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Did you know that adding a small amount of menthol to fruit juices can give them a creamy taste? I make a solution of 20% Menthol Crystals (by weight) in PG, then use about 2% in some juices to really make them pop!
Edit 7/13
OMG TFA GUAVA IS SO GODDAMN JUICY
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Blue Raspberry Slurpee
All TFA flavors
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6% Blueberry (Wild)
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6% Gummy Candy
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4% Citrus Punch
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2% Peach (Juicy)
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1% Pomegranate
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0.5% Sour
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1% EM
If you ask me, this tastes pretty much dead on like blue raspberry. It's sweet, with a sour kick from the Citrus Punch. A smooth vape nevertheless (I'm big on minimum throat-hit). In my opinion it requires zero steep time, just a quick microwave and a really good shake, and it's ready to vape. Let me know what you think.
EDIT: Updated the EM percentage, sorry to anyone who tried it and got a bitter vape.
Just mixed this up, will update by the weekend with comments from some folks (long weekend with 3 other vapers...)
Please do, I look forward to hearing your review. I've found people either really like it or they really don't. If it's not sweet enough (even after the EM) try upping hte Pomegranate to 2%.
Would Blueberry Extra work in this at a lower %?
I'm not sure as I've never tried Blueberry Extra. I've found that TFA Blueberries tend to have drastically different flavors, as in the difference between Blueberry (Wild) and Blueberry Candy. It might work and turn out fantastic though; give it a shot and let me know.
Have you given any thought to adding koolada? This looks awesome. Next order imma get the last few flavors I need. I like cool vapes so I'm wondering if a drop or two of koolada would work.
Honestly, though not a menthol cigarette smoker, I'm a huge fan of menthol/fruit mixes as far as vaping is concerned.
So do I think that a cool vape would work??? Try Koolada 1%, if that's not enough, go to 2%. If you're looking for a hint of mint that won't overpower your vape I've found that 0.5% Menthol, 0.5% Koolada is a pretty perfect ratio.
microwave?
I use the microwave to heat the juice so that it mixes together more thoroughly. While I in no way think that this is a substitution for steeping, it allows me to feel generally assured that if I am to taste the flavor I won't get a swirl effect and throw off the end result.
This one was more about the journey than the destination, and yes, you could just buy the single flavoring from OoO or FW, but it's spot on so I'll share it anyway. It's kind of a pain to make over and over again, so consider making your own pre-mix in bulk if you like it.
Fruity Pebbles
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2% Lemon Sicily (FA)
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1% Mandarin (FA)
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.5% Lime Tahiti Cold Pressed (FA)
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1.5% Black Cherry (FA)
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1% Strawberry (FA)
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.5% Bilberry (FA)
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.5% Raspberry (FA)
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1.5% Meringue (FA)
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1% Vienna Cream (FA)
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.5% Acetyl Pyrazine (TFA)
2 drops per 10ml Sweetener (optional)
1 drop per 10ml Tart n Sour (LA) (optional)
Any recommended steap time on this brew? Just ordered the few flavors I didn't have.
Really just a day or two for everything to blend properly. You might notice the citrus mellow out with a longer steep, and vienna cream has been said to take a week, but I don't notice a lot of change after the first 2-3 days.
I've had someone say that the lime is too forward for them, but I'm fine with it. Start with a small batch, and you can make small tweaks to the fruit blend (.5% at a time) to suit your tastes if needed. It's also only at 10.5% flavor as listed, plenty of room if you want to experiment with adding more "milk". I tried Fresh Cream initially but felt it muted the highs of the fruit.
Is that actually Bilberry? Or Blueberry? Just have never heard of Bilberry... but I am from Missouri and they don't focus too much on edumacation here... lol
Haven't been able to put this one down. FA Banana is more Laffy Taffy than Runts, and mixed with so much cream and custard it really does taste like banana pudding. Sometimes you get cakey-vanilla cookie, sometimes you don't, just like the real thing.
'Nana Puddin'
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5% Banana (FA)
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.5% Banana Ripe (TFA)
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4% Vanilla Custard (CAP)
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5% Bavarian Cream (TFA)
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2% Vienna Cream (FA)
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3% Whipped Cream (TFA)
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4% Vanilla Cupcake (TFA)
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1% Cookie (FA)
Sweeten to taste.
Give it a day or two for the banana ripe to settle and it's delicious. Gets better over the course of a week or two as the creams continue to emerge.
