Setup: Druid with the short barrel, dual coil 9 wrap 24g kanthal, .37 ohms, 70 watts, cotton wicks
Testing: INW Turkish Tobacco @ 5%, 80/20 VG/PG, 3 mg nic, aged 3 weeks
Flavor description: Light and sweet. Almost creamy. Like a cream soda type of sweet creaminess. Tobacco leaves in the background. Maybe some woodsy and smoky notes hiding in there as well, but not very noticeable. Reminds me a bit of Indigo's The Stuff, if my memory of that flavor serves me correctly (been about a year.)
Off-flavors: I wasn't really expecting to taste cream soda, but it's still a good flavor.
Throat hit: Hardly any. Smooth. Kind of thick, but not harsh.
Uses: If a cream soda-esque tobacco sounds appealing, single flavor this shit at 5%. If you're looking for something a little more robust and dark, but with a smoothness to it, throw this in with it at around 2% and adjust from there (FLV Red Burley and INW Dark for Pipe come to mind, but I haven't experimented with it... yet.) Add some caramel and vanilla and build your own RY4. It's not what I was expecting, but it's not useless!
Pairings: Dark tobaccos, vanillas and creams, coffee, maybe some fruits. I think it could be pretty versatile.
Notes: I think I've covered all the notes I had on it.
/u/Baphomet did you end up ordering this? Let me know what you think when you get a chance to try it. I'm afraid I latched on to that cream soda taste right away and may have missed something else.
I did, I did... It should be in my grubby lil' hands by tomorrow. I hope you're not implying something off in the flavor; Though I really don't mind one way or the other -- I usually find a way to use something more than once.
I was on the fence between INW and SC... Almost bought SC too, but I didn't want to double up on the same flavor profile despite interpretation of flavors between manufacturers being different; I also wasn't too keen on Jim's note suggesting a cane mint backnote. I'll get to it eventually, I suppose (It's in my BCF wishlist), just not this round...
Alright, I've tried them side by side. Sort of similar. The SC is pretty sweet and mild. The INW seems to be a little stronger, and crisp and brighter. I'm having kind of a hard time picking out much of anything in the SC, which is odd because they are usually pretty potent. I can definitely tell it's kind of sweet, but not a very complex flavor. Maybe worth a shot. I don't think it's similar enough to say that if you've tried and liked one then you'd like the other.
So, this one kinda put me off a bit by the stink in the bottle -- I'm hesitant to use the term stink, but there's no other way to describe it, honestly... On the nose it smells like an old, wet cigarette left to steep in the bottom of a mostly empty beer bottle after drinking all night in the dead of summer and waking up rough to the spoils left on the table, late the following day... It wasn't my first choice to mix up out of the 20-ish I bought, just based on the smell, despite my eagerness to try it -- I kept reaching for it, smelling it and deciding "nope, let's save this for later after you get some of the more interesting stuff outta the way."
Obviously this hasn't steeped yet, and the odor isn't nearly as potent when mixed (I started @ 3.5%), though it is there. I do get the cream soda note you refer to and, yeah, definitely reminds me of a Camel Turkish Gold...
My cotton's a little dirty from all the flavors I've been testing, but just testing back to back Seven (SC) and Turkish (INW), I imagine you could combine the two with a touch of DNB to great effect for a pretty excellent Turkish Gold analogue replacement...