in your snus?

And I don't smell ammonia at all.

I have never smelled ammonia or pee in my snus at all, however about 10-25% of posters on here have complained smelling ammonia or a pet urine smell.

[holnrew]

My mother things snus smells like old sweaty socks.

I should go to bed... you really don't want to know what I misread that as. ops: