First, a little backstory on how this recipe came to be. I work with a 60 something year old man (we'll call him Doug) who rolled his own cigarettes for nearly 40 years before being turned on to vaping. In 2 days, the stubborn old bastard had decided that he liked vaping RY4 through a Nautilus tank a lot more than cigarettes. It took Doug about a month of calling it Y2K or RO420 before he nailed down the RY4 terminology.

Now, for an old man, this guy has the energy level of a 5 year old ADHD patient halfway through a case of Mountain Dew. He puts down cookies and doughnuts like I put down whiskeys on a Friday night, he despises vegetables, and enjoys peanut butter on his roast beef sandwiches. He's an eccentric old guy who really loves his sugar. He has recently taken a keen interest in my DIY hobby. He had me print him off a list of what flavorings I had, and returned it to me a few days later with around 20 things checked off asking me to make him something with all of those ingredients. After a lengthy chat, I figured out the flavor profile he was after and talked him down closer to 10 ingredients.

Doug is also a hoarder. He keeps EVERYTHING. He could probably build a furnished house, a go cart, and possibly a small aircraft with the items he has accumulated over the years. He likes to talk about all of the "stuff" he has, which brought me to call this mixture "Doug's Stuff." Without further boring you with any more backstory, here is the recipe:

Flavor | % ---|--- TFA Apple Pie | 4% FA Fuji | 3% CAP Vanilla Custard (v2) | 3% FA Vienna Cream | 2% TFA Vanilla Swirl | 1% TFA Caramel | 2% TFA Brown Sugar | 1% FA Cinnamon Ceylon | 1.5% FA Joy | 1% FA Meringue | 0.5% TFA (Sucralose) Sweetener | 1%

Tasting Notes

• CAP Vanilla Custard/TFA Vanilla Swirl/FA Vienna Cream- It was apparent Doug wanted creamy vanilla in his mix, as he had nearly everything checked off with the word "vanilla" or "cream" in it. I narrowed it down to these 3 to use as a sweet vanilla cream base. At these percentages, it sets up as a light, sweet, and airy cream for the rest of the ingredients to meld into.

• TFA Apple Pie/FA Fuji- These 2 flavors go together very well with the Apple Pie bring a sweet doughy apple taste to the palette, while Fuji further enhances the apple note with it's dank juiciness.

• FA Joy- Further enhances the dough sensation and also adds a slight fried cinnamon note to the recipe.

• FA Cinnamon Ceylon/TFA Brown Sugar/FA Meringue- Together, these 3 ingredients create an amazing and almost "granular cinnamon-sugar sprinkled on top" sensation to the mix. It's subtle, but you know its there all the way through both the inhale and the exhale.

• TFA Caramel- I feel the Caramel at 2% really helps bring the base together with the rest of the mix. It is thick and robust at 2%, yet it blends well with everything else in the recipe making it the perfect supporting flavor here.

• TFA (Sucralose) Sweetener- This is probably optional, but the old man insisted that his mixture would need sweetener added to it.

I mixed this at 50/50 for the sake of the set-up Doug uses. The taste really pops at this level especially with a higher wattage set-up, yet I'm sure it could easily be tuned to 70 or 80 VG. Tastes great as a shake and vape, the sweetness mellows out a bit overnight, and the caramel taste really starts to jump out within 2-3 days. The 100mL I made is basically gone after some of my other co-workers tried it, so my steeping notes aren't developed past 1 week.

Feedback appreciated and thanks for reading!