We've got recipe threads from TFA, Capella, and FA (see the sidebar), now it's time to put one together for Flavorah (FLV).
They haven't been around long, but they certainly have made a mark on this sub. Their flavors are super-concentrated, and so many of them are winners that it's time to post your favorite FLV-based recipes.
Please post recipes that use at least 75% of the flavor base from Flavorah. It's OK to use a few "outside" ingredients and adjuncts, but this thread is meant for your recipes that focus on FLV and use them as the main source of the recipe. Once this gets going it will be added to the sidebar, so make 'em good ones.
It's best to use the format:
<Flavor> (FLV) @ x%
<Flavor> (FLV) @ x%
<Flavor> (<Vendor>) @ x%
<Flavor> (<Vendor>) y drops per z ml
(note - if you are having trouble with spacing, hit the space bar twice before you hit return and your comment will begin a new line without a paragraph break).
###Top level posts need to be a FLV-centered recipe or will be removed.##
Thanks for the reminder for this thread from /u/OctaVariuM8
Strawnilla
6% FLV Vanilla Custard
1% FLV Strawberry
6% CAP Sweet Strawberry
2% FA Meringue
Edit: Just noticed the preference of using 75% FLV base. Don't ban me! Delete if necessary, sexybutt.
Edit²: Forgot notes.
Long story short, Vanilla-strawberry kind of Cool Whip type thing. FLV Vanilla Custard and FA Meringue at these percentages make for a semi-sweet vanilla pudding with Cool Whip-esque flavor. CAP Sweet Strawberry lends an artificial strawberry, when paired with the 1% FLV Strawberry (jam), it tastes almost like the strawberry glaze you get in bags or those little tubs. You know..the stuff that goes on the little angel food treats everyone's mom makes.
I wonder how this would taste with lowering the cap sweet straw and adding some holy diy vanilla or maybe some vanillin (:
thanks man!
Since /u/tranceinate apparently uses holy vanilla as lube (true story), he's finally convinced me to get some. I traded off all of my FLV flavors, but let me know if you try!
am just starting to learn diy...dont understand what u mean by banning this due to a 75% FLV base?
Mixed up a 30ml of this yesterday. Even without steeping, it's so good. To me, it tastes like strawberry milk. Creamy and the strawberry isn't too strong at all. It's very well rounded. I have a concentrate of Killer Flavors strawberry milkshake that I mixed a standalone a while back and this is very similar to that. Except yours is smooth and full bodied. Good recipe dude.
I ended up adjusting this with some DIY vanilla like I suggested. It is very tasty:
Ingredient|% :---|---: Holy Vanilla (DIY)|2 Meringue (FA)|2 Strawberry (Flavorah)|1 Sweet Strawberry (CAP)|5 Vanilla Custard (Flavorah)|5
Flavor total: 15%
I'll have to give this a shot later. Looks good!
I'm thinking I might swap out the cap strawberry for tfa. the thing with this recipe is that the flv strawberry is kinda like a sharp flavor and it really changes the vape from normal to something special. I think you hit the right % too, anymore and it's overpowering any less and it might not have the same effect. all my opinion of course. taste being subjective and all (:
5% FLV Pink Guava
1% EM (10%)
FLV Pink Guava is a great standalone flavor for sure.
I love the taste but it's sooooo strong and harsh on my throat. 1 drop per 10ml is enough to overpower most of the mixes I've tried. Does the em knock back the harshness a lot? Or am I just really sensitive to this flavour?
I made a little 15ml of this, but added 1% FA Coconut and I fucking love it!
Two outstanding new fruit-tobacco-desert blends I've been developing throughout my most recent FLV mixing marathon, and another FLV recipe !
