God. Damn.

Nebula, which spawned from my attempt at cloning Stargazer by Viper Vapor which I believe is now called Habu Vapor, and then eventually turned into a juice of it's own. Pretty much has been my white whale for the past few months. I'd tried a bunch of different things to make this recipe better or just get it to a point where I was happy. I say that this is version 6, but in all honesty, I've lost track of how many different fucking variations I've attempted. Each attempt was good, some were better than others, but I was never fully satisfied with it. After version 5, I felt like it was actually getting worse the more I fucked with it. Tonight, I went ahead and gave it one last try. I figured, hell, if this one isn't better, I'll just stick with version 4 and be done with it.

I'm glad I tried one last time. So without further hesitation, here is Nebula, my personal all day vape.

Nebula 6.0

• TFA Strawberry Ripe at 5.5%
• TFA Strawberry at 1.5%
• TFA Pineapple at 1%
• TFA Dragonfruit at 2.5%
• FA Fuji at 1.25%
• FA White Peach at 0.75%
• FA Peach at 0.75%
• TFA Koolada to taste

All The Flavors Recipe

Flavour Notes

TFA Strawberry Ripe / TFA Strawberry - this recipe was my first really good attempt at mixing, so I naturally went the route of strawberry. At first I was using strawberry ripe at about 7%, and while it was good, it just wasn't as punchy as I would have liked. Here, I dropped Ripe a bit and added Strawberry to bolster that nice sweet, dark strawberry flavour. It's more noticeable now, and that added sweetness allowed me to remove any extra sweetener from the recipe.

TFA Pineapple / TFA Dragonfruit - thanks to /u/Skiddlzninja , I found out that dragonfruit actually has almost identical volatiles to pineapple, and while I liked the tartness that TFA Pineapple brought to the table, it was overpowering to everything else. However, I still wanted a touch of that sour note in the mix, so I dropped TFA Pineapple to 1%, while boosting dragonfruit to bring that more well rounded pineapple flavour. This combination mixes beautifully with the strawberries to create not only the fruit base for the recipe, but also a bit of the accent notes.

FA Fuji - honestly this flavour has found it's way into nearly every recipe I've tried lately. There aren't enough good things to say about how well it boosts any fruit recipe. This one you can play around with a bit to taste. I like a little bit more of that in your face punch that Fuji provides as an accent note in recipes, so I bumped it up a bit. But Fuji is your complement to the pineapple flavours, so if you want a more sweet pineapple here, leave Fuji at 0.5 - 1%. If you want more tartness, you can push it up to 2% before it really starts to change the overall profile of the recipe.

FA Peach / FA White Peach - and here we have the background notes. I initially had TFA Juicy Peach in my first few attempts at this recipe in order to bring a bit more juiciness to the mix. However, as many of you probably already know, TFA Juicy Peach is throat suicide. However, I still liked the balance that peach brought to the recipe, and how it seemed to keep some of that tartness in check, so that you really only noticed it on the inhale. These two peach flavours work beautifully together to create a very realistic peach note. I notice a flavour of just a very slightly ripened peach. Ya know, those peaches that still have a bit of firmness to them, but the flavour is still spot on. In the vape, these flavours really only get noticed on the back end, right where I wanted them.

Koolada - I've found to just let everyone use Koolada how they like it in a mix. I personally go nuts with the stuff in my fruit mixes. Usually rocking it somewhere in the realm of 0.5 if my math is correct (which it probably isn't). But you don't even need it in this recipe if Koolada ain't your thing. However, it does add a beautifully bit of freshness to the fruits, and really turns this into one of the best summertime vapes I've ever had.

Ratio / Steep - 70VG/30PG and it's a perfect shake and vape. Nothing too noticeable happens with a steep, but I guess if I had to pick up on something, the fruits become more blended together after a few days. But again, it doesn't make the mix better or worse, it just kinda mellows out a bit.

Wow. Months in the making. Loads of subtle changes that honestly made me feel like I was going crazy or just being stupid and overworking a recipe that was already finished. But I'm glad I gave it one more go. Nebula is my personal ADV, I have been blasting through 30mls of it nearly every few days. Especially now with the the summer heat coming through, it's perfect. It pairs so nicely with wheat beers, vodka tonics, and margaritas. It's finally done, and I can put this fucker to bed.

Cheers, and happy mixing!