I don't mean to hijack your post, but I was trying to make a Peaches n Cream with Banana ejuice but ended up making something that sounds pretty similar. I think dialing down the banana cream a bit and upping the juicy peach will give you guys a juice less overtly banana, but I like it as it is.
Bananamazin'
- 6% Juicy Peach TFA
- 4% Banana Cream LA
- 2% Bavarian Cream TFA
- 1% Marshmallow TFA
Wasn't a fan of the FA cookie in the mix. It had a weird taste. But other than that it tastes great. I'm thinking of switching to a graham cracker to make it more of a banana cream pie.
You know, it did for me too at first. At some point it settled in and now I only taste a hint of it like every 3 vapes and enjoy it... but you're right, something else could be better there. TFA Cheesecake Graham Crust would probably be great for banana cream pie. I'll mess with subbing Capella Sugar Cookie and see where that takes me. Thanks for trying it!
Snake Blood
8% Strawberry (TFA)
5% Bavarian Cream (TFA)
1% Coconut Extra (TFA)
I just started today but I thought of this when I was doing research into DIY. I came up with the Idea when I was looking up Snake Oil clones, and thought of replacing the pear with strawberry. I made it and its good.
Inspired by MBV's Jizmoglobin, I made my own take on a nutty blueberry custard that I've really been enjoying. FA Bilberry is a strong blueberry that doesn't disappear in the mix. Nice and simple:
Ermahglerbin
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7% Vanilla Custard (CAP)
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3% Vanilla Swirl (TFA)
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3% Bilberry (FA)
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.5% Nut Mix (FA)
2 drops per 10ml Tart n Sour (LA) (optional)
1 drop per 10ml sweetener (optional)
Quick question. I have been struggling to find a blueberry that taste like blueberry. I haven't tried FA Bilberry yet and read your remarks about it. So is it a good blueberry by itself as well as in combo with other flavors?
Thanks
Yes, IMO. It's somewhere in between a real fruit flavor and artificial blueberry, more like BooBerry cereal or blueberry bubble gum than blueberries in a muffin or pancake mix. More dark, wild and sweet than tart. Plenty strong though, and good to go right out of the gate.
Tried this due to a post about 2 weeks ago and I like it a lot.
The Monkey's Snake Oil
All TFA
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Banana (Ripe) .8%
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Bavarian Cream 8%
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Coconut Extra 1%
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Pear 4%
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Watermelon 1%
Can you taste the Banana at 0.8%?
This is my last test, and yes. TFA Banana Ripe is strong as shit. There's just a hint. I originally tried it at 1.5% and it overpowered everything else. 0.8% is my preference, but you can adjust as you like.
A refereshing summer vape
- 8% Granny Smith Apple
- 4% Black Currant
- 4% Horehound
- 2% Green Tea
I don't want to spam this site with vapecrafter posts but what would you guys think if I had a page on the site where you could visit and pick up a 5 mL of any of the blends in the monthly recipe thread with a single click (would be able to customize VG/PG and nicotine)? Is that something people would be interested in?
What about a site that runs like steam's greenlight? Post user made recipes, let people comment and vote on them, and then the ones that are popular enough makes it into the store?
Maybe sell up marked small batches during the voting phase?
This is a great idea and I'd love to integrate something like this into the store. I'll bring this to our web guys and see how we could implement something like this. We definitely won't be able to do it for Alpha but maybe during Beta or full commercial it's something we can try out!
For the time being I'm just asking people if they'd like their recipe featured on the store for others to be able to buy and try before they have to buy a bunch of flavors they might not otherwise use.
Thanks!
This one was inspired by Nicoticket's F5 (Refresh). It's described as, "Mango/Lychee with notes of Apricot, Green Apple, Coconut, and Naturally Extracted Orange peel", but you taste things that aren't in the mix, like grapefruit and cranberry. No clue if it tastes like the original, but it's one of the best fruit vapes I've tried. Sweet, tart, and definitely refreshing.
ALT-F4
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8% Sweet Lychee (Cap)
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5% Sweet Mango (Cap)
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3% Mango (FA)
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1% Apricot (FA)
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2% Green Apple (TFA)
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1% Coconut (FA)
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1% Orange Cream (TFA)
1 drop per 10ml Tart n Sour (LA) (optional)
1 drop per 10ml Sweetener (optional)
Give it a day or two to settle in, no further steeping needed.