Ingredient|% :---|---: Butterscotch (Flavorah)|0.5 Cantaloupe (Flavorah)|3 Caramel (Flavorah)|0.5 Coconut [v2] (Flavorah)|0.2 Cream (Flavorah)|0.75 Cured Tobacco (Flavorah)|2 Milk and Honey (Flavorah)|0.75 Peach (Flavorah)|0.5 Virginia Tobacco (Flavorah)|0.5 Oak Wood (FA) [optional] |0.25
This stuff is insanely delicious, layering fruity sweetness on top of a rich, complex tobacco & and a nuanced cream. New ADV status,
Basic Tobaccaloupe Cream
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FLV Cantaloupe - 3.50%
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FLV Cured Tobacco - 2.50%
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FLV Cream - 1.50% (OR Milk & Honey 1.5%)
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FLV Butterscotch - 0.75% (OR Caramel 0.75%)
Same blend, stripped of all the accents & nuance, just the foundation flavors I used to create the base for this mix, before I added all the complexity to it in subsequent revisions.
Peachbacco Moonshine v1.2
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FA Peach - 1.00%
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FLV Peach - 1.00%
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FLV Caramel - 0.75%
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FLV Milk & Honey (or FLV Vanilla Custard) - 2.50%
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FLV Virginia Tobacco - 2.00%
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FLV Cured Tobacco - 1.50%
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TFA Kentucky Bourbon - 1.50%
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FA Oak Wood - 0.75%
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FA Vanilla Bourbon - 0.50%
I'm really stoked about where this mix is headed but it's still got a ways to go before it's perfect. After this newest version steeps out, I'll make tweaks & edit this post.
EDIT: Here's another FLV-dominated mix, inspired by a toasted coconut cream mix in the September Recipes thread:
Toasted Oakonut Cream
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FLV Coconut [v2] - 1.50% (if using FLV Coconut v1 instead: 4%)
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FLV Sweet Coconut - 1.00%
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FLV Cream - 1.50%
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FLV Milk & Honey - 0.50%
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FLV Vanilla Custard - 1.00%
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FLV Cured Tobacco - 0.25%
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FA Oakwood 0.75%
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FA Marshmallow 1.00%
This profile tastes totally different from the recipe it was initially inspired by, but it's also more addictive IMO. I can't wait for it to steep out a couple days (if it lasts that long)...
I'm gonna keep updating this post & adding relevant recipes, instead of posting new comments in here ever day, so please help keep this comment near the top! You can also find more of my FLV mixes in this thread & on my ELR account, which is the best I can offer until I get them up on DIYorDIE.
Could I replace the Sweet Coconut with like...CAP coconut? Or maybe extra FLV Cococut? I'm also missing Oakwood and FA Marshmallow, but I do have TFA Toasted Marshmallow which is pretty darn good IMO.
Thoughts on alterations?
Thanks!
Sure, I love TFA Toasted Marshmallow -- I just didn't put it in this mix because it's a v1, and I wanted a baseline before I started adding other flavor notes. Sub away, 1-1.5% Toasted should be fine.
I'd probably just drop the Sweet Coconut if you don't have it, initially -- mix it up that way and then if you need more coconut flavor, add it in after a few days have passed. I do that a lot when I'm developing a mix, that way I get more mileage out of each experiment, plus I don't have to wait as long to resteep new mixes every time I make a change, just shake & wait 24hrs after making some tweaks. Just make sure you write down what you added, because I've made that mistake before!
Yeah. For some reason I tend to mix, shake, taste, and then immediately alter the flavor if it needs more of something. If it's a cream though I tend to let it sit for a bit before making changes. I actually ordered some FA marshmallow (along with like 14 other FA flavors), so I'll have some to add. I'm also going to order more from FLV this week so I'll have the coconut too later on. Hopefully I chose wisely with my FA selections, I just sort of guessed what I'd need lol.
Peanut Butter Banana
3% FLV Peanut Butter
2% FLV Banana
2% FLV Blueberry Muffin
This was my first attempt at a Peanut Butter Banana flavor using only Flavorah. After I mixed it, it was very cloudy and the banana was way too strong. I let it sit for two weeks, the liquid cleared up and the banana died down after a bit of breathing. For a random attempt it actually came out pretty delicious. I put the Blueberry Muffin as a kind of bready base, it smells like a pastry with a little bit of blueberry jam kind of sweetness. The Blueberry Muffin didn't really show in this attempt.
