I'm a former smoker. 3-5 years off and on. Really glad I found vaping.
After that, I thought I hated tobacco. The smell of cigarettes disgust me and cigars have never been my bag of tricks. I liked the smell of cigar shops, but the act of smoking a cigar was less than pleasant to me.
Cue me finding the Mega Tobacco Tasting Note Thread.
At first, I discount the thread because I thought I hated tobacco flavorings. The first, and only one I tried was a ciga-like. However, I started going through a phase where the sweetness of dessert and fruit vapes was just too much for me. This leads me to the following recipe:
Sweet Leaf
Cured Tobacco (FLV) - 4%
Shisha Vanilla (INW) - 1.5%
Ok, not an impressive recipe list by any means. However, both of these flavors are so complex, you would really be doing them a disservice by burying them in a list of 10 other ingredients. Think about it this way, you don't put A1 steak sauce on a medium rare slab of wagyu beef filet mignon.
This juice tastes exactly like a nice cigar smells. No ashy aftertaste like you licked the bottom of an ashtray. It has a nice earthy tobacco flavor. So rich and decadent yet so smooth and pleasant. A very pleasing herbal flavor. And the vanilla shisha is a really creamy vanilla with a hint of molasses. It marries with the tobacco flavoring so perfectly. Subtle and sweet on your lips like the cigar wrapper is coated in it, but nothing more.
Definitely a new favorite of mine and I can't recommend the two flavors enough.
http://e-liquid-recipes.com/recipe/539727/Sweet+Leaf
I just recently got into tobacco flavors -- really excited to bring a new flavor profile into my vaping life.
Thanks for the share, don't have either -- yet.
Did I teach you something?
This feels strange.
There's a lot of tobaccos that are simply delicious and don't taste like cigarettes/ashtrays at all. People are really missing out. INW Am4A has been a favorite of mine lately.
I love the AM4a as well, but I only mix it by itself. Do you mix it with anything?
Only standalone for now as well. When I described Godfather to you you told me it might go well with AM4a, and now that I've tried it I can confirm: a smidge of godfather should be nice with it. I have a bunch of things I want to try with Gold Ducat and AM4a, I'll share anything that's good!
I enjoy AM4A with a little FA Burley and FA Vanilla Boubon. I will typically also add INW DNB to most of my tobaccos when mixing for myself. It usually looks something like:
4% - INW AM4A
2% - FA Burley
1-2% - FA Vanilla Bourbon
1% - INW Dirty Neutral Base
I usually give tobaccos a nice long steep. 2 weeks minimum but some as long as 4-6 weeks.
Coincidentally enough, I have also been working on simple tobacco blends, except I have been a long time fan of tobacco flavors (shoutout to Indigo Vapor). But the steeping time to attain good blends is quite a barrier to amateur mixers. Until...FLV Cured Tobacco, truly a shake and vape caliber tobacco flavoring. Actually, because the flavor tends to fade over time, it is arguably better as a shake and vape. Here is my current effort:
PB & T
Cured Tobacco (FLV) - 5%
Peanut Butter (TFA) - 2%
Milk & Honey (FLV) - 0.25% (optional)
Quite good as a shake and vape, but after a day or two, the complex pyrazines in the peanut butter smooths out the top notes in the tobacco delivering an excellent 555 style tobacco where both the nuttiness and tobacco are quite evident. The optional Milk & Honey addition is solely to provide a hint of sweetness to the mix, as desired.
Definitely going to have to pick up some of the Shisha Vanilla and try your blend. Naturally, I just made an order and will have to wait. D:
Out of curiosity, what setup do yo normally use when vaping this flavour? I imagine sub-ohming tobacco flavours wouldn't go down to well?
I really need to try this. Thanks for sharing!
Just wondering if this fades as it ages. I've been reading some on FLV cured and a number of people say that the flavor fades dramatically after a couple weeks. (depending on % and what it's mixed with maybe?)
Yes. It definitely fades as it ages. The flavor is pretty faded after week 1. After week 2-3, it's just a remnant.
However, the flavor is so supreme that it just can't be beat.
Right after I quit anologs I didnt care for the taste of tobacco. I think the tobacco flavors were to much like walking around with an unlit analog in my mouth. Now I enjoy these flavors more! Thank you for the recipe, I have the tobacco, but not the Shisha V.
I'm a big fan of NETs; easy enough to make one with basic equipment, and you get the tobacco 'smell' as a taste without the ashy combustion notes like you said - and they can be mixed with a bit of vanilla or custards (or both) to make them really pop.
Just finished mixing a Brick House extract that tasted much better than I'd planned, no pepper or too many earthy notes, but still has the leaf flavor and hint of earth that marks a nice stogie - mixed it at 30% from a 1.8 week maceration.
Oh, and for $10 I got a liter of juice ;)