~~Raspberry Yum Yum~~ my husband said I should name it "My only regret is I didn't name you Clem" so that's the new name. Clem for short.
3% TFA Raspberry Sweet
3.5% TFA Raspberry
5% TFA Whipped Cream
2% TFA Marshmallow
1.5% TFA Bavarian Cream
Needed a little something, so I added:
3 drops TFA Fig (sorry for the drops, this was on the fly)
4 drops EM
I made this in a 10 ml bottle. Gave a hot water bath, and let it air overnight. A nice, subtle raspberry flavor. Might need a little more raspberry, or some koolada or menthol - very subtle though, and I do like it as is. Edit: Yup a couple of drops of menthol in the tank makes it even better!
Smooth Pear Tree
- 8% Pear (LA)
- 4% Watermelon (LA)
- 1% Cotton Candy (TFA)
- 1% Wintergreen (TFA)
- 3% Bavarian Cream (TFA)
- 2% Whipped Cream (TFA)
- 2 drops menthol per 10ml (dissolved 1oz crystals / 30ml pg)
Think I finally got it right. Let it steep for at least 3 days otherwise the pear on the exhale is a bit harsh.
Any/all feedback/modifications welcome.
I'm out of pear, and am going to use TFA pear (it's in the mail), but am going to try this! It sounds SO refreshing!
let me know how it goes. i'm new to the DiY scene but anything i do, i tend to go all out...ordered 45 flavors right off the bat, gallon of pg and gallon of vg... looking for feedback.
My new freckled lemonade recipe is amazing. 7% lemonade 2% strawberry 2% strawberry ripe 2% orange cream.
just tried this with 1 day steep time and damn i blew my own mind
- 5% fw kiwi
- 5% fw star fruit
- 1% fw sour
- 1% fw extreme ice
i call it star chill
What is the difference between Extreme Ice and Koolada?
Extreme ice is a minty menthol. While koolada is just a cooling sensation without a flavor
Mixed up 3 trial flavors and the one I thought would be gross is actually the best. Steeped for 3 days and its already good.
Rawberries and Creme
All TFA
10% Strawberries and Cream
2% Sweet Cream
2% Creme de Menthe
Mixing up a 30 ml as soon as I finish typing this.
Revision to some old favourites of mine. All are vetted and very tasty at recipe values. :)
555 Bonnies+ [Give at least 10 days or longer. Tastes good within a few days.] Thick flavor and is like a good complex flavor stoggie Sea-gar! I dig it in my Fogger v4.3 topper @ higher 16-12mg/ml. Normally 0.8 ohm
- 8% 555 (FW)
- 4% Bavarian Cream (TFA)
- 0.5% Coconut Extra (TFA)
- 3% Vanilla Swirl (TFA)
- 2% Vanilla Custard (CAP)
- 4% Vanillin 10% (TFA)
Another revision:
Speedy Strawberry [Give a week for mingling] Aromatic and easy to vape/drip. {My favorite low ohm (0.2) 4-2mg/ml dripping sauce!}
- 8% Moo Juice (MBV)
- 2% Strawberry (Ripe) (TFA)
- 3% Bilberry (FA)
One of my favorites today, since it matured... :) Good for Kanger coils and such.. Seems best around 12-10mg/ml. Takes about three weeks to settle then get nice and good. Sure to please those who like Grape Crush soft drinks.
Grape Pop
- 4% Cola Syrup (TFA)
- 8% Grape (FE)
- 3% Peach (TFA)
I don't remember where I got this, but out of the 9 mixes I've made with more than one flavor in them, this one is by far the best. It tastes like a milky, creamy mixture of the red and blue Cap'n Crunch 'berries'. I made a 5ml batch and let it steep for a week and it's fantastic; I'm pretty sure it's better than anything I've bought before. Mixing up a 30ml batch now...
'Crunchberries' All TFA
- 10% Strawberry Ripe
- 6% Bavarian Cream
- 5% Cheesecake Graham Crust
- 2% French Vanilla Deluxe
- 1% Ethyl Maltol
- 1% Acetyl Pyrazine
Here's my attempt at a banana nut bread. I'll probably end up tweaking it some more, but for now I present...Banana Nut Dread. So sorry for the terrible pun. Vape at your own risk.
