I pondered if I should post this recipe already, but after destroying a tank of this stuff, I figured that it's time.
##~~Karma~~ Chameleon
Ingredient | % :--------|:--------: Lemon (INW) | 1.5 Strawberry (TPA) | 2.5 Fuji Apple (FA) | 1.5 Peaches and Cream (CAP) | 1.5 Vienna Cream (FA) | 2 Cream Fresh (FA) | 1 Marshmallow (TPA) | 1 Ethyl Maltol (10%) | 1
This is a refreshing, slightly tart but sweet candy vape with an effervescent, soda-like "fizz" to the throat hit / exhale, not unlike one of those hard candies which have that weird foaming stuff coming out after a while. And the flavor is awesome.
What still puzzles me most is that it has a very clear grapefruit and pineapple smell to it, and it tastes unmistakably like grapefruit.
I haven't yet pinned it down to 100% certainty, but I have come to the conclusion that the CAP Peaches and Cream is the key ingredient here, along with INW Lemon. I don't like the peach flavor in Peaches and Cream, it has a sort of "white", pithy, slightly bitter taste to it. That combined with the INW Lemon probably makes the distinct grapefruit flavor, bringing in that bitter grapefruit "skin". I don't know yet if the strawberry and fuji have any part in the grapefruit or the fizz effect, but they do fit in nicely. I would've liked to study the flavor compounds if CAP, FA or INW would provide them like TFA does.
This recipe is great to me as is, and I might reiterate.. Or not. I certainly have no clue how to make this any better! Maybe tone the peaches and cream down just a little, I can almost taste it through, but I want it to blend completely. The basic vienna+fresh cream base or sweeteners might be a possible working area, but as of now they work really well with these flavors, considering that lemon and apple generally don't sound like good stuff with creams, and the EM does bring the apple bite down. The marshmallow just gives the juice a slight fullness, and might be non-essential but ain't gonna fix what ain't broke.
TL;DR: I'm baffled by this recipe. It's good and fizzy and grapefruity. Try it. edit: and tell me what you think.
edit: Name changed
Zotz. They're called Zotz Fizzing Candy and they were fucking awesome as a child.
Just mixed this up save for the TFA Strawberry b/c that shit terrible.
Great fucking recipe. Mint from the first unsteeped taste. Thank you sir!
Looks good man, thanks. Hopefully Lemon FE is a working sub for INW.
No idea. INW Lemon seems to play a vital role in this recipe so it won't be the same. If FE is a candy-type lemon, I see no reason why it wouldn't work - but if it's a soapy or detergent-like, "pledgy" lemon, I don't think it'll be as good. Either way, you might not get the grapefruit/fizz-effect.