First flavor review; go easy on me.
Setup: Troll V2 RDA, dual SS316L 24x2/36g fused Clapton coils, 0.1 ohms, full cotton wicks. Temp at 370°F, power at 140W.
Testing: TFA Espresso @ 2.5%, steeped 12 days
Description: Well this is not what I expected from an espresso flavoring. I thought it would be a very, very strong coffee almost to the point of being overpowering. However, like the curse of most coffee vape flavors, it doesn't really taste like coffee. Rather, I almost get a taste reminiscent of mud with a few randomly placed coffee notes on the exhale.
Off-flavors: Mud/dirt. Also a strong chemical note in any recipe I've mixed this in, down to 0.5% which only gets worse with steeping.
Throat hit: 4/10, as expected with an espresso
Uses and pairings: You could maybe use this in a bakery flavor as a coffee note but I wouldn't go above 0.25%. If you're interested in making a bleach flavored ejuice, this flavoring would be useful as a main note to capture that chemical bleach taste.
Notes: I picked up a 10ml of this when I started mixing a few months ago. I have more than half of it left. This is by far the worst flavoring I've tried and it absolutely kills any recipe it is in. Unless you already have some, I would not recommend buying it. If there's anyone here who can actually make use of this flavoring, I am curious to know how because I find the chemical flavor so strong it's unbearable.
Flavor reviews of nasty flavors are the best flavor reviews. Thanks for preventing the suffering of those wise enough to check the flavor review wiki before ordering!
>I almost get a taste reminiscent of mud with a few randomly placed coffee notes on the exhale.
So just another coffee?
Thanks for the review. It would be fantastic if someone could do a proper Espresso. At the moment it's like orange squash vs. orange juice.
Exactly lol. I seriously mixed up a bottle of some type of pastry cream whatnot and put 12 drops of this stuff in a 120ml thinking "oh it can't hurt at such a small percentage." Unvapeable, tasted like somebody laced my vanilla cream puffs with ammonia. Had to pour it out.
COMPONENT | CAS | Percentage | Description :-- | :-- | :--: | :--- Propylene Glycol | 57-55-6 | 94 - 99% | no taste Ethyl Vanillin | 121-32-4 | >= 1% and < 10% | sweet, creamy, vanilla, smooth and caramellic Vanillin | 121-33-5 | >= 1% and < 10% | vanilla, vanillin, sweet, creamy, spicy, phenolic and milky Guaiacol | 90-05-1 | >= 1% and < 10% | woody, phenolic, bacon, savory, smoky Cyclotene | 765-70-8 | >= 1% and < 10% | sweet, maple, bready, caramellic with nutty nuances Water | 7732-18-5 | < 1.5% | Maltol | 118-71-8 | < 1% | sweet, cotton candy, caramellic, with jammy fruity and berry notes Pyrazine, trimethyl- | 14667-55-1 | <0.5% | raw, musty, nutty, potato Hex-2-enal <5-methyl-, 2-phenyl-> | 21834-92-4 | < 0.3% | bitter cocoa, honey, aldehydic, coffee and nutty with a green nuance