Oden’s Classic Cinnamon Portion

Review: I ordered this a while ago, tried it, and then left it in the fridge for a few weeks. I wasn’t a fan. Now, I’m going to give it another shot. Also, I know this is the Extra Stark tin pictured here, but the company doesn’t seem to have a website, and this is all I can find… It looks pretty much the same, except the one I have here says Classic where this one says Extra Stark…

I like Oden’s tin design. I don’t like that it doesn’t have a little storage place in it. This isn’t too big of a deal except in two situations: long, boring meeting led by long-winded, blow hard assholes and fancy dinners where they give you cloth napkins. Sadly, I attend more of the former than the latter, but it’s still a small problem. I don’t mind tossing a used portion on the floor of Ivy at the Shore in Santa Monica, for example, because the place is so damn dark, you could eat with your pants off and no one would notice. But doing it at a well-lit place like Del Frisco’s Double Eagle in New York at lunchtime feels like I’m going to get busted… And yes, waiters of these dumb restaurants, that little tobacco treat on the ground was from Dr.Snus himself…

As I write this, I keep trying to put a Roda Lacket in my mouth before I remember that this is Oden’s Cinnamon time. The box is also very similar to the other Oden’s. This one has a slight brown stripe around it, and says kanel on it, which apparently means cinnamon.

OK. It’s a weird color. Kinda yellowy, like the color you’d think snus would turn your teeth — but it magically doesn’t. The smell isn’t quite like cinnamon. There’s cinnamon in there, for sure, but it’s muted by something else. The best way to describe it is day old peach cobbler, I think.

At first it tastes like nothing. It’s comfy, not unpleasant, but it tastes like nothing, well, it kind of tastes like paper. Fifteen minutes in, I feel a little warmth, which I suspect is the cinnamon. You ever lick a Big Red wrapper and stick it on your girlfriend? Me neither… The more you use it, the more the flavor picks up. It’s not bad, and the cinnamon gets a tiny bit of legs.

Suggest Use Time:
I’d like to give this a better shot, but it’s too boring.

Dominant Flavors:
Paper… eventually something resembling cinnamon

Buzz Factor:
Normal

The Prognosis:
This one is snusable, but it’s not very interesting. The warmth it gives out is kinda neat, but the muted cinnamon flavor seems lacking, odd, yet still masks any tobacco flavor.

Dr. Snus Rating:
++ (Meh)