Percentage Used: 15%
Equipment Used: Troll RDA with a wickless single SS .8 ohm Clapton wrapped parallel with 26g SS at 19W and a Cleito .4 ohm Kanthal Clapton coil at 35W.
PG/VG: 30/70
Steep Time: 1-2 Months
Aroma: Graham, vanilla, cream, caramel.
Flavor Description: Tested 15% with a 1 month steep. I don't remember why, but I didn't like it at all, so I put it back in the steep drawer. At 2 months, it's very good, but way too rich for an ADV for my tastes. Graham cracker crust is very very dominant at this higher percentage, too much so, with a rich french vanilla cream drizzled with caramel? It's a nice moderately sweet blend, but the graham is very, very front and center. I am probably going to boost the cream in this. Wonderful thick buttery mouth feel. I like this a lot with the longer steep, and I think it's really needed due to the complexity of this flavor. I can already see this doing fantastic things in blends in the 1.5-5% range. Going to dilute the rest of this tester down to roughly equivalent to 10% and see what happens with it :) It's basically a rich french vanilla mousse pie with graham cracker crust and a touch of caramel.
Off Flavors: None really, but needs a long steep for the graham cracker to settle down.
Throat Hit: 2/10
Pairings: Really good stand alone flavor. Berries and fleshy fruits. Bakeries, cookies, cakes, creams, custards, nuts, tobaccos, apple pie, cinnamon rolls/cinnamon maybe?
Notes: I think 10% is plenty for a SF, and I will probably use 1.5-5% in blends.
Thanks for the review! Recently received some of this and am looking forward to testing it out. Would you say 2.5, 5, and 10% are good numbers for separate testers to get an idea of its range?
I bought a 9ml sample of this. Loved it. Mixed it at 10% first time around. Immediately picked up a 30ml within a few days of that. 10% was honestly a bit weak for my old taste buds. The mix I been mixing I ramped it up to 13% and added 1% Graham Cracker Clear, 2% Vanilla Swirl and 1% sweetner for a final recipe with it. Turned out pretty decent. I'm not really good at reviewing what I taste but I want to say the caramel was def the prominate flavor to me. Edit - I let the original steep about 3 wks before trying.
u/Arpeggiator8472 used this in a nice RY4 cream pie a little while back. It's very nice.
I'll definitely be rereading this when my single flavor tester is "done" stepping. Thanks!
I see these post people vaping 25-40 watts I vape at 120 on 4 strand 28g aliens. I feel like i can't even get a hit off 70 watts :/ and I vape 6 nic. I think I need to slow down
Might need too, but if it works for you to keep you off the stinkies, go for it. Sounds like you chase clouds and there is nothing wrong with that. I'm a flavor chaser.
The reason you need higher wattage is because of those coils, it's all relative to coil mass.
On my regular setup (dual 24g N80, 7 wraps 3mm id) I usually stay from 45-55 watts and it's plenty of vapor and flavor.
I use 26g fused Claotons at 90-100w and they aren't much bigger than 24g . It should be common knowledge that higher watts provides denser vapor, hence more flavor concentrated hit, and yes 4x28g require more watts but they absorb so much juice that it gives you such a juicy hit like NO other. I have all the glorified flavor attys, the narda for example. Sure it has good flavor with 24g at 30-40w but I get 10x more flavor on my kryten with aliens
In my experience aliens and fused claptons gave me marginally better flavor, and yes at the appropriate higher wattages. I rather have long battery life and the flavor/clouds I'm happy with.
To each his own, maybe I should give fused claptons or alien wire another shot