- Banana Nut Bread (TFA) - 12%
- Vanilla Swirl (TFA) - 2%
- Banana Cream Pie (OOO) - 3%
- Cinnamon Sugar Cookie (TFA) - 2.5%
- Caramel Original (TFA) - 1.5%
- Sweet Cream (TFA) - 1%
- AP - 1.5%
Does anyone out there know of a more Snickerdoodle-y Cinnamon Sugar Cookie Flavoring?
Not quite snickerdoodle but Capella's sugar cookie is really good. I use it in a banana pudding to add that nilla wafer type flavor. I'd bet with a little tfa cinnamon danish or similar you could put together a good snickerdoodle.
Also how do you like the banana cream pie? I'm a banana junkie and always looking to try new ones.
Thanks for the tip! I'll add sugar cookie and cinnamon danish to my next order.
Their banana cream pie is really good. Nice creamy banana with a slight hint of pie crust. It works really well as a stand-alone, but can easily be used to add a unique banana note to mixes. I really like Capella's and Inawera's banana as well.
Another all TPA Nana cream esque juice. I liked the way this one came out more than the other ones I've seen around here. Still a work in progress though. Feedback is welcome.
0.5%- Banana Ripe
3%- Strawberry Ripe
2%- Juicy Peach
3%- Pear
1%- Pineapple
7%- Milkstone (45% Bavarian Cream, 20% Coconut Extra, 10% Sweet Cream, 25% PG)
3%- Marshmallow
0.5%- Malic Acid
question on the milkstone: when you mix the percentages of extracts together, do you leave it as is? or do you dillute to X number of ml's with PG/VG???
I'm working on a similar recipe... try version 2. It's great for this mix, but it's not as weak as version 1.
Thanks! I like that it has custard in it because I've just been adding it in separately for a lot of my fruit cream mixes. I'll have to mix some up soon.
Edit: I haven't tried tfa custard though, only Capella. If you've tried both, how comparable are they?
Green candy apple
TFA Green Apple 13%
TFA Gummy Candy 5%
TFA Cotton Candy 2%
This has a smarties like candy flavor but much more flavorful. I am trying to work in a sour flavor to make it taste more like the candy shockers. This should be left to steep at least a few days.
EDIT: This flavor is an awesome palette cleanser as well.
I don't have any gummy candy, any idea for what kind of flavor would be best to replace it with? Maybe honeydew?
I ended up just buying Gummy Candy, it's steeping right now but I was thinking that if you wanted a more sour/tart flavor you could add a little (1%-3%) TFA Lemon. I'll give you more thoughts in a day
I take it back, haha, way too tart. Good recipe though! I cut down the Green apple to 11% and I enjoy it very much.
/u/InertiaCreeping, what do you like to do with TFA Guava? I got a dram with the first batch of flavorings I ordered. I haven't experimented with the flavor by itself yet (it's up next), but so far I've made this:
8% Guava
4% Strawberry
4% Mango
After steeping it's definitely good - it's a very sweet juice. I might try some of the CAP Grapefruit I have in it, idk. I like the sweetness of guava, but I feel like it needs something sharper or sour to make it better. Maybe pineapple?
Guava has the same smell that TFA Blackberry does... really sweet, full, juicy. Grapefruit would be awesome to add for a little bit of tartness!
Maybe 8% Guava, 2% Grapefruit, 2% Menthol
I have a bottle of Capella Grapefruit, I'm not a fan of it though... I might need to vape it some more, but idk. I did a mix of 10% grapefruit at 70% VG, it just had a strange taste. It didn't taste like a strong grapefruit, it was more of a subtle flavor. It was tart but not really a good tart... maybe I'll try it in this guava mix, perhaps with Koolada. Thanks!
Edit: I think I'm going to try something like this for the next version of my guava mix:
7% Guava
1% Strawberry
3% Pineapple
3% Mango
Here's a basic gummy cola I've adapted for FW drops, found on one of those mixing sites. From my experience, the FW gummy flavor is a bit of a coil 'gunker' so to speak, so I can only recommend using this in rebuildables.
My experience mixing 15mL, 0 Nic Max VG yielded a slightly cloudy juice after a hot water bath and 5 hour venting on a heating pad. I don't know how concerned I should be, because it tastes amazing. Any thoughts?