The FLV Peanut Butter is really, really good. It's not sweet, like a JIF or Skippy kind of peanut butter, more salty like natural peanut butter. Very hearty and dark flavor.
The FLV Banana is good, but I made the mistake of using too much. I actually like it more than TFA Ripe Banana which I use all the time. I've gotten cloudyness with the TFA Ripe Banana as well, but it goes away. Banana flavors always seem to need time to breathe imo.
I'm going to try it again but change things around, maybe like this :
3% FLV Peanut Butter
1% FLV Banana
2.5% FLV Blueberry Muffin
I also wanted to add that FLV Vanilla Custard is great. I've been using it too much, I'm almost out sadly.
I tried a combo of the FLV Strawberry and FLV Vanilla Custard for a simple Strawberry Cream, but I really hated it.
5% FLV Strawberry
3% FLV Vanilla Custard
The strawberry was just too artificial and sweet for me. I just didn't like it, I vaped it a while and just put the bottle back on my shelf. I gave it another shot with TFA Strawberry Ripe and it's just so so much better.
5% TFA Strawberry Ripe
3% FLV Vanilla Custard
It's just a simple strawberry and vanilla custard, but I've already gone through two 30mL bottles.
I agree, I can't do FLV Strawberry alone in this type of flavor. /u/BotBoy141's version of that profile is excellent... I'll let him post it here in this thread as a top-level comment, but here's the recipe if you wanna try it out:
Strawberry Custard (/u/BotBoy141)
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FLV Vanilla Custard - 3.25%
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TFA Strawberry Ripe - 2.00%
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FLV Strawberry - 2.00%
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FLV Coconut - 0.20% (0.50% if you still have some of the old v1)
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TFA Bavarian Cream - 1.00%
This flavor is incredible on a hot day. Been tweaking the percentages for fucking ever, and finally have it where I want it.
.9% FLV lime (previously 1%)
.8% FLV coconut
.8% FLV sweet coconut
1% TFA strawberry (ripe)
4% TFA vanilla bean ice cream
Edit: Somehow I never thought about dragonfruit. Add .6% tfa dragonfruit to add a whole new level to this juice. Either way, this is my all day vape. Like almost every day.
Also, flv creme de menthe standalone is always in my rotation. Shit is too good.
> 1% FLV lime > .8% FLV coconut
Just curious... do you put the lime in the coconut and shake it all up?
Looks yum -- is that v1 or v2 FLV Coconut?
V1. I wasn't even aware there was a v2. Lol
You can just use like 1.2 or 1.3 coconut instead of the combination of both, but it's different. Also, maybe try less lime unless you like lime as much as I do. Lmao
Their Lime is fantastic -- it's like a better version of FA Lime Tahiti Distilled. I bet it'd make a perfect Cherry Limeade flavor.
The v2 version of FLV Coconut is the same profile but 3X the potency, so you don't wanna mix them up. The bottles are labeled the same but the v2 flavoring is much darker, like a light brown instead of a light amber. They adjusted the potency when they released the other FLV Sweet Coconut, to further differentiate the two very different profiles -- Coconut is complex, toasted, creamy & rich, whereas Sweet Coconut is lighter, more tropical, and designed to blend with fruits & creams. Combining them like this is pretty magical -- I've got a recipe of my own that does it posted in this thread!
In early with my tribute to the Thin Blue Line.
Boyz'n Blue###
Boysenberry FLV @ 3%
Blueberry FLV @ 2%
Cream FLV @ 1%
Plum TFA @ 1%
Notes: FLV Boysenberry is really something special, so that's the focus of this juice. FLV Blueberry is such a good complement that it was a natural addition. Once I got that balance worked out, I thought a creamy note was appropriate, so I stuck with the FLV theme and tried the Cream, which really helped smooth things out. I don't remember what sparked my desire for something to make it more interesting, but the TFA plum turned this from a good vape to a great one IMO. Hope you enjoy, and as always feed back is welcome.
