I've sampled a fair few of T-Juice's concentrates (after originally trying a 10ml bottle of Red Astaire pre-made juice some time ago and immediately falling in love with it) because I often found T-Juice were quite adept at calculating the best ways to create complex combinations using a wide range of ingredients. Also, I've tried creating a handful of my own recipes or recreating other people's by way of using various combinations of flavour-concentrates from the likes of Capella and The Flavour/Perfumer's Apprentice.
All things considered, after sampling quite a taste-tolerant range of juices, I always come back to using Forest Affair as my favourite all-day-vape, and though I certainly try to vary my choice of juices, even if just to ensure my flavours remain fresh and surprising to my palette, I can't help but manage to burn through litres of Forest Affair far quicker than any others since it is, hands down, still my number 1 favourite flavour.
At first taste it reveals itself to be a comprehensive and carefully-considered amalgamated blend of warm & juicy forest fruits and berries, neatly finished off with a comforting signature hint of the somewhat-parfumé herb (or spice... I forget the technicalities) known as sloe. Now sloe, I had only previously tasted as a part of an inebriating cocktail heavy on the Gordon's 'Sloe' Gin, which initially I didn't find particularly enthralling counting the additional flavour addition of sloe and as such I was apprehensive of vaping a juice where that particular flavour was present. Shit, usually I always end up reverting back to the more dessert-like flavours, often Capella's, but I find it nearly impossible to put Forest Affair back down once I start vaping it. It's currently July and I've gotten through almost three 30ml bottles of concentrate since I started mixing my own juices in April I believe.
I like to mix it at about 18% with an additional 1-2% of sucralose sweetener. That's not to say it needs the sweetener, not at all, but I've always had an excessively sweet tooth and, while I enjoyed Forest Affair before I tried adding the sweetener, once I started adding a few drops to my other dessert flavours I just decided "sod it" and began doing that with all my juices.
If you like to play around with separate ingredients and make your own recipes, Forest Affair is not for that. The ratio of flavours has no doubt been carefully considered by T-Juice and (apart from my own personal choice to add a little sweetener) it doesn't require any messing beyond adding nicotine and VG/PG. If you like pre-calculated concentrates with minimal fuss, then this is ideal. Heck, even if you don't, or you're more of a dessert-flavour vaper, I'd still urge you try this as since I started mixing my own juice, I've given out little 5-10ml sample bottles of Forest Affair juice to a decent handful of friends and every one of them has praised it highly!
So you're vaping Forrest Affair as a single mix flavor at 18% with added sucralose?
What other recipes do you like so I can get a better frame of reference. Also, pg/vg ratio?
18% sounds really high.
T-Juice recommends 15% for most of their juices but I've always used 20% for most everything else, so 18% seemed like a reasonable amount. More flavour = more better, no? Even with dual claptons vaping at 120W it rarely tastes overwhelming, not like when you use Red Astaire in higher percentages or at higher watts and all you can taste is the menthol. I like to use the maximum amount of VG, so I don't add any more PG other than what's in the flavour concentrates, but lately I've taken to adding either vodka/gin (at 10%) or distilled water (at about 3-5%) to thin down the sheer viscosity of a high-VG mix which helps with general juice-flow and I guess overall vaping efficiency.
I guess I like a lot of Capella dessert flavour mixes. I started off using Vanilla Custard V1 as a single mix (20%) which was delicious, but also find it works well as a background note along with small amounts of (again Capella) Cinnamon Danish Swirl, Apple Pie V2, and Bakewell Tart (Vapours R Us) - often trying various mixes of all three, but I've currently settled on 13% custard, with 4-6% and/or another 3-6% Bakewell.
I like T-Juice's 'Jacques Le Mon' (which is like a lemon sherbert) but very occasionally, and after a while I found that as a single flavour mix it was a bit sharp so I used it as a mix along with 2% menthol and balanced it out with a standard & more 'fruity' lemon mix (Perfumer's Apprentice I believe?). Oh and T-Juice's 'Starwberri' was a very nice flavour, not very desserty (but quite sweet to a mild extent) and very authentic strawberry flavour (closest one to the actual fruit I've tasted, which I guess isn't more than 2 or 3 others).
Glad to assist.