พระอาทิตย์ตกดิน (Thai Sunset)

Ingredient|% :---|---: Carmel (caramel) (FA)| 1.7 Coconut (FLV)| 0.7 Lemon Grass (FLV)| 0.5 Acetyl Pyrazine 5% (TFA)| 2.5 Saffron (FA)| 0.3 Lime Tahity Cold Pressed (FA)| 0.1

Flavor total: 5.8%

• Difficult and precise flavor amounts? ✓
• Odd flavor profile? ✓
• Unusual ingredients? ✓
• Not complete? ✓
• Confusing name? ✓

Hey, it must be a Queuetue recipe.

พระอาทิตย์ตกดิน is a thai-inspired dessert. Saffron, lemongrass, coconut and lime in a corn custard. It's only one day old, but I'm very excited about it.

I got FLV Lemon Grass as a preview and I immediately knew I could finally go forward with a post-it that's been stickied to my monitor for 5 months. Lemon grass is a tough customer to wrap your head around, because like in cooking, it really makes itself known. This isn't just another type of lemon, it's a wholly different beast that is lemon-y, sure, but it's floral and pungent and skunky and a bit like baby powder and a bit like bubblegum. Standalone (2-3%) it's like a big flowery lemony fright train. It's really weird and enjoyable, but I don't think it's ADV material standalone. It's dying for other powerful partners, like:

FLV Coconut. I've gone into FLV Coconut before, but I feel it's the most realistic coconut out there, and it's very strong. I needed something to stand up to and round out the lemongrass, and this guy does the job. They don't blend together, but they do compliment each other considerably. Coconut and lemongrass are a classic combo, if not slightly ... one dimensional. They need an additional note of interest, something like ...

FA Saffron Yeah, I'm going there. It seems like most of you spend a considerable time trying to get the "flowery" out of your mix. Well, guess what? Saffron is flowery in every way flowery is available to your senses. It's deep and bright and bitter and crazy powerful. It adds a red note to this mix that I feel lends it real legitimacy. Sans saffron, it's a bunch of guys making noise. With saffron, it's a meeting of powerful equals, finding balance on the limited real estate of your palette.

The percentages above aren't perfect. These three flavors are all bullies, and the goal is for none of them to win. This mixture is close.

Following our big, bruiser stars, I needed a highlight - a bright ringing note to bring interest and reward you for putting up with the rough treatment you've received from the big three. I chose an accent that is usually a primary player.

In most other recipes, FA Lime Tahiti Cold Pressed is a star in it's own right. It makes a recipe "lime". Here, I'm toning it down and using to just to provide a bit of interest, anchor the pudding and the aromatics and to cut the sweetness to follow. You may immediately notice it, you also may not. I find it fades in and out as I vape this recipe.

Acetyl Pyrazine at 2.5% Whaaat? Yeah, I do this. If you look at my flakey recipes, you'll see I bring the AP. I like the flavor of corn, and it only tastes like corn chips if you don't properly support it. To take mega corn and turn it into corn pudding, we need one more ingredient:

FA Caramel (Carmel) I don't like real caramel. I don't particularly like TFA's caramel. But I like FA's caramel. Especially with large doses of AP. It makes a nice light corn pudding that I dig as a base for lots of things. Here it's used a bit heavy and it serves an additional purpose: Lemongrass, Coconut and Saffron is a really bitter combination. Lime isn't helping. Although I enjoyed that test, it was obvious that a purely aromatic version of this mix was too powerfully bitter. If you like bitter, give it a shot. But adding extra sweetness with the caramel takes enough edge off to make this a tasty, genuinely interesting vape.

I'm enjoying it at 70VG/30PG and 3mg nic in a derringer, and I'll soon be moving it to my Griffin, once I can bear to part with /u/skiddlzninja's delicious cliché. Follow the link at the top to mix it for yourself at All The Flavors.