Could I make this without the Plum? Should I sub something else in? I have the three FLV flavors on the way but I'm missing the TFA (though maybe that should go on my to buy list).
Try it. IMO the plum made it from good to great - hard to describe other than the plum adds a 'thickness' to the mix, and a different level of flavor. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts with and w/o plum. For me, the plum was kind of an "AHA" moment that brought the mix to the next level.
Hey there! So when I got home from work today I decided to try it out without the plum, and you were right that it was good, but not great.
I decided to tinker around a bit, and I settled on something that for me is truly amazingly good.
It's:
Boysenberry FLV @ 4%
Blueberry FLV @ 2%
Cream FLV @ 2%
Adding a little more boysenberry was really helpful, as before that it was feeling a little thin and not bold enough. Plus, that flavor is really darn good, so if some is good, more is...better!
The idea behind the additional Cream was to boost the body of the vape, as with the amount of boysenberry and blueberry, there just wasn't a lot of backbone. I settled on 1% addition, and it worked out great.
Perhaps try out a 5mL batch or something and let me know what you think!
2% FLV Lychee
3% FLV Pink Guava
0.1% FLV Coconut
1% FLV Cream
Use 0.3% FLV Coconut if you still have some of the V1.
Did they change FLV coconut? Will FLV sweet coconut work in your recipes?
Do you have any alternative recommendations for the Lychee flavor? I have TFA Lychee but I'm not sold on it being particularly good. Perhaps another fruit that is similar like strawberry?
Not really TBH. I don't like any other lychee flavors I have tried, FA, TFA or CAP.
Nothing else really lends the same notes that Lychee does. I can't really taste strawberries well so can't comment on if that would be a suitable replacement. The lychee really helps to calm the pink guava down to turn this into an almost creamy vape.
Cermos:
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Cinnamon Crunch FLV @ 4.50%
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Cream FLV @ 3.00 %
This is a very simple, yet very delicious blend I threw together today. The idea was to use cinnamon crunch (which smelled great) and add it to some milky/creamy note to make something not too far from a bowl of cinnamon flavored cereal. I think it gets pretty close, but flirts with the glazed cinnamon roll territory too depending on how you look at it.
Worth noting that I like my flavors strong. Knock it down to 3% and 2% for something lighter and still nice.
My contribution... simple yet oh so tasty!
Peanut Butter Swirl
Mixed in a 80VG/ 20PG blend, tested in a Infinite CLT v3 dripper (so not the best flavor dripper, but that was on purpose) 0.2ohm kanthal dualies, jap cotton.
- 2% FLV Peanut Butter
- 2% FLV Vanilla Custard
- 1% FLV Cream
- 1 drop sucralose/ 15ml (felt it needed a little bit, since it felt dry, can obviously omit.)
Great as a shake and vape. Might try the next one with 1% EM as opposed to the sucralose.
Dammit, /u/kirkt! I'd been putting this together myself behind the scenes as a surprise for Brendan -- I was gonna post all the compiled 50+ recipes I've compiled this weekend after I talk with /u/Flavorah. For now, I'll just copy over the handful of the simpler ones I shared on the DIY Newb thread...
Colorado Cat v2 (/u/rakeleer)
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Coconut (FLV) - 0.40% (if using the 'new' $12.99 FLV Coconut, drop to 0.2% or sub FA Coconut at 0.4%)
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Creme de Menthe (FLV) - 3.00%
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Flue Cured Tobacco (FLV) - 4.00% (So good. I mix at 4% because it fades, originally 3%)
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Peppermint (FA) - 1.00% (or FLV Spearmint 0.6%)
Tastes a lot like a Marlboro Smooth smells before it's lit -- White chocolate mint tobacco. Delicious.
