Lets see. How do I start this one?

Despite the bold claim of the title the first time around, the more I vaped my Dreamsicle, the more I realized it was not quite perfect yet. The orange profile just wasn't right. It needed to be more rounded out. Cue me going to buy another box of Dreamsicles. For science!

Dreamsicle|% ---|--- TFA Vanilla bean ice cream | 2.75 TFA Vanilla swirl | 1 TFA Marshmallow | 1 FA Meringue | 0.25 TFA Orange cream | 3 FW Blood orange | 2.5 CAP Sweet Tangerine | 0.75

I have to thank /u/enyawreklaw for the suggestion on FW blood orange. It was the final piece to the puzzle.

The Base - TFA orange cream, TFA vanilla swirl, TFA vanilla bean ice cream

With these three flavors, we create a nice rich and creamy foundation with a strong orange flavor.

• TFA orange cream can be very assaulting on its own. Tasting more like orange rind than orange cream. However, it is very realistic and it creates a nice base to build on top on.
• In addition, the TFA vbic and TFA vanilla swirl give us a nice actual cream base. So far, I've found that roughly a 3:1 ratio of the two gives a nice creamy vanilla that is super dense and creamy. It fills your cheeks with ice cream awesomeness. This also helps to tone down the harshness of the orange cream rind taste.

Accent - FW blood orange, TFA vbic, CAP sweet tangerine

• Again, TFA vbic. This stuff is potent. I want it very forward in this mix, which is why we are using it at a pretty high amount. Dreamsicle had a much stronger vanilla ice cream taste than orange. It had a tendency to mute fruits as well, which is why there is so much orange in this recipe. You get a nice buttery smooth cream. It's literally the first thing you taste when your inhale, and you can smell it when you take the cap off the bottle.
• As for FW blood orange, this is an awesome flavor. This is what we want pushed forward. It still needs a little bit of rounding off, but for the most part, this is pretty damn close to what we taste in a dreamsicle.
• CAP sweet tangerine is the ultimate top note of this recipe. It's very sharp and distinctive. It adds that final touch to the orange flavor.

Background - FA meringue and TFA marshmallow

• Meringue. You know what it is. It's adding a bit of sweetness to the recipe. Not much I can say here that I haven't said before.
• TFA marshmallow it's a fun flavor in this recipe. It's doing so much. It's fluffing up the creams and making them taste more like the kind of ice cream you'd find in a popsicle that isn't so dense, but still allowing them to keep their richness. It's also sweetening the recipe with a little bit of EM while beating down the fruits and rounding them out.

Optional - Koolada to taste, sweetener to taste

Steep Time - It's perfectly fine as a shake and vape, but at about 5 days, the juice starts to turn a bright orange and the vbic hits it's stride. The orange are fully blended at this point to and you get that classic dreamsicle taste.

And an obligatory shout out to AllTheFlavors.

https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/1430

Edit: Ok, now that I'm on my PC and not fighting the mobile reddit app.

What didn't work

• CAP Sweet Cream - I tried this a couple times. Every single time, it muted the oranges flavors so incredibly hard, they were just an essence of their former flavor. This flavor was especially gruesome to the Blood Orange flavor. Made it seem like I never even added it.

• CAP Vanilla Custard - Too much egg. End of story.

• FA Orange - This flavor just did not work for me at all. Way too chemically. Yes. I shook the bottle. It's my understanding this is a popular flavor. I still wonder if I got a bad batch of it, or if it's just ones of those things I don't taste the same as everyone else.

• FA Mandarin - Not as chemical of a taste as FA Orange, but this flavor just didn't work for me either. Way too forward. The overall profile just wasn't right to me.