Setup: Recoil w/ flavor barrel, Dual 15 wrap 26g 3mm Nifethal 70 coils @.16 ohms. 60w power, 450F temp limit. Full Cotton Wicks.
Testing: FLV Apple Pop @ 1% and 1 drop per 10 ml (about .25%), 60/40 VG/PG, Steeped 9 days.
Flavor Description: Not really a full apple flavor. More like sweetened apple peels. Based on other available concentrates, I'd call this a mashup of that drier, sweetened powdered instant cider note from HS Apple mix, the candy sweetness I get from FA Fuji, and the spicy peel note from TPA Quince.
Inhale has a lot of volume with slightly dry, sugary "apple juice" kind of candy sweetness. Exhale has a deep sweet candy red apple base. Pronounced spicy dry peel notes. Again, lots of volume without being very dense. Sweetness has a powdered instant cider character to it. Lingering sugar lips and dryness from the peel here.
Off Flavors: The peel / skin note is pretty pronounced and a bit spicy. Fairly accurate, but a bit jarring in a sweeter apple flavor.
Throat Hit: Light, more from the dryness of that cidery apple sweetness and the spicier peel.
Uses & Pairings: Flavorah suggests this to add dimension to complex apple flavors, and that seems like a pretty decent idea. I've used TPA Quince to add a realistic peel note to an apple, but this seems like a better fit. It's a fuller at low percentages, and the apple here has a clearer, brighter flavor. Should work well to complement a crisper apple flavor. A bit sweet, but should have the same effect with pears.
Good way to add some apple juice sweetness to a fruit mix. I'd watch the peel and avoid dryer fruit flavors, but should work well in the background of brighter, juicy fruit flavors.
A bit too much peel to work well with creams as a primary fruit note.
Notes: S&V concentration testing, keep this low. At .25% I get a softer apple sweeteness and a pretty restrained dry, spicy, peel note. .5% has a more candy edge to the apple, but that peel note is ramping up pretty quickly. .75% is drier and spicier than .5% without much added depth or sweetness. By 1% the peel is pretty dominant, although the apple underneath is still a prety mellow, sweet candy flavor. 1.5% takes that dry peel note too far. I'd start with this at .25% for an accent note for other apple flavors, and .5% for an apple flavor in a fruit mix without another prominent apple flavor.
Second Opinions:
Not a ton.
No ELR notes, BCF or ECX reviews.
I ordered this two days ago specifically to try chewy midget's ostentatiously expensive strap-on.
That was a fun sentence to write.
I wonder how it would fare as a replacement for Quince in a recipe like 24k or Skiddz's Nana Cream revision.
I'm interested to try it in that 24k goof-off recipe. I think the sweetness and body is going to be good for the fullness of the overall flavor, but that candy note may drag it away from the almost off-putting level of realism there. I've literally never mixed up a nana cream clone. I think I lose all my DIY credibility.
You lose some kind of credibility for your use of "literally" there (What, you've never literally mixed one of those up, but you have figuratively done so?). You sound like a damn sorority girl. But, I don't think we can hold not making nana cream clones against a strawberry non-taster.