Nutty Karma Tobacco v2.1 (WIP)
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FA Almond - 0.25%
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FLV Caramel - 0.75%
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FA Caramel 0.75%
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FLV Virginia Tobacco - 2.00%
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FLV Peanut Butter - 1.00%
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FLV Milk & Honey - 0.50%
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INW Nutty Princess - 0.50% (optional)
Nanner Butter (still adapting this recipe to FLV flavors, not entirely satisfied with it yet)
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FLV Peanut Butter - 2.5%
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FLV Banana - 1.25%
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TFA Bavarian Cream - 4.5%
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FLV Milk & Honey 0.75%
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TFA Toasted Marshmallow - 2%
Still needs some balancing on the flavor ratios to be perfect.
Blueberry Muffin v2.2 (early WIP, concept borrowed from some 2 ingredient BB Muff I saw using CAP Blueberry)
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CAP Blueberry - 6.00%
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FLV Blueberry - 1.00%
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FLV Blueberry Muffin 1.50%
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FLV Vanilla Custard - 0.5%
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TFA Berry Crunch - 2% (or FLV Crunch Cereal - 0.5%)
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TFA Cinnamon Danish - 2.00%
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INW Biscuit (INAWERA) - 0.50%
CAP BB is essential here for its specific profile, nothing else comes close for this particular flavor note requirement (but my full recipe uses FLV Blueberry as an added accent). The muffin component is still under development, and I'll probably exclude some of these flavors before I'm happy with this mix.
Boysenberry Brogurt v1.2 (just starting to get this dialed in, haven't been using FLV Yogurt for more than a week)
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FLV Yogurt - 2%
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FLV Milk & Honey - 0.5%
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CAP Creamy Yogurt - 2%
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FLV Boysenberry - 1.5%
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FLV Blueberry - 2%
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FLV Raspberry - 0.5%
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FA Forest Fruit - 1%
Additional/Alternative Berries:
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CAP Harvest Berry - 2%, INW Raspberry - 0.5%
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FLV Strawberry (I don't like it much either, but it's dead-on for the specific strawberry flavor in Yoplait yogurt)
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TFA SB & SB Ripe, CAP Sweet SB.
I'll be back with a whole lot more this weekend, so enjoy & please post feedback.
How do you like FLV Milk & Honey? I had it in my cart and decided against it after reading some mixed reviews. I've been dying to make a good Cosmic Fog Milk & Honey clone, and thought it might help (though I imagine FLV Caramel might also be nice).
I just started working with it at the end of last month, so it's hard for me to give a definitive answer -- so far I think it's got a lot of promise but I haven't found a recipe yet in which it's a total knockout. That said, it's not bad by any means, I'm just still working the nuances out.
Here's my PBRY4:
Cured Tobacco FLV 1%
Virginia Tobacco FLV 2%
Peanut Butter FLV 2%
Caramel FLV 2%
Vanilla Custard FLV 4%
I mix this to 80/20 for my tanks and max vg for dripping.
How are you liking their tobaccos?
Papa's Milk
Peanut Butter FLV 2%
Marshmallow FA .75%
Cream FLV 1%
Milk and Honey FLV 2%
Honey FA .2%
Edit: forgot notes
Great bold peanut butter flavor in a thick, sweet-honey cream. I like the FLV Peanut Butter so far, but I love it when the dryness is diminished a bit.
Edited: same profile, better recipe. Very strong mix, dilute 20% if too intense of a flavor.
Adding another, this is for all the crazy coconut headz out there! Mixed up as 80VG, same dripper I tested on (CLT v3, 0.2ohm dual coils, regular kanthal)
CocoNUTZ
- 1.5% FLV Sweet Coconut
- 1.5% FLV Coconut (v2)
- 1% FLV Cream
- 2% FLV Vanilla Custard
- 1% FA Marshmallow (for sweetness and mouthfeel)
Works as a good shake n vape, I'll report back in a few days with steeping notesw as well. Mix it up and let me know what you guys think!
