Ever had a recipe that just seemed a bit bland but then you just threw in something slightly unexpected and it took that juice to the next level? What is that flavor in that what recipe?
Cactus INW. It's like a miracle for wetness/freshness
Indeed potent stuff, it easily dominates a mix unless in the .125% or lower.
Like a lot of people, I started off mixing making strawberry creams. They're all okay, but I find I got tired of them easily.
That was until I added TFA Orange Cream. I don't even know if it's the extra flavour, it just adds something amazing on the exhale that really adds to any strawberry cream mix.
I'd highly recommend anybody try it, just keep the orange cream % low. 1% max and you'll see for yourself
This is fascinating. Is your strawberry cream heavier on the cream or the strawberry?
Hard to say, I find strawberry ripe quite weak. Even a simple mix of sweet cream/Bavarian/strawberry ripe at 2/3/8 I find the sweet cream most pronounced.
I'm not a connoisseur of flavours or anything, I just know that orange cream gives the strawberry creams a nice punch. .5-1% so you wouldn't be able to tell it was orange if you weren't told or didn't put it there yourself, but at the same time you'd definitely notice a big difference
It's well known, but a small % of TFA dragonfruit does wonders for some fruit mixes.
I think my mouth is broken, because no matter how little TFA Dragonfruit I've used, it just makes everything taste like Juicy Fruit gum.
Haha I don't get a juicy fruit flavor, but I always think it's interesting how subjective taste is and how different people taste things differently.
It's true, we all seem to taste things a little differently. TFA Dragonfruit is always Juicy Fruit-y to me and I think it tastes gross in all of my mixes, but lots of people like it. No big deal, but this is exactly why small sample sizes are awesome and worth spending a buck or two on before buying a big bottle. I've got a ton of small samples that ended up being gross, but I only have one large bottle that I don't really like (and it's not because it's bad, it's just so bland I switched to a different flavor to replace it.)
I used to use TFA Dragonfruit all the time and loved it but then one day all my mixes with it started tasting like gum too and it was all I could taste. Now it's been sitting in my fridge unused for a long time. The same thing happened to me with INW Cactus and now unless I use a really small diluted amount it's all I can taste and just seems to blend all my flavors together. Been a while since I've used either, so IDK if it was just from vaper's tongue or getting too used to it but it lead me to find other ways to improve my recipes.
LA Cream Cheese Icing is my secret weapon when I need to kick creams up a notch
I love you, LA CCI!
I just added some of this flavor to my cart after seeing your Key Lime Bar in the monthly recipe thread. High hopes for it!
I say it a lot, but TFA Kentucky Bourbon (@ about .25-.5%) in any banana/bakery recipe gives it this....warm, baked flavor. Not at all alcoholic tasting. This is also true of "dark" fruits, berries, and stone fruit recipes.
How would you compare TFA Bourbon?
As far as banana/bakery recipes go, for me, a bit of TFA Toasted Marshmellow did the same thing. It adds that baked aspect to the banana that was missing from a couple of my recipes. I'll have to try TFA Kentucky Bourbon though. That's one I've never picked up.
I love Kentucky Bourbon with Fuji and RY4 Double. Still perfecting it, but its my favorite mix. Now...I have LA Banana Cream, and I've tried a million times to make Nana Cream, but it always comes out 'dry' tasting. Any suggestions to make that particular banana concentrate into something I might enjoy?
.5% of aurora took my ok 7up recipe to wow.
What's your 7up recipe?
its in the monthly recipe thread but I'll post it here too.
http://e-liquid-recipes.com/recipe/759374/7up
Aurora fa - .5%
Cactus INW - .5%
Champagne TFA - 1%
Citrus Punch TFA - 5%
Koolada TFA - .5%
Lemon Lime CAP - 5.5%
Lemon Sicily FA - 1.5%
Sour TFA - .4%
Sweetener TFA - 1%
I also decided to add some em in my next batch to try and tone down the citrus a little more and make it sweeter.
INW Dragonfruit. Just a single drop in my strawberry cream makes all the flavors just POP!
I'll have to try that next time. I'm always worried about dragonfruit since it is such a heavy flavor, but I'll try a drop in my next strawberry milk.
does dragonfruit add any sweetness?
Oh, I also love FA anise in low %'s in most fruit recipes.
Almond (FA) took my peaches and cream recipe to a whole new level.
I use FA Hazelnut in a couple of my ice cream recipes and it puts it over the top. That flavor is so good, my hazelnut ice cream recipe is to die for, but it pretty much just uses that flavor.
FA Torrone
I was using FA Torrone in a Almond Blueberry Cookie recipe and I didn't even know what it was. Luckily I know someone who knows someone with family in Spain and they sent me 3 bricks. Shit is cash
Absinthe and horehound. I was mixing 5 Pawns clones, and both flavors are my favorites right now.
I just mixed black currant, and it's giving me some ideas...
Right now working on a fruit loops flavor just added inawera black currant and FE lemon that just about completed it. Those 2 mixed together almost taste like most brands fruit circles which isn't saying much. The smell of black currant could throw you off tho not sure if im the only one but it just has this off setting smell but taste amazing.
10% FA Joy.
I'm pretty sure that anything above 0.5% causes the name of this stuff to change from Joy to DAFUQ!?
What is a good description of Joy? I have seen it so much and want to try but I don't know where it would fit.
Straight up yeast is what I get from it. Like the subtle yeasty smell that you get from some freshly baked bread, except concentrated and infused with evil.
I bought some out of hype fueled curiosity, but I don't think I'm at that level yet. I got my fruity vapes down, and I'm getting some nice creamy recipes working, but I suck at composining anything vapable using crusty, biscuity, bakery niceness, and I feel like Joy is a step up from that.
I think if I were to reach a point where I'd mixed a fine tasting scone recipe, with an almost crumbly mouth feel and perfect balance of sweetness, Joy would be the finishing touch to add authenticity. But for now, I just got an orange capped PET bottle full of essence of yeast sat on my shelf.
What does it do? I've only tested solo sub 5% and very low in mixes.