Setup: Recoil w/ flavor barrel, Dual 15 wrap 26g 3mm Nifethal 70 coils @.18 ohms. 60w power, 450F temp limit. Full Cotton Wicks.
Testing: CAP Cinnamon Danish Swirl v1 @ 4%, 60/40 VG/PG, Steeped 27 days.
Flavor Description: Tastes like a slightly sour flat snickerdoodle. I don't get a lot of richness or butter here, but that may be an issue with me not picking up whatever capella uses for butter. Definite bakery cinnamon. Some dry bready notes here. No yeast or richness, but a fluffy dryness.
Inhale is moderately dense, sour bakery cinnamon. Fluffy but not rich. That cinnamon stays with you on the exhale, losing most of the sour character. Fluffy grainy exhale. I get a thin icing flavor towards the end of the exhale, with a bit of lingering sourness. I'm saying sour at lot, but it's manageable here. Some extra cream or butter should take care of most of it.
Off-flavors: Slightly sour, especially at lower temperatures. I think it's the cinnamon here. I catch the same thing off of CAP Graham Cracker. Sourness eases up as you increase power. I get in mostly on the inhale and the very tail end of the exhale. FA Fuji, a common pairing seems to amplify the sourness overall. If you're getting an extra sour harshness, try cranking your wattage or temperature up a bit.
Throat Hit: 4/10. Really smooth for being cinnamon heavy. What gets you is the overall dryness.
Uses: Pastry and desert style bases. Cinnamon can be used for ciders. Tobacco enhancement. Check out the winners of the first round of the mixxed contest if you need some inspiration.
Pairings: Apple, Strawberry, Blueberry, Bananas, Creams, Tobaccos, Butter, Frosting. Probably a whole lot more depending on who you ask. I will say this doesn't seem to work well with acidic fruits like a realistic pineapple. I also don't see this working with harsh citrus or floral fruits like most peaches. Marshmallow can help with the dryness.
Notes: Lots and lots of use on this one, no actual flavor review. So this was an attempt to remedy that. Attempt being key here.
S&V concentration tasting, this plenty recognizable at 1%. If you're layering in other bakery flavors, start here. The cinnamon and dryness just scales up from there. 2.5%-3% gives you a pretty recognizeable bakery base and anything above that seems to just get too dry and the sourness on the cinnamon gets weird.
If you're planning on using this for a bakery, you've got to address that dryness somehow, either with a more buttery bakery like INW Biscuit, or just some kind of additive for richness like CAP Vanilla Custard v1.
Second Opinions:
I can't remember if you entered MIXXED, but either way thank you for this service. I noticed the review was missing but couldn't bring myself to mix up more because the thought of single flavor testing CDS made me want to stab my eyeballs. Again, thank you for your sacrifice.
I did not. I'm not a strawberry ripe guy, and I can't mix a bakery to save my life so I figured I'd sit it out. It's an awesome idea though, and I'm looking forward to see it all play out.
No real sacrifice here, I had never tried it outside of someone else's recipe and was interested to see how the damn thing actually worked. Weird stuff.
https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/17883#blueberry_cinnamon_pastry_by_ediblemalfunction
Relevant plug...
I think all your plugs are delicious? Is that a thing that I can say?
Gonna mix this up soon. Missing FA bilberry, can I skip it? Usually use INW raspberry blackberry to accent FW blueberry
You could try but I can't vouch for the blueberry holding up in it. Blueberry, Blueberry Extra and Bilberry are the essential Holy Trinity in my opinion. But obviously this hobby is all about experimentation. You'll have to report back with your findings.
Thanks for the review on this one!
But I'll say it. I pretty much hate this flavor and can't stand vaping anything that uses it over 1%, and even that is pushing it. That sour note you mention is why, but to me it's not just sour, it's metallic, like a copper note, which just kills the entire vape for me. I don't really even taste cinnamon any more and get zero bakery notes from it.
/u/skiddlzninja mentioned it the last ITM podcast that he prefers FW cinnamon roll over CAP CDS and I couldn't agree more, but of course taste is subjective.
I'm definitely more in your camp on this. I can fight through a little bit at lower percentages for good recipes but I always find myself cranking the wattage about 20w over normal just to take the edge off it. I've never once felt tempted to mix with this myself.
As much as I hate to say it, I almost never mix a recipe up if it has over 1% and when I have I force myself to vape it though I don't think I've ever truly enjoyed it.
I wish I liked it more since it's such a staple flavor
I think I'm using v2 so I'm not sure the difference between the two. But, you might try subbing it out and putting in graham cracker instead. Not the same thing, but if you're not enjoying those recipes anyway, may as well experiment to find a sub you enjoy more.