Back in the days, smoking waterpipe i came across a tobacco called "Pink Lemonade" manufactured by Fantasia.
It became my favorite flavor by a longshot, so the logical thing to do was trying to imitate the profile in e-juice.
Three months ago, i tought i did it, the recipe is:
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6% Raspberry TFA
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2% Lime Zinger DV
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2% Strawberry TFA
It was close, but after four days it lost a lot of flavor and got bland, after a week it was just bad.
So i bought different Lime, Strawberry and Raspberry flavors to try and make an age-proof recipe.
Some iterations later i got rather desperate and asked for a Lime , here, which met my criteria and /u/mayor-of-whoreisland suggested i am looking for Inawera Limetka.
A huge step in the right direction!
Furthermore i asked the /u/gremlinjuice who suggested the problem with the steep is not the strawberry but rather the raspberry, and to use raspberry sweet instead.
I checked the Tfa homepage for the ingredients and it was only raspberry ketone, opposed to 17 molecules. This sounded like more stability to me, as less is going on during curing.
The version which came closest, while being tasty after two weeks is:
Pink Lemonade
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1% Limetka IW
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1% Raspberry sweet TFA
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1% Strawberry FA
Who would have tought out of 12 versions the 1/1/1 comes closest?
There was one being slightly tastier altough being not as close to the original flavor:
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.5% Raspberry IW
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.3% Limetka IW
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.5% Raspberry sweet TFA
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.5% Strawberry TFA
Substitutional Strawberries in order from best to worst:
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1.5% Hangsen
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1% Inawera
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3% Strawberry Ripe (more of something tasty, than a substitute)
now it gets bad
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3% TFA regular
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5% Capella
The Flavor Art one just fits the best, as all three ingredients stay crisp and the Limetka keeps the unmatched vibrancy which it losses by all but the SB ripe, which in turn changes the taste altogehter.
While trying back and forth got an interesting Mt.Dew Code Red flavor (not tested after steep)
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6% Citrus Punch TFA
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.7% Raspberry Sweet TFA
and a rather unrelated Strawberry/Green Tea:
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1.5% Strawberry FA
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.5% Green Tea FA
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.2% Menthol IW(more or less to taste)
I hope you enjoy it.
I don't understand how Lime = Lemonade. Pink Limeaide, maybe.
Also, Code Red is cherry-flavoured, not raspberry.
Lime came closer to Fantasia-Pink Lemonade than any Lemon i tried. Don't think about it like that, the chemicals used to mimic flavors work in wonderus ways.
Ethyl Maltol, Cyclotene and Vanillin form RY4 altough without knowing it is supposed to be a tobacco, you could come to the conclusion it is supposed to be wood, maple or burnt caramel.
And the Mountain Dew, you are right i just googled it, cherry indeed.
Code Red
Ingredient|ml|g|% :---|---:|---:|---: Nicotine juice 100 mg (100% PG)|0.6|0.62|2 PG dilutant|4.72|4.89|15.73 VG dilutant|21|26.49|70 Citrus Mix (FA)|0.3|0.3|1 Citrus Punch (Mt.Dew) (TPA)|2.48|2.48|8.25 Ethyl Maltol 10%|0.15|0.15|0.5 Maraschino Cherry (FW)|0.75|0.75|2.5 Totals|30|35.68|100
Strength: 2mg/ml
PG/VG: 30/70
Flavor total: 3.68 ml (12.25%)
This is mine, and it is very accurate to a mountain dew code red.
I'm guessing it's not actual pink lemonade that you are looking for because FW is pretty spot on.
Also I'm working on a code red and I think cherry crush is a must have.
Have you smoked the version i was trying to clone? Waterpipe is also called shisha.