Been a few days, DIY.

Basically, to put it simply, I've just been driving myself insane trying to perfect some mixes. Drunken Pears, Banana Split, and a few other ideas that I've been trying to work on. Whether it's just olfactory exhaustion, mental exhaustion, or something else, I felt like everything I had been working on was just turning to shit.

After my last flavour order came in, I started experimenting. Trying to find the missing piece to Drunken Pears, trying to figure out this fucking Apple Crisp juice. After a few late, drunken nights, I decided to just go back to the basics and do some solo flavour tests. Turns out I actually hate the majority of the new strawberry flavours I purchased. Oh well.

So tonight, I figured I'd just do what I did with the recipes that have actually succeeded, just stop worrying and overthinking, and fucking mix.

As always, here's a V1 recipe, but it's tasting good already, and it's got some of my confidence in mixing back. Flavour notes below the recipe.

eloD - orange, pineapple, banana juice

• CAP Sweet Tangerine at 3.5%
• CAP Juicy Orange at 2%
• TFA Banana Cream at 1.5%
• TFA Pineapple at 2%
• TFA Dragonfruit at 1%
• FA Meringue at 0.75%

Flavour notes

CAP Sweet Tangerine/CAP Juicy Orange - so if anyone has ever had the actual juice blend from the grocery store that this recipe is based off of, you'll know that the base of that flavour profile is the orange juice. Now, CAP Juicy Orange is a great flavour, but it's weak. And when it's pushed to higher percentages, you get a strange waxiness to it, as well as a bit of a throat hit. But as the base profile here, you get exactly what the concentrate is called, a nice mouthful of orange juice. Using CAP Sweet Tangerine on top of it helps keep the orange flavour from melting into the other flavours and completely falling into the background.

TFA Banana Cream - a no brainer for any banana flavour in my opinion. Fairly realistic, no banana runts notes, and a nice way to add some depth to the mix. What I like about the other flavours in this recipe is that they fight the banana from pushing itself to the front of the mix. Keep it below 2% here unless you're trying to create more of a banana smoothie with hints of the other flavours. The best thing with this flavour though, is that after a few days, it helps the mouthfeel of the recipe really reflect it's real life counterpart. That juice blend from the store is thicker than simple orange juice, and using TFA BC here helps emulate that.

TFA Pineapple - the accent, obviously. This flavour adds a nice tartness to the whole mix. TFA Pineapple is a powerhouse of a concentrate, and it can easily take over a mix in high percentages. I kept it at 2% because I wanted it to fight with banana cream and keep both flavours from taking over. Be sure to take note of how you can sorta taste pineapple throughout the entire vape, but it doesn't really punch you in the face except in a bit of a juicy, tart mouthfeel.

FA Meringue/TFA Dragonfruit - the binding agents. We all know what TFA Dragonfruit is capable of, and in this mix, it helps all of the other flavours mix together, while also boosting their individual properties. I keep it low because, well, you don't need a whole lot for it to do what it's supposed to. Higher percentages yield some strange results, and you'll notice some weird hints of more earthy flavours when you push Dragonfruit too high in a mix. Meringue is here to just add a touch of sweetness and help boost the creamy mouthfeel that Banana Cream is already creating.

So, there it is. I mix it at 70vg/30pg as usual, and this is great as a shake and vape. Give the banana a day or two to really shine. Future adjustments will simply be tweaking the percentages to allow for more flavour overall, but I wanted to keep this mix simple. I've been fucking with 10+ flavour recipes lately, and I just needed something quick and easy to get my confidence and sanity back.

As always, if you mix this up, please report back with some notes you may have. And above all, thank you for checking out the recipe. Keep mixing, everyone.

Cheers!