This recipe was shared on the FLV Facebook account a while ago, so I can't take credit for it, but it's damn good:
Flavorah's TropiCoffee Tobacco (the recipe is by FLV, but that shitty name is not):
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FLV Coffee - 2.00%
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FLV Cured Tobacco - 0.50%
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FLV Virginia Tobacco - 1.50%
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FLV Orange Citrus - 0.50%
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FLV Vanilla Custard - 1.00%
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FLV Coconut (v1) - 1.00%
Note: this was posted before FLV Coconut was reworked (same flavor profiie, just 3X more potent), so adjust the 1% accordingly (start at ~0.25% and work up) if you have the newer v2. The v2 bottle isn't marked or labeled differently, but the new version is a much darker color (like maple syrup) than the v1, which was a much lighter amber. It'd be nice if FLV labeled their bottles & announced there was a changeover, because I have some of both versions floating around now and if I didn't know about the shift, I'd be pretty confused.
Agreed, they also apparently redid their black cherry flavor, and I'm not sure which blackcherry I have is reformulated.
Unlike the new FLV Coconut, the new FLV Black Cherry is vsstly improved, IMO. The older one was strongly medicinal and pretty damn potent, the newer version is smoother & gentler, more natural tasting, and blends better with other flavors. I preferred FA's Black Cherry to the old one, but the new one is definitely better than FA's.
So is it the black cherry to have? I'm trying to compile a list of crap I need to buy eventually. It's daunting. At this point it seems like most everything from flavorah is getting great reviews, and then the ones that don't get changed and then they do....
Dirty Girl Scout Martini (mixed drink)
- FLV Creme de Menthe 2.00%
- FA Irish Cream 2.00%
- FA Rum 1.00%
- FLV Coffee 0.50%
- FLV Cream 0.50%
I was looking for creme de menthe recipes online and stumbled into an interesting mixed drink called "Dirty Girl Scout". It sounded very rich, so I figured it would work well as a vaped. The only element omitted is a "vodka" flavoring, as I don't think as a matter of taste it is that significant or necessary.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/85146249180401752/
Flavors are pretty straight forward 1 for 1, except creating the coffee liqueur did require 3 different components (rum, coffee, little vanilla). Pretty nice shake and vape, but let it sit for at least a day to start coming together. Bold, flavorful, and rich. The mint in creme de menthe is really nice not overbearing touch to the Irish cream and kahula flavor.
> FA Coffee 0.50%
FA Dark Bean or FLV Coffee? Also, I think this recipe will get removed because it's not majority FLV, so please repost in in the monthly recipe thread? FLV Creme de Menthe is amazing.
I feel like having an arbitrary percentage of FLV to recipe ratio was tertiary to the point of the thread being a hub for FLV centric recipes (I just read flavorah recipe thread, so I posted a recipe that in my opinion is built around a flavorah flavor, hence the description). This recipes is mainly about modifying creme de menthe in an interesting way with other liquor type flavors.
I don't own FLV Coffee, wasn't sent to me, but I'm guessing given some of the reviews it would work fine at a similar percentage. Also FLV Cream at 0.50-1% instead of vanilla bourbon would also be tasty. I can reflect those changes in the recipe here if that is more appropriate.
FLV Boysenberry @ 3%
FLV Lime @ 2%
FLV Sweet Coconut @ 1%
Just got another order of FLV in, whipped this up (had been planning on it) and I'm a very happy person right now.
Damnit! Wish I'd gotten that lime now... thoughts on how FA lime might be as a sub for the FLV?
Still need to try it standalone. First impression is that FLV's is much closer to INW Limetka, more realistic.
Just made up
FLV Lime 3%
FLV Coconut 1%
FLV Banana 1%
Holy smokes, that is a lot of lime. Delicious, but it's like a strong lime cordial undiluted. The coconut and banana aren't coming through at these percentages, but wow, that is a massive punch of flavour for 3%. Seriously strong. Can't imagine using it any higher than this
Can someone reply with the link the to TFA thread?
Did you perhaps check the sidebar?
All Flavorah
3% crunch cereal
2% cream
2% milk n honey
1% peanut butter
Tastes like a you dunked a peanut butter Cookie into some milk and ate it.