Hello all!
To start off, our vape company has been in the business of juice for the past two years, and we've found solid success with a lot of our creations. We slimmed down our line earlier last year, and retired some of the original recipes.
When we started, it was all The Flavor Apprentice (TFA) flavoring. Since then, we've branched out significantly to large and small flavor companies for our current line, but this should make it a bit easier for those starting out, or that just have the ingredients on hand.
After browsing through DIY, I can see that there's a lot of people that just love to mix and try new things. Let us know what you think
All names were picked off of television shows at the time, no laughing!
The Professor
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Banana nut bread (TFA) - 7%
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Cinnamon Churro (TFA) 2%
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French Vanilla (TFA) - 1%
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Cinnamon Sugar Cookie (TFA) - 3%
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Sweetener (TFA) - .5%
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Vanillin (TFA) - 2%
This flavor was intended to be a Banana Nut Bread, not overly loaded with banana, but enough to get the sweet and full flavor on the inhale, and the exhale tasting like the bread flavor that the dish left behind. Banana Nut Bread was a good starter flavor, but was too simple in flavor; it had banana, but it wasn't overbearing, and came already with a cinnamon undertone and a very slight sweet taste. Almost lacking the entire bread concept. The Cinnamon Churro had a dry, grainy taste, lacking in sweetener (causing the recipe to need sweetening at the end), but it ended up complimenting the cinnamon in the Banana Nut Bread flavoring.
Now, with the two ingredients, I had a dry banana grain taste with an exhale of pure cinnamon...It was too harsh. I threw in French Vanilla to take the edge off of the cinnamon and it worked, but ended up masking part of the grain taste. After a couple tests, Sugar Cookie helped kick in the bread flavor, and added a sweet smell to the vapor cloud. I preferred my vape to also taste sweet, so after adding a tiny bit of Sweetener, it really helped kick it up. Lastly, the Vanillin added a thick mouthfeel to the mix, without overpowering the Cinnamon. This was a solid ADV during that winter.
The Charlie
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Honeydew (TFA) - 4%
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Swedish Gummy (TFA) - 6%
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Sweetener (TFA) - 1%
TFA's Swedish Gummy is really a one of a kind; I get specifically the candy flavor without it being overly sweet, and the gummy candy aftertaste that has melded very well with any fruit that I've paired it with (so far). Mixing it alone works well for a simple vape, but adding a bright, tangy flavor helped add a body to the sweet candy. The one note that I took from this is that by itself, the Honeydew was a bit too citric, and a few customers noted that the Honeydew was rather tart. If I use Sweetener, I try to keep it at .5% or less, but raising the percentage helped smooth out the tart note and bring the honeydew down a small amount to a more realistic flavor.
The Stark
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Lychee (TFA) - 8%
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Koolada (TFA) - .25%
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Pear (TFA) - 2%
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Sour(20%) (TFA) - .75%
Lychee, before getting into mixing, was a total curiosity to me. Since making and discontinuing the Stark, I've tried multiple Lychee flavors that all have different profiles, so my palate is not going to be your compass on this berry. However, from standalone at 6%, it had a bright, fleshy taste and an eccentric sweet aftertaste unlike most other Western fruits. To help round out the sweet, I took Pear, an earthy, thick pear flavor at a low percent. Even down at a 1% test, the earthiness really took down the high note of the Lychee, and adding TFA's Sour(20%) helped neutralize the earthiness and let the Lychee dominate, albeit at a lower level than originally. Lastly, and this is totally to preference, I used Koolada to give it a cool feeling. The Koolada was awesome at builds above .3 ohms, but lower and it ended up becoming a bit too cold to really taste.
Holy crap all TFA!
Nice share, thanks!
Glad to /u/abdada! I've been browsing this sub recently, saw a lot of your posts on it with info and guidelines. Super cool of you to do what you do!
I mostly just come here and crap on people who don't read the sidebar, lol.
But I love seeing premium recipes posted -- especially so newbs can actually see that popular flavors just a year or two ago were not THAT complicated to do!
WAT? Fine, I'll just play you in this thread and take the downvotes ;)
I'm too busy playing this on my desktop.
OMG The Charlie looks delicious, I am a honeydew vape fiend. I'll be mixing this up later, thanks for the share!
Oh hey I have like none of these flavors. Except Swedish gummy. But I've used it once as a background note.
So now I'm wondering what fruit I could pair it with to make something similar. TFA cantaloupe maybe? Juicy peach? Hmmmm.
Awesome! Thank you for sharing these!
For clarification, is the sugar cookie Capella, or is it TFA Cinnamon Sugar Cookie? I don't recall a TFA Sugar Cookie.
Good catch! It was actually Cinnamon Sugar Cookie ; updated on the post.
Just mixed up all 3 of them. Currently trying The Professor which is pretty great. I feel like it will be a good steeper. Any recommendations on PG/VG ratio and steep times?
I made them around 20/80VG
Oh and thank you for sharing with us!
I might be wrong but an introduction of yourself/company isn't really development notes.
Nice of you to post but without notes it still belongs in the monthly thread.
edit: Yeah, I might downvote this too. But look at those fantastic notes that were added? Worth it.
You got it, I'll write up some dev notes on why I chose these flavors and how they blend with others. Appreciate the notice.
Thank you, we can't bend the rules just for companies, and I feel it's a bit disrespectful to threaten removing a thread when a company shares their recipes. Really a tough place when vendors post without notes :/
But since you're going to add some flavor notes, I'll approve this and get it out of the mod queue.