Gummy Cola
* Cola (FW) 5%
* Gummy Bear (FW) 5%
* Sour (FW) 1%
This is a good start, and tastes great (though it is still clouded) fresh out of a hot water bath. Adding a hint of your favorite vanilla and/or cherry can really fill out the spaces, though I haven't yet found the sweet spot.
Holy shit. Steeping does incredible things.
I made this recipe a few days ago:
7% TFA Mango
4% TFA Ripe Banana
2% TFA Vanilla Swirl
1% TFA Coconut Extra
1% TFA Marshmallow
It tasted weird when I first made it, so I threw it in a drawer for a few days. Now... this is amazing. The clove taste from the banana is completely gone, so all I get is fruity-vanilla goodness.
I might still try it with 2% Ripe Banana instead of 4, perhaps a little more coconut, maybe another flavor... but this is damn good.
Keeping in line with Guava, I think I finally hit the jackpot. Hands down the best fruit juice I've crafted in my 2 months of DiY (including clones and other folks recipes).
Confessor's Blend
- 6% Guava (TFA)
- 3% Juicy Peach (TFA)
- 3% Nectarine (TFA)
- 2% Honeydew (TFA)
- 1% Pineapple (TFA)
- .5% Coconut Extra (TFA)
- .5% Lemon Lime (TFA)
- 1% EM (TFA)
Add Sweet/Sour to taste.
Guava with a hint of pineapple on the inhale with a wonderful peach and nectarine exhale with a Honeydew finish.
It's quite sweet with the 1% EM I added to the initial batch, will likely mix next without EM.
A vigorous shake and good to vape.
I mixed 60/40 with 9.6mg/ml nic. Vaping @ 3.3 on a 1.6 ohm in an Aspire Nautilus tank on my Provari.
Give it a vape. All feedback is welcome/appreciated.
I'm loving that guava/pineapple combination, I agree. I want to mix this up, but I don't have any nectarine or lemon line... I might mix in some CAP juicy peach I have. For the lemon lime... maybe .5% sour instead? Or grapefruit? Something with that slightly sour bite.
So my first recipe that's fully my own, tried for a strawberry cheesecake. All FW flavors, cause I'm a cheapass.
Strawberry - 10%
Cheesecake - 2.5%
Graham Cracker - 2.5%
French Vanilla - 1.5%
Tastes okay (read: not like NYC garbage on a summer day), but definitely needs to steep. If anyone has any suggestions on percentages or changes I should make, feel free to call me a hack and let me know what I should have done.
Adapted from On The Rocks
Keep the name the same just adjust the 2% menthol for 1% menthol, 1% koolada.
- 9% Orange Cream (TFA)
- 7% Mango (TFA)
- 2% Pineapple (TFA)
- 2% Strawberry (TFA)
- 1% Menthol 1oz/30ml (TFA)
- 1% Koolada (TFA)
Been a huge hit even among non-menthol vapers. I gave it 4 days to cure but it's decent right out of the gate. This became my ADV on 7/25 and I've since had to mix 8 more bottles for friends/family.
Finally got around to trying a Virgina Tobacco recipe someone here suggested to me awhile back. I substituted the FA Virgina for TFA Virginia. It's pretty tasty right after mixing but waiting to see what it's like after a proper steep. I do max VG at 12% nic.
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TFA - Virginia Fire Cured Tobacco - 5%
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TFA - Vanilla Swirl - 3%
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TFA - Caramel - 3%
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TFA - Ethyl Maltol - 2%
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Apple Cider Vinager - 1%
Strawberry Cheesecake
All Flavor West flavors
12% Strawberry
4% Cheesecake
3% French Vanilla
2% Graham Cracker
Let it steep for a day or two to let the creaminess come out. I'm going to basically completely overhaul this recipe since I just got a TFA order in, and should be able to really improve on it, as FW's strawberry isn't that great IMO.
Strawberry Vanilla Cupcake
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TFA - Vanilla Cupcake - 8%
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TFA - Strawberry - 4%
Haven't tried it steeped yet but it's good freshly mixed. Cupcake goodness with subtle hints of strawberry. I was inspired by AiV's Zombie Apocalypse to make this even though I never tried it before. It sounded good but I wasn't going to drop the money on an order of it.
EDIT: Words
First post here...my daily vape in a Nautilus on a MVP 2.0 @ 8 Watts.
75% Peach 25% Chai Tea Both 50/50 pg/vg blends Reminds me of Snapple Peach Tea...very pleasant.