Setup: Velocity clone; dual twisted 28awg @ .55Ω; cotton wicks; 40 W
Testing: LA Cream Cheese Icing @ 3%; Aged: 2 weeks
Flavor description: Sweet, rich, and thick with a light cream cheese note and hints of wet powdered sugar and cereal milk on the exhale. At 3% standalone, it really pushes more towards frosting than icing. Reminiscent of a jar of Betty Crocker rich and creamy white frosting.
Off-flavors: Alcohol note initially which steeps out eventually. The cheese note may be off putting or sour to some people at higher percentages, although I feel it adds to what the flavor is supposed to be.
Throat hit: 4/10, smooth and dense.
Uses: Great for adding mouthfeel and thickness to cream bases. Also nice for adding a sweet icing/frosting top to your favorite bakeries. May work with yogurt flavors to add a more authentic dairy note too.
Pairings: Creams, cakes, cookies, coffee, cereal, yogurt, preferred fruits.
Notes: This flavor may require a bit longer steep time to develop true potential and evaporate the alcohol out. A pretty useful flavor for many different aspects of a recipe depending on how you use it.
Thanks for posting this, I came on here looking for this flavor review specifically and noticed you posted within the last day.
I'm not familiar with what this flavor does after steeping, but In an apple-bacco cinnamon danish mix I'm working on right now with the goal of creating a shake and vape, at 1.5% it was a welcome addition on top of 3% CDS and 2% Fuji with 1.5% SOHO and 1% GCC. Adding a little body and a touch a sweetness, authenticating and adding an extra dimension to what would have been a mostly flat pastry.
The best way I can describe it is to compare it's differences with something everybody knows like Bavarian Cream, where BC adds a creamy softness, CCI adds a sugary (grainy?) wetness.
Still wanting more of that cream cheese flavor, a few days steeping may bring that out more, but It may require going above 1.5% and would probably take it out of the shake and vape category. I want to try it at 2% but that's probably going to necessitate upping the percentages of Fuji and CDS and dropping SOHO out of the recipe if I want to keep it SNV.
On a side note in regards to SOHO, I never tasted the tobacco note before I used it in this recipe, even standalone. I'm not sure what it is but it seems to be bringing the tobacco to the front. (FA recommends 20% standalone for this flavor, I've never had much use for it above around 3.5% mix or 5% stand alone. I tried it @ 10% and it almost put me off the flavor forever.)
I've been playing around with u/ID10-T simple sugar cookie lately. I'm using it as a base and adding other flavours to see what works well.
One of the new ones is 2.5% LA cream cheese icing. It's still steeping so I don't know if it's a success yet but I'm hopeful.
My current favourite is 5% FLV Caramel. It seems to take some of the sweetness away from the sugar cookie and gives a nice dense mouth feel.
I can't imagine 2.5% LA CCI not being an improvement on that recipe. But it would probably be even better than that added 1.5% LA CCI AND 1% FA Meringue. And maybe lowered the VC to 2% or 3% at the same time.
Man, I wish I could buy some of this off you it sounds amazing. I have no idea how to DIY my own ejuice, nor do I have the funds to being making my own liquids.
I thought this at first. But I took my regular monthly spending on juice and just bought like 7 flavors and a enough base to last around 3 months. After that first month, I was able to just use that same budget to buy more flavors. Etc, etc. I now spend arpund 150$ every 3-4 months on bulk resupply, and I can usually afford 20 or so new flavors along with that. I could easily spend less, but I like collecting new flavors.